Chennai: The Tamil Nadu police made more arrests in connection with the Bangalore blast on Friday. Two people were arrested from Coimbatore.
Valayal Hakeem and Asgar Ali were arrested for possessing explosive material.
The blast took place on April 17 near the BJP headquarters in Bangalore.
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04:36 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The vigil has been stepped up in Tihar Jail to pre-empt any attack on Pakistani inmates in the wake of the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail. "Jail superintendents have been asked to keep a strict vigil on other inmates so that no one can hurt Pakistani inmates," a senior jail official told IANS. According to the official, jail staff have...
05:34 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Tamil Nadu Police has arrested 12 people on Sunday in connection with the assault of a Sri Lankan monk in Thanjavur. The monk, who is on a study tour, was assaulted by members of outfits protesting against alleged atrocities on Lankan Tamils. ...
12:59 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Chennai: Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court four days after being granted anticipatory bail in the granite scam case by the Madras High Court. Accompanied by a battery of advocates and DMK workers, he paid a personal security of Rs 10,000, while two persons stood as personal surety, at the court of Judicial Magistrate Jaykumar. The court directed him to appear...
11:05 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Chennai: A Madurai court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to the son of DMK MP Alagiri, Durai Dayanidhi, who is wanted in 30,000 crore illegal granite mining scam. A total of 17 FIRs have been filed against eight companies, including Olympus, in connection with the scam. As many as 60 people have been named in the FIRs including Dayanidhi. Tamil Nadu Police had issues a lookout notice against Dayanidhi on...
11:22 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Chennai: Controversial godman Swami Nithyananda was on Saturday removed as the successor to a 1500-year-old mutt in Madurai. He faces several criminal charges, including rape. Nityananda was appointed as the successor at the mutt in August this year, but the decision had received widespread criticism, including from the Tamil Nadu government. The senior pontiff of the Madurai Atheenam announced that Nithyananda had been sacked as the junior pontiff and also...
11:13 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Chennai: A suspected spy, passing sensitive defence information to Pakistan's intelligence agency through its High Commission in Colombo, was arrested in Tamil Nadu on Monday. "Thameen Ansari, 33 of Tanjavur district is a frequent visitor to Sri Lanka on the pretext of exporting vegetabls there. He was handled by two Sri Lankans. He was asked to pass on pictures of Indian naval installations, nuclear submarine at Vizag and ports like...
01:01 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Chennai: A look out notice has been issued for Durai Dayanidhi, the son of DMK MP Alagiri. According to Tamil Nadu police sources, Durai is wanted for questioning in an illegal granite mining case. Sources further said that the Tamil Nadu police have also asked the immigration department to stop Durai, who was a director in Olympus Granite till 2010, from leaving the country. A total of 17 FIRs have...
07:20 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Chennai: In another incident that has shocked the police, a 46-year-old labourer who was brought for questioning in connection with a theft case, set himself ablaze in the Kanathur police station. His family alleges foul play in his death after the man succumbed to injuries in a hospital on Monday morning. Police said Humayun (46) of Third Cross Street, Jay Nagar, Panaiyur had gone to fix mosquito nets on the...
01:27 PM, Jul 10, 2012
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday asserted that the police were left with no option but to fire at the bank robbers as they endangered the lives of people in thickly populated Velachery on the night of February 22. Intervening after Deputy Leader of the Opposition Panruti S Ramachandran mentioned the encounter, she said the police retaliated only to protect the public and themselves as the robbers continued to...
08:31 AM, Apr 25, 2012
CHENNAI: Its something thats straight out of your average Kollywood flick, except this time it was the cops who found the killers first. After four men slit the throat of a man, who had an altercation with them, and threw his body across the railway track near Vyasarpadi station to make it look like a suicide/accident, sleuths from the GRP smelt a rat and apprehended the foursome within 48 hours.What...
08:02 AM, Mar 29, 2012
CHENNAI: A batch of pleas have been made in the Madras High Court supporting the action of police personnel in killing five youths, said to be involved in two bank robberies, in an encounter in the wee hours of February 23. Yuvaraj Mohandas and five other advocates and M Vasudevan and 23 others, all residents of Velachery, have moved the High Court seeking permission to implead themselves as parties in...
08:56 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a solatium of Rs 5 lakh for each of the four tribal women, who were allegedly raped by policemen in Villupuram district, and suspended five uniformed men. In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said she had ordered payment of Rs.500,000 each to the four tribal Irula women who complained of rape by policemen of Tirukoilur police station in the district....
04:53 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Chennai: A judicial inquiry is being conducted into the sexual assault charges made by four tribal women against Tamil Nadu policemen in Villupuram district, an official said on Sunday. The Irula tribal women complained against policemen belonging to Tirukoilur police station in Villupuram district, around 150 km from here, said a police official. "The judicial magistrate of Tirukoilur is conducting an inquiry on the complaint," Villupuram Superintendent of Police N....
10:52 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Madurai: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Tamil Nadu police probing planting of a powerful pipe bomb on the yatra route of BJP leader L K Advani on Monday claimed to have obtained 'definite clues' and expressed confidence about nabbing the culprits. Definite clues had been obtained in the case and special teams were being sent to Nagercoil in Kanyakumari district and Kerala for further probe, Madurai rural police sources...
04:40 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: DMK leader MK Stalin, who was taken into preventive custody on Thursday morning in Thanjavur, has been released by the Tamil Nadu Police. He had objected to the police from stopping his cavalde and threatened to stage a road-block. After the police intercepted his convoy, Stalin threatened to hold a jam and demanded that the police show him the arrest warrant. DMK member Pundi Kalaivanan travelling with Stalin,...
01:13 PM, Jul 30, 2011
SC had expressed its displeasure over the Madras HC incidents. ...
04:05 PM, Feb 26, 2009
They believe that every citizen should be a friend of police. ...
05:55 PM, Feb 10, 2009
Three students were seriously injured in a clash between student groups. ...
01:46 PM, Nov 13, 2008
IT professionals will work as anti-cyber crime force for the police. ...
10:10 AM, Aug 16, 2008
