A man convicted of stalking actress Sandra Bullock has killed himself after a police stand-off.


Sandra's stalker kills himself


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Australia's Commonwealth Bank has admitted losing the bank records of almost 20 million people, a media report said.


Australian bank lost data of 20mn accounts


Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy firm at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down, media reported.


Cambridge Analytica is shutting down


The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of the killing of a woman Assistant Town Planner in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli during an anti-encroachment drive.


SC takes cognizance of Himachal murder


The closure of an inquiry by the CBI into Adani Enterprises allegedly importing power-equipment at inflated prices, in collusion with officials of six public sector banks (PSBs), has come in for scathing criticism by lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has described the investigating agency's decision as an "abuse of authority" by the government.


CBI flayed for closure of probe into Adani group firm (Lead, amending intro)


Traders and small businessmen associated with chicken and meat supply in West Bengal have been experiencing "business hiccups" following the busting of rackets in carcass meat and rotten chicken trade.


Carcass meat trade giving 'business hiccups' to Bengal traders



HOLD Carcass meat trade giving 'business hiccups' to Bengal traders


The closure of an inquiry by the CBI into Adani Enterprises allegedly importing power-equipment at inflated prices, in collusion with six public sector banks (PSBs), has come in for scathing criticism by lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has described the investigating agency's decision as an "abuse of authority" by the government.


CBI flayed for closure of probe into Adani group firm


Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is in talks with Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, and senior adviser of the President Jared Kushner to pardon Alice Marie Johnson jailed for life for money laundering.


Kim working with Ivanka Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson


With an accident seriously affecting operations at the state-run Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) -- which builds ships for the Indian Navy -- the company has launched "an assessment study" to map the extent of damage and has roped in an independent agency to ascertain the reason for the mishap.


Accident at PSU ship-builder GRSE hits operations, company says work not affected


A court here on Tuesday sentenced the director of Gondwana Ispat Ltd (GIL) to four years in jail in a coal block allocation case.


Four-year jail for Gondwana Ispat director in coal block case


Singer Sona Mohapatra on Tuesday accused a Sufi Muslim NGO, Madariya Sufi Foundation (MSF), of hurling threats after it found her music video "Tori Surat" vulgar and which could flare communal passions. The MSF has denied the charge.


Singer Sona Mohapatra accuses Sufi NGO of 'threats'


In a major swoop, the CBI has arrested four Deputy Commissioners of Customs and a Superintendent in an an alleged case of bribery, an official said here on Tuesday.


CBI nabs four top Mumbai customs officials in graft case


In a breather for former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a special CBI court on Tuesday granted him bail in a multi-crore rupee Manesar land scam.


CBI court grants bail to Hooda in Manesar land scam


The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday summoned former Union Minister P. Chidambaram's wife Nalini Chidambaram in a multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam, an official said.


ED summons Chidambaram's wife Nalini in Saradha chit fund


A special five-member committee will probe allegations that more than a dozen politicians were queueing up to illegally convert vast tracts of green land, many of them in no-development zones, for commercial purposes.


Panel to probe Goa politicians for illegal land conversion move


The Income Tax Department has sent a second notice to Deepak Kochhar, husband of ICICI Bank Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar, who is facing conflict of interest questions over the bank's Rs 3,250-crore loan to the Videocon Group in 2012, a department official said on Monday.


Income Tax Department sends second notice to Deepak Kochhar


Former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat was on Monday questioned by the Goa Police Crime Branch's Special Investigation Team in connection with the Rs 35,000 crore illegal mining scam.


Goa ex-CM grilled by SIT in illegal mining scam


Never one to shy away from calling a spade a shovel, Rakhi Sawant now has a rather startling opinion on the ongoing debate on casting couch and sexual harassment of strugglers in the film industry.


Rakhi Sawant opens up about casting couch


Apart from Radhika Apte holding forth in a British accent and Usha Jadhav speaking of her harrowing experience in a Marathi accent, the BBC's much-discussed documentary "Bollywood's Dark Secret" says nothing that we haven't already heard or seen.


BBC expose on Bollywood's casting couch has nothing to say


The CISF arrested a man and his woman accomplice at the Imphal Airport in Manipur on the charge of smuggling gold bars valued at Rs 45 lakh by concealing them in their rectums, an official said on Sunday.

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