United Nations: Delegates from dozens of countries gathered in New York on Monday and signed the first treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, but the United States was not among them.
On April 2, the 193-nation UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the UN Arms Trade Treaty that aims to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers and criminals.
Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman, was the first to put pen to paper when the signing ceremony opened at UN headquarters on Monday. There was a large round of applause after he affixed his signature to the document.
The United Nations said 62 countries from Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa signed the treaty in the morning. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was due to sign shortly, making Germany the 63rd nation to join the pact....
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06:38 AM, Jun 04, 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
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
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
Protesters clashed with police for the second day on Friday as the death toll rose to at least 44 from violence triggered by a death sentence given to an Islamic party leader for crimes linked to Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, police said. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Over one lakh protesters took to the streets in Dhaka after the murder of a blogger, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. Protesters are also demanding the immediate arrest of the killers. ...
09:00 AM, Feb 17, 2013
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02:45 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Eleven people of Asian-origin, including four of Indian descent, are among 32 persons figuring in the rogues' gallery of Britain's top tax criminals of 2012. Among the 11 people of Asian-origin, four persons of Indian descent are Davinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sandeep Singh Dosanjh, Navdeep Singh Gill and Ranjot Singh Chahal, according to a report in the Guardian. ...
07:25 PM, Jan 05, 2013
New Delhi: Cyber criminals may have attempted to siphon off anywhere between 60 million euros and 2 billion euros in fraudulent transfers from at least 60 banks globally, a McAfee and Guardian Analytics study said. The study highlighted a highly sophisticated, multi-tiered, global financial fraud ring that is comprised of at least a dozen groups use active and passive automated transfer systems to steal high value amounts from high balance...
10:00 PM, Jun 26, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The crime-prone areas in the city should be cautious now. For, a City crime spot map, having even the tiniest details of such areas, would be ready soon. In a bid to have a clear idea about the areas where crime is frequent and to prevent the minute lapses in nabbing criminals, the city cops have been engaged in preparing a map of the 20 police stations under the...
01:25 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Varanasi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that he was content with his party being out of power in Uttar Pradesh but would not join hands with any undesirable elements. "We will not align with criminals and thieves at any cost," he said at an election rally in Pindra, 28 km from this eastern Uttar Pradesh city. "I do not mind even if you give just two or...
05:23 AM, Feb 05, 2012
London: In a shocker, nearly 350 criminals in British jails have been found using Facebook with some of them taunting victims and threatening to seek revenge. All the profiles were closed by Facebook following investigations by prison officials. In the past two years, nearly 350 people have been caught posting entries on Facebook while serving a sentence, UK Ministry of Justice figures show. Violent criminals have been using Facebook to...
04:06 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Lucknow: Although there is no dearth of tainted politicians and criminals in the UP Assembly polls, there are at least six candidates in the fray who are running the show from behind the bars. The Poorvanchal region of the state has the highest number of such candidates. The voters in the region are caught in a bind here and are having a tough time deciding who to vote for. In...
04:04 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Bangalore: Privacy and data theft will be the top security issues that organisations need to focus on in the new year, according to PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of cloud security firm Panda Security. Cyber-espionage and social networking attacks aimed at companies and government agencies will be the predominant threat to safeguard against in 2012, it said in a statement. "Cyber-espionage and social networking attacks will be the trends to watch,...
12:26 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Dubai: More than 50 per cent of all spam messages in the world during the third quarter of 2011 originated from just six countries, with India accounting for the highest 14.8 per cent of such messages. According to Kaspersky Lab's spam report, India was ahead of countries like Indonesia (10.6 per cent), Brazil (9.65 per cent), Peru (6.65 per cent), South Korea (5.85 per cent) and Ukraine (3.7 per cent)....
04:40 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Los Angeles: Troubled star Lindsay Lohan, who completed her house arrest term recently for violating her 2007 DUI probation, said she should never have been sent to jail. The 25-year-old actress, who was confined to her house for 35 days due to jail overcrowding after allegedly stealing a necklace from a boutique and violating probation terms, said she was treated very harshly, reported Vanity Fair online. "Unless you're a killer,...
03:50 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: J Dey's shooters were murderers out on bail and they were among the many underworld hitmen who roam free due to weak prosecution. Thirty five-year-old Rohit Thangapan Joseph alias Satish Kalya, a hardened criminal and the man who allegedly pumped five bullets into senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey on June 11, was acquitted in three murder cases in 2008 and was out on bail when he was trailing his...
08:00 AM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: Among the states whose assembly results were declared last week, West Bengal has the maximum number of legislators with criminal cases pending against them -- at 35 per cent, a study said on Monday. "Around 35 per cent of MLAs (members of legislative assembly) of West Bengal, 29 per cent of Tamil Nadu, 10 per cent of Assam and 30 per cent of MLAs from Puducherry have criminal...
06:07 PM, May 16, 2011
Mumbai: As the India-Sri Lanka face-off brought the country to a halt, even crime, it seems, took a break in deference to the adopted national religion. Police officials in the northern suburbs were in for a shock when not one non-cognisable (NC) complaint, let alone an FIR, was lodged in the 16 police stations in the region, including Kurar, Malvani and Dindoshi, on Saturday. This, against an average of 75...
03:47 PM, Apr 04, 2011
