Ramallah: The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has agreed to exhume late president Yasser Arafat’s body for examination at the request of some of his family members, a spokesman said Wednesday. The decision was taken a day after the Al-Jazeera reported that Arafat, the late Nobel laureate, might have died of a radioactive isotope called polonium. [...]
New Delhi: Vishal Yadav, convicted in the Nitish Katara murder case, Wednesday sought the Delhi High Court’s direction for a re-trial. Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, appearing for Vishal Yadav, expressed his displeasure on the way the trial was conducted. He said that the way the trial was conducted by the trial court judge was not [...]
New Delhi: After Arjun Singh’s posthumously released autobiography claimed R.D. Pradhan helped set free Union Carbide’s then chief Warren Anderson in 1984, the former home secretary said the Congress leader must have made a mistake. “There is a mistake about my part. I was not in New Delhi at the time of the tragedy and [...]
Mumbai: India’s batting great Sachin Tendulkar has opted out while Virender Sehwag and fast bowler Zaheer Khan made a comeback to the 15-member squad for the ODI tour of Sri Lanka in July-August. Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar and the Pathan brothers Irfan and Yusuf missed out on being a part of the squad for the [...]
New Delhi: The 59-day strike by Air India pilots ended Wednesday, a day after the aviators assured the Delhi High Court that they would call off their stir and join active duty within 48 hours. “We have officially started the process of joining back. However, we have to first provide affidavits to the high [...]
New Delhi: The interrogation of Abu Jindal Hamza, an Indian national arrested for the 26/11 strike, has confirmed that the terror attack was being controlled from Pakistan, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Wednesday. “We now know how the control room functioned. So I think the dots are being connected. It is no longer possible [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday restrained the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from granting permission under the foreign exchange provisions to overseas law firms for setting up offices in India. An apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice Anil R. Dave said that the foreign law firms could not practise in [...]
