NEW DELHI: Government on Friday launched a counter-offensive on the coal block allocation controversy maintaining that Comptroller and Auditor General's concept of presumptive loss was flawed and there was no loss because no mining has taken place as yet.With Parliament disrupted for the fourth consecutive day in the wake of CAG report on coal blocks allocation, the government fielded...

NEW YORK: A prominent Indian-American neurosurgeon has been convicted of failing to disclose to US federal authorities that he maintained offshore HSBC bank accounts in India and France and hid about USD eight million in these secret accounts.of Wisconsin was convicted by a jury on federal tax charges stemming from his failure to disclose offshore bank accounts maintained in...

MELBOURNE: In a major relief to Indian- American surgeon Jayant Patel, accused of the manslaughter of three patients in Queensland, an Australian court today granted him bail, ruling that he had been the victim of a "substantial miscarriage of justice" and ordered a re-trial.Dubbed by the Australian media as "Dr Death", Patel was sentenced to seven years in prison...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today sought response of Tata Motors on a special leave petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the quashing of the Singur Land Acquisition Act by the state high court.A bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad, however, said that the Calcutta High Court's interim order which had stated that...

NEW DELHI: Home Minister Sushi Kumar Shinde today said only those social media accounts which have posted objectionable and inflammatory content are being blocked and there is no need for others to be concerned."We are taking action only against those sites which can cause damage. We will not level charges unnecessarily on others be it SMS or Facebook or...

WASHINGTON: In the backdrop of appeals by India to remove hate posts, world's largest social networking website Facebook today said it will remove content, block pages or even disable accounts of those users who upload contents that incite violence or perpetuate hate speech.Comprehending the gravity, Facebook's stern warning to its users comes in the wake of the Indian government...

ITANAGAR: The Maharashtra government will make available chartered aircraft to take students of Northeast back to educational institutions in Pune or Mumbai from Guwahati.Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told a goodwill team from Arunachal Pradesh, led by MP Takan Sanjoy, yesterday that concessional chartered flights would be offered to students willing to go back.In a statement, Sanjoy quoted Chavan...

WASHINGTON: The US has said it is not part of the Indian investigation that is looking into doctored images and videos being uploaded on the internet by elements in Pakistan to create social unrest in the country."The Indian government itself is investigating, so we're going to let that go forward," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at a...

NEW DELHI: Observing that Pakistan and a number of other countries had conferred legal status to their nuclear regulators, the CAG today questioned the delay in according similar rights to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)."...the legal status of the AERB continued to be that of an authority subordinate to the Central Government, with powers delegated to it by...

NEW DELHI: Extending the ban on tourism activities in the core areas of tiger reserves, the Supreme Court today pulled up the Centre for the depleting population of the wild cats in the country.A bench of justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar put some searching questions to the Centre as it made a fresh plea for the review...