CPI-M leader killed in Bengal
August 25th, 2012 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 25 (IANS) A CPI-M leader was killed in broad daylight by unidentified assailants in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district Saturday, police said.The murder sparked off a spat ... Read more...
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Security beefed up in Srinagar
August 13th, 2012 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Aug 13 (IANS) With a recent spurt in separatist attacks in Srinagar, authorities Monday stepped up vigil ahead of the country's Independence Day.Vehicles entering the Jammu and Kashmir capital ... Read more...
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Three shot dead on Uttar Pradesh highway
July 3rd, 2012 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, July 3 (IANS) Three people were shot dead Tuesday in broad daylight on a highway in Firozabad near Agra while they were on their way to the district court ... Read more...
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Miami face-eating cannibal Rudy Eugene said “I’m going to kill you” to the heavyweight boxer Melton Bowen
June 4th, 2012 - 8:31 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Miami, June 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Former heavyweight boxer Melton Bowen met the 'Miami Cannibal' Rudy Eugene in 2007. After receiving death threats from Rudy Eugene, Bowen knocked him down with one single ... Read more...
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10-tonne bridge stolen in Czech Republic
May 1st, 2012 - 2:57 pm ICT by IANS
Warsaw, May 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti) An old 10-tonne railway bridge was dismantled and stolen in broad daylight in the Czech Republic.According to the Pravo daily, the metal bridge, built in ... Read more...
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Teenage soccer fan gunned down in Argentina
May 1st, 2012 - 11:46 am ICT by IANS
Buenos Aires, May 1 (IANS/EFE) An 18-year-old soccer fan was gunned down over the weekend after a match in Olavarria, a city outside Buenos Aires, Argentine police said Monday.Leandro Pianciola ... Read more...
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Jilted lover kills girl in Bengal
April 8th, 2012 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) A young jilted lover stabbed a girl to death in front of her father in East Midnapore's Tamluk, some 80 km from here, police said Sunday.Manisha ... Read more...
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Kurukshetra University president’s killer held in Gurgaon
April 5th, 2012 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, April 4 (IANS) The Crime Branch of the Gurgaon police Wednesday claimed to have arrested the killer of the Kurukshetra University's students' union president."Suresh alias Tangu was arrested Wednesday ... Read more...
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SC slams Punjab government for ‘drama’ in Rajoana case
March 29th, 2012 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday criticized the Punjab government for enacting a "drama" to frustrate the execution of death sentence awarded to Sikh terrorist Balwant Singh ... Read more...
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Women activists stage silent protest in Srinagar (With Images)
March 8th, 2012 - 2:56 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, March 8 (IANS) Women's rights activists staged a silent protest in Srinagar Thursday against the alleged deteriorating women's rights scenario in Kashmir.Lighting candles in broad daylight and carrying banners, ... Read more...
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Hindus fleeing Balochistan: Daily
March 6th, 2012 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 6 (IANS) There has been a surge in Hindu families fleeing Pakistan's Balochistan province as they feel insecure, a daily said Tuesday, adding that around 100 families have ... Read more...
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Five Andhra Maoists arrested in Kolkata (Lead)
March 1st, 2012 - 6:14 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Five Maoists from Andhra Pradesh were arrested from various parts of this West bengal capital city in a day-long operation, police said Thursday.Greyhounds, an elite commando ... Read more...
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Five Andhra Maoists arrested in Kolkata
March 1st, 2012 - 3:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Five Maoists believed to be from Andhra Pradesh were arrested from various parts of Kolkata in a day-long operation, police said Thursday.Greyhounds, an elite commando force ... Read more...
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CBI hints at BJP legislator’s role in Shehla Masood’s murder (Lead)
February 29th, 2012 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Feb 29 (IANS) The probe into the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood may see more arrests as the CBI Wednesday hinted at the possibility of involvement of a ... Read more...
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Shehla Masood case: Woman interior designer, contract killer held (Second Lead)
February 28th, 2012 - 11:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Bhopal, Feb 28 (IANS) In a major breakthrough in the Shehla Masood murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a woman interior designer for alleged ... Read more...
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Shehla Masood murder: Women architect, contract killer nabbed (Lead)
February 28th, 2012 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Making headway in the Shehla Masood case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a woman architect and a contract killer she hired to ... Read more...
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Women architect arrested in Shehla Masood murder case
February 28th, 2012 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) In a major breakthrough, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a woman architect for involvement in the murder of activist Shehla Masood in ... Read more...
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Rape case handling shows Mamata in poor light (Lead, West Bengal Newsletter)
February 19th, 2012 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The efforts of the West Bengal administration, led by the state's first woman Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to play down an Anglo-Indian woman's complaint of ... Read more...
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Rape case handling shows Mamata in poor light (West Bengal Newsletter)
February 19th, 2012 - 2:19 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The efforts of the West Bengal administration, led by the state's first woman Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to play down an Anglo-Indian woman's complaint of ... Read more...
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Youth murdered by ex-lover’s father
January 26th, 2012 - 12:08 am ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Jan 25 (IANS) In a suspected case of honour killing, a 25-year-old ice-cube trader was shot dead in broad daylight by half a dozen assailants in Ghaziabad Wednesday, police ... Read more...
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Maharashtra media to protest at Chavan’s tea party
December 8th, 2011 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 8 (IANS) Maharashtra's journalistic community is set to stage a protest at Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's customary legislature session-eve tea party in Nagpur Sunday to demand stricter law ... Read more...
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CBI’s Delhi branch to probe Shehla Masood’s murder
November 2nd, 2011 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Nov 2 (IANS) With no headway in the two-month investigation into the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, the Delhi unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will ... Read more...
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Congress corporator hacked to death in Bangalore
October 1st, 2011 - 4:26 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Oct 1 (IANS) A Bangalore city corporator S. Nataraj of the Congress was hacked to death in broad daylight at a busy traffic junction in Malleshwaram in the northern ... Read more...
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Nepal Muslim leader shot dead
September 26th, 2011 - 6:32 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 26 (IANS) A top official of a prominent Muslim organisation in Nepal was shot dead in broad daylight in capital city Kathmandu while returning home after praying in ... Read more...
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‘Pakistani army major in railway theft’
September 14th, 2011 - 1:28 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 14 (IANS) The involvement of a Pakistan Army major in the theft of copper worth millions from a railway wagon has come as "a great shock", said a ... Read more...
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Judges, lawyers mourn blast deaths
September 8th, 2011 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Delhi High Court judges and lawyers Thursday mourned the death of 12 people in a blast at the court's gate a day earlier.There was a ... Read more...
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CCTV catches cop romping on car bonnet
August 31st, 2011 - 10:29 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 31 (IANS) A police officer in the US has been caught on CCTV, romping with a half-clad woman over a car's bonnet in broad daylight.The cop didn't realise ... Read more...
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London rioters strip people naked to rob
August 9th, 2011 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 9 (IANS) Rioters in London have forced people to strip naked in the streets before stealing their clothes, a media report said Tuesday.There were shocking scenes as rioters ... Read more...
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British child plunges to death from 13th floor in Singapore
August 7th, 2011 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 7 (IANS) A toddler from Britain died after she fell from her parents' 13th-floor luxury apartment in Singapore, a media report said here.The body of the three-year-old girl ... Read more...
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Killing of wife by husband stuns Indo-Canadian community
August 4th, 2011 - 3:37 pm ICT by IANS
Vancouver, Aug 4 (IANS) The daylight murder of a young Indo-Canadian woman by her husband in the city suburb of Surrey last week has shamed and shocked the community which ... Read more...
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Rahul attacks Mayawati government over health funds (Lead)
July 21st, 2011 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
Gorakhpur/Mau (Uttar Pradesh), July 21 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, on a two-day tour of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Thursday slammed the Mayawati government over alleged bungling of rural ... Read more...
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Rahul attacks Mayawati government over health funds
July 21st, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), July 21 (IANS) Hitting out at the Mayawati government over alleged bungling in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi ... Read more...
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Notice to Tamil Nadu Police over daylight murder
July 13th, 2011 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday issued notice to the Tamil Nadu Police over the murder of a man by four others in broad ... Read more...
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Eighth suspect nabbed in journalist J. Dey’s murder
July 3rd, 2011 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) A bookie, who is believed to have financed the operation to kill veteran journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, has been arrested, Mumbai police said Sunday. He is the ... Read more...
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India witnesses rare Venus eclipse
June 30th, 2011 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Indians Thursday witnessed a rare sight when Venus was eclipsed by the Moon as seen from the Earth."The eclipsing, called occultation, took place between 1.18 ... Read more...
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