Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was today sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for six years for illegal possession of weapons that were given to him by associates of gangster Dawood Ibrahim ahead of the 1993 serial blasts here. His plea seeking time to surrender was rejected by a special court that said he should be held in a separate cell in the Arthur Road Jail... Curtain comes down after 14 years The case would be remembered not only for the twists and turns it witnessed in the last 14-odd years, but also for being one of the few trials in the country's judicial history to match with... Chronology of events...
Don't lose faith in yourself, judge tells
Sanjay Dutt
"Act till the age of 100, I have only taken away six years," Judge Kode of the special TADA court told Dutt hours after sentencing him to rigorous imprisonment for six years for illegal possession of weapons..
Stunned film fraternity rallies behind Dutt
Saira Banu, whose husband Dilip Kumar filed an affidavit endorsing Dutt's character in the special TADA court, said people had forgotten the good work done by the actor, especially in the aftermath of the blasts...
India take 1-0 lead with emphatic victory
Needing just 63 runs to clinch victory on the final day, the Indians cruised home on a sunny morning at the Trent Bridge to register only their fifth Test win on English soil..
Beant Singh assassination case Two awarded death sentence; three gets life-term Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara, and his associate Balwant Singh were on Tuesday sentenced to death by a Special CBI court in Beant Singh assassination case..
Beant Singh
Haneef may have had prior knowledge of
UK plots: Minister
Chatroom conversations Mohammed Haneef had with his brother suggest that the Indian doctor may have had prior knowledge of the botched terror plot in the UK, Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said on Tuesday..
Judgement in Coimbatore serial blasts
from tomorrow
A sessions court will start pronouncing its verdict from tomorrow in the 1998 Coimbatore serial bomb blasts cases , bringing down the curtains on the nine-year long anxious wait of the 166 accused and their families..
Goa turmoil Kamat to brief High Command; Parrikar to
meet Patil
Goa political scene has shifted to New Delhi for the time being, with a majority of legislators, including Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition, planning their trip to the national capital on Tuesday..
US man charged with exporting sensitive
technology to HAL
A California man has been charged with illegally exporting sensitive technology to the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd in 1999 and 2000, at a time when, there were restrictions on sending such material..
ASEAN could vie with India, China
in BPO sector: report
ASEAN countries could emerge as a strong contender to India and China in cornering offshore contracts in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) if they acted as a single market..
India, China becoming leaders in economic growth: IMF
India and China are the new engines of world economic growth, replacing the United States and other developed countries, said International Monetary Fund managing director Rodrigo Rato..
UN to hold debate on climate change
The UN General Assembly is to kick off a two-day debate on climate change today to lay the groundwork for upcoming high-level international meetings on how to tackle the burning issue..
Shoaib fumes in anger at being hit
all over the place
Shoaib was upset at being hit all over by young batsmen like Khurrum Manzoor and Khalid Latif and later by Pakistani openers Salman Butt and Imran Nazir during a practice match..
A giant column of ash shoots up six kilometer (3.7 miles) high from Bulusan volcano as seen from Sorsogon city in the eastern Philippines, on Tuesday. The eruption rained ash on two towns, but there were no reports of casualties, volcanologists said. Several villages near the lower slopes could be under threat from volcanic ash carried down by rivers and streams if the eruption persists. Bulusan is one of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes. It is known to have erupted 16 time previously, the last one in early 2006.
Confusing signals
The transfer of power to the BJP has become the butt of a joke as confusing signals are emanating from the 'Mannina Maga' (son of the soil) one day and the 'Maga' on the next increasing the blood pressure of the BJP as the D-day nears. Governance has naturally taken a back-seat in these war of words of the coalition partners! Anybody cares? V. Padmanabhan Rustom Bagh Main Road, Bangalore - 560017 Responses Send your responses to Webmaster
The left-arm seamer said he was pumped up after an incident involving the England players when he came into bat the previous evening. "After I played the first ball, I saw some jelly bean on the pitch," India's pace spearhead said yesterday. "I removed it and got ready to face the next ball. After playing the shot, I again saw some jelly bean on the pitch...
Sreesanth fined for deliberately colliding with Vaughan Indian paceman S Sreesanth has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching an ICC Code of Conduct by deliberately barging past England captain Michael Vaughan on the fourth day of the second cricket Test at Trent Bridge..
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Indian paceman S Sreesanth has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching an ICC Code of Conduct by deliberately barging past England captain Michael Vaughan on the fourth day of the second cricket Test at Trent Bridge..
