A mob went on the rampage in a Christian-dominated neighbourhood in this eastern Pakistani city on Saturday following reports that a Christian man had committed blasphemy, burning scores of houses and driving out about 150 families. The trouble began, when over 2,000 enraged Muslims gathered around Joseph Colony at Noor Road and pelted stones at the homes of 150 Christian families. The mob was led by one Shafiq Ahmed, who...
09:45 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Weeks after an electricity bill from Nallasopara slum colony brought a "Chhota Pakistan" to light in Thane district, a birth certificate issued to a resident from Gandhinagar locality in Mira-Bhayander, has revealed a settlement called "Bangladesh Zopadpatti". This slum pocket in Bhayander West, housing around 700 people from rural Maharashtra, is just a stone throw away from Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) and finds a place in the government records too....
03:40 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Seven years ago a 14-year old girl was allegedly gangraped in Lucknow. The case is known as Ashiana rape case after the locality where the crime took place. ...
01:19 PM, Jan 04, 2013
New Delhi: A lawyer to one of the accused in the Defence Colony cash van heist was arrested for allegedly helping her client in hiding part of the looted Rs 5.5 crore, taking the number of arrests in the high-profile case to 11. Jyoti Batra is the advocate of Deepak Sharma, the first person to be arrested in the heist case, police said on Wednesday. Sharma was arrested for his...
10:21 PM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested four more people in connection with the Defence Colony ATM van robbery where Rs 5.25 crore was looted in cash. With these arrests, the number of arrested have gone up to nine people. During overnight raids on Sunday, the police have managed to recover Rs 2.3 crore. Earlier, the police had already recovered Rs 2.3 crore. With Sunday night's raids, the police have...
11:27 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after the audacious Rs 5.25 crore heist in south Delhi, police on Sunday claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of three persons including a robber and recovered Rs 2.36 crore. Police said it has recovered over Rs 2.36 crore out of the money looted from a cash van of a cash replenishment agency in upscale Defence Colony on Friday afternoon, after a security...
07:53 PM, Sep 30, 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
New Delhi: On Friday, a Rs 5.25 crore robbery in broad daylight left a security guard in the upmarket Defence Colony area of Delhi, bruised with gunshot injuries. The following day, came the news of a failed robbery attempt at a bank in Inderlok, and finally in the evening, as if to cap it all, another ATM cash van was looted by its own driver, who after drugging the two...
08:14 AM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: In a breakthrough in the heist of Rs 5.25 crore from a cash van in south Delhi, police on Saturday arrested one person and detained four other suspects. Police have also recovered Rs 1.5 crore of the stolen cash. The heist was reportedly masterminded by a gang active in Faridabad. Earlier in the day, Police recovered the two empty cash trunks from Khirki village at around after security...
11:20 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: In a breakthrough in the heist of Rs 5.25 crore from a cash van in south Delhi, police on Saturday detained one person. Police had earlier claimed that they have identified the robbers. Police sources said that the heist seemed to have been masterminded by a gang active in Faridabad region. Earlier in the day, Police recovered the two empty cash trunks from Khirki village at around after...
09:19 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: An ATM van carrying Rs 5 crore cash was looted by robbers in broad daylight on Friday in Delhi's Defence Colony. The van was carrying the cash of the ICICI Bank. The robbers shot at the guard and ran away with the ATM van. The guard has been admitted to the AIIMS trauma centre and is in a critical state. The police reached the spot and were carrying...
02:28 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Ace director Siddhique will soon kick-start the shoot for his new movie, 'Ladies and Gentleman' starring Superstar Mohanlal. Scheduled to start the shoot by November, the movie is to be releases in 2013. The duo had united earlier for 'Vietnam Colony' which appeared 21 years ago. 'Ladies and Gentleman,' as the name suggests, will have the central gentleman surrounded by a host of lead ladies. The movie is produced by...
05:04 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Half-chopped body of a man, with the head and the torso missing, was found packed inside a synthetic cement bag in the capital's upscale Defence Colony on Friday, police said. The unidentified body was found in front of a house in C block in the south Delhi colony. According to the police, the deceased was wearing a pair of black trousers when the body was unpacked. A passerby...
06:54 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: The president of a students' union died on Thursday apparently due to food poisoning after she had a cold drink from her college canteen, police said. Kanika Sharma, 20, a resident of Ghaziabad on the outskirts of Delhi, had a cold drink from the canteen of Vivekananda College where she was studying in BA third year and was heading the students' union. "Kanika fell ill after drinking a...
12:52 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: A 14-year-old Brazilian girl says she was raped by multiple men at a prison in the Amazonian state of Para. Para's governor suspended the warden and 20 guards at the Santa Izabel Penal Colony pending an investigation of the charges, authorities said on Monday. The prison, located about 50 km from Belem, the state capital, currently holds around 350 male inmates. The teenage girl went to police...
12:25 PM, Sep 20, 2011
A day after the fatal air crash reported, fear still lingers on in the tiny bylanes of Faridabad. ...
08:57 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: It was a beautiful windy Wednesday night with residents of Parvatiya colony in Faridabad getting ready to go to bed when a bright light and an unusual sound from the sky jolted them out of their slumber. The light and the sound came from an air ambulance crashing into the residential colony resulting in 10 people being killed. The air ambulance was carrying Rahul Raj, a critical patient suffering...
01:28 PM, May 26, 2011
Residents marched to the local police station demanding action against the culprits. ...
09:59 PM, Mar 07, 2010
The victim, Anjali Jaiswal, was reported missing on Saturday. ...
06:11 PM, Mar 07, 2010
