New Delhi: There are over 6,000 Indian prisoners lodged in foreign jails for various crimes while another 117 are languishing abroad despite completion of their jail terms.    There are about 6004 Indians lodged in foreign jails for crimes like violation of immigration/visa rules, overstay, illegal entry, robbery, non-possession of valid travel documents, valid visa/permit, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.    She added "however, some Indians have also been jailed for grave offences like drug trafficking, murder, rape etc.    "22 Indian nationals have died in foreign jails and 117

New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would go ahead with the meeting with his Pakistan counterpart in New York in September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meet.   Talking to reporters against the backdrop of the killing of five Indian Army jawans by Pakistani forces in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress spokesman PC Chacko said that all issues between the two countries could only be solved across the talks table.    "It is not through war that we are going to solve the problems, but through discussion and dialogue."    "So, the Indian PM and Pakistan PM (Nawaz Sharif) will be meeting (in New York),&qu

NEW DELHI: The bronze-medal winning Indian junior women's hockey team on Tuesday returned home amid fanfare and celebrations after scripting history at the seventh FIH Junior World Cup in Monchengladbach, Germany.

The team arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport this morning via Dubai by an Emirates Airlines flight.

Indian women outplayed England 3-2 in a penalty shootout in the bronze medal play-off match on Sunday to finish on the podium -- their best-ever showing in the marquee event.

Interestingly, the Indian girls had never made it to the quarterfinals of the World Cup before this. India captain Sushila Chanu said the entire te

Five Indian soldiers were killed early on Tuesday on the line of control in Poonch in a cross border attack by regular Pakistani troops, Army officials said.   Related: Army foils infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir, militant killed   The attack took place on the Indian side of the border when the troops were on a regular patrol. Sources said that a Pakistani army team had crossed the border under the cover of darkness and had laid an ambush.   Pak attack on Indian post does not to help normalise ties: Omar Abdullah   The Indian troops were caught in one of the deadliest cross border attacks on the LoC in recent times. Sources said that the soldiers belo

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday deftly stepped around a possible conflict with the Portuguese Supreme Court by allowing CBI to drop six charges under anti-terror law TADA, Explosives Act and Arms Act against Mumbai serial blast accused Abu Salem while maintaining that his extradition to India remained unaffected by the adverse rulings of Portuguese courts.    "It is vividly clear that the order of extradition (against Salem) dated March 28, 2003 still stands valid and effective in the eyes of law," a bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and J Chelameswar said. It also vacated the February 17, 2012 stay on trial against Salem in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case

Ahmedabad. The incident occurred last week horrors of the city. City CID office a father to his two innocent daughters sit in auto burned alive. Both innocents died on the spot. Police said that the accused daughters extremities were tied and then sprinkle petrol on auto fire. Not only that, after he had been conspiring to murder the other two daughters. But some people see him fleeing from the scene and police have seized. Meanwhile, his wife Indu was completely unaware of the terrible plot. She daughters dressed, as usual, kept their lunch and leave for school, home and got busy with other things. Govind school instead Meganinagr area autorickshaw reached a secluded place near the po

Mumbai: Style statement has reached a new height with the creation of a motorcycle made fully of pure silver by a leading jewellery house here and priced between Rs.5-10 million, a representative of the maker said here Saturday.   The silver bike will be unveiled at the prestigious India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) on Aug 8-12.   Silver Emporium, a leading silver industry player, has created the world's first handcrafted motorcycle in silver.   "It is absolutely road worthy and barring the engine, tyres and suspension, rest all components are in silver," Silver Emporium managing director Rahul Mehta told IANS.   Targeted at up-market

Heavy overnight rains across Uttarakhand today led to a rise in the levels of most water bodies including the Bhagirathi river and the Tehri lake.   Dehradun and Uttarkashi received the highest degree ofrain in the past 24 hours recording a maximum of 91.5 mm and 77 mm of showers respectively.   A cloudburst occurred in Manalipatti area of Barkot in Uttarkashi district early this morning. However no damage was caused as it occured in a forest area where there were no human settlements, District Disaster Management and Mitigation authorities said.   Heavy incessant rains in Dehradun since last night left most of the roads in the city waterlogged. Major rivers in the

NEW DELHI:  Social networking site Facebook says  that she has paid 10 lakh dollor to the security researchers for giving the informationof bugs at the website.  India is the second highest paid ones. The number of users of Facebook in India is 7.8 million and the company's Bug Bounty (bug reporting) program is second among facility. The program contains bugs undetected manipulation of software and hardware. Facebook says that he starts program of bug bounty for encouraging that people who helps for secure the website. This award has given to 329 peoples till now. In this, there is a winner of 13 years old.   Sourse : Ratan Times    
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As many as 92 of the current Lok Sabha's 545 members have attended less than 50 per cent of the sittings in the House. With the last Monsoon Session of the 15th Lok Sabha beginning Monday, this list includes Congress vice-president and would-be prime minister Rahul Gandhi, who has attended 135 of 314 sittings.   An analysis of the attendance of members, as per information on the Lok Sabha website, shows that Congress president Sonia Gandhi fares no better. While Sonia's record (48 per cent attendance) is marginally better than son Rahul's (43 per cent), their BJP counterparts L K Advani (82 per cent) and Rajnath Singh (80 per cent) are clearly far more serious about thei

In the light of Supreme Court's recent directive and to curb the acid attacks, Madhya Pradesh government has tightened the rules regarding sale of acids, and introduced a jail term and heavy fine as penalty. Those selling acids without a valid license, or not maintaining a proper record of sale, will face a jail term of three months and fine of Rs 50,000, as per the new rules.   Further, the buyer will have to provide a photo-identity proof to the seller. The decision to introduce new rules was taken at a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary R Parshuram and attended by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) I S Dani and Additional Director General of Police Rajeev Tandon and others

Soon to be aired on Sony channel show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) on Wednesday against a private complaint was lodged in Bhopal. In this case show host Amitabh Bachchan has been made accountable. Gondwana Party Attorney's legal cell Coordinator Nasir Ali, Sanjay Pandey in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate has lodged a complaint in this case. The court will hear the case on August 23. This will record the statement of the complainant, in this case on which the court will decide whether or not to file cases against those responsible.     Sourse : Ratan Times

Google Inc and Facebook Inc were today asked by the Delhi High Court to spell out their mechanism to deal with complaints including misuse of social networking sites by children below 13 years of age.   "You inform us about the procedure you follow to deal with such complaints," a bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru said while hearing a PIL alleging that the websites have no mechanism for protection of children from online abuse.   Related: HC pulls up Facebook and Google for inadequate policies to protect children online   "Let us see how do they deal with the complaints," the bench said and asked the petitioner to

  NEW DELHI: Visitors to Rashtrapati Bhavan will have to pay a fee from September 1 to enjoy the tour. The President's office has introduced a "registration charge" of Rs 25 per person per visit for individuals and groups of people below 30. A group of 30 visitors will be charged Rs 600 while more than 30 people will be charged Rs 600 and an additional Rs 25 for every extra person.   Children below the age of 12 years are exempt from charges. School groups aged above 12 years are likely to be adversely impacted by the introduction of this fee.   The charges, according to a statement from the President's office, can be made through an e-payment ga

  Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet in connection with the murder of Kunda DSP Zia-ul Haq before a special court in which it has given a clean chit to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya.   The agency also filed a "technical" closure report in the FIR filed by Haq's wife Parveen Azad in which she had accused Raja Bhaiya of conspiring to murder the officer.   The CBI has requested the court to tag it along with the case registered by the state police after the incident which is also being probed by the agency.   The agency told the court it has co

New Delhi: Petrol price was on Wednesday hiked by 70 paisa per litre, the fifth increase in rates in two months, and diesel by 50 paisa per litre on firming international oil prices.   The increase in rates, which will be effective Wednesday midnight, are excluding local sales tax or VAT. The actual hike will be higher and will vary from city to city.   Petrol price in Delhi will go up by 84 paisa to Rs 71.28 per litre while it will cost Rs 78.61 per litre in Mumbai as against Rs 77.73 currently.   This is the fifth increase in rates since June and in all petrol prices have gone up by a massive Rs 6.82 per litre.   Oil firms had on June 1 raised prices by

The government on Wednesday extended the last date for filing of income tax returns by five days to August 5.   The due date, which was July 31, has been extended in wake of "unprecedented surge" in number of I-T returns being filed electronically.   "As a measure of taxpayers convenience, it has been decided to extend the due date of filing of returns from July 31, 2013 to August 5, 2013," the Finance Ministry said.   As per the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), there has been an unprecedented surge in number of returns being e-filed.   This year till July 30, about 92 lakh returns have been electronically filed, which is 46.8 per

HYDERABAD: Hundreds of students danced in the streets of Hyderabad, burst fire crackers and sang songs welcoming the birth of the new Telangana state, as traffic came to a halt in many places and people stepped out of their vehicles to join in the festivities.    Waving flags, students of Osmania University took out bike rallies and smeared each other with vermilion after the Centre announced the formation of the 29state after years of deliberation on the issue, which saw hundreds of students laying down their lives.    "For the past three generations my family has been fighting for the cause. There souls will finally rest in peace and i will sleep peacefully

As part of its efforts to curb speculative trading, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) toughened disclosure rules for hedge funds and other alternative investment funds.

The capital market regulator asked hedge funds and other alternative investment funds to implement an all-inclusive risk management framework and have a sturdy compliance function according to the size, complexity and risk profile of their business.

Such funds have also been asked to uphold proper records of their trades and reveal the complete disclosure of their trade management practices as well as any conflict of interest to the regulator.

The regulator made t

Srinagar, July 30 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Tuesday the formation of a state based on an agitation will set a "dangerous trend".

Abdullah was speaking on the possible formation of Telangana, a decision on which is expected soon. He said a wrong message will be sent if the state is created.

"Telangana is a state being created on the basis of an agitation. It is not based on the recommendation of any panel or reorganisation commission or something else. I think that is a dangerous trend." Abdullah told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

"All we are doing is sending a message that if yo