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IIT-Delhi student arrested for MMS of girl from IIT-Kanpur

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:31 GMT

A student from IIT-Delhi has been arrested for allegedly creating an obscene MMS of a female student from IIT-Kanpur. The third year student of textile engineering at IIT-Delhi was arrested for attemp...

Second phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh today

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:55 GMT

Polling for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 59 seats in 10 districts would be held today. This will decide the fate of two state presidents, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers.

Full Transcript: Truth vs Hype - The Sushma Paradox

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:07:29 GMT

In an exclusive interview to NDTV, BJP leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj says she is sorry to hear that party colleagues are spreading rumours that she stayed away from the UP...

Age row: 'Graceful' end to dispute with the government, says Army Chief

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:02:40 GMT

The Army chief's decision to take the government to court over his age turns out to have been a huge miscalculation. The Supreme Court today sided with the government, forcing General VK Singh to with...

Court denies permission to minor to live with boyfriend

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:53:35 GMT

The Delhi High Court on Friday denied permission to a Class 9 girl to live with her boyfriend, a student of Class 12 of the school she was in, and handed over her custody to her parents.The girl from ...

Mamata and BJP eye each other making the Congress very nervous

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:49:35 GMT

Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is testing the waters for the first time in Uttar Pradesh. The party has fielded over 100 candidates in the ongoing seven-phase elections. But it is not in coaliti...

Marines posed with logo resembling Nazi symbol

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:23:15 GMT

The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS - ...

1 dead, 11 injured in attack by militants after Imran Khan's rally

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:59:41 GMT

At least one person was killed and 11 others injured today when suspected militants lobbed grenades and fired at a police truck soon after a rally of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in northwes...

Brazil may become first country to use Twitter's new censorship tool

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:52 GMT

A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its pl...

Didn't say Sonia Gandhi cried, clarifies Salman Khurshid

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:20:12 GMT

While campaigning in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said that Sonia Gandhi cried when she was shown photographs of the Batla House encounter in Delhi.

It's business as usual for General Singh

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:02:01 GMT

Notwithstanding the developments in Supreme Court on his age issue, it was business as usual for Army Chief General V K Singh as he arrived in Jaipur for an official visit to the South-Western Command...

Kashmir's Education Minister resigns over allegations of helping his son cheat in exam

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:50 GMT

Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Mohmmad Sayeed resigned from the Omar Abdullah-led government today. This comes after the controversy over his alleged use of office to ensure his foster...

Army chief General VK Singh drops case against Govt, reports he may quit

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:31:11 GMT

Yuvraj Singh posts 'hair gone' picture on Twitter

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:17:40 GMT

Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States for a rare germ cell cancer, has posted a picture on Twitter that shows him without hair. He tweeted: "Finally the hair has gone, But ...

La Martiniere student found dead in Kolkata lake

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:16 GMT

The body of 17-year-old Riju Basak was found in south Kolkata's Dhakuria Lake this morning. Riju, a student of Class 11, at the prestigious La Martiniere for Boys, was missing since Wednesday.

India sends special envoy to crisis-hit Maldives

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:43:09 GMT

As the crisis in Maldives deepened, India today sent its special envoy to Male to assess the situation in the island where former President Mohammad Nasheed has been insisting that he was ousted in a ...

Thousands protest austerity measures in Greece

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:41:37 GMT

Thousands took to the streets of Athens as unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures on Friday, a day after Greece's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by...

Australia scrape past Sri Lanka by 5 runs

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:03 GMT

Angelo Mathews narrowly failed to deliver victory to Sri Lanka at the WACA, where the Australians held on by five runs in a thrilling finish. Sri Lanka needed 18 from the final over bowled by Mitc...

Jayalalithaa asks partymen to "gift" 40 Lok Sabha seats

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:04:32 GMT

Setting her sights on carving out a larger role in national politics, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today asked her partymen to 'gift' her with all 40 Lok Sabha seats in ...

I am in a soup, government is in a soup, says Subhash Ghai

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:01:30 GMT

Film director Subhash Ghai says he will ask the Supreme Court to over-rule a verdict that asks him to return 21 acres of land in Film City, Goregaon to the state government. Yesterday, the Bombay Hig...

2003 blast case: Bombay High Court upholds death penalty for 3 convicts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:20 GMT

The Bombay High Court has upheld the death sentence given to three people convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin blast case that killed over 50 people. 46-year-old auto driver Haneed Sayyed, his wife Fahme...

China says top cop spent a day in US consulate

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:48:39 GMT

Beijing says a celebrity police chief linked to one of the country's rising political stars spent a day in a U.S. consulate in south-western China amid speculation that he sought political asylum.

Teen dies trying to save her brother from being run over

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:47:47 GMT

In a tragic incident in Mumbai, a 13-year-old girl has died after she tried saving her 11-year-old brother from being run over by a mini-truck in suburban Madh.

India-origin man jailed for stabbing wife in money row

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:45:23 GMT

An Indian-origin advertising executive in Leicester has been jailed for 16 months for stabbing his wife twice in the head while he was drunken state. During an argument over money, 44-year-old Jayesh ...

Five people in China arrested for stealing 1,600 iPhones

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:24:41 GMT

Five people have been detained in Shanghai for stealing over 1,600 iPhone devices bound for the US, police said. The value of the stolen iPhone 4S phones was estimated at about eight million yuan (aro...