Cairo: Egyptian security forces fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day on Monday and the United States, worried by the violence, urged the generals to respect human rights. Medical sources said the death toll had risen to 13 since Friday. Hundreds have been wounded and scores detained. Police and soldiers using batons and teargas drove stone-throwing protesters out of Cairo's Tahrir Square, hub of the uprising...
02:13 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Cairo: Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed nine people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember. Protesters fled into side streets to escape the troops in riot gear, who grabbed people and battered them repeatedly even after they had been beaten to the ground, a journalist said. Shots were...
12:11 AM, Dec 18, 2011
Cairo: Stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with troops wielding truncheons and electric prods in central Cairo on Friday, witnesses said, in the worst violence since the start of Egypt's first free election in six decades. Military police tried to break up a sit-in by pro-democracy activists overnight and anger at their rough tactics blew up into clashes that quickly turned the streets around parliament into a rock-strewn battle zone. In a pattern...
09:09 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Paradip: A man was killed and 25 others were injured on Wednesday in a clash between anti-Posco brigade and a private contractor over construction of a coastal road linking the steel plant site near Paradip. Jagatsinghpur SP S Devadutt Singh said crude bombs and other weapons were used by the clashing groups and a person, identified as Dijabar Swain (30) of Kujanga area, died in the violence. Two others, who...
09:12 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested 13 people in connection with the Bharatpur riots case. Ten people had had died and over 40 were injured in Bharatpur clashes in September, 2011. Clashes between two communities had led to police firing in Bharatpur in Rajasthan. The clashes took place in Jama Masjid area in Gopalgarh between Mev Muslim community and Gujjars over a land-related dispute. An inquiry into...
01:18 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Kumily: Kerala Police on Monday night issued orders banning any gathering of more than five people for three days in and around the border checkpost near here as protestors from Tamil Nadu and Kerala clashed over the Mullaperiyar Dam - a contentious issue between the two neighbouring states. Kerala Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose said the prohinitory orders were being clamped to ensure normalcy returns to areas in and...
01:46 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Police and army used tear gas and rubber bullets to keep the protesters from storming the Interior Ministry. ...
09:18 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Los Angeles: Sam Worthington starrer 'Clash of the Titans', about the adventures of Greek hero Perseus, will be a three part movie. Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson have been enlisted to write the story for a third instalment in the series based on the Greek mythology, the Hollywood Reporter said. The studio is in post-production with Legendary Pictures on Clash of the Titans sequel 'Wrath of the Titans', which...
01:47 PM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: Bickering and clashes are increasing in 'Bigg Boss' and actress-singer Raageshwari Loomba, who is the latest to be evicted, says stress level is increasing with each day as a result tempers are flaring in the house. "Stress is building up in the house as everyone is trying hard to stay as a result many contestants have started losing their temper over small things like cleanliness or food," Raageshwari...
12:56 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Siwan: Six persons were killed and 18 others injured when the police resorted to lathicharge after being attacked by a mob in Bihar's Siwan district on Wednesday, a senior police official said. The crowd was trying to lynch 3 women suspected to be child lifters. The police, which went to rescue the women who were beaten up on the suspicion of being a child-lifter, was attacked with stones by the...
07:10 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's Coptic Christians turned their fury against the army on Monday after at least 25 people were killed when troops broke up a protest, deepening public doubts about the military's ability to steer the country peacefully toward democracy. In the worst violence since Hosni Mubarak was ousted, armored vehicles sped into a crowd late on Sunday to crack down on a protest near Cairo's state television. Online videos showed...
07:50 AM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Minorities Commission has blamed the District Magistrate and police for the clashes in Bharatpur on September 14. The report said that the police should have immediately taken action against those who assaulted the Imam of a mosque. It also blamed the police for using excessive force. As many as 10 people had died in the violence. Congress president Sonia Gandhi had also summoned Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok...
08:05 AM, Oct 02, 2011
Jaipur: Trouble mounts for Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. After Bharatpur clashes and Bhanwari Devi case, the Bilwara postmortem controversy has become a new headache for the chief Minister. Gehlot was call upon by the high command to explain the crisis. But all's well in Rajasthan claimed the Chief Minister, after being summoned to Delhi by Congress President Sonia Gandhi. "Not only are we in control of the state, there's...
12:12 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Modi-baiter Sanjeev Bhatt has been arrested in Ahmedabad. The Centre has failed to achieve Telangana breakthrough. ...
11:32 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was summoned by the Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi to explain police high-handedness in the Bharatpur clashes. Two of Gehlot's ministers are mired in cases of mysterious death of two women. The Rajasthan Home secretary was transferred after he objected to the suspension of the SP and the Collector of Bharatpur district. They were transferred for failing in the duty to uphold law and...
02:28 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Jaipur: With one more person succumbing to injuries on Monday, the toll in last week's violence in Bharatpur has risen to 10, police said. "40-year-old Shabbir, a resident of Pathravli village of Gopalgarh, was admitted to Sawai Man Singh government hospital in Jaipur and died at around 1 am today," the police said. He was injured during the violent clashes between Mev Muslims and Gujjars following a land-related dispute on...
03:07 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: An internal Congress inquiry report has indicted the Ashok Gehlot government for the Bharatpur riots. The report prepare by the Congress' inquiry committee set up by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, has confirmed police excesses during the riots. The report also said that State Home Minister Shanti Dhariwal mismanaged the situation, took sides and so he could be either removed or made to apologise. Dhariwal said that the state...
01:51 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: There is an uneasy calm at the Gopalgarh village, a week after eight people were killed in violent clashes between the local Gujjar and Meo Muslim communities. Bullet marks on the walls of the masjid are a reminder of what happened last Wednesday. Shops are closed, with very few locals and a lot of policemen strictly imposing the curfew which is in place for almost 18 hours everyday....
07:59 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government on Friday night announced a CBI probe into the community clash in Bharatpur's Gopalgarh village which left eight people dead. A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot decided to hand over the case to the CBI. At the same time, a judicial inquiry by a retired high court judge will be conducted into the incident, officials said. Bharatpur district collector Krishna Kunal and SP...
07:44 AM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: Bharatpur district in Rajasthan remains tense after clashes on Wednesday. Three more bodies were found in a well in Gopalgarh taking the toll to seven in 48 hours. Curfew was imposed in Pahadi, Jurera, Kaman, Sikri and Nagar areas on Thursday and will be lifted for three hours beginning at noon on Friday. The clash erupted on Wednesday morning when two communities confronted each other over a land-related...
11:28 AM, Sep 16, 2011
