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New Delhi, Jan 16: The Delhi High Court Thursday restrained the media from publishing or telecasting the allegations levelled against former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar by a former law intern, who has accused him of sexual harassment. Justice Manmohan, in an interim order, also restrained the telecast or print of photographs of Justice Kumar, and directed that photographs of his be removed

Ghaziabad, Jan 16: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav said Thursday a show-cause notice would be issued to Delhi legislator Vinod Kumar Binny, who has raised the banner of revolt, as "there is no scope for indiscipline". He also said that the charges against AAP were scripted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)."There is no scope for indiscipline. We are left with no option but to take

New Delhi, Jan 16: Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's Twitter account was not hacked. His wife Sunanda P Tharoor had posted the tweets that hinted at the union minister having an affair with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar using Tharoor's handle. In a report published in the Economic Times, Sunanda was quoted as saying that she sent out the tweets. "Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been

Tiruchirapalli, Jan 16: The brother of terror suspect Bilal Malik was arrested at the airport here today while trying to leave for Abu Dhabi on an allegedly fake passport, police said. Mythin Madhar was arrested after a check of his passport by immigration officials showed it to be fake, they said, adding he was then subjected to a body search. He was later handed over to airport police and booked

New Delhi, Jan 14: In the latest twist to the controversy surrounding AAP leader Somnath Bharti, Delhi's CM Arvind Kejriwal defended his law minister saying that the court's observation in the matter is "completely wrong". "A sting operation has been called tampering of evidence — it is not tampering of evidence," the chief minister said. Defending his stand on the issue, Somnath Bharti has stated

New Delhi, Jan 14: Setting a rule of sorts, Environment Minister M Veerappa Moily has made it clear that green nod will not be given to a project that is opposed by local panchayats. He made this clear against the backdrop of rejection of clearance to London-based Vedanta's $1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri in Odisha. "I have rejected the Niyamgiri because all the panchayats have

New Delhi, Jan 14: Ahead of the AICC meeting on Friday when he is expected to be named the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate, Rahul Gandhi today appeared ready to take up the responsibility. "I am a sepoy of Congress.I will obey whatever order is given to me. I will do whatever Congress wants me to do... Decisions are taken in our party by senior leaders," he told Hindi daily 'Dainik Bhaskar'

New Delhi, Jan 14: AAP is likely to sweep Delhi, bagging six of the seven seats, pick up a seat in Greater Mumbai and one in the Noida-Ghaziabad area in the coming Lok Sabha polls, according to an opinion poll done in the NCR region and in the Mumbai-Greater Mumbai areas. The party is also set to mark its presence in the other NCR satellite cities, though it may not win a seat in them, the poll

Colombo, Jan 14: Sri Lankan authorities say they have freed 52 Indian fishermen detained for poaching following India's release of 20 Sri Lankan fishermen, in a sign of easing tensions between the two countries over the contentious issue. Sri Lankan Fisheries Ministry spokesman Narendra Rajapakse says the fishermen and their boats were released today after India freed the Sri Lankans held in the

New Delhi, Jan 13: “There are people who just want to meet the CM…so I will be available once a week for two to three hours to meet the people. People need not come to us for their grievances. For that we are opening several avenues," he said. He said the government had a meeting on Monday where it took stock of what went wrong on Saturday. “Now, we are making a system through which people can