Mamata Banerjee met the Barasat victim's family only for 5 minutes after protesters shouted slogans against her. ...
11:39 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Barasat: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the middle of a controversy yet again. She lost her cool yet again and went to the extent of saying that the Barasat gangrape and murder accused are CPM workers and those protesting are CPM cadre. "Why should I be sorry? They are CPI(M) workers. The people who have been apprehended are from CPI(M)," Mamata said. Shouting at a protester in...
03:45 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Days after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 20-year-old girl in West Bengal's Barasat district, a group of women protestors on Monday shouted anti-government slogans and forced Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to leave the grieving family's house within five minutes of her arrival there. Sources say, she felt it was a deliberate ploy to insult her. The deceased girl's family had earlier refused any kind of help from...
03:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Shibu Yadav, the key accused in the attack on TV journalists in Barrackpore in West Bengal, and eight others were produced in a Kolkata court on Saturday. They were arrested from Bihar for the brutal attack on two journalists in Barrackpore last week. Yadav and two of his companions have been remanded in police custody for 12 days while the others will be in judicial custody...
09:09 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Islamabad: Twin blasts in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday afternoon have killed 20 people, including eleven female students, a police officer and three soldiers who died in gunfire, and injured at least 20 others. The first blast took place on a bus carrying students of a women's university while the second bomb exploded at the hospital where the injured of the bus blast were taken for treatment. There...
07:36 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Hyderabad: Apparently frustrated by the delay in the formation of a separate Telangana state, a student of Osmania University in Andhra Pradesh committed suicide early Saturday, police said. The body of Bandaru Srinivas, an engineering student, was found hanging from a tree opposite the library on the Osmania University campus. He hailed from Mahabubnagar district of Telangana region. Srinivas' friends said he was depressed over the delay in granting statehood...
06:28 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Islamabad: A historic 121-year-old building used by Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Balochistan was destroyed after terrorists targeted it with bombs and gun fire that triggered a blaze. The terrorists of the Balochistan Liberation Army targeted the Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat, a holiday resort located about 120 km from the provincial capital of Quetta, at 1:15 am. They planted and set off five bombs and then opened fire. The...
06:19 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Kashmir: The Amarnath Yatra beginning on June 28 is under threat from Pakistan terrorists. Intelligence sources and the Army have observed the increased militant attempts to penetrate the counter insurgency grid in South Kashmir's Anantnag area. In the last one month, seven terrorists were intercepted and killed in Anantnag but the sources admitted that some of the terrorists have got through and may have merged with the local population. Intensified ...
01:53 PM, Jun 15, 2013
The Telangana protests intensify after a brief lull as pro-Telangana activists clash with police in Hyderabad. With the 2014 elections drawing nearer, parties have started promising statehood, something that has alluded the region ever since Independence. CNN-IBN's consulting editor Veeraraghav TM joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Telangana protests. Q. Do you think Congress will bow down to these protests and give statehood so that its seats do...
04:54 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Hyderabad: The Telangana protests have flare up yet again in Hyderabad as the police fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters. No injuries were reported in the teargas firing. Meanwhile, two rebel Telangana Congress MPs G Viveka and Manda Jagannath have courted arrest even as hundreds of pro-Telangana activists have been taken into protective custody. A group of protesters tried to force their way to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly but...
02:16 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Hyderabad: The action is hotting up in Hyderabad, where two rebel Telangana Congress MPs G Viveka and Manda Jagannath have courted arrest even as hundreds of pro-Telangana activists have been taken into protective custody. A group of protesters tried to force their way to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly but were stopped by the police. The members of the Telangana Joint Action Commitee were marching towards the state assembly with the...
11:09 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Kolkata: The prime suspect in the recent attacks on two journalists from Bengali news channels in North 24 Parganas district was arrested from Bihar on Thursday, police said. Shibu Yadav was nabbed from East Champaran district, state police sources said. A state police team has reached Bihar and would move an East Champaran district court to get him on transit remand. The two journalists are still hospitalised with multiple injuries...
06:02 AM, Jun 14, 2013
The Home Ministry and the Nitish Kumar government have almost always differed on the issue of Naxal violence. While the MHA wants the Bihar government to deal with the Naxals on a priority basis, Patna remains more focused on its development agenda. ...
11:34 PM, Jun 13, 2013
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11:06 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Additional Director General of Police SK Bhardwaj has said the need of the hour is to increase security on board the trains travelling through Naxal-affected districts. ...
10:20 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Kolkata: The crime against women continues unabated in the country. In Bidhannagar, the IT hub of Kolkata, a 24-year-old differently-abled girl was raped allegedly by her neighbour on Thursday. The girl's mother has filed an FIR at the New Town Police Station. However, no arrests have been made yet. The suspect is absconding, the police say. The incident comes just hours after hundreds of women protesters were detained outside Chief...
08:58 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed a letter written by Home Secretary RK Singh in February this year to the Bihar Chief Secretary warning that the state was not doing enough to tackle the growing Maoist influence. "The anti-Naxal operations have almost stopped. Left wing extremism continues to be a matter of concern," the letter said. The MHA also cited instances where Maoists had openly put up their banners in paddy...
08:26 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Hundreds of women protested outside West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence against the recent rape and murder of a girl in Barasat. ...
07:59 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Nearly 100 suspected Naxals opened fire on unsuspecting passengers aboard the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express near the Kundhar halt in Jamui district of Bihar on Thursday afternoon. ...
07:48 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Hundreds of women protested outside West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence against the recent rape and murder of a girl in Barasat. ...
07:19 PM, Jun 13, 2013
