India

New Delhi, Apr 26: President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to a bill under which cases of sexual harassment at workplace, including against domestic help, will have to be disposed of by in-house committees within 90 days failing which a penalty will be imposed. Repeated non-compliance of the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)

Greater Noida, Apr 25: Around eight armed men entered the Greater Noida home of a Samajwadi Party national executive member and shot him dead on Wednesday, a day when the politician's two security guards were on leave. The victim, Chaman Bhati, was walking in his garden in Dabra village around 6pm when the attackers, who came in a Scorpio, scaled the wall and shot him five times, police said. The

Agra, Apr 25: Three people were killed and several injured when an expired army bomb exploded in a scrap dealer's shop in this city's Taj Ganj area early Thursday, police said. According to TV reports, the explosion occurred at a junkyard behind the hotel Mughal Sheraton in the Tajganj area of Agra, 1.5 km from the Taj Mahal. Taj Ganj police station officials said that an enquiry has been ordered

Kolkata, April 25: A letter bomb by the prime accused in the multi-crore chitfund scam alleging blackmail by two Trinamool Congress MPs blew in the face of the ruling party on Wednesday, as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a Rs 500 crore relief fund for the duped investors. Scurrying for cover, the Trinamool supremo rejected allegations against the party in the Saradha chitfund scam and

New Delhi, Apr 25: As many as 2,644 people, called subjects, died during the clinical trials of 475 new drugs on human beings in last seven years and only 17 of the medicines were approved for marketing in India, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court. Responding to allegations by NGO, Swasthya Adhikar Manch, in its PIL that Indians were used as guinea pigs by foreign pharmaceutical majors for

Mumbai, Apr 25: Naresh Goyal's Jet Airways and Abu Dhabi carrier Etihad finally enacted a well choreographed tango, clinching the first foreign direct investment ( FDI) deal after foreign airlines were allowed part- ownership of their Indian rivals. On Wednesday, the Jet Airways board cleared preferential allotment of shares (at Rs 754 apiece) to Etihad, giving the latter a 24% direct stake in

New Delhi, April 24: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, with strong tremors felt in the capital Kabul and Islamabad in neighbouring Pakistan as well as New Delhi, reports said.The quake hit at 0925 GMT and was centred in southeastern Afghanistan at a depth of 70 kilometres (44 miles), it said.Tremors shook Srinagar and adjoining areas but there was no report of any

Ahmedabad, Apr 24: A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri seeking rejection of the SIT report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the post-Godhra riots case is likely to come up for hearing in a local court on Wednesday. Zakia, the wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the Gulbarg Society riots along with 68

New Delhi, Apr 24: A CBI officer on Tuesday placed on record his view of the motive for the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder and the manner in which the crime was committed. On the fourth day of his cross-examination, CBI's investigating officer AGL Kaul told the Ghaziabad court that Aarushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar killed her and Hemraj after finding them in an "objectionable position on Aarushi's

New Delhi, Apr 23: Unfazed by the Opposition attack, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday dismissed the demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the coalgate issue. "Let them ask" was the terse response of Gandhi when approached by reporters on the issue after a meeting of the Congress core group headed by her. The meeting of the core group was convened immediately