Bangalore: More than 1900 detonators were recovered on Thursday by the CISF from Kolar district of poll-bound Karnataka after a bus was intercepted along the state's border.
The seizure was made when a bus coming from Pummur in Andhra Pradesh was intercepted at Baipelly checkpost and two unattended bags were found inside the vehicle.
The CISF troops, deployed as part of poll duties in the state, immediately took the bus to Nilanjee police station where it was seized and 1,983 detonators were recovered, a senior official said.
The state goes to assembly polls on May 5....
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10:11 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian escaped from the captivity of an al Qaeda linked terror group after being held captive in the southern Philippines for nearly 14 months. Biju Kolara Veetil from Calicut was abducted in the Philippines, while visiting his in-laws. In July 2012, he miraculously escaped and is now is now safe in police custody, and is in touch with Indian officials, MEA spokesman Syed Akbaruddin tweeted. Veetil also...
06:54 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Heavy rains, flash floods and landslides wreaked havoc across much of India on Tuesday. Nearly 34 people were dead and 20,000 were said to be affected in Uttarakhand, eight people had lost their lives in Kerala and four in Madhya Pradesh, while train services between Mangalore and Bangalore in Karnataka were hit. Uttarakhand It has been four days since heavy rains battered Uttarakhand, triggering landslides and flash floods....
02:04 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Moscow: Czech striker Milan Baros has retired from international football, national team spokesman Jaroslav Kolar said on Friday. Baros, 30, played in all four of the Czech Republic's games at Euro 2012 before they exited with a 1-0 defeat to Portugal on Thursday. "After the game, Baros told his teammates that his time representing the country was over," Kolar was quoted as saying by website sport.cz. ."Everyone stood up and...
02:13 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Bangalore: Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi on June 4 moved to the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and also to review the Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing on June 5 before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao on June 2 has convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Bangalore: The Lokayukta Special court on Saturday convicted BJP MLA from Kolar Gold Fields Y Sampangi in a bribery case. Sampangi was sentenced to three and half years in jail and a fine of Rs 40,000 has been imposed on him. Sampangi was reportedly caught by the Lokayukta police while accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a businessman. This is the first ever conviction of a legislator in...
01:47 PM, Jun 02, 2012
London: Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his wife Carole Kolar were bludgeoned to death in a lump hammer attack in their Birmingham home earlier in January for just two mobile phones and two watches, a media report said on Thursday. Suspect Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, who was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday, is believed to have left a suicide note referring to the murders of Avtar and Carole,...
05:20 PM, Feb 02, 2012
London: A Lithuanian national arrested for the twin murders of Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his English wife in Birmingham has been found hanging in his prison cell, where was he lodged since early this month. Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, was charged with murdering Avtar and Carole Kolar, whose bodies were found at their Handsworth Wood home by their son, an officer with the West Midlands Police. Liorancas was found hanging...
04:35 PM, Jan 31, 2012
London: A man has been arrested in connection with the twin murder of Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his English wife in Birmingham. The confirmation about the arrest was made by the West Midlands police. Officers working as part of Operation Tiler executed a warrant at a house in Birmingham on Friday night, and arrested a 24-year-old man as part of their investigation. The suspect was taken to a police...
07:24 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: There has been no headway yet in the probe into the murder of Indian origin man Avtar Singh Kolar in the UK. The 62-year old and his English wife Carole were found killed in Birmingham on Wednesday. 60 detectives are involved in the investigation. Kolar is the third Indian to die an unnatural death in the UK in two weeks. The couple's children appealed to the public to...
10:27 AM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian origin man and his English wife have been murdered in Birmingham, weeks after an Indian student was killed in an apparent hate crime in Manchester. The local police named the victim as Avatar Singh Kolar, 62, and Carole Kolar, 58. The police added that their son is a police officer, who found the bodies. The case comes at a sensitive time when less than a month...
06:22 AM, Jan 12, 2012
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07:23 AM, Aug 14, 2011
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