Actor John Abraham spent a tense day in court of Friday after the sessions court upheld a lower court’s sentence levied on him in a 2006 rash driving case. Abraham, however, was granted bail by the Bombay high court on a surety of `20,000 by evening.

Congress leader and former MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and his son were arrested by the CBI on Tuesday in connection with the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Bombay high court’s CBI retainer Mandar Goswami has also been arrested for allegedly accepting illegal gratification of `1.25 crore from the duo to “weaken the case” against them. A sessions court has remanded all three of them to police custody till March 16.

The latest investigations into the disproportionate assets case against former Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh have revealed that of the 19 properties that were mentioned in the FIR, some of them have actually been sold off.

Disappointed with the result of the first round of counting of votes cast in the assembly elections in Goa, a Congress contestant said on Tuesday that he was ‘going home to sleep’ and that he would re

The first signs of bickering were showing in the Goa Congress with the party's decision to allot 33 per cent of seats to the kin of sitting legislators being blamed for its poor showing in the assembl

BSP boss Mayawati has so far maintained strict silence following Tuesday's Assembly elections debacle. Her government is now all set to be thrown out of Uttar Pradesh by a resurgent Samajwadi Party.

Taquee Ahmed, brother of Naquee, an accused in the July 13 triple blasts case appeared before the Kalachowkie unit of the ATS on Sunday as directed by the Supreme Court.

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In a further setback to former Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh, his police security was withdrawn on Saturday. According to sources from the protection and security branch of the Mumbai police, Mr Singh’s security was withdrawn after directives from the state home department.

A special investigation team led by Rajvardhan Sinha, additional commissioner of police (economic offences wing), raided 19 properties belonging to Mumbai Congress leader Kripashankar Singh in the city all through Friday, 48 hours after registering a case of disproportionate assets against him. The police later attached all of Mr Singh’s movable and non-movable properties.