Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra: People in social activist Anna Hazare's village in Ahmednagar district on Tuesday protested against his detention in Delhi by coming on to the streets along with their cattle and blocking the traffic. The 73-year-old Gandhian, who was scheduled to hold a fast against corruption in JP Park in Delhi was detained by police early morning on Tuesday. As the news of Anna's detention spread, people in the...
11:12 AM, Aug 16, 2011
New Delhi: In the latest crackdown on Karunanidhi's aides by the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu, two DMK leaders were arrested in Erode on land grab charges on Thursday. The mayor of Erode, Kumar Murugesh and former DMK minister NKKP Raja were arrested. NKKP Raja was minister for textiles and handloom during the DMK regime and was forced to resign and arrested over land grab charges. The arrests comes close...
08:56 AM, Aug 04, 2011
On 'The Week That Wasn't', Cyrus brings you the funnier side to UPA II's completion of two years. ...
11:44 PM, May 28, 2011
New Delhi: Krittika Biswas, the daughter of an Indian diplomat who has sued New York City for $ 1.5 million after being wrongly arrested for sending obscene e-mails is accusing her school of singling her out. Krittika said, "The school principal actually pushed for my arrest before checking facts. I was arrested on suspicion while the real culprit was forgiven after he apologized. School decided not to press charges against...
12:25 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: Krittika Biswas, the daughter of an Indian diplomat who has sued New York City for $ 1.5 million after being wrongly arrested for sending obscene e-mails is accusing her school of singling her out. Krittika said, "The school principal actually pushed for my arrest before checking facts. I was arrested on suspicion while the real culprit was forgiven after he apologized. School decided not to press charges against...
12:25 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: A trainee co-pilot with Air India was arrested for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure commercial flying licences, taking the total number of people arrested in such cases to 22. The arrested pilot has been identified as Sourabh Prakash Lokhande (29). He was apprehended on Tuesday, Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said. The airline regulator had earlier forwarded his name to Delhi Police's Crime Branch which...
06:43 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: Communication and IT minister Sachin Pilot was held and later on released by the Uttar Pradesh police under section 151 on Sunday. He was on his way to meet the farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul village in regard to the farmers' stir against land acquisition by the Uttar Pradesh government. Pilot had earlier on Sunday visited Dasna Jail to meet the Noida farmers. He said that the incident, in regard...
02:37 PM, May 22, 2011
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was released on personal bond late on Wednesday night, a couple of hours after being arrested by Uttar Pradesh police. He reached Delhi late on Wednesday night. The Congress General Secretary is now back in Delhi. He was held at the Kasna jail along with Digvijaya Singh, Rita Bahuguna, Raj Babbar, Parvez Hashmi and other Congress leaders. Rahul was released on a bond...
11:13 PM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Wednesday sent Kusegaon executive Rajiv Agarwal, arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, to judicial custody in Tihar jail till April 15. Special CBI Judge O P Saini, while accepting the plea of probe agency, sent Agarwal to judicial custody for 10 days. "Accused Rajiv Agarwal is remanded to judicial custody till April 15, 2011 the date to which other co-accused is remanded,"...
07:28 PM, Apr 06, 2011
Jaipur: Two pilots of budget carrier SpiceJet were arrested on Monday for allegedly obtaining commercial pilot licence on the basis of forged flying certificates, officials said. They will be produced in a special court on Wednesday. "Anoop Choudhary and Amit Moondra were arrested for obtaining commercial pilot licence by submitting forged flying certificates. Both the pilots are employed with SpiceJet at New Delhi," IG Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau, Umesh Mishra, said...
07:55 AM, Mar 22, 2011
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is likely to be charged Monday for stealing a $2,500 necklace from a jewellery store. If convicted, the troubled star faces up to three years in prison. Lohan was captured on the Los Angeles store's security camera wearing the necklace and is said to have been photographed with the accessory one week later. However, the piece has been returned. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office...
12:47 PM, Feb 06, 2011
An interview with Member of Parliament Rajeev Chandrashekhar on former telecom minister A Raja's arrest. ...
05:49 PM, Feb 02, 2011
New Delhi: The country is outraged after the daylight murder of the Malegaon additional collector Yashwant Sonawane by the petrol adulterators. The police have cracked down swiftly, arresting 11 of the suspected killers. But the question remains - Did Sonawane need to die for the govt to wake up to the reality of oil mafia? In an immediate crackdown on the perpetrators of this gory crime, Manmad police arrested all...
05:48 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Kolkata: An alleged CPI-M supporter was arrested on Thursday in connection with the killing of seven unarmed persons on January 7 at Netai village in West Midnapore district. A senior district police officer today said that Ajit Hembram was arrested from Belatikri village in the Lalgarh area this morning. Two persons had earlier been arrested in this connection. The officer said that after interrogating him, a hand cannon was seized...
05:24 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Purnia: The editor of a local weekly, which had first reported the sexual harassment complaint of Rupam Pathak who stabbed to death in full public view BJP MLA Kishore Keshari, was on Thursday arrested after an FIR was lodged against him and the woman. Keshari's nephew Sudip Keshari lodged an FIR with the K-Hat police station against Rupam Pathak, Navlesh Pathak, editor of an English weekly and an unknown person...
02:26 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Lahore: Pakistani police have arrested a man who had announced a Rs 20 million prize for anyone who killed Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for opposing the country's controversial blasphemy law. Sardar Ebaad Dogar of Khangarh near Multan was arrested on Tuesday shortly after Taseer was gunned down by a guard who claimed he was angered by the Governor's opposition to the blasphemy law. Taseer was shot dead on Wednesday at...
02:13 PM, Jan 05, 2011
London: Nine men, mostly of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin, have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and plotting terror attacks in Britain, a week after they were arrested in a series of raids across England and Wales. Police said they have charged the men, all aged between 19 and 28, with plotting an explosion - or explosions - "of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury...
01:49 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Washington: The police has arrested the fleeing driver of a truck in Hawaii after being inside the safety zone established around the vacation home of US President Barack Obama. Leon Rodrigues, the driver of the silver Nissan Titan pickup was stopped at barricades to the Obama vacation home by the Secret Service, which is responsible for the protection of the US President and his family, he fled down the freeway...
09:26 AM, Dec 24, 2010
An Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani was arrested in London for allegedly organising the murder of his wife Anni in South Africa. He has been denied bail. Dewani, a British businessman from Bristol, will remain in custody in London after South African authorities opposed his bail worth 250,000 pounds. South African authorities want to extradite Dewani for questioning after a taxi driver confessed that he was offered 1400 pounds by Dewani...
09:57 AM, Dec 09, 2010
