The arrest of Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf comes at a time when elections are not too far off. With Dr Tahirul Qadri's march into Islamabad and the constant ceasefire violations along the LoC, is democracy under threat in Pakistan? Is the Army trying to sabotage the civilian administration? And how much should India and the other neighbours be worried about the uncertain political climate in Pakistan? Author &...
04:33 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The Pakistan government has been trying to decide its course of action after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in a power project corruption case. Pakistan's apex court took the extreme step of calling for the prime minister's arrest despite the fact he has not been convicted. ...
10:05 AM, Jan 16, 2013
An Assistant Commandant undergoing training at the Border Security Force (BSF) centre in Gandhinagar was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly abetting his wife's suicide. Jawan Sunil Kumar's wife, Preeti Kumar (26), who was a Sub-Inspector with Delhi police, committed suicide by hanging herself on Saturday after alleged torture by her husband and other family members for dowry, Chiloda Police Inspector (PI) BC Thakkar said. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The Pakistan Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Ashraf for allegedly receiving bribes in power projects. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 15, 2013
A religious leader was on Monday arrested in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh for allegedly delivering a "hate speech." Mirchowk police in old city here had registered a criminal case against Swami Kamalanand Bharathi, the president of Devalaya (temple) Parirakshana Samithi, on January 10 following a complaint lodged by one Rahman that he delivered "hate speech" during a meeting at Indira Park in the city on January 9. ...
03:39 AM, Jan 15, 2013
A 20-year-old married woman from Karnataka was sold in New Delhi for Rs 1 lakh a week ago by a human trafficking gang and raped by her buyer who kept her at his house, said police on Monday. ...
01:14 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Punjab Police on Sunday drew flak from all quarters, including the 29-year-old gangrape victim's family, for revealing the woman's name. ...
10:58 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Six men were arrested by the Punjab Police on Saturday for allegedly gangraping a 29-year-old married woman in this frontier district, police said. The victim, in her complaint to police, said that she was travelling in a bus to her in-laws' village, Gukla, on Friday evening when the bus driver and conductor forcibly took her to Gurdaspur, 260 km from Chandigarh. ...
06:12 PM, Jan 13, 2013
A airlines employee was on Saturday arrested for allegedly pushing his wife into prostitution, said police. ...
02:42 AM, Jan 13, 2013
An unidentified man who was making threatening calls to Pooja Bhatt has been arrested, says the actor-filmmaker. ...
02:24 PM, Jan 12, 2013
An 11-year-old girl was raped by a man at North Guwahati town in Kamrup Rural district of Assam earlier this week. The accused Dimpol Baishya, who is reported to be around 30 years old, surrendered before the police this evening and has been arrested, police said. ...
04:40 AM, Jan 12, 2013
The controversial section 66A of the Information Technology Act does not infringe on freedom of speech - that's what the Centre and the Maharashtra government told the Supreme Court in their affidavits on the Bal Thackeray Facebook post controversy on Thursday. ...
10:09 PM, Jan 10, 2013
MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi was arrested on Tuesday for his hate speech after a day-long drama in Hyderabad which saw him undergoing a series of medical tests. ...
11:24 PM, Jan 08, 2013
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday after being accused of raping a deaf and mute teenaged girl at Babubagan area of the city, the police said. ...
03:54 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Police in Assam's Lakhimpur district have arrested a CRPF trooper for allegedly raping a physically challenged woman, police said on Friday. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 04, 2013
A 13-year-old boy, believed to be from India but attending school in Singapore, was arrested here after he allegedly threatened to plant bombs in a local casino resort, a media report said on Tuesday. ...
12:14 AM, Jan 02, 2013
The girl's family alleges that the police did not act on her complaint. ...
09:53 PM, Dec 27, 2012
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) member K Ripunjaya Reddy after raids on his house and that of his friends and relatives led to unearthing of disproportionate assets worth Rs 4 crore, officials said on Thursday. ...
09:41 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Rapping police for illegally detaining and arresting a woman after sunset, the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Director General of Police and City Police Commissioner to issue instructions to all police stations to not arrest or detain any woman after sunset and before sunrise. A division bench of Justices AS Oka and SS Shinde directed the DGP and CP to issue the instructions within a period of two...
11:23 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Two teenaged sisters, reportedly abandoned by their parents, were allegedly raped over a six-month period by two men at their house where they were working as maids, police said on Monday. ...
03:57 AM, Dec 25, 2012
