Elocution competition in Thackeray’s name?
The Shiv Sena, welcoming the BJP’s loss in Karnataka, may have strained ties between the alliance partners at the state level, but all seems well between the two parties in the BMC.
Pak fumes at Sanaullah death, anti-India protests held
The Pakistanis were on Thursday enraged to know about the death of prisoner Sanaullah in Chandigarh, after battling for life in a hospital for a few days.
Pak hands over body of Sarabjit to Indian officials
The body of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died early today following a brutal assault by other inmates of a jail here, was handed over to officials of the Indian high commission by Pakistani authorities.
Missing Indian wrongly identified
Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since mid-March, was on Friday wrongly identified on the social media websites as one of the two suspects responsible for the Boston Marath
‘Faulty valves delay Koodankulam’
The commissioning of the Koodankulam atomic power plant has been delayed as the nuclear regulator had found four valves to be “deficient” during a series of tests ahead of starting the reactor.
US citizen gets court relief
The Andheri metropolitan magistrate’s court discharged a US citizen, Christopher Willis, who was arrested and charged with possessing a bullet at Mumbai’s Santa Cruz airport.
Security beefed up at Musharraf’s farmhouse
Pakistani authorities today changed the chiefs of all police stations in the federal capital and beefed up security around former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse hours after a court cancelled his bail and directed police to arrest him.
No ‘Bhajji factor’ behind Sreesanth’s omission: Dravid
Rajasthan Royals captain Rahul Dravid has brushed aside talks that temperamental pacer S. Sreesanth was rested for the match against Mumbai Indians to avoid a possible confrontation with Harbhajan Singh, saying it was tactical move aimed at managing the workload of players.
Musharraf flees from court premises after arrest order
Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was today ordered to be arrested immediately by a court here over the sacking of 60 judges during emergency rule in 2007, but amid high drama he fled from the premises despite thick security blanket.
Man held for vulgar calls
A 49-year-old woman posed as a policewoman to trap a Daman-based man who was allegedly harassing her by making obscene phone calls.