Ruling Samajwadi Party MLA from Charkhari Kaptan Singh Rajput was held guilty along with his brother by a local court in a 13-year-old murder case and will face disqualification.
The rupee was also under pressure after government data showed that fiscal deficit touched 89.6 per cent of the Budget Estimates for 2014-15 to cross Rs 4.75 lakh crore at the end of October.
Security will be tight when Roma meet Napoli on Saturday for the first time since clashes that led to a fan's death from a shooting before the Italian Cup final in May.
The journalists' association stressed that "attacks against journalists are disturbing and should not be tolerated".
Nigeria army have arrested a senior commander of the Boko Haram sect, which is blamed for killing hundreds of people since 2009.
The complainant, a 25-year-old model, has alleged Paraskar had molested and sexually assaulted her on two occasions in December 2013.
Pistorius's freedom hangs on whether the prosecution has made its case well enough to convince judge that such improbabilities cannot be "reasonably possibly true".
The makers of 'Kick' have joined hands with POGO to create a special TV presentation for the film, set to release this Friday
Chalmers, at the age of 40 still seeking his first victory on the PGA Tour, fired a five-under-par 66 on a difficult Congressional Country Club layout.
The ruling Telugu Desam Party has decided to allot the lone seat to its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party.
Tata was presented the GBE by British High Commissioner to India Sir James Bevan on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.
The actor made the mayor dance a bit at the opening press conference.
Maoists unleashed violence in Nawada on Sunday during repoll, attacking a polling party, though there was no casualty in the retaliatory fire by security forces accompanying them, officials said.
On a question on Modi's "wave" in the country, Dikshit said there was no such thing on ground.
Seeking to distance itself from US prosecutor Preet Bharara securing a re-indictment of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, the US state department says it's "very hopeful about what the future holds" for India-US relationship.
