
Ghaziabad: The moral police was back in Ghaziabad as the cops went on an Operation Majnu, catching couples unaware and handing them some on-the-spot punishment, all in the name of curbing eve teasers. It could have been a nice lazy afternoon for many lovers at Sahibabad Park in Ghaziabad, but Alka Pandey, a Station Officer with the Uttar Pradesh police played the spoilsport. For the past three days, the Ghaziabad...

09:12 PM, Nov 30, 2011

The moral police is up in arms over the alleged abusive title. ...

03:22 PM, Jan 13, 2010

The Samaj Sudhar Samity tied the boy to an electric pole. ...

04:04 PM, Mar 16, 2009

They were charged with illegal sale of liquor and obscenity. ...

09:44 PM, Mar 09, 2009

Find out how young India is responding to moral policing. ...

11:54 AM, Feb 13, 2009

India is a far more conservative country than it appears at first glance. ...

06:55 AM, Jan 31, 2009

Are self-appointed moral police a bigger threat to the society? ...

03:56 PM, Jan 28, 2009

Minister calls for the arrest of Ram Sena chief Pramod Mutthalik. ...

08:54 AM, Jan 27, 2009

Activists of a pro-Hindu moral brigade attacked pub-going women. ...

08:38 PM, Jan 26, 2009

Sydney: Former captain Ricky Ponting's one-day international career appeared over after he was dropped from Australia's ODI team for the tri-series against India and Sri Lanka. Chief selector John Inverarity on Monday said Ponting, the second all-time leading run-scorer in ODIs, was axed because of his poor batting form. Ponting, 37, said earlier that he wanted to battle through his current slump after scoring just 18 runs in five knocks...

09:29 PM, Apr 25, 2008

In the end, the better team won. Australia had struggled on a sluggish Adelaide Oval surface in their last two matches, but on a Brisbane pitch with more pace and bounce they showed that they have the firepower to make the best-of-three-finals, owing to capable batsmen and very good pace bowlers. For India it was their worst batting effort of the CB Series as a troubling trend of troubles against...

03:00 PM, Apr 25, 2008

Dubai: Misbah-ul Haq has called for his batsmen to put up a stronger fight to change Pakistan's fortunes in the third one-day match against England on Saturday. Pakistan failed to chase down targets of 261 and 251 in the first two one-day matches to hand England an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the four-match series. "We have to really improve our batting," the Pakistan captain said on Friday. "In the Tests...

12:45 AM, Apr 25, 2008

Brisbane: India medium pacer R Vinay Kumar is not on anyone's mind and he would just like it the way it is as long as his skipper MS Dhoni keeps turning to him and batsmen keep nibbling at his swinging deliveries. The Karnataka medium-pacer has beggared belief with nine wickets at a staggering average 20.11 -- a wicket every 25th ball -- in the ongoing Commonwealth Bank one-day series. With...

06:17 PM, Apr 24, 2008

Karachi: In a first, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday awarded contracts to three umpires in the country. According to the report, the scheme is limited and only three of the International Cricket Council (ICC) panel umpires from Pakistan - Zameer Haider, Ahsan Raza and Shozab Raza - were offered the contracts. Zakir Khan, PCB director for domestic cricket operation, was quoted as saying in the local media on...

01:35 PM, Apr 24, 2008

Chittagong: Andrew Strauss and Shakib Al Hasan's men were stranded for almost four hours at the stadium after Bangladesh's stunning World Cup win over England sparked wild celebrations on the streets of Chittagong. Around 10,000 hollering fans turned up for an impromptu midnight carnival in front of the teams' hotel on Friday, and the beating drums and the chants of "Tiger, Tiger, Shakibs are Tigers," could probably be heard hundreds...

12:01 PM, Dec 31, 2007