Gandhinagar, Mar 22 (ANI): The Gujarat High Court on Monday asked Justice Nanavati Commission which is probing the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases, whether it would summon State Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The High Court issued the notice to Nanavati Commission through the state’s Advocate General to reply to the court in this regard by April 1. (Continue reading)
New York, March 22 (ANI): The only original copy of the List of Jews to be spared from Nazi concentration camps has been put up for sale for a 2.2 million dollars. (Continue reading)
London, March 22 (ANI): Simon Cowell and Mezhgan Hussainy are looking at a September date for their eagerly anticipated nuptials. A source claims that the pair has its sights set on September 11. (Continue reading)
London, Mar 22 (ANI): Northern Irish television presenter Christine Bleakley has insisted that she is no WAG, and to prove her point she refused to go to South Africa to watch boyfriend Frank Lampard play in the World Cup. (Continue reading)
Patna, Mar 22 (ANI): A Patna Court on Monday convicted three accused in National Highway engineer Satyendranath Dubey murder case. Dubey was a project director at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Patna Additional Judge convicted the three accused--Mantu Kumar, Udai Kumar and Pinku Ravidas for murdering Dubey and said the sentence would be pronounced on Saturday. On November 27, 2003, Dubey was shot dead in the early hours in front of Gaya Circuit House. Faced with the possibility of high-level corruption within the NHAI, Dubey wrote directly to the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, detailing the financial and contractual irregularities in the project. While the letter was not signed, he attached a separate bio-data so that the matter would be taken more seriously. (Continue reading)
London, Mar 22 (ANI): A woman, who had been given a sex Asbo to prevent noisy sessions, has been arrested after she failed to abide by the order. Caroline Cartwright, 49, avoided jail in January when a judge at Newcastle Crown Court handed her a suspended prison sentence after she was caught breaching a four-year Asbo. (Continue reading)
Gandhinagar, Mar 22 (ANI): Gujarat Police suspect that Maoists are slowly gaining ground in the State. Gujarat, which is one of the states in the country having a large tribal population, has so far remained unaffected from the Naxal menace. Police suspect that a recent arrest of a Maoist leader from Surat and spurt in Naxal meetings, secret movement of the ultras in the State and distribution of leaflets asking people to join the armed movement indicate that Naxals are trying to spread their network in the State. Police have arrested Niranjan Mohapatra, a resident of Orissa, from Surat last week for suspected Naxal activities. (Continue reading)
London, Mar 22: It has emerged that the wholesome image of parenting website Mumsnet is under threat from the raunchy antics of yummy mummies. The site, which connects 850,000 women who talk about the trials of motherhood, has been rocked by dozens of saucy women who have revealed details of their sex lives, reports the [...] (Continue reading)
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The Indian women's hockey team lost their third consecutive match against Japan, going down 0-3 at Gifu Green Stadium, Kakamigahara Monday.
Japan thus took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the four match series, according to reports received here. (Continue reading)
Washington, March 22 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that radioactive carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from atomic bomb tests in the atmosphere absorbed by grapes can be used to accurately determine if wine vintages are fake or not. (Continue reading)