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London, Feb 17 (IANS) News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has said that suspensions had been lifted on Sun newspaper employees arrested over allegations of payments to police officers, The Telegraph reported Friday. In an email, he said a Sunday version of the paper – The Sun on Sunday – would launch “very soon”. Murdoch visited The [...]

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh has blamed “rogue elements” in the bureaucracy for stoking controversies and denied any rift between him and Defence Minister A.K. Antony. “There is nothing wrong. I am on the same page as the government. We enjoy good relations, and I have no differences with the [...]

London, Feb 28 (IANS) A British couple were arrested at an Egyptian airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle antiquities out of the country before experts realised they were imitations bought at a local market. Michael Newey, 65, and his wife Angela, 62, were stopped at the Luxor international airport with 19 mementoes, including Pharonic statues, [...]

Hyderabad, Nov 16 (TMS): Tension prevailed in the old city areas on a day of prayers offered by minority commuity as a result of an angry section of a community indulging in pelting stones at police. The police was forced to fire tear gas shells to disperse the mobs. Moghulpura, Shaalibanda, Gulzar House and other suburbs witnessed [...]

(23:00) London, March 1 (IANS) The defence editor of Britain’s The Sun newspaper was arrested over allegations of corrupt payments made to public officials. She was later released on bail, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. Virginia Wheeler, 32, becomes the 23rd person to be detained by Scotland Yard as part of Operation Elveden. News International, the [...]

The North Zone Task Force on credible information nabbed one pseudo police at Amba Theatre, Mehdipatnam and seized one sword, one pulsar motor cycle and one cell phone from his possession, said L.Raja Venkat Reddy, Inspector, Task Force. The accused Marathi Srujan Kumar is native of Station Ghanpur village of Warangal District. He is a [...]

Meerut, Feb 18 (IANS) A man caught with a kidnapped child shocked police by telling them that he roasted abducted children he could not sell and at times ate their flesh too. Police here are investigating if the man’s startling claims are true, Inspector General of Police Rajiv Krishna said. Police said villagers caught hold of [...]

Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) Renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen and writer Mahasweta Devi Wednesday condemned the Mamata Banerjee-led government’s decision to ban all leading dailies except eight vernacular newspapers in state-funded libraries to promote “free thinking” among readers. While Mahasweta said dictatorship would not serve the purpose of the society, Sen questioned whether Banerjee herself reads newspapers [...]

London, Feb 21 (IANS) A group of 11 Asian men plied five girls, as young as 13, with drink and drugs and had sex with them several times a day, a British court heard Tuesday. All the girls were from broken homes and one was in care. A trial at Liverpool Crown Court was told that [...]

Beijing, Feb 21 (IANS) An 80-year-old man in Shanghai has been detained on suspicion that he may have strangled his wife. The elderly man was held hours after his spouse of same age was found dead in their Yangpu district apartment in the afternoon, the Global Times reported. The senior, identified only by his surname, Shen, [...]