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 [...]

NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu government is likely to reveal its position on Nalini Murugan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to the Madras High Court on Tuesday. ( Watch ) The High Court had asked the state government to provide its response by Tuesday. Nalini Murugan, [...]

SYDNEY: The Dalai Lama arrived in Australia today on the second leg of a five-country world tour which has brought protests from Beijing, but will not be met by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, officials said. Rudd is on a trip to Japan and Indonesia and his spokesman said he would [...]

KOLKATA: Normal life across West Bengal was paralysed as Left parties, providing outside support to the UPA government, enforced a 12-hour statewide bandh from 6 am on Thursday to protest against fuel price hike. The bandh affected traffic movement as almost all vehicles went off the roads. Shops, markets and [...]

BEIJING: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukerjee has given a new dimension to his China visit by deciding to stop over at the earthquake hit Sichuan province before returning to India on Friday. Mukherjee will receive a planeload of relief supplies being sent from India for the disaster affected people at [...]

Karachi/Dubai: Detained Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif appeared before public prosecutor in Dubai on Thursday but will have to wait until Sunday to know his fate, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chief Executive Officer Shafqat Naghmi said. He also denied that the board was using government and diplomatic channels to get Asif [...]