THE METROPOLITAN police on Sunday again refuted claims emerging in Sunday tabloids that 27-year-old singer Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in her London house on Saturday afternoon, was killed by a

Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, who was criticised for praising Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in February this year, has been removed as the Vice-Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband University today.

After screening over 150,000 telephone calls, the agencies investigating the July 13 triple bomb blasts in Mumbai have zeroed in on six of them. All these calls were made from the blast site vicinity to other states before and after the explosions went off.

“Kya aap bata sakhte ho, Metro kidhar se milegi?” A passerby asked a shopkeeper in the Opera House this question July 13, just before the blast in the vicinity. The police believes this man was one of those who had planted the bombs. It is on the basis of this shopkeeper’s description that the police has created a sketch of this suspect.

A court here on Saturday framed charges against Himayat Baig, the main accused in the German Bakery blast case, and others.

Yet another blast victim, Baburao Das (42), succumbed to his injuries early on Saturday at around 2.30 am at Saifee Hospital.

Even as the investigators are keeping mum about the identity of the perpetrators of the serial blasts in Mumbai, Central investigating agencies are reviewing the inputs gathered by them in the past two years.

Two days after three explosions rocked Mumbai, the Centre’s intelligence agencies — which have been examining various theories — suspect that a new module of the Indian Mujahideen called Bullet 313 might have carried out the attack.

Russia on Friday said India would continue to enjoy the waiver it received in 2008 from the Nuclear Suppliers Group’s export ban and Moscow wants New Delhi’s full participation in the 45-nation grouping that regulates the global atomic commerce.

Congress leader Ahmed Patel was on Friday declared elected unopposed for the fourth time to the Rajya Sabha while BJP’s actor-turned politician Smriti Irani also made it to the Upper House of Parliament for the first time, without any contest.