Mumbai, Apr 17: The trial of Ajamal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, began here today.
Special Public Prosecutor Ujwal Nikam, who opened the arguments against Kasab, Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, have been booked in 12 cases related to the terror strikes.
The prosecution case has sought for Kasab to be charged under 166 separate counts of murder along with Ansari and Ahmed.
On Thursday, a Special Sessions Court appointed Abbas Kazmi as new lawyer of Kasab to defend him as per Indian law.
New Delhi - Indian markets turned bullish in morning trading Friday with the benchmark Sensex index rising 3.5 per cent after gains in global markets.
The 30-share sensitive Sensex index of the Bombay Stock Exchange rebounded from Thursday's 3-per-cent fall, rising 378.97 points, or 3.46 per cent, to 11,326 at midday.
Banking, real estate, capital goods, metal and power stocks led the advances.
The broader 50-share S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange also gained 3.46 per cent and traded at 3,486.15.
With the consistent, almost two months-long efforts of the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, a striped 'Zebra fish,' picked up from a rivulet in Assam, has become the first vertebrate in India to have its whole genome sequenced.
After a stern reprimand from the Supreme Court for the seeming indifference regarding warnings on cigarette packs, the Central government said that the statutory pictorial warning on cigarette and tobacco products will be displayed from May 30 onwards.
With the NGO Health for Millions' senior counsel, Indira Jaisingh, alleging that the Centre was unnecessarily prolonging the issue, the Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium assured the requisite government action, to a bench headed by Justice B N Aggarwal.
New Delhi, Apr 16 : The rate of Inflation in India for the week ended April 4 fell to a 30-year low of 0.18 percent, from 0.26 percent a week earlier, government data showed on Thursday.
However, the prices of a number of food articles such as pulses, cereals, processed fish, common salt, tea, coffee, tobacco, soft drinks and liquor increased.
As a whole, the food prices went up by 1.2 per cent on weekly basis and 7.29 per cent on yearly basis.
Moreover, the cost of vegetables is 25 per cent more than it did a year ago.
According to reports, a panel of clerics of the Kanpur-based Muslim organization, Jamia Ashraf-ul-Madaris, has issued a 'fatwa' over etiquettes related to use of mobile phones.
Mumbai, Apr 17: The trial of Ajamal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, began here today.
New Delhi - Indian markets turned bullish in morning trading Friday with the benchmark Sensex index rising 3.5 per cent after gains in global markets.
With the consistent, almost two months-long efforts of the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, a striped 'Zebra fish,' picked up from a rivulet in Assam, has become the first vertebrate in India to have its whole genome sequenced. 
After a stern reprimand from the Supreme Court for the seeming indifference regarding warnings on cigarette packs, the Central government said that the statutory pictorial warning on cigarette and tobacco products will be displayed from May 30 onwards. 
New Delhi, Apr 16 : The rate of Inflation in India for the week ended April 4 fell to a 30-year low of 0.18 percent, from 0.26 percent a week earlier, government data showed on Thursday.
According to reports, a panel of clerics of the Kanpur-based Muslim organization, Jamia Ashraf-ul-Madaris, has issued a 'fatwa' over etiquettes related to use of mobile phones.
