Indians’ black skin highlights gold jewellery: Chinese daily
August 28th, 2012 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Aug 28 (IANS) Indians have black skin that highlights gold jewellery, a state-run Chinese daily says in an article that goes on to observe that even girls begging ... Read more...
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CPI-M lauds quick police action in Kolkata rape case
June 8th, 2012 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government received rare praise from the opposition Left Front Friday after the police swiftly arrested a man accused of raping a ... Read more...
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Chain snatchers and their new tricks
June 4th, 2012 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) The next time you go for an evening walk or a visit to the market and a 'policeman' accosts you, chides you for wearing gold ... Read more...
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Rs.12 lakh jewellery stolen from Lucknow shop
May 17th, 2012 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, May 17 (IANS) Two men on a motorcycle fled with jewellery worth Rs.12 lakh from a shop in the Aashiana area here Thursday, police said.The men told the shop ... Read more...
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Conmen play cops in Goa, target tourists, women
May 8th, 2012 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 8 (IANS) When Ravikumar Prajapati, 48, from Karnataka was suddenly accosted by three authoritative sounding 'plainclothed' policemen in March this year and asked to accompany them to the ... Read more...
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CRPF man arrested for looting gold chains
May 4th, 2012 - 12:41 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, May 4 (IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) head constable was arrested here after he tried to run away with three gold chains from a jewellery shop, police ... Read more...
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Police nab Pune gold-heist robbers
April 19th, 2012 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, April 19 (IANS) The Pune Crime Branch nabbed two persons in connection with the loot of around 18 kg of gold and cash from a gold finance company's branch ... Read more...
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Tax on gold amounts to taxing culture: Congress MP
April 4th, 2012 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, April 4 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's move to tax gold has come in for criticism from Goa's Congress MP Shantaram Naik, who has said that a tax ... Read more...
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Delhi man arrested for murdering friend
March 2nd, 2012 - 11:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) A 22-year-old man was arrested for the brutal murder of a friend for his car and jewellery in 2011, police said Friday.Sanjay Bhattacharya, the mastermind ... Read more...
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Two women help arrest four criminals in Lucknow
March 1st, 2012 - 11:58 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, March 1 (IANS) Thursday was a day of women bravehearts here, as a robbery and a snatching were foiled in two separate incidents by two courageous women who also ... Read more...
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Pakistan jewellery shop robbed
February 19th, 2012 - 6:05 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Three armed dacoits robbed a jewellery shop of gold ornaments worth over Rs.12 million (around $132,000) in Pakistan's Lahore city, Geo News reported.The robbery took place ... Read more...
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Elderly woman murdered
February 12th, 2012 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
Agra Feb 12 (IANS) A 72-year-old woman who lived alone was found murdered in Jaipur House area here late Saturday evening, an official said.
Heera Devi, widow of an ex-deputy ... Read more...
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Lokayukta raids continue in Madhya Pradesh
January 19th, 2012 - 7:44 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 19 (IANS) Continuing with its raids, the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Thursday unearthed Rs.44 lakh cash from one government official and Rs.50 lakh worth ornaments from another official. The ... Read more...
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Police nab criminal who fled custody
January 10th, 2012 - 10:15 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Jan 10 (IANS) The Ghaziabad police have arrested a wanted criminal who had escaped from police custody when he was brought to attend a court hearing about two month ... Read more...
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Medical scam accused sent to CBI custody
January 6th, 2012 - 12:10 am ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Jan 5 (IANS) A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Thursday sent a suspect in Uttar Pradesh's multi-crorre rupee National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam to the agency's ... Read more...
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Kerala temple’s Vault B shouldn’t be opened, apex court told
September 2nd, 2011 - 10:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court was Friday told by Travancore's erstwhile royal family that the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple's Vault B should not be opened and the ... Read more...
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Mumbai celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi with fervour (Lead)
September 1st, 2011 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 1 (IANS) With chants of 'Ganapati Bappa Moraya', lakhs of Mumbaikars Thursday welcomed Lord Ganesha on the first day of the 11-day festival that saw idols of ... Read more...
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71 nabbed for lynching 10 men
August 4th, 2011 - 12:02 am ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 3 (IANS) Police arrested 71 people Wednesday for their alleged involvement in lynching 10 people a day ago, police said."We have arrested 71 people from Yerrakote and Baralahalli ... Read more...
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Nine lynched in two Karnataka villages
August 2nd, 2011 - 11:39 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 2 (IANS) Nine people, suspected to be thieves, were killed Tuesday by enraged mobs in two adjacent villages of Karnataka's Chickballapur district, police said."Six people were killed at ... Read more...
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Two arrested for Hyderabad gold robbery
June 15th, 2011 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, June 15 (IANS) Hyderabad police Wednesday arrested two people and recovered one kilogram gold a few hours after two Mumbai brothers were robbed of five kilograms of gold, police ... Read more...
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Israeli woman robbed, three held
May 7th, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Three people were arrested for stealing the bag of an Israeli national while she was travelling in a train, police said Saturday.Deepak, 32, Bali, 27, ... Read more...
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Kolkata girl raped in Patna
April 14th, 2011 - 12:47 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, April 14 (IANS) A woman in her early 20s who had eloped from Kolkata with her boyfriend was raped and dumped on a roadside here, police said Thursday.Residents ... Read more...
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Ugadi celebrated in Tamil Nadu
April 4th, 2011 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, April 4 (IANS) Andhraites and Kannadigas in Tamil Nadu Monday celebrated the Telugu and Kannada New Year Ugadi with traditional fervour.People went to temples to perform special poojas for ... Read more...
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CBI books former railway official for corruption
March 3rd, 2011 - 12:48 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, March 2 (IANS) A former police officer, who served as the chief security officer in Western Railway, has been booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for having ... Read more...
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Gold ornaments looted from Maharashtra bank
February 21st, 2011 - 7:59 pm ICT by IANS
Satara (Maharashtra), Feb 21 (IANS) Robbers broke into a cooperative bank in this Maharashtra district and fled with over three kg of gold ornaments, police said Monday.The robbery took place at the ... Read more...
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Jewellery stolen from Hindu temples recovered in Bangladesh
February 19th, 2011 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Feb 19 (IANS) Bangladesh authorities have arrested eight people and recovered gold and silver jewellery stolen from Hindu temples in and around the national capital. The suspects, members of a ... Read more...
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Police told to give Mumbai woman her ‘dowry’ money
February 16th, 2011 - 12:18 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) In a dowry harassment case, a Mumbai sessions court has ordered the city police to give to a woman Rs.6 lakh seized from her estranged husband, the woman's ... Read more...
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Hindu temple burgled in Dhaka
February 3rd, 2011 - 1:00 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Feb 3 (IANS) A Hindu temple was burgled in Dhaka, where thieves have struck in three other temples in the past two months.The latest burglary took place just 23 days after ... Read more...
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Bappi Lahiri to make acting debut on TV
February 2nd, 2011 - 10:20 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) Composer Bappi Lahiri is excited about his acting debut on the small screen in Disney's new show "Ishaan"."I liked the idea, the script and also the fact that ... Read more...
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Robbers kill 75-year-old woman in Meerut
January 18th, 2011 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
Meerut, Jan 18 (IANS) Unidentified assailants brutally murdered the 75-year-old mother of a police officer at her home in a posh residential locality here. They attacked her when she resisted their looting, ... Read more...
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Assets worth Rs.1 crore found with Bhopal municipal clerk
December 20th, 2010 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Dec 20 (IANS) The Lokayukta of Madhya Pradesh has found assets worth over Rs.1 crore during a raid at the house of a clerk at the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, said ... Read more...
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Devotees celebrate ‘Pooram’ in Tripunithura
December 8th, 2010 - 9:15 pm ICT by ANI
By Juhan SamuelTripunithura (Kerala), Dec.8 (ANI): Scores of devotees thronged Tripunithura town in Kerala to celebrate 'Pooram', a temple festival.As part of the 'Pooram', elephants carry the idols of different temple deities ... Read more...
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Guppy Sings To Bappi Da’s Tunes
December 3rd, 2010 - 9:14 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
December 3, 2010 (Showbiz PR Wire): Gold ornaments and black glasses with a combination of a tracksuit….whenever we hear this one person who comes to our mind is certainly the King of ... Read more...
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Muthoot robbery solved, six arrested (Lead)
December 2nd, 2010 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Dec 2 (IANS) Six people have been arrested for the Oct 31 hiest at the Muthoot finance company's branch in Ghaziabad and 1.5 kg of gold worth Rs.30 lakh and Rs.6 ... Read more...
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Bride robbed of gold ornaments
November 22nd, 2010 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Nov 22 (IANS) A bride was robbed of gold ornaments and cash worth over Rs.2.80 lakh while she was going to her new home with the groom in Ramprastha Colony of ... Read more...
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