
Mumbai: Assistant police inspector Umesh Patil's 'free' ride is likely to get bumpy in the days to come. MiD DAY had caught the Nagpada cop on camera patrolling on a bike with a fake number plate. Inquiries have revealed that Patil was given the vehicle by a history-sheeter from the area. Patil's superiors had filed a detailed report based on MiD DAY's article and tabled it before the police commissioner,...

08:36 AM, Apr 08, 2012

Hyderabad: A corporator of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has been arrested on charge of purchasing a stolen four-wheeler and using it for the past two years. The Central Crime Station - a wing of Hyderabad Police nabbed the TDP corporator Thakur Raja Singh from Manglahat area in the city. According to them, he had knowingly purchased the stolen four-wheeler that belonged to Kerala state, for a sum of Rs 3...

08:52 AM, Mar 13, 2012

Washington: A 25-year-old man landed in jail for stealing $ 3,200 diamond ring, after his girlfriend posted a picture of the 'engagement' ring on social networking site Facebook. Police in Burlington arrested Ryan Jarvis after he proposed to his fiancee, allegedly with a stolen diamond ring. The arrest was made after the cops received a tip off following a Facebook posting by Jarvis' girlfriend. WCAX-TV reported that the man was...

09:06 AM, Dec 29, 2011

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10:51 AM, Dec 28, 2011

Miami: Burglars snorted the cremated remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs, Florida sheriff's deputies said on Wednesday. The ashes were taken from a woman's home in the central Florida town of Silver Springs Shores on December 15. The thieves took an urn containing the ashes of her father and another container with the ashes of her two Great Danes,...

12:29 PM, Jan 20, 2011

Detroit: When carmakers like BMW say they hope people find their next car at auto shows like the one in Detroit this week, this wasn't exactly what they meant. Two thieves drove away in a brand new $94,000 BMW 750i xDrive Sedan on Wednesday night that was left idling outside the Westin Book Cadillac, one of Detroit's major hotels. The car was one of more than a dozen BMW sedans...

03:49 PM, Jan 14, 2011

Madrid: Twenty-eight art works, including a few by Pablo Picasso, which were stolen last month from near Madrid have been found, officials said. The art works are valued at 2.7 million euros (USD 3.5 million). Among the works stolen was a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida worth 800,000 euros (USD 1 million), as well as pieces by Fernando Botero, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tapies and Julio Gonzalez. The art pieces that were...

10:50 AM, Dec 21, 2010

London: A musician who went into a central London sandwich store to buy something to eat has had a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth 1.2 million pounds (USD 1.9 million) stolen, police said on Monday. British Transport Police have launched a public appeal to get the rare instrument back and the musician's insurer, Lark Insurance Broking Group, has offered a 15,000-pound reward for information leading to its recovery. Detective Inspector Andy...

10:52 AM, Dec 08, 2010

The veteran actresses' house is located in northwest Mumbai. ...

09:09 AM, Mar 01, 2010

The pastel work, "The Chorus," was worth an estimated $1.15 million. ...

08:34 AM, Jan 02, 2010

It was found abandoned in the parking space of Radisson Hotel in New Delhi. ...

01:38 PM, Oct 27, 2009

The radio tag that allows its entry into Parliament has been deactivated. ...

01:13 PM, Oct 26, 2009

Pictures could be made public, much to the embarrassment of Sarkozy. ...

07:19 PM, Apr 28, 2009

London: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday appointed Harry Woolf, a former chief justice of England and Wales, to chair its independent governance review panel which will be assisted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. "We truly aspire to be a well managed and leading global governing body and we are privileged to have Lord Woolf leading this most important governance review. There can be no doubt that, in Lord Woolf, the ICC...

01:37 PM, Feb 18, 2008

St. John's: Curtly Ambrose, the last of the legendary West Indies fast bowlers, feels problems between destructive batsman Chris Gayle and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) should be sorted out immediately for the benefit of Caribbean cricket. Strumming his base guitar at a casino in the capital city along with his former captain Richie Richardson, Ambrose prefers to stay away from cricket. The poor state of West Indies cricket...

07:28 PM, Feb 03, 2008