Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) on Friday accused the state government of adopting "criminal negligence" towards the quake-affected people of the region and asked the Centre to rush a relief team. "The situation in erstwhile Doda district is highly alarming because of earthquake and aftershocks going on since May 1, 2013 and due to criminal negligence of the state government to provide adequate and immediate relief to thousands of families living in most insecure conditions," JKNPP president, Balwant Singh Mankotia, said in a statement in Jammu.
"Central government should immediately send relief teams to save human lives from the wrath of nature," he said adding that the entire administration has collapsed and life has come to stand still in the area. The JKNPP president along with four other members visited the quake-hit areas of Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar on Friday.
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12:37 AM, May 18, 2013
An MBA abducting and killing his own cousin to recover betting losses may have shocked it's way into the headlines. But quietly going unnoticed is the fact that this is not the first time educated young urbanites have been found engaging in a crime of this nature. Experts now say there is no such thing as a typical criminal any more. ...
11:38 PM, May 15, 2013
Bangalore: There are two days left for the Karnataka Assembly elections and as always money power is a concern in the state. Not just that, the state Election Watch finds that more than 20 per cent of candidates have criminal records. Political parties may have promised to make the Karnataka 2013 Assembly polls a clean one, but a report by the Karnataka Election Watch shows that nearly 21 per cent...
09:34 AM, May 03, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A day after the state government giving the go-ahead, the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime branch of Odisha Police on Tuesday registered a criminal case against the Saradha Group which allegedly duped gullible investors in Balasore and Puri districts. A team of the EOW on Tuesday rushed to Balasore and recorded statements of certain depositors at the district police headquarters in the Northen Odisha town. "We have registered...
10:55 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Kolkata: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Wednesday said separation of administrators from investigators in the police was one of the necessary steps for speedy trials and faster disposal of criminal cases to reduce the huge pendency in different courts in the country. "There should be a separate wing for investigation only, separate from administrators in police forces. This will facilitate speedy trials and faster disposal of cases," Justice...
01:06 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Bilaspur: Under attack from Opposition on over an alleged land scam, Chhattisgarh's Health Minister Amar Agrawal on Monday filed a criminal defamation suit against Congress leaders Vivek Bajpayee and Vani Rao in a court in Bilaspur. Chief Judicial Magistrate Omprakash Chauhan admitted the suit and fixed May 13, 2013 for hearing the matter. The Health and Family Welfare Minister's counsel Ranveer Singh said Bajpayee and Bilaspur Mayor Vani Rao, who...
01:59 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Dhaka: Bangladesh police on Thursday arrested the editor of the Bengali daily 'Amar Desh', a pro-opposition newspaper, on charges of sedition and inciting religious tension. Plainclothesmen picked up Mahmudur Rahman in a raid on the newspaper office at Karwan Bazar area and police said he was taken away for initial interrogation. Police said Rahman had been arrested on the basis of evidence obtained after investigations on various charges including cyber...
06:31 PM, Apr 11, 2013
India is not a full-fledged democracy as 90 per cent of its people vote like sheep and cattle, Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju said in New Delhi on Saturday. ...
06:23 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Read the full text of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill as introduced in Lok Sabha on March 19, 2013. ...
12:51 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Faced with unrelenting criticism on the state's poor law and order, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday pulled up senior police officials and asked them to improve their and the force's functioning and act tough against criminals. ...
06:00 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, slamming the central government's decision to lower the age of consensual sex to 16 years saying that it is felt by many that the decision is solely based on culture prevalent in metro cities. ...
03:20 AM, Mar 18, 2013
42 years after Bangladesh was liberated, it is resonating with nationalist chants that are demanding hanging of war criminals and are looking for closure to the country's darkest chapter. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 17, 2013
The Supreme Court has held that criminal case of torture filed by a woman against her husband and in-laws should be quashed if the warring spouses come to an agreement for out-of-court settlement. ...
10:35 AM, Mar 17, 2013
The Cabinet meet on anti-rape law begins. The Delhi gangrape case of December 2012 triggered the government's proposed new anti-rape law. The Cabinet will take it up the new law on Tuesday. But consensus has eluded the government specifically on clauses relating to the use of the term 'rape', voyeurism, and reducing the age of consent from 18 to 16 years. ...
10:00 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The Delhi gangrape case of December 2012 triggered the government's proposed new anti-rape law. The Cabinet is likely to take up the new law on Tuesday. But consensus has eluded the government specifically on clauses relating to the use of the term 'rape', voyeurism, and reducing the age of consent from 18 to 16 years. ...
08:36 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Kenya's presidential race tightened on Friday as Uhuru Kenyatta's lead slipped to a level that could mean there is no outright winner and open the way for a tense, second round run-off against his main rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga. ...
03:52 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The Cabinet is likely to finalise tough new laws on crimes against women with a new Criminal Law Amendment Bill this Thursday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the age of consent for sex is likely to be reduced from 18 to 16 as suggested by the Justice Verma panel. ...
07:58 AM, Mar 06, 2013
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08:00 AM, Mar 02, 2013
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home has pressed for death sentence for rapists in cases where the victim dies or is left in a vegetative state. The committee, set up to examine the Criminal Law amendment bill of 2012, has also proposed to replace the word 'rape' with 'sexual assault' to broaden the definition of crimes against women. ...
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