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Ranchi, Jan 24: A special CBI court here today convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the third fodder scam case. CBI judge SS Prasad also found another former chief minister Jagannath Mishra guility in the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.62 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s. Out of the 56 accused in the case, six were

Jeddah, Jan 24: By the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) is expected to announce details about new tourist visas. It requires the approval by the commission’s board of directors. The SCTH pointed out that the news about details, requirements, and nationality specifications mentioned in the media are inaccurate and

Davos, Jan 24: Sending out a strong message against protectionism and inward-focused economic policies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said such tendencies can be as dangerous as terrorism and climate change as he pitched for creating a “heaven of freedom.” Mr. Modi, who became the first Indian Prime Minister to address the World Economic Forum’s annual summit here in two decades, talked

Two-and-half-year-old Pranavi, daughter of Jagadish and Nisha Latha couple at Mannagudde, Mangaluru, who supposed to be active and playing in and around her home, is now seeing the four walls of hospital on regular basis. She was diagnosed with blood cancer three months and has been under treatment since then in KMC, Mangaluru. When she was not able to walk at her early stages, her parents got her

Two-and-half-year-old Pranavi, daughter of Jagadish and Nisha Latha couple at Mannagudde, Mangaluru, who supposed to be active and playing in and around her home, is now seeing the four walls of hospital on regular basis. She was diagnosed with blood cancer three months and has been under treatment since then in KMC, Mangaluru. When she was not able to walk at her early stages, her parents got her

Jakarta, Jan 23: A strong quake rattled Indonesia on Tuesday, sparking panic in the capital Jakarta and ripping roads apart in the countryside. Office workers rushed outside as buildings began swaying, while riders were thrown off their motorbikes by the force of the 6.0 magnitude rumble. Footage broadcast on Indonesian television showed trucks swaying violently from side to side at a port in

Mumbai, Jan 23: The Shiv Sena today passed a resolution not to align with the BJP and go solo in the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly polls next year. The resolution was moved by Sena MP Sanjay Raut, who said the BJP had been demoralising the party for the last three years. The resolution was passed unanimously in the party's National Executive meet here. "I moved the resolution for the Shiv

New Delhi, Jan 23: Twenty AAP MLAs today moved the Delhi High Court challenging their disqualification for holding offices of profit. The plea for an urgent hearing of the appeal was mentioned before a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla, which listed it for tomorrow. Advocate Manish Vashisht, appearing for one of the MLAs, submitted before the bench that the matter requires urgent

In what can be termed as an interim relief for Hadiya, a Hindu convert Muslim college student from Kerala, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court upheld her right to select her husband and observed that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) cannot probe her marital status. The court said that the NIA probe will not have any bearing on the legitimacy of Hadiya's marriage to Shafin Jahan which

In what can be termed as an interim relief for Hadiya, a Hindu convert Muslim college student from Kerala, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court upheld her right to select her husband and observed that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) cannot probe her marital status. The court said that the NIA probe will not have any bearing on the legitimacy of Hadiya's marriage to Shafin Jahan which