New Delhi: More than 600 CRPF personnel, including CoBRA commandos, have been rushed to sanitise and take control of the Naxal attack site in Chhattisgarh where over a dozen people, including senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma, were killed on Saturday.
The Centre has mobilised the CRPF personnel to not only take control of the area but also launch search and rescue operations as it is suspected that some people may be present in nearby jungles. Top officials of the force, deployed for anti-Naxal operations in the state, will visit the encounter site on Sunday, official sources said.
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02:26 AM, May 26, 2013
Jaipur: A Kerala Police team on Saturday arrived in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur with former Odisha police chief's son Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a sentence in a jail here for raping a German tourist. Mohanty, son of former Indian Police Service officer BB Mohanty, was brought to Jaipur in the morning and taken to the Central Jail, a Rajasthan Police officer said. "He will be presented...
09:14 PM, May 25, 2013
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said talks are being held with the Centre to bestow the title of martyr on Chamel Singh, who died in a Pakistani jail, and to award a compensation to his family. "Talks are being held with Centre", Omar told reporters while replying to the question whether Chamel would be bestowed title of Martyr and a compensation be provided to his...
07:52 PM, May 25, 2013
Jammu: Disfavouring suggestions to make his father and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah BCCI chief, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said sports bodies should be administered by sportspersons and not by politicians. Replying to a question on former IPL chairman Lalit Modi's suggestion to make Farooq Abdullah the BCCI chief, Omar said "I for one will not be in favour of that." "I am personally of the...
06:12 PM, May 25, 2013
Mumbai: A mother of three, choreographer-turned-filmmaker Farah Khan, who is all set to step into a judge's shoes for the new season of dance reality show 'Dance Indian Dance - Supermoms' says she stands nowhere in comparison to the show's contestants. Farah is a mother of five-year-old triplets - son Czar and daughters Diva and Anya. She is impressed to see the talent on the show, which features mothers competing...
05:36 PM, May 25, 2013
Los Angeles: Actor Tom Cruise has reportedly promised to help soccer ace David Beckham become an actor. "Beckham has always wanted to be an action film star, and Cruise promised him a long time ago he can make those dreams come true," a source told National Enquirer magazine. Beckham, 38, announced he was retiring from football this month after playing the game for more than 20 years, reports entertainmentwise.com. "Beckham...
05:36 PM, May 25, 2013
Monaco: German driver Nico Rosberg posted the fastest time in the crash-marred third practice session of the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday. The Mercedes driver is aiming for a third straight pole position and will be confident heading into the afternoon's qualifying. Monaco's razor-thin, sinewy street circuit again proved hard to handle and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa was fortunate to walk away unharmed after a heavy crash. Lotus driver Romain...
03:53 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: With a view to seek foreign investments, Finance Minister P Chidambaram will be visiting Dubai on Sunday to sell India's growth story to sovereign wealth funds. The Minister is scheduled to meet his counterpart in Dubai and also hold bilateral consultations with the SWFs (Sovereign Wealth Funds) in his day-long visit to the Gulf nation, an official source said. The visit is part of Chidambaram's global tour to...
03:45 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: He is defiant. He seems to have lost support overnight. And it looks like his time at the The Board Of Control For Cricket In India's (BCCI) top brass is numbered. N Srinivasan, however, maintains that he will not resign from the post of BCCI's President despite the arrest of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan in IPL betting scandal. However, sources have said that the BCCI top brass is...
01:19 PM, May 25, 2013
Patna: A friend of a woman who was gangraped by three men in Bihar has married the survivor, police said on Saturday. Four days after the 22-year-old woman was gangraped and her friend beaten up by three men in the state's Banka district, the survivor's friend married her at a temple late on Friday. "The wedding was solemnised in a simple way at the temple in the presence of dozens...
01:13 PM, May 25, 2013
Thrissur: Ace Malayalam comedian and character artiste Kalabhavan Mani surrendered to police Friday and was presented in a court which released him on bail. Mani was on the run since May 14 after three forest officials filed a complaint that they were roughed up by the actor after they stopped his vehicle as part of a routine night checking. According to the forest officials, Mani, after refusing to cooperate with...
11:50 AM, May 25, 2013
Lucknow: A mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in Uttar Pradesh late on Friday after they jumped off a speeding truck while resisting a sexual assault by the driver, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Chitaura toll plaza in Fatehpur, 120 km from Lucknow, after Raj Kumari, 30, along with son Deepak, daughter Meena and husband Rakesh hitched a ride in a truck. After travelling for...
11:28 AM, May 25, 2013
Oklahoma: The people of the Oklahoma town where a deadly tornado struck could use just about everything - cleaning supplies, food, water, shelter. Thirteen-year-old Halle Carr thought residents of her hometown could also use a hug after the twister Monday that killed 24 people in Moore. Halle has been standing on a corner with a white sign that reads: "Need a hug? I am here!" And people are taking her...
11:20 AM, May 25, 2013
Mumbai: Filmmaker Nikhil Advani, who is gearing up for his film 'D-Day' says Mumbai bomb blast "affected" his life and that inspired him to make this film. "It's fictional characters. We have taken events from India's history and used them as triggers. I am particularly obsessed with the fact that I was 21 when the bomb blast happened in Mumbai... it affected my life, quite a lot and I wanted...
10:16 AM, May 25, 2013
The Bollywood contingent arrived in all its strength for the gala screening to 'Bombay Talkies' at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. ...
09:44 AM, May 25, 2013
London: Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence officers. Suspects Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police after the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran...
06:15 AM, May 25, 2013
