UK: Indian-origin woman, two daughters found dead in London

An Indian-origin school laboratory technician and her two daughters were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their home in west London, a Scotland Yard spokesman said on Sunday. Heena Solanki, 34, was found dead along with Prish, 4, and Jasmine, 9, at their home in Midcroft, Ruislip on Friday evening. Witnesses said police had also taken away what appeared to be a suitcase and a series of tubes. Heena lived ...
11:33 AM, Apr 15, 2013

UK: Indian-origin woman, 2 daughters found dead London: An Indian-origin school laboratory technician and her two daughters have been found dead under mysterious circumstances at their home in west London, a Scotland Yard spokesman said on Sunday. Heena Solanki, 34, was found dead along with Prish, 4, and Jasmine, 9, at their home in Midcroft, Ruislip on Friday evening. The spokesman said, "Police were called at approximately 6:40 pm on Friday. The deaths are being treated as...  
06:07 PM, Apr 14, 2013

UK's undercover police stole dead children's identities: Report The British police covertly stole the identities of around 80 dead children and issued fake passports in their names for use by undercover Scotland Yard officers, a shocking expose has claimed. ...  
06:11 PM, Feb 04, 2013

Man tasered for brandishing knife outside Buckingham Palace A man in his 50's was tasered outside Buckingham Palace in London on Sunday after he was seen holding a knife to his own neck. The incident took place during the Changing of the Guard ceremony, when hundreds of tourists were present. ...  
10:00 AM, Feb 04, 2013

Hoax call: Oz radio staff receives death threats The staff of an Australian radio station, whose DJs made a prank call to a UK hospital that led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse, have received death threats, prompting some of them to move to safehouses. ...  
01:00 PM, Dec 14, 2012

'Hoax call Aus RJs in hiding, undergoing therapy' The two Australian radio presenters, who made a prank call to a London hospital for details on Kate Middleton's pregnancy that apparently led to an Indian-origin nurse's alleged suicide, are said to be in hiding amid global outrage. Mel Greig and Michael Christian, behind the prank call that has been linked to the nurse's death are said to be in a "fragile" state, undergoing intensive psychological counselling. ...  
06:09 PM, Dec 09, 2012

Attackers of Brar to be brought to justice: Britain New Delhi: Britain has assured India of its determination to bring the perpetrators of attack on retired Lt General KS Brar to justice and said it will continue updating Indian officials about the investigations in the case. In a letter to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office William Hague conveyed his "shock" at the attack on Brar in London on September 30...  
12:48 PM, Oct 07, 2012

Khalistan revival movement is very strong: Lt Gen Brar New Delhi: Retired Lt General Kuldip Singh Brar, who was attacked in London on Sunday, said the Khalistan revival movement is very strong and funds are coming from groups in Germany, Canada, US and UK. Brar reiterated that the attack was an assassination attempt on him and "not any message they were sending". The 78-year-old former Army officer, who is known for leading Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants in...  
09:16 PM, Oct 05, 2012

Police question witnesses in Lt Gen KS Brar's attack

Lieutenant General KS Brar, the man who led Operation Blue Star in 1984, came under attack from four 'burly, bearded' men on Sunday night. ...
09:23 PM, Oct 02, 2012

CCTV footage can help police find attackers: Lt Gen KS Brar

Lieutenant General KS Brar, the man who led Operation Blue Star in 1984, came under attack from four "burly, bearded" men on Sunday night. He said that CCTV footage and a mobile phone from the crime scene could help police find the men who attacked him at his London home. The Scotland Yard has appealed for information from members of the public on the assault, and described the four assailants ...
08:38 AM, Oct 02, 2012

Man falls to death from Heathrow-bound plane London: A man, who is believed to be a stowaway, fell thousands of feet to his death from a Heathrow-bound jet liner on a car parked in a quiet residential street here. A bloodied body of the young man, who crash-landed on the car parked in the street, was found in the Heathrow flight path, police said on Monday. Horrified residents living in west London, just a few miles from...  
04:02 PM, Sep 10, 2012

Another woman in terror-linked arrest in UK London: A woman was arrested in London on Saturday on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an intelligence-led operation in which six persons were held on Thursday, but police said the drill was not linked to the upcoming Olympics in the British capital. Scotland Yard said that the officers from the Counter Terrorism Command on Saturday morning arrested the 22-year-old woman at a residential address in the London borough...  
03:56 PM, Jul 07, 2012

UK: Assange served extradition notice by police London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was served with a "surrender notice" by Scotland Yard on Thursday, just days after he dramatically took refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking political asylum to block his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. Earlier in June, 40-year-old Assange had lost his final bid to avoid his extradition to Sweden when Britain's Supreme Court dismissed his appeal to re-open the extradition...  
07:13 PM, Jun 28, 2012

NRIs to face trial for trafficking Indian for sex London: Four NRIs and two Ghana citizens of Indian origin, who were charged by Scotland Yard on May 18 for allegedly trafficking an Indian woman from Hyderabad for sex, will now face trial in October. The six London-based individuals were produced before the Westminster Magistrates Court last week and no pleas were entered. Magistrates deemed the offences so serious that they sent the case for trial to Southwark Crown Court...  
06:20 PM, Jun 12, 2012

UK charges Indians for trafficking woman London: Scotland Yard on Friday charged four Indian citizens and two Ghana citizens of Indian-origin all based in London for allegedly trafficking a woman from Hyderabad for sex. Official sources confirmed that four of the suspects were Indian citizens while two were Ghana citizens of Indian-origin. The six suspects include a computer professional, an optician, a butcher, a supermarket manager and a secretary, they said. The four Indians are "...  
10:18 PM, May 18, 2012

Praveen Reddy stabbing: 3 Indians charged in UK London: Three Indians have been charged with the attempted murder of Praveen Reddy, an MBA student at the London Business School, who was critically stabbed on Friday night in the Newham borough of London. The Metropolitan Police told PTI on Sunday that the three are: Amareshwar Arava, 25, Sai Kishore Balguri, 25 and Nishanth Puttapaka, 23. "We are not treating the incident as racially motivated at this time," a police...  
03:22 PM, Feb 12, 2012

Is UK safe for Indian students anymore? London: Yet another Indian student has come under attack in Britain. Praveen Reddy, from Hyderabad, was a student of MBA at the London Business School. On Friday night, he was stabbed several times at a party he was attending in Newham, London, the Scotland Yard said. The boy is currently recuperating at the London Royal Hospital. Praveen suffered severe abdomen and chest injuries and is currently said to be in...  
07:37 AM, Feb 12, 2012

London: Indian student stabbed; 11 arrested London: An Indian student, Pravin Reddy, doing an MBA at the London Business School was stabbed on Friday in the London borough of Newham Scotland Yard on Saturday said. Eleven people have been arrested following the stabbing of the Indian student who was not named by the Scotland Yard. Pravin was admitted to the London Royal hospital with deep neck, abdomen & chest injuries. The family has been informed Pravin...  
05:13 PM, Feb 11, 2012

Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call London: Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too - and now so is the rest of the world. Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the...  
03:02 AM, Feb 04, 2012

Fresh arrest in British phone hacking case London: A 35-year-old man on Wednesday became the sixteenth suspect to be arrested by British police as part of the investigation into phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid of media baron Rupert Murdoch. Officers from Scotland Yard arrested the unnamed man early on Wednesday morning after a swoop on his home. He was taken to a north London police station for questioning on suspicion of conspiracy...  
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