NEW DELHI, IANS: Delhi Daredevils are in a must-win situation in their match against Deccan Chargers on Thursday after losing to Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League match on Tuesday. After losing their last three matches Daredevils have slipped to fifth position in the standings. They cannot afford [...]

There’s never a dull moment when you’re Amitabh Bachchan. Constantly surrounded by controversy, the living legend of Bollywood puts across his point of view in a chat with Arnab Goswami. Do you write your own blogs? It has been suggested that they are so elaborate that Mr Bachchan would not [...]

KULLU: Moving with the times and recognising varied roles women play in every walk of life, country’s security establishment has woken up to their capabilities. Earlier this year, BSF began inducting women constables, primarily for frisking duties, checking human-trafficking and drug-peddling along the borders, and now Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) [...]

BHARATPUR: Efforts by Rajasthan government to end the 18-day-old Gujjar stir on Tuesday ran into rough weather with the community leadership making fresh demands of release of arrested women activists and withdrawal of murder charges against 20 protestors as pre-condition for further talks. Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla, who had [...]

NAVI MUMBAI: The Nago-thane police have booked five top Reliance officials and the contractor under section 304 (A) of the Indian Penal Code for causing death due to negligence at the chemical explosion in the Reliance-owned Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL) plant on Friday. Among those booked is the Nagothane [...]

GHAZIABAD: A special court on Monday declined to hear the bail application of Rajesh Talwar, key accused in the Noida twin murder case, on the ground that it was not empowered to take up the plea. Special Magistrate for CBI cases Sapna Mishra observed that the sessions court was competent [...]

NEW DELHI: Recent reports of Chinese incursions and Beijing’s claims over chunks of Indian territory notwithstanding, Defence Minister A K Antony on Tuesday said India will follow a non-confrontationist approach towards its neighbours. “We (India) are not ignoring (these incidents). To a maximum extent, we will try to avoid confrontation,” [...]

LIMA: Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori will head back to detention after spending five days in hospital where a cancerous sore was removed from his tongue, the doctor who treated him said Tuesday. “Fujimori’s post-operation evolution has been satisfactory, allowing all the doctors who have treated him to jointly decide [...]

SAN JUAN: Guantanamo Bay detainees are at increasing risk of mental illness because most are held in extreme isolation, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Most of the men held at the base in southeast Cuba – none of whom has been convicted – are worse off than convicts at the [...]