Chennai: An Indian’s heart is now beating for 40-year-old Moulana Mohammed Zubair Ashmi, a Pakistani national, who has undergone a successful heart transplant surgery at the Fortis Malar Hospital here. Ashmi was suffering from a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy in which functioning of both the ventricles of the heart is severely depressed, said a statement [...]
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was early Wednesday quietly shifted from Arthur Road jail to Pune’s high-security Yerwada Central Jail, officials said. The shift came as a surprise as state Additional Director General of Police (Prisons), Meeran Borwankar had Tuesday said the actor would not be shifted from the Mumbai jail in the near future. [...]
New Delhi: The mother of Dec 16 gang rape victim Friday pleaded, with tears in her eyes and folded hands, to the fast-track court to “give justice to her daughter”. The mother of 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who was gang-raped by six men in a moving bus on Dec 16 last year, appeared before Additional Sessions [...]
New Delhi: The Mumbai underworld is involved in spot-fixing in Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in which Indian fast bowler S. Sreesanth and two of his Rajasthan Royals teammates were arrested, Delhi Police chief Neeraj Kumar Thursday said. “We had information that Mumbai underworld is indulging in match-fixing or spot-fixing and have contacted a number [...]
Mumbai: Apprehending death threats from fundamentalist groups, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted for the March 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, wants to surrender in Pune’s Yerawada Jail. Dutt moved an application Tuesday seeking permission to surrender in Yerawada Jail instead of giving himself up before Special TADA Judge G.A. Sanap here. Sanap directed the Central [...]
New Delhi: A Delhi Court Friday framed charges against ex-Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda for raping and abetting the suicide of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma. District Judge S.K. Sarvaria also framed charges of abetting rape and suicide of Geetika against Kanda’s employee Aruna Chadha. They have also been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery under [...]
Bangalore: The Congress High Command Friday named 64-year-old Siddaramaiah as Karnataka’s new chief minister. “Siddaramaiah is the choice of the party’s high command for the chief minister’s post,” the party’s central observer, Defence Minister A.K. Antony, told reporters at the party’s office in the city centre. Within minutes of the much-awaited announcement, wild celebrations broke [...]
Beijing: China hopes to use existing mechanisms to carry out discussions with India over border issues, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday. “We hope to use currently available mechanisms to conduct friendly consultations with India on border issues,” Xinhua quoted spokesperson Hua Chunying as saying at a press conference. She was responding to a [...]
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who is in a hospital here after being attacked in a Jammu jail last week, suffered renal failure Wednesday and doctors said that his condition was “extremely critical”. “The patient has become extremely critical. He has developed renal failure with no urine output since morning. Hence he was put on [...]
Mumbai: In an embarrassment to the BJP in Maharashtra, a former woman office bearer of the party has accused senior leader Madhu Chavan of raping her for the last two decades, police said Wednesday. “We have taken cognizance of a complaint by a woman who said she had been raped since 1993. We are investigating [...]
