Law & Order
Pressure mounts on Shivraj Patil to quit?
NEW DELHI- All top Congress leaders except Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil have been invited to a key Congress meeting on the Delhi serial blasts, according to sources. The home minister has been excluded from the important meeting.
Churches attacked in coastal Karnataka
MANGALORE/UDIPI/CHIKMAGALUR: In what appears to be a planned series of attacks on church-goers in different districts of the state, separate groups of miscreants unleashed violence on churches in Udupi, Mangalore and Chikmagalur on Sunday morning.
Modi alerted PM about Delhi blasts: Advani
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had 10 days ago alerted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the serial bomb blasts that rocked New Delhi, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said here late Saturday.
Cops look for faces of terror, find common link
New Delhi: The initial probe into the Delhi blasts of Saturday indicates a pattern similar to Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Surat blasts. One of the terrorists suspected to be involved in the attacks on the busy marketplaces of Delhi is Abdul Suban Quresh...
BMW hit-and-run case: One victim succumbs
New Delhi: Anuj Aditya Singh, 25, who was critically injured after a speeding BMW car hit the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion, died on Saturday. "Anuj died this morning. We will follow the case," the victim's uncle Tejas Chauhan told sai...
Man wanted in uranium ore theft from Meghalaya surrenders
Shillong, Sept 12: The son of an employee of Atomic Mineral Division (AMD), wanted by Meghalaya police for stealing and selling uranium ore, has surrendered before a local court, police said on Friday.
CBI may re-open Shantiniketan theft case
Kolkata:The CBI is preparing to move a court in West Bengal seeking permission to reopen the case relating to theft of Rabindranth Tagore's Nobel medallion. The agency now claims that it has stumbled upon new leads into the theft case and will be ...
‘25% of funds for terror acts come from drugs trade’
SRINAGAR: Narco-terrorism is posing a serious threat to the safety and security of the people of India. Analysts say nearly 25% of all funds used to carry out acts of terrorism in the country come from trafficking of narcotics.
Two senior police officials suspended over Azamgarh violence
The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday suspended two senior police officials for the communal clash that erupted Sunday in Azamgarh district, officials here said. Abhimanyu Singh, the then deputy inspector general (Azamgarh range), and Vijay Kumar ...
Ansals jailed: Justice at last for Uphaar victims' kin
New Delhi: Ten months after being sentenced in the Uphaar fire tragedy case, which claimed 59 lives in 1997, real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal will spend their first night in jail on Thursday.
BMW 2: Delhi cops arrest driver, victim fights for life
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday arrested Utsav Bhasin, suspected to be behind the wheel of the BMW that ran over two people on Thursday morning. A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered against him.
More than 30 feared dead in boat sinking in India's Bihar
New Delhi - More than 30 people were feared to have drowned after a boat capsized in India's eastern Bihar state on Thursday, police said.
SC extends ban on SIMI for 4 weeks
New Delhi, Sept 11: The Supreme Court on Thursday extended the ban on radical Islamic outfit SIMI for four weeks. As per the apex court’s order the ban will remain imposed on the students’ body till the second week of October.
Czech national gets three-year jail for stealing butterflies
NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced one of the two Czech nationals, held for illegally collecting butterflies in West Bengal's Singhalila National Park, to three years in jail, while both were also asked to pay a fine.
Gujarat blasts: American returns for probe
New Delhi: American National Kenneth Haywood - whose wifi account was hacked into by terrorists to send a terror email minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts - has returned to India with his family.
Uphaar case: Ansals to surrender by 4 pm today
The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail of Gopal and Sushil Ansal, the construction magnates, saying their role in destroying court records in the Uphaar cinema fire was an enormous offence.
MNS files police complaint against Jaya Bachchan
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) refused to relent to Jaya Bachchan's apology over her Hindi remarks in a film function. The party filed a police complaint against the Rajya Sabha MP under section 153 (B) for provocative speech.
RPF wants hoax calls to be treated as ‘acts of terror’
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has submitted a proposal to the Railway Ministry that hoax phone calls be treated as ‘acts of terror’. The idea was originally floated with the RPF Director General by its Chief Security Commissioner (Central Rai...
PF scam: UP police wants CBI probe against 34 judges
New Delhi, Sept 10: In what surely is a huge embarrassment for the Indian judiciary, at least 34 sitting judges have come under scanner and a CBI probe into their alleged involvement in Ghaziabad scale IV employees provident funds scam is being so...
Woman held with fake currency
Ludhiana, September 05: Acting on a tip-off, the customs staff posted at Attari railway station, Amritsar, seized fake Indian currency amounting to Rs 10 lakhs from a lady passenger Pakeeja Khatun, coming from Pakistan in Samjhauta Express.