A gunman dressed in police uniform opened fire at a youth camp of Norway’s ruling political party on Friday, killing at least 80 people, hours after a bomb killed seven in the government district in the capital Oslo. “The updated knowledge we are sitting on now is at least 80,” police chief Oystein Maeland told [...]
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan made a telling revelation to NDTV soon after the Mumbai serial blasts: he could not contact his chief of police for 15 minutes soon after the incident. “Networks got congested. I could not contact the Chief of Police. I could not contact DG Police,” said Mr Chavan, in an interview [...]
Amar Singh was interrogated by the Delhi Police today over his alleged role in the cash-for-votes scam. After the questioning that lasted 3 hours, police sources said they are likely to call the former Samajwadi Party leader again next week. “Police need to first interrogate others. They also need time to corroborate his statement with [...]
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has contested that she misled the public ahead of the last elections in Delhi by claiming that low-cost housing had been constructed by her government. Earlier this week, the Delhi Lokayukta or ombudsman, Manmohan Sarin, said that Mrs Dikshit misrepresented the facts during her campaign for re-election in 2008 by [...]
BS Yeddyurappa’s return to India from his holiday in Mauritius will be a rough landing. The Karnataka Governor, HR Bhardwaj, has said he will act upon a new report that indicts Mr Yeddyurappa for allowing illegal mining in the state during his term as Chief Minister. Mr Bhardwaj said he’s waiting for the report to [...]
Tension is brewing in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district following allegations of abduction and rape of a woman on Thursday. Police have filed an FIR and instituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) after the victim alleged that two Army men had abducted and raped her for two days. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has promised that the [...]
The Supreme Court has refused to stop the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the sizeable fortune of Andhra Pradesh politician Jagan Mohan Reddy. “If the court finds nothing against you, it will be good for you,” the Supreme Court said to Mr Reddy’s lawyer. Last week, the Andhra Pradesh High Court asked for [...]
Inmates at Australia’s Christmas Island immigration centre buried themselves in shallow graves in a symbolic gesture, a spokesman representing them said Friday, as riots erupted for a third night. Immigration officials said there had been “another significant incident” involving up to 100 detainees at the remote island facility, but there were varying accounts of the [...]
China warned the United States on Friday not to interfere in territorial disputes with its Asian neighbours over the South China Sea, during talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton said ahead of a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the Indonesian island of Bali that Washington welcomed a deal between China and [...]
At least 41 people died on Friday when an overcrowded bus that was carrying hazardous goods caught fire in central China, state television reported. The fire happened early on Friday morning on a highway in Henan province, China Central Television (CCTV) said. Five passengers and the driver were pulled out alive from the overnight bus — made [...]
