German police hunt runaway kangaroo
June 20th, 2012 - 9:18 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Berlin, June 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS)
Around 6 am on Tuesday, officers were called to the small village of Hülshagen (Lower Saxony) after eyewitnesses claimed to have spotted a one-metre tall kangaroo running loose ... Read more...
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Court sends activist’s death probe to crime branch (Lead)
May 21st, 2012 - 8:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday shifted the probe into the death of a right to information activist in a road accident here last month to ... Read more...
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Woman commits suicide after fight with husband
April 3rd, 2012 - 1:30 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Enraged over her husband's choice of tutor for their daughter, a 39-year-old woman in west Delhi committed suicide, police said Monday.According to police, Tejinder Kaur ... Read more...
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Baby Falak critical, police claim leads to finding parents (Roundup)
January 30th, 2012 - 11:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Even as the Delhi Police Monday claimed to have found some leads to the parents of two-year-old Falak, the child continued to battle for life ... Read more...
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Mumbai police claim cracking 13/7 blasts; centre baffled (Second Lead)
January 24th, 2012 - 12:37 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Mumbai, Jan 23 (IANS) Hours after the Mumbai police claimed to have arrested two key suspects in the July 13, 2011 serial blasts that killed 27 people, the union ... Read more...
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Dasgupta dials Chidambaram, says Kishenji murdered
November 25th, 2011 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata/New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Claiming he had information that Maoist leader Kishenji was arrested and "murdered in cold blood", Communist Party of India (CPI) MP Gurudas Dasgupta Friday ... Read more...
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Chronology of Shivani Bhatnagar murder case
October 12th, 2011 - 4:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Following is the chronology of the 1999 Shivani Bhatnagar murder case:Jan 23, 1999: Indian Express journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murdered at her east Delhi apartment.July 23, ... Read more...
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Court questions Kingfisher Airlines for sacking employee
September 29th, 2011 - 8:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday sought a reply from Kingfisher Airlines for sacking an employee here on the basis of a police claim that he ... Read more...
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Essar officials questioned over payment to Maoists
September 20th, 2011 - 2:53 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Sep 20 (IANS) Senior officials here of the Essar Group have been questioned and others based outside Chhattisgarh will also be interrogated for allegedly paying 'protection money' to Maoists, ... Read more...
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Essar under scanner for paying Maoists
September 15th, 2011 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Sep 15 (IANS) Essar Group officials in Chhattisgarh and elsewhere are under police scanner for allegedly paying "protection money" to Maoists, police said Thursday. However, the company has refuted ... Read more...
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No mobile, TV for Hazare in jail, says activists
August 17th, 2011 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Anna Hazare and his aides in Tihar Jail, though freed Tuesday night, are not allowed by the jail authorities to use mobile phones or watch ... Read more...
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Lucknow jail death: Apex court favours independent probe (Lead)
July 8th, 2011 - 10:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday said it favoured an independent investigation into the custodial death of Lucknow deputy chief medical officer Y.S. Sachan. The ... Read more...
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Swabhiman Trust asked to respond to Delhi cops’ view (Lead)
June 20th, 2011 - 8:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday issued a notice to the Bharat Swabhiman Trust, asking it to respond to the affidavit filed by Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. ... Read more...
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Girl found dead in police station was not murdered: Police
June 12th, 2011 - 11:22 pm ICT by IANS
Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh), June 12 (IANS) Ruling out murder as the cause of death of a teenaged girl found dead in a police station compound in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur ... Read more...
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Police are lying, says assaulted sportswoman (Lead)
April 27th, 2011 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) A volleyball player Wednesday accused the Uttar Pradesh Police of lying after they doubted her claim that she lost her leg after being thrown ... Read more...
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Police are lying, says assaulted sportswoman
April 27th, 2011 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) A volleyball player Wednesday accused the Railway Police of lying after they doubted her claim that she lost her leg after being thrown out of ... Read more...
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Pak national nabbed in Chile not IC-814 hijacking accused: Pakistan
April 14th, 2011 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, April 14(ANI): Pakistan has refuted a Chilean Police claim of having arrested Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar, who is accused of financing ... Read more...
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Gujarat opposes shifting Sadiq Jamal killing probe to CBI
April 6th, 2011 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, April 6 (IANS) The state government Wednesday urged the Gujarat High Court not to entertain a petition seeking transfer of probe into the Sadiq Jamal police shootout case to ... Read more...
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Chhattisgarh Police claim killing 30 Maoists (Lead)
March 14th, 2011 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, March 14 (IANS) Police in Chhattisgarh Monday claimed to have killed up to 30 Maoists in a gun battle with over 300 heavily armed rebels after the latter shot ... Read more...
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Three rag pickers held with Rs.10 lakh in valuables, cash
February 20th, 2011 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Three rag pickers were arrested in the national capital with valuables and cash totalling nearly Rs.10 lakh, police said Sunday. With the arrests the police claim to ... Read more...
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Two killed in Bengal, Trinamool says victims were cadres
February 17th, 2011 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) Two people were killed in Burdwan district of West Bengal Thursday. While police claim both were notorious criminals, opposition Trinamool Congress insists they were party members 'murdered' by ... Read more...
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Lindsay Lohan’s white dress sells out
February 11th, 2011 - 7:34 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Los Angeles, Feb 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Lindsay Lohan’s pain seemed to be the gain of a fashion designer as the sale of the dress that the actress wore to court on ... Read more...
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Darjeeling violence: West Bengal CM Bhattacharjee appeals for peace
February 9th, 2011 - 10:04 pm ICT by ANI
Kolkata/Jalpaiguri, Feb 9 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee reacting to the renewed violence in Darjeeling on Wednesday made an appeal to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) to sit for discussion."GJM's ... Read more...
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Compensation in Sabarimala tragedies still unpaid
February 9th, 2011 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 9 (IANS) The opposition Wednesday said in the Kerala assembly that the government was yet to compensate victims in the latest as well as an earlier tragedy at the Sabarimala ... Read more...
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West Bengal government seeks Army deployment in Darjeeling
February 9th, 2011 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
Jalpaiguri, Feb 9 (ANI): The West Bengal government has requested the Centre for deployment of the Army in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal after two people were killed when police opened fire ... Read more...
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Slain Indian woman’s husband may not have hired killers
February 8th, 2011 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 8 (IANS) One of the gunmen accused of killing an Indian woman on her honeymoon trip in South Africa has cast aspersion on the police claim that her husband might ... Read more...
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Pamela Anderson’s fan dragged off Liverpool train
January 4th, 2011 - 12:17 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Liverpool, Jan 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Pamela Anderson was left stricken with fear when a man got inches close to her in a railway station in Liverpool.
The actress was going back ... Read more...
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Delhi police hunt for lead in teenager’s murder (Lead)
January 3rd, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Delhi Police Monday continued their search for a lead in the murder of a 17-year-old girl on New Year's day, but failed to achieve any breakthrough. ... Read more...
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No breakthrough in Delhi teenager’s murder case
January 3rd, 2011 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) There has been no breakthrough in the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was found killed in Delhi on the New Year's day, police said Monday."The ... Read more...
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Shutdown by anti-mining group hits life in Orissa
January 3rd, 2011 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Jan 3 (IANS) A dawn-to-dusk shutdown by an anti-mining group to protest the killing of two people in a police gunfight crippled life in parts of Orissa Monday, ... Read more...
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Nepal’s red health workers ask India to free Binayak Sen
January 3rd, 2011 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Jan 3 (IANS) Condemning an Indian court verdict sentencing renowned rights activist Binayak Sen to life imprisonment on sedition charges, nine health organisations affiliated to the opposition Unified ... Read more...
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Gurgaon police claim dip in crime during 2010
December 30th, 2010 - 11:55 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, Dec 30 (IANS) Even as 83 cases of murder and over 2,400 cases of vehicle theft were reported in Gurgaon this year, the city police Thursday claimed that the crime rate ... Read more...
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‘Most wanted’ dacoit held, Delhi Police claim
December 1st, 2010 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Delhi Police Wednesday claimed to have arrested north India's "most wanted" dacoit who has been involved in over 100 robbery cases in various states.Joginder, 39, was arrested ... Read more...
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Monday’s police shootout deaths in Srinagar questioned
November 30th, 2010 - 9:24 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Nov 30 (IANS) Following claims that three men killed by police in Srinagar Monday were "innocent youth", the Jammu and Kashmir Police Tuesday said the trio was functioning as "a ... Read more...
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One killed in Kashmir gun battle
November 20th, 2010 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
Jammu, Nov 20 (IANS) One person was killed during a night-long gun battle between militants and security forces in the forests of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir, police said Saturday.The gunfight started ... Read more...
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