India

Mumbai, Jul 30: In a severe blow to BCCI and its president-in-exile N Srinivasan, the Bombay high court on Tuesday held as "illegal and unconstitutional" the two-member probe panel set up by it to look into spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL tournament. The high court order comes just two days after the probe panel submitted its report on July 28 giving a clean chit to Srinivasan, his son

Mumbai, Jul 30: A Bhopal-bound JetLite flight from Mumbai with 114 passengers on board made an emergency landing here this morning due to engine failure, airport officials said. The flight returned to the city airport after being airborne for over half-an-hour, they said. The flight landed safely and it later departed for its destination after the problem was rectified. "JetLite flight 9W1625

New Delhi, Jul 30: Former RSS activist Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Aseemanand, whose confession in December 2010 led to the unraveling of a saffron terror conspiracy behind the 2006 Malegaon blasts apart from several other attacks, may himself be never charged in the case. National Investigation Agency (NIA), which left him out in its recently filed chargesheet in the case, believes that Aseemanand

New Delhi, Jul 29: The foreign investment regulator gave conditional approval on Monday to a $379 million deal by Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways to buy a stake in Jet Airways(JET.NS), paving the way for more acquisitions in the domestic aviation sector. "We have approved with some conditions," Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram told reporters after a meeting of the Foreign Investment Promotion

Hyderabad, Jul 29: Supporters of united Andhra Pradesh today intensified their protests in the Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions against the Congress leadership's reported proposal to divide the state. The united Andhra protagonists held protests outside the residences or offices of Union Ministers and ruling party MPs including D Purandeswari (Visakhapatnam), K S Rao (Eluru), L Rajagopal

Lucknow, Jul 29: IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, who was leading crackdown on sand mafia and was shunted out by the Uttar Pradesh government, today met the officiating chief secretary and demanded revocation of her suspension order. Nagpal was accompanied by members of the IAS association. "We went to meet the chief secretary and demanded revocation of the suspension. He said he will look into it

New Delhi, Jul 29: Veering towards conceding the demand for a separate Telangana, the Congress has convened a meeting of its working committee, the party's highest policy making body, tomorrow after deliberations on the issue in the UPA Coordination Committee. Highly placed Congress sources said the coordination committee will meet at 1600 hrs followed by the meeting of the CWC at 1730 hrs. The

New Delhi, Jul 29: A Congress Rajya Sabha member has made a sensational claim that berths in the Upper House are available for Rs 100 crore, triggering a controversy with the BJP on Monday slamming the ruling party at the Centre for bringing politics to "such a low level". Congress MP from Haryana Birender Singh said at a programme that "once someone had told me that Rs 100 crore was required to

Ahemadabad, Jul 29: Senior Gujarat IPS officer P.P. Pandey, who was directed by the Supreme Court to appear before a special CBI court here on Monday in connection with the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, was admitted in a hospital after he complained of chest pains. Mr. Pandey was admitted in Chandramani Hospital at Shahibaug area of the city after he complained of chest pains, sources told PTI

Rome, Jul 29: A tour bus filled with Italian pilgrims plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy and smashed into several cars that had slowed in heavy traffic, killing at least 36 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic along the stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash