
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....

07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012

Mumbai: While the Ram Pradhan Committee recommendations have dominated the security discourse in the city post-26/11 assault, it has emerged that a 'confidential note' penned by Ram Pradhan and addressed to then chief minister Ashok Chavan has managed to remain buried under piles of bureaucratic files two-and-a-half years after its submission. Information available with MiD DAY reveals that apart from the 100-page report on the terror strike, the committee head...

01:06 PM, Nov 29, 2011

Pune: A Bangalore-based software engineer allegedly set her former boyfriend and his fiancee on fire in their sleep on Thursday. The Maharashtra police has sent teams to Delhi and Bangalore to arrest Anushree Kundra on charges of attempt to murder. The victims Nimesh and Juhi survived the attack with Juhi having 98 per cent burns. The incident occurred on Thursday morning when Anushree went to Nimesh's house in Pune. The...

08:04 AM, Oct 15, 2011

Mumbai: Maharashtra Police have received inputs from central intelligence agencies about possibility of terror attacks on luxury buses plying between Mumbai and Ahmedabad and steps have been taken to foil any such bid. "There are various intelligence inputs about possible terror strikes in the state. One of them is that the luxury buses running between Mumbai and Ahmedabad could be targeted. We have asked all the bus owners to be...

04:49 PM, Sep 15, 2011

Mumbai: Anil Jadhav - an anti-narcotics cell inspector - has left the Mumbai police red-faced. He was arrested following a raid on a rave party in the city on Sunday night. Jadhav pleading innocence hinted that his arrest was part of a conspiracy hatched by rivals in the department. His lawyers say he was at the party performing official duties undercover. Jadhav's lawyer Rizwan Merchant said, "Anil Jadhav was there...

08:31 AM, Jun 29, 2011

Gwalior: Maharashtra Police has no records of India's most wanted underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's fingerprints, despite the fact that he was in its custody several times in the past, a top police officer has said. "Though Dawood Ibrahim was in the custody of Maharashtra Police number of times, it doesn't have any record of his fingerprints," National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Director General, NK Tripathi told PTI. "If the police...

12:02 AM, Jun 20, 2011

A Gadchiroli massacre survivor says that reinforcements arrived late. ...

09:18 PM, Oct 09, 2009

Army worried about personnel's links to Hindu groups: sources to CNN-IBN. ...

12:12 AM, Nov 25, 2008

Rabid write-ups endorse the Bajrang Dal's violent campaign against Christians. ...

12:01 AM, Oct 13, 2008

Mumbai: The BCCI is set to elect a new chairman for the cash-rich Indian Premier League at its 82nd Annual General Meeting scheduled here on September 19. The need to elect a new person to head the IPL arose after incumbent Chirayu Amin expressed his desire to step down from the post. Chirayu Amin wants to step down from the chairmanship of IPL because of his commitments. So a new ...

02:07 AM, Feb 29, 2008

The competition for the post of a police constable is stiff, but they won’t give up trying. ...

04:11 PM, Aug 17, 2007

Five cops found guilty for abetting the 1993 Mumbai blasts broke down in TADA court and pleaded for leniency. ...

05:33 PM, Sep 27, 2006