Salem’s plea for closure rejected
Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (Tada) court on Tuesday rejected underworld don Abu Salem’s application seeking closure of trial against him in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Judge Govind Sanap passed the order after the CBI said that the trail against Salem in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case should continue.
Patrawala murder: 4 acquitted released
The four accused in the Adnan Patrawala kidnap-murder case were released from jail on Tuesday morning. Ayush Bhat, Adnan’s friend and one of the accused, said he will pursue his graduation, and that being accused of killing his best friend was the worst phase of his life.
IIT-B, TN varsity in webpage war
An online war has broken out on a social networking site between the students of Mumbai’s premier institution Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), and VIT University, Chennai, over the proprietary rights of a page that was put up by the IITians 48 hours ago.
Shoddy probe weakened Adnan case
Lethargic police paperwork and shoddy investigations were the key factors that led to the acquittal of the four accused in the kidnap-murder of 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala.
Gates to help India combat diseases
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates in London on Monday launched an initiative along with 13 pharmaceutical firms, World Health Organisation, World Bank and the US, UK and UAE governments
‘Vasectomy forced on Naxal cadre’
In a sensational revelation that threw light on the ugly side of the Maoist movement in India, a commander level leader who surrendered before the Kanker police in Chhattisgarh, on Monday disclosed th
Symbiosis cancels Kashmir docu screening
The Symbiosis University in Pune has decided to cancel the screening of the controversial documentary on Kashmir, Jashn-e-Azadi, made by Sanjay Kak after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad raised obje
MNS announces list for civic polls
MNS chief Raj Thackeray has said he is confident that his party will be “the king, not the kingmaker” in the municipal corporation elections next month.
Indian behind alcohol distillation method
An Indian scientist headed a path-breaking study that discovered membranes based on the “miracle material” graphene can be used to distil alcohol.
Device links to Web via radio frequencies
A cheap and economical solution to rural India’s lack of Internet connectivity might lie in the hands of an India-born New Zealand engineer.