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Mild tremor in Chennai

     Chennai: Residents of Chennai went panic after the many areas of the city felt a minor tremor early today. The seismic unit of the Indian Meterological Department said that the quake was recorded at around 9.46 AM in the Andaman region. Details of the tremor were being worked out, the sources added. Aftershocks have become a common feature in the area after the Dec 26 earthquake of the coast of Indonesia which had spawned huge tidal wives causing wide-spread destruction.

SC refuses to permit Anara to visit Delhi

     New Delhi: The Supreme Court today turned down the request of Ananra Gupta asking for permission to be allowed to visit Delhi. Anara is an accused in the Jammu pornographic CD case. She wanted to visit Delhi for approaching the National Commission for Women regarding the alleged harassment faced by her. When the court refused to entertain her petition challenging a Jammu and Kashmir High Court order restraining her from going out of Jammu, her counsel withdrew the petition to approach the high court for modification of the order. Recently, a forensic test of the CD in Hyderabad revealed that the girl in the pornographic film was not Anara but someone else. Gupta and a cable operator were arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police on Nov 4 last year for allegedly producing pornographic movies and were later released on bail. The police had seized a large number of porn CDs, which led to Anara's identification as the girl featured in them.

SC to CBI, file status report in Dubey murder case within 4 weeks (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a status report on the murder of National Highway Authority of India engineer Satyendra Dubey within four weeks. Dubey was gunned down in Gaya, Bihar on November 27, 2003. The slain engineer had pointed out corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral Project in Bihar. He had written to the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee about the glaring irregularities in the execution of the Golden Quadrilateral Project. The letter was received by the Prime Minister's Office on November 12. In his letter to the PM, Dubey had questioned the process of procurement of civil contractors for the Golden Quadrilateral Project saying it was 'manipulated and hijacked' by big contractors who submitted forged documents to justify their technical and financial capabilities to execute the project. The Central Bureau of Investigation had submitted its chargesheet on September 3, 2004 accusing four people of having murdered Dubey while looting his belongings when he was returning to his residence after alighting from a train at Gaya station in December 2003.