Raipur, Nov 22 (IANS) The Chhattisgarh police have begun a probe into a banner put up by suspected Maoists in a village threatening that a legislator of the ruling Bharatiya Janata ...

Guwahati, Nov 22 (IANS) Two powerful explosions shook Nalbari town in Assam Sunday, killing seven people and wounding at least 55, officials said. A security alert has been sounded in the state. The ...

Guwahati, Nov 22 (IANS) Two people were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded outside a police station in Assam's Nalbari district, police said. The bomb was kept on a parked bicycle and ...

Ludhiana, Nov 21 (IANS) It was a big surprise for a businessman based in this Punjab city Saturday when he found packets of contraband mixed with a consignment of goods from New ...

Lucknow, Nov 20 (IANS) Policemen and passport officials here are blaming each other for a passport issued by the Regional Passport Office to suspected Pakistani spy Amir Ali, arrested in New Delhi ...

Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) One passenger was killed when a train was blown up while those on a bus miraculously escaped a gun attack and a 20 kg bomb was defused at ...

Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) Agitated over the government's sugarcane pricing policy, several groups of farmers Thursday resorted to arson and vandalism at sugar mill offices in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said. Irate ...

Bhopal, Nov 17 (IANS) Four unidentified gunmen kidnapped a school boy Tuesday when he was on his way to school in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district, police said. "Four people came in ...

Raipur, Nov 16 (IANS) At least 30 kg of improvised explosive devices (IED) buried by suspected Maoist rebels were recovered in a forested stretch in Chhattisgarh, police said. The explosives were buried in ...

Baghdad, Nov 16 (DPA) Thirteen people were killed when men dressed in Iraqi military uniforms sprayed homes west of Baghdad with machine-gun fire early Monday morning, police and villagers said. Villagers and local ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 14 (IANS) Five policemen were Saturday booked for allegedly beating a 65-year-old man to death in Orissa's Kendrapada district, authorities said. Basanta Das died Wednesday night after he was allegedly beaten ...

Agartala, Nov 14 (IANS) A 40-year-old man killed his parents and wife in presence of his five-year-old daughter following a domestic quarrel in Tripura, police said Saturday. Arjun Biswas killed his 70-year-old father, ...

Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) Four employees of a nationalised bank were killed and a senior official critically injured by unidentified assailants inside a branch in West Bengal's Nadia district, police said Friday. ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 13 (IANS) At least three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed Friday after Maoists blew up their vehicle in Orissa's Malkangiri district, police said. The vehicle carrying the personnel ...

Ranchi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Jharkhand Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Thursday sounded an alert to various state and district police chiefs to arrest Vinod Sinha and Sanjay Chaudhary, associates of former chief ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) Security forces Wednesday fought a long-drawn gun battle with the Maoists in West Bengal's troubled West Midnapore district while police fired tear gas shells to quell an agitation ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas Wednesday released two policemen they had abducted Tuesday in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said. "Yes, they have both returned," said a senior district police officer. ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 11 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas killed three people and injured two others in Orissa's Rayagada district, police said Wednesday. "As per our information, Maoists killed three people late last night (Tuesday). About ...

Islamabad, Nov 10 (DPA) At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in a car bombing in Pakistan's northwestern city of Charsadda, officials said Tuesday. The blast occurred at a ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Two police personnel were abducted by the Maoists ultras in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Tuesday evening, police said. Two police cleaners - Ram Chandra Hela and Rajendra Hela ...

Islamabad, Nov 10 (DPA) At least 30 people were killed and over 50 injured in a car bombing in Pakistan's northwestern city of Charsadda, health officials said Tuesday. The blast occurred at ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 10 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas Tuesday attacked a contractor's storehouse and looted construction material worth more than Rs.100,000 in Orissa's Malkangiri district, police said. More than 25 Maoists attacked the storehouse at ...

Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) A Maoist functionary wanted in two states to stand trial for carrying out landmine blasts and attacks on security personnel, was gunned down in a forest area in ...

Mumbai, Nov 9 (IANS) Samajwadi Party activists protested the attacks on their state chief Abu Asim Azmi by pelting stones at state transport buses in Thane district, police said. A mob of ...

Patiala (Punjab), Nov 9 (IANS) Searches were conducted at various places in Punjab and Haryana to arrest the kingpin of a multi-million Rupee racket in the global online English proficiency test exposed ...

Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday said that security force troopers, who have been deployed in and around Lalgarh to flush out Maoists, will vacate all school ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 8 (IANS) A woman has been arrested for killing a 24-day old baby in Orissa's Puri district, police said Sunday. Mamata Samantray, 28, confessed that she killed the son of her ...

Kolkata, Nov 7 (IANS) Hundreds of school students, teachers and villagers took out rallies and observed a black day Saturday as West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee reached West Midnapore district on ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 7 (IANS) At least one person was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers Saturday over a piece of government land in Orissa's Dhenkanal district, police said. The clash ...

Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) Steeping up attacks on government buildings, Maoist guerrillas blew up a primary school building in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said Saturday. Some 80-100 Maoists set explosives inside a primary ...