Vadodara: A faculty member at MS University of Baroda was on Saturday arrested for allegedly ragging, along with senior students of his department, a junior student on the campus, police said. "Professor Mayur Gupta of the Department of Architecture was apprehended on charges of ragging first year student Harshvardan Sutariya on the campus," Sayajigunj Police Inspector AB Saiyed said. We have recorded statements of officials of the Architecture department as...
11:49 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Rani Mukerji's brother Raja was arrested in Versova on Sunday after a small-time television actress accused him of molesting her. According to the victim, the incident happened when she had gone to meet Raja to narrate a script. The police said that Raja tried to molest the starlet in his car. "The woman had gone to show Raja Mukherjee a script. He tried to molest her in...
08:25 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani authorities on Friday evening arrested 24 Indian fishermen after their fishing boats strayed into Pakistan's territorial waters. The fishermen were handed over to the Karachi police. Last month Pakistan released 48 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture following talks between Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. The fishermen were arrested by the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) and brought to a...
07:14 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Male: Maldives' first democratically elected President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested on Monday, a week after he failed to appear before a court in Male to face charges of abuse of power while in office. Maldivian police arrested Nasheed, 45, at the Island of Faresmaathodaa of Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, south of Maldives. Police spokesman Hassan Haneef confirmed that the former president has been arrested after Hulhumale Magistrate Court ordered the police...
01:09 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: All four of the accused in the Jind gangrape case have been arrested, police said on Sunday. The accused included a woman relative of one of the accused, who, said the police, stood guard while the incident took place. The girl set herself on fire on Saturday evening, unable to take the trauma of the incident. She succumbed to over 95 per cent burn injuries at a hospital....
01:51 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: The DMK executive is scheduled to hold an emergency meet in Chennai on Monday to discuss the arrest of some of its leaders and other alliance issues. The meet takes place against the backdrop of the lookout notice against Karunanidhi's grandson DMK leader and union Minister Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi in an illegal granite mining case. The meeting is to counter what it calls the AIADMK's political vendetta...
07:13 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Sunday detained another suspect in the Defence Colony bank robbery case and recovered Rs 80 lakh from him. The suspect's name is Harish. The total amount of cash recovered is now Rs 2.3 crore. The police had on Saturday arrested one and detained four others in connection with the case. The police recovered Rs 1.5 crore from them. The arrests came after the police...
12:22 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Los Angeles: The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video posted to YouTube that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested for violating terms of his probation, authorities said on Thursday. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was convicted in 2010 for federal check and sentenced to 21 months in prison. Under terms of his probation, he was not allowed to use computers or the Internet for five years...
11:31 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Chandigarh: Tension is palpable in the deserted streets of Dabra village in Hisar. A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by eight 'upper caste' men on September 9. More than two weeks on, only one suspect has been arrested and another was called in for questioning on Monday. The victim's distraught father committed suicide. Her mother now wants the remaining suspects to be arrested. The victim's family claims that the...
09:59 AM, Sep 25, 2012
The Karnataka police on Monday arrested a woman for trying to enter the premises of ISRO using a fake ID card. Her husband, however, claimed that she was mentally unstable. ...
02:36 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bangalore: A woman posing as a scientist has been arrested at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) headquarters in Bangalore. The woman, carrying fake identity cards, was arrested by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on September 21. During a routine check at the ISRO headquarters in Yelahanka, the CISF stopped her and asked for her ID card. The CISF personnel found the ID card to be a fake and...
12:58 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani police have registered a case against over 6,000 unidentified people on charges of terrorism, ransacking and attempted murder during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Lahore, officials said on Sunday. "We have arrested 36 people so far and we will use footage from TV news channels and CCTV cameras to identify the other culprits," Lahore Police spokesman Niyab Haider said. The 36 people arrested on charges of...
05:32 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have arrested nearly 200 people on charges of involvement in violent protests against an anti-Islam film even as businesses on Saturday counted the cost of a countrywide shutdown and widespread destruction during the demonstrations. Fresh protests were also held today in Islamabad and Lahore. Islamabad Police chief Bin Yamin Khan said 62 people were arrested in connection with yesterday's protests, when thousands of people attempted to march...
12:48 AM, Sep 23, 2012
Amsterdam: Riot police broke up crowds of youths who turned violent in a Dutch town late on Friday after several thousand people descended on the community following an invitation to a birthday party posted on Facebook, Dutch media reported. Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set...
11:30 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Imphal: Twenty-two illegal Bangladeshi migrants, who had entered Manipur to work as labourers, have been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a local court. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Imphal East district (CJMIED) passed the order on Friday after hearing the case filed by Porompat Police station. The Bangladeshis were charge sheeted under provisions of Foreigners Act 1946, official sources said. Two children, who accompanied the 22 illegal migrants, were...
11:19 AM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: MDMK chief Vaiko and 700 of his party supporters were arrested in Chhindwara near Sanchi on Friday as they tried to enter the city to hold their protest against visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is scheduled to inaugurate a Buddhist University there. Vaiko had planned a black flag protest against Rajapaksa in Sanchi. However, the Madhya Pradesh police stopped them from entering the city on Thursday...
12:20 PM, Sep 21, 2012
New York: Actress Lindsay Lohan has been arrested for allegedly clipping a pedestrian with her car and fleeing the scene. The 26-year-old was detained by police officers here after the low-speed accident in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, reports contactmusic.com. Lohan was pulling her Porsche Cayenne into a parking space in downtown Manhattan when she collided with a man standing nearby, hitting his knee, reports tmz.com. As a passenger...
06:06 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Chennai: A suspected spy, passing sensitive defence information to Pakistan's intelligence agency through its High Commission in Colombo, was arrested in Tamil Nadu on Monday. "Thameen Ansari, 33 of Tanjavur district is a frequent visitor to Sri Lanka on the pretext of exporting vegetabls there. He was handled by two Sri Lankans. He was asked to pass on pictures of Indian naval installations, nuclear submarine at Vizag and ports like...
01:01 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Author Salman Rushdie, in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, has said that his enemies never had a point, and that they were wrong. The noted author feels that in the Muslim world, there has been an attempt to demonise him, and it has been successful. However, Rushdie pointed that it was not an issue about just the Muslims, saying that the intolerance among the Hindus was...
11:00 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested Nachiketa Kapur, a key aide of Suresh Kalmadi, the prime accused in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) scam. Reports say that Kapur allegedly used fake Delhi University certificates to get the post of Director in the CWG Organising Committee. Kapur reportedly worked with the CWG till April 2010. The Games were held in October 2010. The Delhi Police Crime Branch has registered a case...
08:50 AM, Sep 17, 2012
