Mumbai: The Social Service Branch (SSB) of Mumbai police has busted a high-profile prostitution racket in Andheri and rescued an aspiring actress and two models from the spot. The officials have also arrested a woman and her son who were allegedly operating the racket. After a tip-off, the SSB and a special team from Oshiwara police station sent a bogus customer to Pataliputra housing society, Andheri (West), early on Thursday...
01:50 PM, May 21, 2012
London: No effort was spared by the US military before its Navy Seals raided al Qaeda's former chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, shows a detailed scale model of his Abbottabad city-located compound. Every tree and bush was mapped out identical to those surrounding his home and even the rubbish bins were included, The Sun reported Thursday. The model was built months ahead of the operation by the...
11:17 PM, May 17, 2012
Toronto: Research In Motion on Wednesday said the US Department of Defense (DoD) had approved six models of the company's BlackBerry 7 for use on its networks, extending a long relationship with the smartphone known for its tight security. The approval will allow RIM's single largest customer to upgrade to the Canadian smartphone maker's latest phones as it waits for the launch of its next-generation BlackBerry 10 devices later this...
12:11 PM, May 10, 2012
Panaji: The state Election Commission has issued a notice to Manohar Parrikar-led government for violating model code of conduct, imposed due to the impending June 2 Cortalim by-poll. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had recently announced that the state will not go ahead with the proposed marina project in Sancoale village, which lies in Cortalim Assembly constituency. State cabinet had also announced regularisation of workers employed for eradicating malaria. Goa's joint...
11:29 PM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: Model Simran Sood, who was held in connection with the murder case of aspiring producer Karan Kakkar, was on Friday arrested for her suspected role in the murder case of Delhi-based businessman Arunkumar Tikku as well, police said. Sood was produced in the court as her custody in the Kakkar case ended on Friday and the magistrate remanded her to judicial custody. However, she was soon arrested in the...
01:17 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Mumbai: The mysterious and suggestive note allegedly penned by supermodel Viveka Babajee in her personal diary before her June 2010 suicide will come under fresh scrutiny now. Khar police revealed on Wednesday that they would analyse samples of handwriting from all the three arrested in connection with the double murders of Arun Tikku and Karan Kakkar " Vijay Palande, Gautam Vora and Simran Sood. The objective of the analysis is...
01:12 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Cops now have reason to believe that late international model Viveka Babajee, who took her own life in 2010, may have been driven to suicide over Simran Soods growing closeness to her then boyfriend, financial stockbroker and socialite Gautam Vora. Police sources suspect that Simran could well be the reason behind the unexpected suicide by the well-known ramp model. Babajee had been found hanging from the ceiling in her...
12:48 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: In the latest twist in the murder of aspiring film producer Karan Kumar Kakkad, a CCTV footage has emerged showing two of the main accused at a Mumbai shopping mall. The CCTV footage shows the two accused, Vijay Palande and Ganesh Shinde, at a shopping mall in Mumbai on March 9 where they allegedly used Kakkad's credit cards to make purchases. Police say Palande confessed that they murdered Kakkad...
06:10 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: Days after his arrest for allegedly masterminding TV actor Anuj Tikku's father's murder, Vijay Palande, who even claimed complete innocence in the case, made a shocking confession to another murder. Palande revealed on Monday that he killed and then dumped aspiring film producer Karan Kakkars body, following which cops have recovered disembodied parts from the forests at Kumbharli Ghat in Chiplun near Mumbai. While his severed head and an...
11:45 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Addressing the Finnish parliament in Helsinki on 'Sustainable Prosperity', Jairam Ramesh, currently minister of Rural Development, had strong words for the USA, "the maximum advocacy and championing is required in the USA which, even while being the locomotive for the world economy, is an exemplar of a way of life that goes against the very canons of sustainability." Talking of the multiple challenges posed by massive migrations of people, he...
10:11 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a potential paradigm shift in bilateral ties, Pakistan has agreed with India to adopt the "India-China model" in negotiating their sensitive relationship, which entails focusing on scaling up trade while resolving outstanding issues in a "step-by-step" incremental manner. After Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari held 40-minutes of one-on-one talks at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence at 7, Race Course Road, the discussions extended over a lavish lunch...
05:12 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: Aman Shahaye had come to the city from UP with dazzling dreams in his eyes. What the 24-year-old got instead was a living nightmare. The software engineer and small-time model was allegedly drugged, held hostage and robbed of his valuables by four women in Goregaon. Aman arrived in Mumbai on March 17 and was staying at a hotel. He met one of the girls identified as Shabnam, at a...
05:59 PM, Mar 29, 2012
How thin is too thin? That's what Israel lawmakers have called into question with new legislation that bans underweight models from the catwalk. Legislator Rachel Adato is helping set the precedent in the hope that it will save lives. Rachel Adato, Israeli lawmaker and bill sponsor, saying: "We believe that by this bill, there will be a new way to protect the kids and a new way to look what...
01:05 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Mumbai: Getting under people's skin is part of Dr Vijay Sharma's job. But CCTV cameras recently rescued the cosmetic surgeon from the fury of a woman who had gone under his knife. Model Mahee Shaikh was arrested for trying to extort money from cosmetic surgeon Vijay Sharma by threatening to slap molestation case as she was not happy with her facial surgery. "I have been victimised by many of my...
02:34 PM, Mar 16, 2012
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