Abuja: At least 14 Islamist insurgents and three soldiers have been killed in Nigerian military crackdown on terrorists, as the restive Maiduguri city in northern state of Borno was placed under a 24-hour curfew.
"After a mop up of scenes of battle (since Saturday), 14 terrorists were confirmed dead... Altogether three soldiers died, while seven are wounded and are being treated in a military medical facility," the defence ministry said in a statement.
Maiduguri has been the enclave of radical Islamist Boko Haram sect which has vowed to carve out an Islamic caliphate in the oil rich African country. Meanwhile, airstrikes against the militants continued especially in areas distant from the state capital which the extremists have made their stronghold, subjecting locals to Sharia-type administration.
Frightened residents had attempted to flee towards the border towns for fear of being caught in any crossfire but the military advised them to go home and remain indoors. Supply routes to the militants were sealed and reinforcement sent to border posts to stop them from escaping, the military said....
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08:07 AM, May 20, 2013
Lucknow: Khalid Mujahid, an accused in serial blasts that had rocked Lucknow and Faizabad courts in November 2007, on Saturday died in Barabanki while being escorted to Lucknow jail after a hearing. Mujahid was being brought back to Lucknow jail after hearing in a Faizabad court this afternoon, Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Arun Kumar said. The accused fell sick and fainted near Barabanki border and was...
09:34 PM, May 18, 2013
Lucknow: A murder suspect was given injections of acid and kerosene during police questioning in Uttar Pradesh, following which he fell sick and died in a hospital in Lucknow. Three errant policemen were suspended, an official said on Saturday. Accused Balveer was brought to Avagarh police station in Etah district on Thursday and allegedly made to sit on a hot plate and given injections of acid and kerosene. He died...
09:00 PM, May 18, 2013
Lucknow: The Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) has offered the Uttar Pradesh government financial assistance for the Metro rail project and a host of other projects, including the Agra-Lucknow expressway, officials said Tuesday. JICA sought details of the projects at a meeting with Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani Monday. The World Bank has already expressed its willingness to give funding for the Lucknow Metro rail and Agra-Lucknow expressway projects. Both these...
11:21 AM, May 14, 2013
Hyderabad: Navdeep-Sneha Ullal starrer Telugu romantic-drama 'Antha Nee Maayalone' went on the floors here Monday. The team will shoot one of the songs in the film. "'Antha Ne Maayalone' Day 1. Ready to go and excited to feel the magic again," Sneha posted on her Twitter page. The film is directed by debutant PV Krishna and also features Rajendra Prasad and Poonam Kaur in important roles. It is produced by...
04:32 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Lucknow: A man in his mid-thirties was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Aligarh, which was rocked by violent protests against the incident. The postmortem report of the victim, which was disclosed on Sunday, stated death due to asphyxia and on the basis of genital injuries, it appeared she was sexually assaulted. The accused Somanna alias Suman had made a bid on his life...
05:17 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Mumbai: Nawazuddin Siddiqui had caught the attention of filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee after 'Black Friday' and he was keen on casting him in 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye' but couldn't locate the actor. The 39-year-old actor entered Bollywood in 1999 with a blink and miss role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Sarfarosh'. However, his first breakthrough role came in 2004 with Anurag Kashyap's 'Black Friday', the film on Mumbai's 1993 bombings, where he...
05:05 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said on Wednesday the Lok Sabha elections could be preponed as the country is heading towards "political instability" due to corruption, inflation and unemployment. The BSP chief asked the party workers in Lucknow "to make all preparations" required for giving a better result in Uttar Pradesh this time on Wednesday. "People are unhappy due to corruption, inflation and unemployment under the UPA government and...
03:10 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Lucknow: A 17-year-old class Xth student fell to his death from the second floor of a shopping mall in Lucknow Tuesday, police said. The incident happened at the Saharganj mall in the heart of the city in the evening when Pranjal, along with some friends and relatives went to visit the mall. While he and his friend Vivek went to the second floor for some shopping, the other two friends,...
11:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Lucknow: An elderly couple was stabbed to death by unidentified persons in Gomti Nagar area, police said. The bodies of RN Mehra, 61, a retired bank cashier, and his 58-year-old wife Lata, labour enforcement officer posted in Barabanki, were found inside their Vipul Khand residence on Sunday night, they said. Police said the bodies have multiple stab wounds. The incident came to fore when the couple's daughter Gunjan, who lives...
12:00 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Lucknow: Apparently peeved over removal of hoardings set up on the occasion of 122th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in Uttar Pradesh of acting with political vendetta and treating her party as number one target. "Members of the opposition parties are being dealt with political vendetta and BSP is being made number one target," she said....
12:16 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Lucknow: In a first, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow on Friday reduced the fees for its post-graduate programme in management for the academic term 2013-2015. The IIM's director Devi Singh said the fees were being slashed by 10 per cent from the current Rs 12 lakh to Rs 10.8 lakh. The fee for the same course at IIM Bangalore is Rs 17 lakh and Rs 16.6 lakh at...
07:16 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Lucknow: In a move suggesting growing differences between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has withdrawn the 'VIP' status of Raebareli and Amethi with regard to 24/7 power supply. The two districts are parliamentary constituencies of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. The nine-month-old decision to provide round-the-clock electricity to these two districts was revoked late on Thursday,...
10:19 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Lucknow: A division bench of the Lucknow High Court will hear the Sahara-Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) case on Friday. Subrata Roy led Sahara India had filed a writ petition seeking to quash the market regulator's February 13 order. The court had directed Sebi to file a counter affidavit. It had also advised Sebi to seek clatification on whether the Supreme Court judgement in this case relates only to...
09:01 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday announced financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh each to the family members of two peacekeepers from the state killed during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. "The CM has announced financial assistance to families of Hawaldar Heeralal from Bulandshahr and Nayab Subedar Shiv Kumar Pal hailing from Pratapgarh district," an official spokesman said here. Condemning the incident, Akhilesh expressed his...
12:10 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued a notice to Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly "torturing" a five-year-old boy by subjecting him to electric shocks. "The NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that in an alleged case of theft, a five-year-old boy was severely tortured by police in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh," said a statement from the NHRC. It added that "the boy,...
07:17 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Lucknow: Once again a policeman in Uttar Pradesh has been accused of rape, dealing another massive blow to the already poor law and order in the state. A policemen Veer Singh has been arrested for allegedly raping and threatening a women in Raniganj police station on Sunday. Veer Singh allegedly assaulted the woman, who had come to file a rape complaint, after promising to help her. The victim alleges in...
12:01 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation has proposed to hike electricity tariff in Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Noida to about Rs 5.25 per unit. The corporation has sent its proposal to increase the rates to the state government pointing out that the three cities have to be provided electricity round the clock. The power corporation has forwarded the proposal to electricity regulatory commission and the Uttar Pradesh government. The corporation claims that...
11:01 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Lucknow: Stopping short of making a direct comment on Lok Sabha polls, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday said the UPA looks forward to complete its term in office, but noted that one cannot make predictions in politics. "We are looking at completing our term. There are important legislative steps that have to be taken, and policy issues that are in process of being implemented, but you know that...
10:25 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Death sentence was awarded to three policemen and life term was doled out to five others by a special CBI court in the 31-year-old fake encounter case in Gonda district, which led to the death of 13 persons, including the Deputy Superintendent of Police. ...
03:28 PM, Apr 06, 2013
