ALIGARH: The meeting of Aligarh Muslim University Court scheduled to be held on June 8-9, 2013 has been rescheduled for June 12-13 at 10.30 am at the NRSC Club. In a letter, sent to all members of the University Court, AMU registrar, Group Captain (Retd.) Shahrukh Shamshad expressed regret for any inconvenience caused due to [...]

ALIGARH: Dr. Nadeem Khalil, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Z H College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University delivered an invited lecture on “An Overview of Sewage Treatment: Technologies and Advancements” at Amity University, Gurgaon. The Vice ­Chancellor, Pro-Vice Chancellor, faculty members and a large number of students attended the [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday said no person would be arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting objectionable comments on social networking websites without prior approval from an officer of the Inspector General of Police-rank. The apex court’s vacation bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra passed the [...]

Patna, (IANS) Nearly six years after her son was killed with two others, a mother in Bihar has finally gathered the courage to file a complaint against seven police officials alleging that they killed the youths in a staged shootout. Anita Devi, mother of Manish Ranjan who was killed along with Mukul Thakur and Subodh [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) The CBI case against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gulab Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh shootout case Wednesday led to war of words between the BJP and the Congress with the former alleging it as a conspiracy by the ruling UPA and the latter questioning the opposition party’s double standards. “The [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) Who killed Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj? Five years after the 14-year-old was found with her throat slit in her Noida home along with the family’s domestic help, there is still no answer to who committed the murders most foul. Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar are being tried for the murder of [...]

Srinagar, (IANS) There was a 36 percent decline in militancy-related violence in Jammu and Kashmir during 2012 as compared to 2011 and 54 security forces’ bunkers were removed from public places here in 2012, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Wednesday. Abdullah was speaking at a meeting of various departments under his charge. “Under the amnesty [...]

New Delhi, A Delhi court Wednesday reserved its order on framing charges against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijender Gupta in a defamation complaint filed by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who also appeared in the court. Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal reserved the order for July 1 on whether charges are to be framed against Gupta after [...]

New Delhi, (IANS) A 71-year-old tantric was arrested here for raping a 10-year-old girl on the pretext of healing her, police said Wednesday. The girl, who had a migraine, had been advised by a neighbour to seek the tantric’s help. Her mother took her to Kanu Lal, a tantric in Govindpuri area in south Delhi [...]