Hyderabad, Dec 29 (IANS) Police in Hyderabad Tuesday tightened security and imposed prohibitory orders in view of the Telangana shutdown called by all-party Joint Action Committee demanding statehood to the region.
Security in and around the city has been tightened with the deployment of additional police and paramilitary forces, with special focus on areas with large [...]
Panchkula (Haryana), Dec 19 (IANS) Police here have directed the jewellery shop owners to install CCTV cameras in their premises by Jan 5 next year to curb growing incidents of robberies in this Haryana district, police said Saturday.
‘We held a meeting with the members of Panchkula jewellers association to discuss our strategy for keeping a [...]
Lucknow, Dec 16 (IANS) A man in western Uttar Pradesh allegedly gave away his 32-year-old wife to a fellow gambler after he lost a card game, police said Wednesday.
The incident came to light when the woman, a resident of Billauchpura village in Baghpat district, about 400 km from Lucknow, managed to escape from the house [...]
Jalandhar, Nov 30 (IANS) Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh Monday said that the Congress, when it comes back to power, will take ’strict action’ against the police officers found guilty of atrocities against the public, including Congress party workers, at the behest of the Akali Dal government.
‘We will constitute a high-power committee to look [...]
Raipur, Nov 15 (IANS) As many as 20 children, who were taken ill after a mid-day meal at a school in Chhattisgarh, have shown signs of improvement, a doctor said Sunday.
The children, all below 10 years of age, were rushed to a hospital Saturday after being served a mid-day meal at Primary Girls and Boys [...]
Amritsar, Nov 13(ANI): Ten Punjabi youngsters, who were duped by travel agents, recently managed to return to their homes from Iran after a year.
They were allegedly taken to Iran a year ago by a travel agent, who had assured them that it had better opportunities to offer. The agent had also taken over Rs. [...]
Agra, Nov 7 (ANI): Agra police detained physiotherapy students of the Ambedkar University after they blocked a road, demanding appointment of faculty and a separate academic department.
“They tried to block MG road. When they tried to do that, strict action was taken and the road was cleared,” said Mahendra Kumar Singh, circle police officer.
The [...]
Ropar (Punjab), Nov 5 (IANS) Authorities in Punjab’s Ropar district Thursday ordered a probe into an incident in which students from a village government school were illegally transported on a tractor-trolley for a film show held here by the district administration.
At least 26 students had a narrow escape when the tractor-trolley overturned Wednesday evening, when [...]
Lucknow, Nov 4 (IANS) A teacher of a private school in an Uttar Pradesh village has been accused of forcibly stripping a 10-year-old girl student and photographing her on his mobile phone, police said Wednesday.
Rajesh Shukla Tuesday allegedly molested the Class 5 student of Swamy Harihar School in Mahmoodpur village of Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj district, [...]
Lucknow, Oct 29 (IANS) Two students of a government-run polytechnic institute in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur district Thursday alleged physical abuse and ragging by their seniors.
Vimal Singh and Surendra Prasad – both first year students of a diploma course in pharmacy from the Naurangabad-Rajapur Polytechnic in Lakhimpur, around 100 km from Lucknow, alleged that their seniors [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 26 (IANS) Bus operators in Punjab have come up in arms against the private truck owners in the state, accusing them of ‘illegally interfering’ in their business by carrying passengers in their vehicles.
‘These trucks, which are mainly meant for carrying commercial goods, every year transport thousands of people from Punjab to a fair [...]
London, Oct 8(ANI): Manchester United has expressed anger at Premier League’s referees for trying to make FA take strict action against club manager Sir Alex Ferguson for his comment on referee Alan Wiley.
After Man U’s 2-2 draw with Sunderland Fergie had claimed that Wiley was not fit enough to handle the game, and said: “It [...]
Lucknow, Oct 7 (IANS) A panchayat in Uttar Pradesh has ordered the breakup of a marriage between an upper caste man and a Dalit woman. The couple were also assaulted and were forced to leave the village after they refused to separate, officials said Wednesday.
The incident was reported in Mohammadpur Trilok village in Bijnor district, [...]
New Delhi, Sept 30 (ANI): All Air India pilots will return to work after they received assurances on salary related issues from the airline mnagement.
The decision came few hours after the Central Government warned that it would take strict action against Air India pilots if they do not report for [...]
New Delhi, Sept 29 (ANI): A Delhi government school, which witnessed a stampede in which five girls were killed, reopened on Tuesday amid protest from parents.
The protesting parents are demanding a CBI probe into the incident.
Besides, they are also [...]
Islamabad, Sep.24 (ANI) : Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has once again rejected reports regarding the presence of private US security firm Blackwater inside the country.
“Blackwater does not engage in any activity in Pakistan. Indeed no official or foreign security company has been provided any facility in the country,” Malik told a private television channel.
Referring [...]
New Delhi, Sep 19(ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nand Kumar Sai, a Rajya Sabha member, spent the night on the street, outside his flat on Friday, as a mark of protest against being evicted from government accommodation by the authorities.
Sai was forcibly evicted from Flat number 176, South [...]
Sundergarh (Orissa), Sep 11 (ANI): Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik promised to take strict action against the Maoists who blew up at least four government buildings, a community centre and a mobile tower at Kalta village in Sundergarh district on Thursday.
Talking to reporters here, [...]
