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DPA Kabul, May 15 (DPA) A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of police vehicles in south-western Afghanistan Thursday morning, killing 12 and wounding 26, a police official said. "The attack was carried out by a woman wearing burqa," Ali Khan Hussainzada, chief of the criminal department of police forces in western ... Read more...

Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) A 32-year-old man, who had come to bid goodbye to a passenger, fell to his death at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai Thursday. Babu Ibrahim fell from the parapet wall of terminal 2A near gate D of the airport. While the police said the incident occurred ... Read more...

By Nityanand Shukla Ranchi, May 15 (IANS) The Jharkhand government shelled out Rs.350 million on a helicopter to be used during anti-Maoist operations, but policemen say it is ferrying ministers instead. An indigenously manufactured Dhruv helicopter was purchased last year by the government from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for surveillance and ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 14 (IANS) The police here Wednesday evening released the sketch of a man of about 25 years of age, suspected to be involved in the serial terror bombings Tuesday that left at least 63 people killed. "The sketch was prepared after detailed investigations and questioning several people," Rajasthan ... Read more...

Amritsar, May 14 (IANS) An official who had Monday conducted panchayati raj institution (PRI) elections in Punjab was found hanging from a tree in a village in the border district of Tarn Taran Wednesday. The body of Sukhdev Singh, who was the presiding officer for the PRI elections in a ... Read more...

Ranchi, May 14 (IANS) Over two dozen workers of the Forward Bloc were injured in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district Wednesday as police cane-charged them when a protest against rising prices turned violent. The Forward Bloc launched an agitation against the rising prices of essential commodities. Legislator Aparna Sen Gupta, along with ... Read more...

Lucknow, May 14(IANS) Uttar Pradesh police sub-inspector K.K. Dwivedi Wednesday denied Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's claim that he had raided party leader Amar Singh's residence in Kolkata. Mulayam Singh had Tuesday alleged that Dwivedi had raided Amar Singh's house. He had also released a video CD that ... Read more...

Chennai, May 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's Minister for Social Welfare A.A. Poongothai resigned Wednesday after telephone intercepts indicated she purportedly spoke to a senior police official to shield one of her relatives facing corruption charges. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was yet to accept her resignation. He told the assembly the ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 14 (ANI): A senior police official today said that high explosive RDX was used in the terror strike in Jaipur, and pointed finger towards banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) for its involvement in the blasts. "It was a cent per cent a terrorist attack on the pattern of ... Read more...

Ranchi, May 14 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) guerrillas are planning to attack important government installations and have expanded their base in Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, a top leader of the banned outfit has told the police after his arrest in Jharkhand. Pramod Mishra, a top Maoist leader of ... Read more...

Chennai, May 13 (IANS) A three-day standoff in the Tamil Nadu film industry between directors and their assistants came to an end Tuesday following political and police intervention, industry insiders said. The blame game between directors and their assistants was sorted out in an atmosphere of camaraderie, a senior police ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Delhi Police Tuesday arrested two men, who allgedly murdered an 18-year-old boy at his Lodhi Road home Saturday. "We have arrested Harish Rawat and Surinder Singh Rawat from Uttrakhand for murdering Sanchit Sachdeva. Robbery was one of the motives behind the killing," said a senior ... Read more...

Jaipur, May 13 (IANS) A string of blasts rocked the walled areas of this historic central Indian city Tuesday evening killing at least 45 people and injuring over 100, police said. "At least 45 people have been killed in seven explosions," Rajasthan police chief A.S. Gill told IANS outside the ... Read more...

Patna, May 13 (IANS) Four suspected Maoist guerrillas were arrested in Bihar Tuesday, the police said. Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested the Maoist rebels from near Kotwali police station in the heart of Patna, the police said. Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar said the arrested Maoists were ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Two men were arrested Tuesday and Delhi Police said the case of an 18-year-old boy's murder at his Lodhi Road home Saturday has been solved. "We have arrested two men for murdering Sanchit Sachdeva. Robbery was one of the motives behind the killing," said a ... Read more...

Chennai, May 13 (IANS) A team of the Tamil Nadu police left for Rajasthan to trace and nab a suspect after they arrested two people here Tuesday and cracked a fortnight-old case of murder and robbery. "The two suspects nabbed today and the third that is missing belong to the ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) With autopsy report awaited, Delhi Police Tuesday failed to make any headway in the investigation into the kiling of an American Indian student in Mukherjee Nagar, area near Delhi University, a day earlier. “We cannot say anything before the post-mortem. It will only be done ... Read more...

Guwahati, May 13 (IANS) Authorities in Assam are in a quandary after 16 railway construction companies in the state's North Cachar Hills district decided to stop work following a string of rebel strikes in which 12 workers were killed over the weekend. Northeast Frontier Railway suspended all night trains that ... Read more...

Ghaziabad, May 13 (IANS) Five people were injured when two rival groups of land grabbers clashed over taking forceful possession of public land. Both groups belong to Jawali village under Loni police station of Ghaziabad. According to police official S.P. Singh, one faction, led by Harcharan, protested the illegal possession ... Read more...

Bhubaneswar, May 12 (IANS) At least five children were killed and four critically injured Monday afternoon in lightning strikes in a village of Orissa's Sundergarh district, the police said. The lightning struck them when the children, all between 10 and 13, were playing on a road at Taputikra village, some ... Read more...

DPA Hanoi, May 12 (DPA) A flash flood triggered by heavy rains has killed four people, including two small children, in Vietnam's central highlands, a police officer said Monday. The flash flood occurred early Sunday in Dac Ngo commune in Dak Nong province, 250 km north of Ho Chi Minh City, ... Read more...

Bhubaneswar, May 12 (IANS) A woman has been arrested for stealing a 10-day-old baby from a hospital in Orissa's Angul district, police said Monday. Gitanjali Pradhan, 25, stole the newborn Sunday from the government hospital in Angul town, some 150 km from here, a district police official said. The woman, ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) Police in Karachi are at their wits end on how to deal with the rising trend of thieves using trained monkeys to commit robberies in different parts of the port city. "We have received complaints that monkeys are being used to open doors and ... Read more...

London, May 12 (ANI): Police in Nepal have arrested more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, after demonstrations in Kathmandu against Chinas crackdown in Tibet. The protesters held three separate rallies in the city, but the Nepal Police moved quickly to quash anti-China demonstrations in the past ... Read more...

DPA Johannesburg/Harare, May 12 (DPA) Post-election violence in Zimbabwe continued unabated Sunday as the country headed for a presidential run-off, with more than 50 opposition members arrested in the past days for allegedly burning property at a farm belong to the country's top cop. Police in Mashonaland Central province confirmed the ... Read more...

Chennai, May 11 (IANS) Three more people have been arrests here for their involvement in an alleged Rs.800 million ($20 million) fraud by a software firm Vispro following the complaint of a former student, the Tanmil Nadu poluice announced Sunday. According to the police, the company promised jobs to more ... Read more...

Samba (Jammu and Kashmir), May 11 (IANS) A daylong fierce encounter here in Jammu and Kashmir ended Sunday evening, as Indian security forces shot dead two holed-up militants who had killed five people, including a woman and a photo-journalist, turning this town into a scene of battle. The state police ... Read more...

Chennai, May 11 (IANS) Elections to the Tamil Film Directors' Association were postponed Sunday for an indefinite period after threats of violence from non-members, industry sources said. Election returning officer A. Mohan announced the postponement after V. Shekhar, a contestant for the treasurer's post, filed a police complaint alleging threats ... Read more...

Guwahati, May 11 (IANS) Ten railway workers were killed by tribal separatists in India's restive north-eastern state of Assam, officials said Sunday. A police spokesman said a heavily armed group of militants from the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the outlawed Dima Halam Daoga (DHD), popularly known as the Black Widow, ... Read more...

Greater Noida, May 11 (IANS) Rivalry between two families turned bloody as a 22-year-old man was shot dead and two other people were critically injured in an exchange of fire between them in Greater Noida Sunday. Superintendent of police (rural) Babu Ram said the families of Bane Singh and Sri ... Read more...

Samba (Jammu and Kashmir), May 11 (IANS) Two militants were shot dead after a day-long intense gun battle with the security forces near Jammu Sunday in which five people, including a woman hostage and a photo-journalist, were also killed. According to the police, the militants initially entered the house of ... Read more...

Samba (Jammu and Kashmir), May 11 (IANS) In an act of dare-devilry, the security forces rescued three hostages, including two children, from a house in which militants were holed up here. A militant was killed in the gunbattle with soldiers. It was after the militants killed one of the hostages, ... Read more...

Samba (Jammu and Kashmir), May 11 (IANS) Five people, including a woman hostage and a photojournalist, were killed when militants struck in Jammu early Sunday. An intense gun battle is underway between the militants, holed up in a house, and security forces in the Samba sector. The militant attack in ... Read more...

Bhubaneswar, May 11 (IANS) Police claim to have busted a food adulteration racket in Orissa's southern city of Berhampur and arrested at least two people, an official said Sunday. Following a tip-off Saturday, a team raided a house in Berhampur, some 100 km from here. "A huge quantity of various ... Read more...

Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The panchayat poll in Nandigram was marred Sunday when a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP was involved in a heated argument with a senior Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) official over the election process in the West Bengal region. Left MP Laxman Seth allegedly ... Read more...

Noida, May 11 (IANS) Five sleeping labourers, including two women, were killed and two children injured when they were crushed under the wheels of a bus here at midnight Saturday. The victims were asleep near a crossing under the Sector-24 police station of Noida. According to Superintendent of Police City Mahesh ... Read more...

Samba (Jammu and Kashmir), May 11 (IANS) Four people were killed, including a photojournalist, and four others injured when militants struck in Jammu's Samba sector early Sunday. An intense gun battle is on between the militants and the security forces in the area. The militant attack in Jammu plains is ... Read more...

Jammu, May 11 (IANS) Militants struck in Jammu after a gap of six years, killing two villagers and injuring four others in the Samba sector early Sunday. An intense gun battle is on between the militants and the security forces. According to the police, militants shot dead Hoshiar Singh and ... Read more...

Mumbai, May 10 (IANS) A four-year-old boy died Saturday morning after he was thrown by his mother from the fourth floor of a building under construction in Worli in south Mumbai two days ago. Anita Pulli, 23, threw Rishi, 4, from the building after a quarrel with her husband Ramesh ... Read more...

Gorakhpur, May 10 (ANI): Police faced a tough time in Gorakhpur on Friday as they tried to disperse a crowd of angry farmers protesting against paltry compensation provided to them by the district development authority for their lands. The forceful acquisition of the farmers' lands by the Gorakhpur Development Authority ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) A 18-year-old boy was found murdered at his Lodhi Colony home here Friday evening. Police suspect robbers who ransacked the house might have killed him. The body of Sanjith Sachdev, a Class 11 student, was found around 5.30 p.m. bearing a blunt head injury. He ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday for allegedly raping his four-year-old neighbour at his east Delhi home, police said. The incident took place in the afternoon in Ajit colony of Gandhi Nagar area. The little girl had gone to her neighbour Gulab Rasul's house to ... Read more...

Srinagar, May 9 (IANS) Sixteen tourists from Mumbai had a narrow escape Friday when they were caught in a storm while boating in the Dal Lake here. They were rescued in the nick of time by the river police. "Swift and timely action by the men of the river police ... Read more...

Patna, May 9 (IANS) Four bank robbers were beaten to death by a mob in Bihar's Buxar district Friday afternoon, a police official said. A mob of villagers beat to death four robbers who were trying to flee after looting cash from the State Bank of India branch at Chausa ... Read more...