Bangladesh's main Opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Sunday abruptly cancelled her proposed meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee, casting a shadow on his first foreign visit. ...
04:48 PM, Mar 03, 2013
A police station was set on fire in Port Said after protesters clashed with the police. The incident took place when the protesters tried to stop a police car from passing through a blockade. ...
08:58 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was killed during clashes between villagers and police in Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya's constituency Kunda. A gram pradhan and his brother also died during the gunfire exchange. ...
08:29 AM, Mar 03, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...
07:22 AM, Mar 03, 2013
Bangladesh on Friday deployed paramilitary border guards to beef up security after a top Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death, sparking nationwide riots that killed at least 42 people. "Our troops were deployed in 15 troubled districts in aide of civil administration... BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) has been kept alert so it could move immediately wherever they are required," BGB chief major General Aziz Ahmed told reporters. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal on Thursday handed down death penalty to a top leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, triggering fierce clashes across the country that left at least 35 people dead. 73-year-old Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of eight counts out of 20 involving rape, mass killings and...
11:55 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Thousands of people demonstrated in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka to demand a death sentence for an Islamic party leader accused of committing atrocities during the country's 1971 Liberation war. More than 5,000 people rallied on Wednesday after a special tribunal said it would deliver its verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Thursday. ...
10:59 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Six Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers were arrested in Mumbai on Wednesday for rioting following clashes with Nationalist Congress Party activists after MNS chief Raj Thackeray's convoy was allegedly attacked by the latter on Tuesday night. Two cases have also been registered against the MNS workers in Bandra and Khar. ...
03:07 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Clashes were reported between suspected NCP and MNS workers in Maharashtra. Mumbai Police sources say police patrolling has been intensified in sensitive areas but no arrests have been made. This came after four NCP offices in Mumbai were stone pelted overnight. ...
09:54 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Congress local leader Sheikh Moktar, one of the accused in the sub inspector killing case in violence in Garden Reach area in south-west part of city on February 12, was arrested on Tuesday evening, a senior CID official said. ...
10:19 PM, Feb 26, 2013
At least five people, including a woman, were killed and over 50 others injured on Sunday as police opened fire during clashes with Islamists who enforced a nationwide shutdown demanding execution of "atheist bloggers" for alleged blasphemy. Five people were killed when strike supporters clashed with the police and local people in Manikganj's Singair upazila during the nationwide strike called by 12 Islamist parties, police and witnesses said. ...
07:00 PM, Feb 24, 2013
A day after sacking the Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda over the killing of a policeman during a TMC-Congress clash, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has cracked the whip against her own colleague, Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim. Hakim has been stripped off his role as the party's official spokesperson. ...
04:17 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Three more people were arrested and produced before court in connection with the Garden Reach shooting case. Sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury was killed in the Congress, Trinamool Congress clashes that broke out during student elections at a college. ...
02:30 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Three days after campus violence rocked Kolkata's Garden Reach area and left a police sub-inspector dead, the State Governor himself has stepped into what is turning to be West Bengal's latest political row after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday transferred police commissioner Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda. ...
11:27 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Two days after a policeman was shot dead during a clash between student activists, the West Bengal government on Thursday shifted out Kolkata police chief Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda for failure to apprehend the criminals, replacing him with Surajit Kar Purakayastha. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda was removed from his post on Thursday, after the death of a policeman during clashes between Congress and Trinamool party workers at a college election in the city two days ago. Sources said that Surajit Kar Purakayastha, ADG, Law and Order, is likely to replace him. ...
07:31 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Two days after violence at Garden Reach claimed the life of a police officer, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that the law would take its own course in the case. "Law will take its own course and my one line is enough," the chief minister, who returned from Digha and was accompanied by Trinamool Congress All-India general secretary Mukul Roy, told reporters after visiting the family...
05:22 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Two days after violent clashes between the Trinamool and the Congress student union members claimed the life of a police sub-inspector and amidst allegations that TMC minister Firhad Hakim was shielding the accused, the Bengal governor MK Narayanan on Thursday said that ministers must not interfere in such cases. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The allrounder faces a race against time to be fit for the Ashes after being withdrawn from the squad in New Zealand. ...
04:18 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Riot police clashed with protesters in Madrid and impromptu demonstrations broke out in several other Spanish cities following the prime minister's televised denial that he had accepted under-the-table payments. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy promised to publicly disclose the amount of funds in all his personal bank accounts, denying recent media reports that allege he and members of his governing conservative Popular Party accepted or made under-the-table payments. ...
11:45 AM, Feb 03, 2013
