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New Delhi, Sept 11: Asha Devi, the mother of the 2012 gang rape victim referred to as Nirbhaya, on Tuesday expressed her disappointment over delay in executing the four accused in the case, saying that the crime rates are escalating due to the delay in serving justice. "Despite crime rates in the country being so high, little girls still preyed upon by these criminals, our authorities are slacking

Hyderabad, Sept 11: In one of the goriest accident in the history of State Road Transport Corporation, 52 passengers including 32 women and four children, died and 30 others were injured when a Telangana Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus belonging to Jagitial depot, fell into a gorge on Tuesday morning. The bus which was fully packed with around 86 passengers were coming down from Kondagattu

New Delhi, Sept 11: The country is being divided under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rule, Congress president Rahul Gandhi alleged on Monday and declared that a united opposition will defeat the BJP in the next elections. Addressing a protest rally with various opposition parties at the Ramlila grounds in Delhi, he also questioned the Prime Minister's silence on rising fuel prices, the Rafale jet

New Delhi, Sept 11: Over-optimistic bankers, slowdown in government decision making process and moderation in economic growth mainly contributed to the mounting bad loans, said former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan in a note to Parliamentary panel. In a note to Chairman of Estimates Committee Murli Manohar Joshi, he said: "A variety of governance problems such as the suspect allocation of coal mines

Sept 11: More than £700,000 of jewelry belonging to a Saudi princess has been stolen from her at the Ritz in Paris. The gems, worth an estimated £713,000, were not in a safe when they were taken and there was no sign of forced entry. The unnamed Saudi royal said the theft happened on Friday afternoon. It marks the second high-profile heist at the five-star hotel on Place Vendome this year. An

Hyderabad, Sept 10: A metropolitan court here sentenced two terrorists convicted in the 2007 twin blasts case to death and another to life imprisonment on Monday. Two powerful explosions had ripped through a popular eatery and an open-air theatre here on August 25, 2007, killing 44 people and wounding 68. On September 4, Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge (in-charge) T Srinivas Rao had

New Delhi, Sept 10: The Supreme Court on Monday sought a report from a sessions judge in a Lucknow court on how he intends to complete the trial in the Babri Masjid demolition case involving BJP veterans L.K. Advani, M.M. Joshi and Uma Bharti within the April 2019 deadline. A Bench of Justices R.F. Nariman and Indu Malhotra also sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response on a plea of trial

New Delhi, Sep 10: The Congress has no moral right to protest against the increasing fuel prices, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy said on Monday. "Under the Congress regime also petrol prices had increased and they made silly comments during that time. They have no moral right to protest now," said Swamy. Swamy, however, added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must take steps

New Delhi, Sept 10: Even as the opposition parties called for Bharat Bandh to protest against the soaring fuel prices, the govt-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) have again increased the price of sensitive petroleum products like petrol and diesel in the country on Monday. The prices of petrol and diesel touched a new high with Mumbai paying the maximum among the four metros. While petrol costs

New Delhi, Sept 10: The BJP Monday dubbed the 'Bharat Bandh' call given by the Congress and several other parties as an attempt to spread rumour and confusion among the masses and said people will "puncture the grand alliance balloon" floated by the main opposition party. Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi took on the Congress, saying it has been a "history