A court in New Zealand has found two Indian-origin men guilty of murder and they are expected to be jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of at least 10 years, media reported. Shivneel Kumar, 20, and Bryne Permal, 22, were on trial for nearly a month in the High Court at Auckland for […]
For the first time since its inception in 1950, the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) got a woman as its president when Poonam Mahajan was unanimously elected the head of the federation here on Saturday. Maharashtra State Basketball Association (MSBA) president Poonam, who is also a Member of Parliament from Mumbai North-Central Lok Sabha constituency, […]
The Melbourne Cricket Ground’s (MCG) hallowed surface will add another feather to its cap when it hosts the final of the 11th World Cup between tournament co-hosts Australia and New Zealand on Sunday. The ground will be the second venue to host the Cup final more than once after another iconic cricket ground – the […]
India successfully put its fourth navigation satellite into orbit in copy book style on Saturday, bringing the country a step closer to having its own satellite navigation system. Exactly at 5.19 p.m., the rocket – the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C27) standing around 44 metres tall and weighing around 320 tonnes – tore into the […]
The State Government has made licensing services even more accessible by placing some of the more common transactions online. Transport Minister Dean Nalder said the Department of Transport (DoT) had increased its online services to include vehicle transfers and a new search tool to help find licensing information even faster. “In 2013-14, just […]
An immigration officer has been suspended for alleged verbal sexual harassment of a woman passenger who took a flight to Hong Kong on March 18 from Delhi, a home ministry official said on Friday. “The immigration officer has been suspended and a departmental inquiry has been initiated,” the official told IANS on the condition of […]
Dozens of grieving relatives of Germanwings plane crash victims arrived in the French Alps on Thursday, brought in on special flights and buses to pay tribute to the 150 lives lost in the tragedy. Two charter planes carrying family members landed in the French city of Marseille early Thursday, where seven buses — many with […]
A court in Dubai has sentenced two Pakistani workers to jail for raping an Indian man after serving him food spiked with liquor, according to a media report. The Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday convicted Pakistani workers, identified only as S.N. and M.S., of raping the 20-year-old Indian victim in September last year, […]
The Goa Police on Friday busted a prostitution racket being run from the coastal village of Calangute and arrested three persons from Bihar, said police. The three arrested are Vinod Kumar, Dinesh Madan and Dharmendra Kumar, all from Darbhanga in Bihar. “They were running a prostitution racket from Calangute. We have rescued four women, who […]
The bravery of a private bank employee here Friday foiled a bank robbery bid, police said. Pooja, a cashier of ICICI bank on the busy Gurudwara road, confronted the robbers and foiled the robbery bid. Two men, in their mid-twenties visited the branch in the afternoon on Friday and came back later in the evening. […]