For eight months a five-member gang of thieves systematically pilfered semi-precious stones, large quantities of silverware and precious heirloom from one of the locked palaces of the Jamnagar royal family in Gujarat before it was nabbed, police said Monday.
According to Rajkot Deputy Inspector General of Police (Saurashtra range) Manoj Shashidhar, initially two men were [...]
A new controversy has emerged in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case involving former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, with a ‘mystery’ woman, Veena, claiming that she was married to Ruchika’s father, S.C. Girhotra. The claim has been dismissed by the lawyer and friends of the Girhotra family.
Veena has told the special investigation team (SIT) [...]
Suspected Maoist guerrillas killed two local traders in a village in Orissa’s Koraput district early Monday, police said.
The incident took place in Katulpeta village under Bandhugaon police station area, about 450 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.
‘Two local traders were killed by suspected Maoists. We are gathering details of the crime,’ Deputy Inspector General of Police [...]
Six people, suspected to be militants, were killed Friday in a huge explosion that ripped through a house in this commercial capital of Pakistan, police said.
The deafening blast took place at a house located in Balida town area.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (West) Abdul Majeed Dasti told Geo TV that six people were killed [...]
Six people were killed Friday in a massive explosion at a house in this commercial capital of Pakistan, police said.
The deafening blast took place at a house located in Balida town area.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (West) Abdul Majeed Dasti told Geo TV that six people were killed and the bodies were trapped under the [...]
A Pakistani ’smuggler’ who entered India early Tuesday was shot dead by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in a border area in Punjab while three others went back into Pakistan under the cover of darkness when the fighting started, officials said.
Contraband worth over Rs.27 crore was recovered from his possession following the gunfight in Raja [...]
Some family heirloom belonging to the erstwhile rulers of Jamnagar state in Gujarat have been stolen from the Jam bungalow palace, which has been lying closed, according to a complaint filed with the police Monday.
Manoj Shashidhar, Saurashtra range deputy inspector general of piolice, said the theft was reported from the Jam Palace in Jamnagar, located [...]
Four railway crew members have been suspended for the two train accidents that occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur and Etawah districts Saturday morning, an official said Monday.
As many as 11 people were killed when the Gorakhdham Express collided with the stationary Prayagraj Express in Kanpur. No casualties were reported when the Lichchavi Express rammed into [...]
Bhopal, Jan 3 (IANS) Normalcy appeared to be returning to Maksi in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh after an indefinite curfew was imposed following a clash Friday between two groups over a cricket match, police said Sunday.
‘No untoward incident was reported from anywhere in Maksi, about 100 km from here, during the two-hour relaxation in [...]
Lucknow, Jan 3 (IANS) Rail services were restored between Delhi and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh Sunday, a day after 10 people were killed when two trains collided in Kanpur district, an official said.
‘Initially, we managed to restore the uplink track and later the down track was also restored,’ additional divisional railway manager (Allahabad) D.K. Singh [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and 48 injured, many seriously, in three train accidents in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, Etawah and Allahabad districts on a fog-hit Saturday morning, officials said.
All the deaths occurred in the Kanpur accident in which the Gorakhdham Express collided with the stationary Prayagraj Express near Panki railway [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and 48 injured, many seriously, in three train accidents in Uttar Pradesh on a fog-hit Saturday morning, officials said.
The accidents took place in Kanpur, Etawah and Allahabad districts.
All the deaths occurred in the Kanpur accident where the Gorakhdham Express collided with the stationary Prayagraj Express [...]
New Delhi/Lucknow/Chandigarh, Jan 2 (IANS) Dense fog enveloped large swathes of north India Saturday, leading to three train collisions in Uttar Pradesh that claimed ten lives and injured 45 others, while three people were killed in road accidents in the national capital. Air, rail and road transport was severely hit across the region due to [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and about 45 others injured in three train accidents in Uttar Pradesh on a fog-hit Saturday morning, officials said.
The accidents took place in Kanpur, Etawah and Allahabad districts.
All the 10 deaths occurred in the Kanpur accident when the Gorakhdham Express collided with the stationary Prayagraj [...]
Ferozpur (Punjab), Jan 1 (ANI) : Farmers in the Ferozpur area living close to India Pakistan border have a reason to smile as the Border Security Force (BSF) is shifting the fencing to the zero point, leaving vast areas to farmers to move freely in.
The areas [...]
Mumbai, Jan 1 (IANS) The Maharashtra government Friday served show cause notices to eight officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS) over missing files pertaining to the purchase of 110 bullet-proof jackets by the Mumbai police in 2002.
State Home Minister R.R. Patil told reporters that the officers have been asked to give their replies within [...]
Lucknow, Jan 1 (IANS) Policemen in Uttar Pradesh ushered in 2010 in a noble way, donating blood Friday with a New Year’s resolution to ’save more and more lives’.
Policemen in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly division, comprising four districts, donated blood to mark the beginning of the New Year.
‘I really feel a sense of pride and [...]
Jaipur/Noida, Dec 30 (IANS) The Rajasthan government Wednesday asked the Special Operations Group (SOG) to find former deputy inspector general (DIG) Madhukar Tandon who has been absconding for the last 13 years after being chargesheeted for raping a tribal woman.
‘We have handed over the case to the SOG of the Rajasthan Police. It’s a serious [...]
Ghaziabad, Dec 30 (IANS) A businessman was shot dead and his driver critically injured Wednesday when another trader and his son fired at them in Ghaziabad, police said.
The incident occurred Wednesday evening in the Patel Nagar locality of Ghaziabad.
Hazi Guddu was shot dead, allegedly by Kom Pal Singh and his son Monu over a monetary [...]
Firozpur (Punjab), Dec 30 (ANI) : Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have seized around 3.2 kilograms of heroin valued at Rupees 16 crore in the international market.
During an intensive search along the India – Pakistan border on Tuesday the BSF personnel recovered four [...]
Allahabad, Dec 30 (IANS) The annual Hindu festival of Magh Mela will begin here Thursday with nearly 25 lakh devotees expected to take a holy dip at the Sangam on day one, an official said Wednesday.
‘We expect the Magh Mela, which will continue till Feb 12, to attract a total of around 1.5 crore pilgrims,’ [...]
Jaipur, Dec 30 (IANS) The Rajasthan government has asked the Special Operations Group (SOG) to find former deputy inspector general (DIG) Madhukar Tandon who has been absconding for the last 13 years after he was chargesheeted for raping a tribal woman.
‘We have handed over the case to the SOG of the Rajasthan Police. It’s a [...]
Jaipur, Dec 30 (ANI): Dausa MP Kirori Lal Meena was arrested along with 13 others on Wednesday for protesting against the state government’s inaction in delivering Justice to a tribal woman allegedly raped by a senior police officer twelve year ago.
They [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The Satyam fraud case, the Shopian double ‘rape and murder’, the sister Abhaya murder case, corruption cases against the director general of ordnance factories and a deputy inspector general of police were among the prominent cases taken up by the Central Bureau of Investigation this year.
‘We also filed chargesheets in [...]
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir), Dec 29 (ANI) : A soldier was injured when an army patrol was ambushed by a group of militants here on Tuesday.
A column of the 16 Rashtriya Rifles came under gunfire while passing through a thick forest in [...]
Manali (Himachal Pradesh), Dec 29 (IANS) Investigators tracking American terrorist of Pakistani origin David Coleman Headley’s India visits are probing if his friends — an American couple — had visited this picturesque resort in Himachal Pradesh for reconnaissance of a Jewish centre here.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths who are in Himachal Pradesh have established that [...]
Jammu, Dec 26 (IANS) Four Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were injured in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) on the international border (IB) with Pakistan Saturday morning.
The BSF found the IED was planted to target the patrol and the barbed wire fence.
The blast occurred in Manguchak area, about 60 km [...]
Jammu, Dec 26 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) has found that the blast on the international border (IB) with Pakistan Saturday morning, in which four troopers were injured, was caused by a planted improvised explosive device (IED) to target the patrol and the barbed wire fence.
The blast occurred in Manguchak area, about 60 km [...]
Jammu, Dec 26 (IANS) Four Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were injured when their patrol was hit by a blast Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba sector close to the international border.
The BSF patrol party was in Manguchak area, about 60 km south of Jammu, when the explosion took place. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of [...]
Agra, Dec 23 (ANI) : At least 14 people were injured when villagers and followers of a religious sect clashed over the possession of land in the Lalgarhi area near here on Wednesday.
Locals of Lalgarhi allegedly attacked satsangis of the Radhasoami [...]
