There is anger on the streets over arrests of girls on Facebook post as people demand change in laws to check abuse. ...
10:35 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: The DMK executive is scheduled to hold an emergency meet in Chennai on Monday to discuss the arrest of some of its leaders and other alliance issues. The meet takes place against the backdrop of the lookout notice against Karunanidhi's grandson DMK leader and union Minister Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi in an illegal granite mining case. The meeting is to counter what it calls the AIADMK's political vendetta...
07:13 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Sunday detained another suspect in the Defence Colony bank robbery case and recovered Rs 80 lakh from him. The suspect's name is Harish. The total amount of cash recovered is now Rs 2.3 crore. The police had on Saturday arrested one and detained four others in connection with the case. The police recovered Rs 1.5 crore from them. The arrests came after the police...
12:22 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Chandigarh: Tension is palpable in the deserted streets of Dabra village in Hisar. A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by eight 'upper caste' men on September 9. More than two weeks on, only one suspect has been arrested and another was called in for questioning on Monday. The victim's distraught father committed suicide. Her mother now wants the remaining suspects to be arrested. The victim's family claims that the...
09:59 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Amsterdam: Riot police broke up crowds of youths who turned violent in a Dutch town late on Friday after several thousand people descended on the community following an invitation to a birthday party posted on Facebook, Dutch media reported. Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set...
11:30 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Imphal: Twenty-two illegal Bangladeshi migrants, who had entered Manipur to work as labourers, have been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a local court. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Imphal East district (CJMIED) passed the order on Friday after hearing the case filed by Porompat Police station. The Bangladeshis were charge sheeted under provisions of Foreigners Act 1946, official sources said. Two children, who accompanied the 22 illegal migrants, were...
11:19 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Around 200 protesters on Monday were taken into custody for picketing near government offices, torching an empty college bus and pelting stones at a few vehicles during a state-wide bandh which disrupted train and road traffic and hit normal life. The bandh has been called by Congress against alleged police crackdown on partymen during a rally on September 6. More than a dozen trains were stopped at several railway...
11:54 AM, Sep 10, 2012
The Bangalore Police on Sunday arrested another man from the city in connection with the ongoing terror-related arrests. Mohammad Akram, 22, was arrested as he tried to flee the city on Saturday night, the police said. ...
10:33 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Indore: Sources say that two more of the accused in the Indore molestation-stabbing case have been arrested. The total number of arrests in the case is now four. A man bled to his death at a police station in Indore on Wednesday after authorities failed to administer immediate medical aid to him. Ravi, along with his friend, had taken on a bunch of men who tried to molest his sister....
03:04 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Jamshedpur: In the ongoing crackdown against hate content on social media websites in the wake of the northeast exodus, a former journalist in Jamshedpur was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting inflammatory messages online. The police seized his computer and hard disk. A probe is on. Meanwhile, 19 more suspects have been arrested in the Azad Maidan violence case. While two of them were produced in court on Wednesday and...
09:16 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Bangalore: Sixteen people have been arrested in Bangalore, eight for spreading rumours leading to flight of people from the Northeast people from here and eight for assault, a top police official said on Saturday even as the exodus slowed to a trickle. Three people were arrested Saturday for sending out SMSs and MMSs of rumours, taking the total to eight, Director General of Police Lalrokhuma Pachau told reporters. The five...
08:32 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Shimla: The anger is now showing on the streets of Patna. Women, men, students - all are raising their voice against the crime that has shaken the state. Two out of the five accused in the Patna gangrape and MMS case are still at large and people are out on the street, mounting pressure on the government to ensure swift action. Of the three held, one was arrested from Shimla...
11:45 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Gurgaon: Six more workers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in arson and rioting in Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant on Wednesday, the police said on Sunday. Awanish Dev, General Manager-HR, died and 100 others were injured in the incident. Those arrested have been identified as Sohan Lal, a resident of Karnal, Yogesh Kumar, organising secretary of Maruti Suzuki Union and a resident of Jhajjar, Surender Pal of Palwal district,...
07:33 PM, Jul 22, 2012
London: Seven men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences in Britain after a routine vehicle search turned up firearms and weapons, police said on Friday. The arrests, which took place earlier this week, were announced one day after officers in London detained six other terror suspects using stun guns and smoke grenades in early-morning swoops, including one on a home close to London's Olympic Park. In that case,...
06:16 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Budapest: World football governing body FIFA's medical experts said they wanted a defibrillator at every game at FIFA tournaments as well as players to undergo medical exams before games to prevent on-pitch cardiac arrests. Speaking at a press conference after FIFA's second medical conference in Budapest, executive committee member Dr Michel D' Hooghe said: "The main word on the agenda of every medical conference is always prevention." The high number...
07:40 PM, May 26, 2012
French police commandos arrested 19 people suspected of radical Islamist activity in Friday morning raids in several cities including Toulouse, scene of the killings of seven people by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman earlier this month. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is waging an uphill battle for re-election, said more raids would follow. "There will be further operations, allowing us to expel a number of people who have no business in the...
06:31 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Kolkata: Two days after hinting that the four accused in the alleged rape of a woman in Kolkata had alibis, the police have now arrested two of those accused. The police now say the victim was assaulted by the four men. The police also said that the victim was getting threatening phone calls since the case came to light. The U-turn by the police though raises questions about the state...
07:34 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: In nationwide raids, NIA has arrested 14 people and smashed an international racket which involved in the smuggling and distribution of fake Indian currency notes being supplied by Pakistani agents through the porous Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal borders. According to a NIA spokesperson, there was information that few individuals belonging to Malda of West Bengal were engaged in organised smuggling and circulation of high quality and high value fakes...
09:09 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Phoenix: Two Arizona parents were arrested by sheriff's deputies after apparently posting pictures on Facebook that showed their children, an infant and a toddler, bound with duct tape, authorities said on Thursday. Coconino County deputies arrested Frankie Almuina, 20, and Kayla Almuina, 19, on suspicion of two counts of child abuse on Wednesday at their northern Arizona home after being alerted to the photos by an anonymous tip. The children,...
05:21 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has secured the first definite leads in the Delhi High Court blast case and the agency in now looking towards a core group of seven persons, who were behind the planning and execution of the blast that killed 13 people. The NIA has got the breakthrough after questioning two minors detained by the police for sending the terror e-mail, from a cyber cafe...
09:40 PM, Sep 14, 2011
