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Guwahati, April 6 (IANS) Police Friday seized a hand made gun and 14 rounds of live ammunition from a residence in the Gohpur area of Assam’s Sonitpur district. The gun and live ammunition belong to the owner of the house, identified as one Lakhya Pegu, police said adding that Pegu was absconding. “We suspect that Pegu [...]

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New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The prosecution’s delay in sending seized live cartridges to a forensic lab has led to the release of man who was charged under the Arms Act. A Delhi court made this observation while acquitting the accused, Pradeep, who had been accused of illegally possessing the live cartridges. Pradeep was arrested Feb [...]

Islamabad, Feb 26 (IANS) A Pakistani daily has called on the media to “stand firm in the face of power and coercion” as it says the government plans to impose curbs on them. Saying it has “alarming news”, an editorial in the News International Sunday cited reports as saying that the Pakistan Peoples Party government has [...]

Jaipur, March 19 (IANS) At least two people were electrocuted to death and 10 others admitted to hospitals with severe burn injuries in Rajasthan when the bus they were travelling in came in contact with live high-tension overhead wires Monday morning, police said. The incident took place in Jaipur district’s Chaksu area around 9.30 a.m. Monday. [...]

New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) As Supreme Court Wednesday explored the option of postponing the publication of court proceedings in sensitive matters, including criminal cases, it was told that news was a perishable commodity which lost its value, if banned. “We are not banning but are invoking the doctrine of postponement. It is a question of [...]

London, April 12 (IANS) Law suits will be filed in US courts over alleged phone hacking by media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. One case is reportedly linked to late princess Diana and another to the England football team. Mark Lewis, the lawyer who exposed the phone hacking at the News of the World, will file [...]

Chennai, Feb 29 (IANS) A special court Wednesday sentenced former DMK legislator Gomathi Srinivasan to over three years in jail for acquiring assets disproportionate to her known sources of income between 1996 and 2001. Sentencing Srinivasan to rigorous imprisonment of three years and four months, the special court trying cases under Prevention of Corruption Act also [...]

London, March 7 (IANS) The US investigating agency FBI is likely to quiz Rupert Murdoch’s firm as it investigates whether a Russian billboard company once owned by his News Corp bribed local officials for getting sign placements approved, the Daily Express reported. The move is part of a growing probe of Murdoch’s company that stems from [...]

Beijing, March 7 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s attempts to “split” China are “doomed to fail”, said an official following a string of self-immolations in recent months. The Dalai Lama clique’s separatist activities will fail as self-immolations in a small number of monasteries can not disrupt the stability-developing trend in the Tibetan-populated regions, China’s official [...]