Patna, April 22 (IANS) A Bihar court Thursday began the trial into the gangrape of a Japanese woman on April 16. Three people have been arrested.
The speedy trial began in the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Gaya, a day after police filed its chargesheet against the three accused.
The
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London, April 20 (IANS) An Indian-origin solicitor was murdered in Britain by a hitman who was hired by her business partner in a plan to claim a 1.5 million pound insurance payout, a court was told.
Vina Patel, 51, died of asphyxiation and a broken neck in a contract killing allegedly
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New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The resignation of Shashi Tharoor as minister of state for external affairs has striking similarity with another incident 18 years ago when Home Minister P. Chidambaram had stepped down from the commerce ministry.
The issue then involved alleged investments by Chidambaram's wife Nalini in the scam-tainted
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London, April 15 (IANS) A 16-year-old Briton has been sentenced to a prison term for shaking his seven-week-old daughter to death, a media report said Thursday.
Joshua Bacon has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail. He lost his cool when he attempted to feed his daughter, Caitlyn Smith, and shook
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Washington, March 26 (IANS) The California Supreme Court has upheld a Los Angeles International Airport ordinance barring Hare Krishnas from soliciting donations inside airport terminals.
'Soliciting the immediate receipt of funds at a busy international airport like Los Angeles is particularly problematic,' the court said Thursday in a ruling written by
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Washington/Moscow, March 26 (DPA) US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev are close to finalising the most comprehensive nuclear arms control treaty in nearly two decades, according to US and Russian officials.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that the two leaders were expected to 'wrap up'
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Gandhinagar, March 13 (IANS) The Gujarat State Information Commission (GSIC), which was functioning only with a chief information commissioner so far, has got two new information commissioners following the high court's intervention.
The new information commissioners are Netra Shenoy and Arvind Shukla. They have been appointed to help out Chief Information
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Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) The Pakistani Supreme Court Friday expressed unhappiness over the lack of action in reopening a Swiss money laundering case involving President Asif Ali Zardari. It has asked the country's anti-corruption watchdog to speed up matters.
At a hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) submitted that it was
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Washington, March 12 (IANS) The US has praised the Indian government for its human rights record, but expressed concern over reported extra-judicial killings of people in custody, disappearances, and torture and rape by police and other security forces.
'The (Indian) government generally respected the rights of its citizens and made progress
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Washington, March 10 (DPA) The US government has charged a Pennsylvania woman with conspiring to commit terrorism by using the internet to find recruits to carry out attacks in Europe and South Asia, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The charges against Colleen R. LaRose include conspiracy to provide material support to
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