Istanbul: A lone, silent vigil by a man in Istanbul inspired copycat protests on Tuesday, as police detained dozens of people across Turkey in an operation linked to three weeks of often violent demonstrations against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
Overnight in Ankara, riot police used teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of people who had gathered in and around the government quarter of Kizilay.
But in stark contrast to the recent fierce clashes in several cities, hundreds of protesters merely stood in silence in Istanbul, inspired by a man who lit up social media by doing just that for eight hours in the city's Taksim Square on Monday.
"I am just an ordinary citizen of this country," Erdem Gunduz, dubbed the "Standing Man" on Twitter, told Hurriyet TV. "We want our voices to be heard."...
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06:35 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: A sex racket was busted in Delhi after two Uzbek women who were held hostage for five months in a house and were repeatedly sexually abused by customers, escaped, police on Tuesday said. A woman pimp has been arrested. The two women from Uzbekistan managed to flee from the clutches of the sex racket on Sunday and reached Safdarjung Hospital, where they sought help of hospital authorities to...
05:05 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Ghaziabad: Eight police personnel who were suspended on Saturday after a suspected auto thief died in their custody in Ghaziabad are yet to be arrested, a police official said on Sunday. "The autopsy on Shakeel's body found ante-mortem injuries on him. He also had tuberculosis," said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Inspector General of Police K Satyanarayan in Ghazia bad. A departmental inquiry has been ordered against all eight policemen following the...
05:55 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Ghaziabad: Police on Saturday claimed to have rescued about 20 girls, who were allegedly being trafficked from Jharkhand to Delhi, and three persons were arrested in this connection. The Jharkhand Sampark Kranti Express was stopped late last night at the railway station here and the girls, some of whom were minors, were made to get down and questioned, SSP Nitin Tiwari said. The arrested persons are being interrogated, he said....
06:40 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Krishnanagar: A class XII student was killed in Nadia district and three persons got arrested in connection with the incident, a senior police officer said on Saturday. Police said on Saturday the body of Mrinmoy Saha was recovered in Krishnaganj area on Friday and three persons later rounded up in connection with the suspected murder. West Bengal Industries Minister Partho Chatterjee who met the victim's family in Shaktinagar Hospital this...
12:12 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf was on Thursday arrested and sent to judicial custody for a fortnight in connection with the murder of a Baloch leader in 2006. Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a cave on August 26, 2006 during a military crackdown ordered by Musharraf who was president and army chief at the time. Bugti had led an armed campaign to press for provincial autonomy...
01:46 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a man in connection with the murder of a property dealer, who was shot dead in his office on Thursday, a police officer said. "Rishi Gupta, 30, was arrested near the Shahadra Metro station Sunday morning. He had come there to meet a friend," Additional Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav said. Two pistols and live cartridges have been recovered from Gupta's possession, Yadav...
05:19 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: South Indian actor Leena Maria Paul was arrested from a farmhouse here for allegedly cheating a bank of Rs 19 crore, police said Tuesday. Paul, 25, was living with her male friend, Balaji, also an accused in the case. He is absconding. A joint operation by Delhi Police and Chennai Police led to Paul at the farmhouse in Fatehpurberi in south Delhi Monday night. According to police, Balaji...
11:31 AM, May 29, 2013
London: The British government, facing criticism over the killing of a soldier by suspected Islamists in a London street, is to set up a new group to combat radical Muslim preachers and others whose words could encourage violence. Prime Minister David Cameron's office said on Sunday the group aimed to fight radicalism in schools and mosques, tighten checks on inflammatory internet material, and disrupt the "poisonous narrative" of hardline clerics....
06:18 AM, May 27, 2013
London: One of two men arrested over the murder of a British soldier in a London street was detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking to train with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, Kenyan police said on Sunday. Confirmation that Michael Adebolajo was held in Kenya and deported to London will intensify calls for Britain's spy agencies to explain what they knew about the suspect and whether...
11:45 PM, May 26, 2013
Sarajevo: The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation was freed from jail on Friday after the Constitutional Court ordered his release following his arrest last month on corruption charges. President Zivko Budimir was arrested along with 19 other officials in late April 2013 in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. A court ordered Budimir and his four co-accused aides to be kept...
07:02 AM, May 25, 2013
Boston: A judge denied bail on Friday to a Massachusetts teenager who was arrested on terrorism charges after posting lyrics on his Facebook page suggesting he could do worse than the Boston Marathon bombers. Cameron D'Ambrosio, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper from Methuen, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Boston, was arrested on May 1 after he posted a note on his Facebook page that included the words "a boston...
06:35 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: A 40-year-old Delhi Traffic Police constable was killed by a speeding truck In Delhi on Tuesday morning, police said. The errant truck driver was arrested. Mahesh Anand, who was on his way to Delhi's Todapur traffic lines on his bike, was knocked down and crushed by the truck near east Delhi's Shastri Park area around 6.45 am, police said. Truck driver Alam, 22, was arrested, police said. The...
04:53 AM, May 22, 2013
Bhubaneswar: At least 177 people were arrested in different parts of Odisha during the past week for their involvement in illegal money circulation and chit fund activities, a police official said on Friday. The crackdown on the firms began May 10, 2013 and about 200 offices of 84 companies were raided, Rajesh Kumar, deputy inspector general (economic offence wing) of the crime branch police, told IANS. The arrested include two...
05:45 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday conceded that it didn't have evidence to connect suspected Hizbul militant Liyaqat Shah to the weapons found on him. The NIA made the statement during its concluding remarks in the case at a Delhi court. The agency, however, opposed the bail plea of Shah, who was arrested for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital. The NIA opposed his plea...
05:21 PM, May 15, 2013
Bhubaneswar: In a major crackdown on chit fund companies and other non-banking financial institutions, Odisha Police on Friday launched statewide raids and arrested as many as 110 people involved in the trade. "Our sleuths raided 185 places and 97 cases have been registered. This is for the first time that a statewide raid is conducted on a single day," said Additional Director General (ADG), Crime Branch, BK Sharma. Stating that...
03:09 AM, May 11, 2013
Jamshedpur: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda on Sunday demanded that the number of Assembly seats in the state be increased to avoid a fractured mandate and provide a stable government. "I strongly favour that Assembly seats be increased from the existing 81 to at least 140 to provide stability in the government," Koda, an Independent MP, told reporters in Jamshedpur. Koda, who was arrested on November 30, 2009 on...
02:54 AM, May 06, 2013
Islamabad: The party of former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a series of legal cases over his actions while in power, on Friday said it would boycott Pakistan's May 11, 2013 general election. The move came in the wake of the Peshawar High Court's order barring Musharraf from contesting polls for the rest of his life. Musharraf has also been arrested over the imposition of emergency rule in 2007,...
01:19 AM, May 04, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian authorities have issued an arrest warrant against an ethnic Indian leader, who is contesting general elections in May, for failing to appear in a court hearing a sedition charge against him. Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P Uthayakumar has been charged under the Sedition Act. He faces three years in jail or a fine if convicted on the charge. Uthayakumar, a candidate for the May 5...
12:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Savar: The death toll in the worst building collapse in the history of Bangladesh on Saturday rose to nearly 400, even as the fugitive owner of the 8-storey structure was arrested dramatically while attempting to flee to India. Sohel Rana was arrested by the country's elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from Benapole, one of the 14 land ports with India, just as he was about to cross into West...
07:54 AM, Apr 29, 2013
