
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

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

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: 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

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

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...

04:21 PM, Sep 07, 2011

London: In a fresh development in Britain's phone hacking scandal, a police officer has been arrested in relation to leaks during investigation into the unethical news gathering practices at the now defunct News of the World tabloid. The 51-year-old detective constable was arrested while at work and bailed as part of continuing investigations by Scotland Yard. He has also been suspended. A second man, aged 35, has been arrested by...

08:29 AM, Aug 20, 2011

London: Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through Scotland Yard's newly updated face-matching program. Chief Constable Andy Trotter of the British Transport Police said the sophisticated software was being used to help find those suspected of being involved in the worst...

02:56 PM, Aug 12, 2011

London: Greg Miskiw, former news editor of the now defunct News of the World, was arrested on Wednesday by the Scotland Yard team investigating phone-hacking at newspaper titles owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. Miskiw, 61, was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, Scotland Yard said. He was arrested after visiting a police station by appointment by officers working on Operation Weeting. Miskiw was arrested on suspicion of unlawful interception...

07:59 PM, Aug 10, 2011

London: Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit has arrested a teenager it suspects of working as the spokesman for the Lulz Security hacking collective, officials said Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested a 18-year-old at an address in Scotland's remote Shetland Islands, the force said in a statement. His name wasn't released, but police said he was believed to be "Topiary," one of LulzSec's most prominent members. Police originally gave...

09:16 AM, Jul 28, 2011

London: Scotland Yard is probing links between the Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik and associates in Britain, based on mentions about a meeting in London in a document recovered from him after the Friday massacre. Breivik, 32, who has admitted carrying out the Oslo bombing and Utoeya island youth camp shootings which killed at least 93 people, wrote a 1,500-page manifesto in English, published online and dated "London 2011". Scotland...

04:47 PM, Jul 25, 2011

London: Guess what's the codename Scotland Yard has chosen for US President Barack Obama's state visit to Britain later this month? It's "chalaque", a Hindi word that means sharp and crafty. An article in the Daily Telegraph said that the Scotland Yard randomly selects codenames and the choice of the word "chalaque" for Obama's trip has raised eyebrows. Obama will be in Britain May 24-26. The word "chalaque" is used...

03:29 PM, May 11, 2011

Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey is a short walk bur Scotland Yard's preparations are extensive for the Royal Wedding on Friday. ...

08:32 PM, Apr 28, 2011

London: Police in Britain have arrested 12 men on suspicion of preparing a potential plot against targets in the country, police said on Monday. The men, aged between 17 and 28, were detained by unarmed officers in dawn swoops at or near their homes in Cardiff, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham and London. The BBC described the arrests as a "significant counter-terrorism operation", but stressed the fact that police were unarmed suggested they...

04:47 PM, Dec 20, 2010

Scotland Yard anticipates attack by small number of gunmen. ...

01:03 PM, Dec 21, 2009