Pakistan, Sri Lanka to increase trade to over $2 bn
February 11th, 2012 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari have agreed to increase bilateral trade to over $2 billion over the next ... Read more...
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Bihar dismisses five police officials for corruption
February 10th, 2012 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Feb 10 (IANS) Five police officials in Bihar's Gaya district have been dismissed from service for corruption, officials said Friday.Magadh range Deputy Inspector General of Police N.H. ... Read more...
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Court sends cop to jail, says men in uniform flouting law
February 9th, 2012 - 12:42 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) A Delhi court has awarded two years' rigorous imprisonment to a traffic police constable for assaulting and illegally detaining a woman, observing that everyday newspapers ... Read more...
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Maoists set road construction vehicles ablaze
February 7th, 2012 - 11:43 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Feb 7 (IANS) Dozens of armed Maoists Tuesday set on fire at least four road construction vehicles in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police officials here said.Police say that armed Maoists ... Read more...
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Bihar court acquits 11 Nepali Maoist leaders
February 3rd, 2012 - 6:07 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Feb 3 (IANS) A Bihar court Friday acquitted 11 Nepali Maoist leaders, including a former minister and six MPs, on a state government petition seeking to withdraw criminal cases ... Read more...
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Sasikala’s brother arrested in Tamil Nadu
February 3rd, 2012 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 3 (IANS) Tamil Nadu police Friday arrested Divakaran, the brother of V.K. Sasikala, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's former confidante, following a complaint that he had demolished a woman's ... Read more...
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Spain shuts migrant marriage fraud ring
February 1st, 2012 - 12:55 pm ICT by IANS
Barcelona, Feb 1 (IANS/EFE) Thirty eight people suspected of organizing fraudulent marriages in Spain as a way of legalizing the immigration status of Dominican women working as prostitutes in the ... Read more...
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Oakland mayor tired of ‘Occupy Oakland’ protestors
January 30th, 2012 - 11:16 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Oakland, Jan 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The police in Oakland say they have made what could easily be the biggest mass arrests in the city after Occupy Oakland protesters returned. The protesters are ... Read more...
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Three police officials suspended for dereliction of duty
January 26th, 2012 - 12:21 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Three Delhi Police officials were suspended for leaving a body unattended in a morgue for six months and not bothering to inform the dead person's ... Read more...
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Nine killed as mentally ill man hijacks Pune bus (Lead)
January 25th, 2012 - 12:16 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Jan 25 (IANS) At least nine people were killed, 40 injured and more than two dozen vehicles damaged when a mentally disturbed staffer of the government bus service hijacked ... Read more...
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Mounties all set to tackle case of a mystery headstone
January 25th, 2012 - 12:57 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Calgary, Jan 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A property owner in the vicinity of Calgary got a nice little surprise when she found a headstone on the premises of her property. The details “Father ... Read more...
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Tennessee police officer fired for smoking in precinct
January 25th, 2012 - 12:56 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Newbern, Jan 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) It seems that law enforcers can sometimes be law breakers too, and that too repeatedly. Newbern city has a no smoking policy and despite its existence, a ... Read more...
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Wave Tech Community College put on lockdown due to a gunman on the prowl
January 24th, 2012 - 10:50 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Raleigh, Jan 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Wake Technical Community College officials have put the college on a lockdown after they received reports that there was a gunman on the prowl on the campus. ... Read more...
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Nine of family killed in Haryana accident (Lead)
January 23rd, 2012 - 4:34 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Jan 23 (IANS) At least nine members of a family, including five children and two women, were killed when their car collided with a truck in Haryana's Fatehabad district ... Read more...
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Maoists shot policemen in head, burnt two
January 22nd, 2012 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 22 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas killed the 13 policemen in Jharkhand by shooting most of the wounded men in their head and also threw two of them into a ... Read more...
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Stones thrown at Nitish Kumar’s convoy
January 22nd, 2012 - 3:04 am ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 21 (IANS) A group of protesters pelted stones at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's car convoy in his home Nalanda district Saturday, injuring a doctor and an ambulance ... Read more...
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Bihar government now targets corrupt middlemen
January 21st, 2012 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 21 (IANS) After corrupt officials, it is now the turn of middlemen who indulged in misappropriation of government funds to have their properties confiscated by the Bihar government.Bihar ... Read more...
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Boxing champion among gang caught with arms in Punjab
January 18th, 2012 - 10:14 pm ICT by IANS
Patiala (Punjab), Jan 18 (IANS) A boxing champion, who was earlier also a trooper with a para-military force, has been nabbed by Punjab Police along with an inter-state gang of ... Read more...
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Violence in south Delhi area after police, locals clash
January 15th, 2012 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Violence erupted on Sunday evening in a south Delhi neighbourhood after locals clashed with police on the issue of closing the gate of a religious ... Read more...
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Seven arrested for youth’s murder
January 14th, 2012 - 11:10 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Jan 14 (IANS) A late night brawl outside a 24-hour eatery in the heart of Chandigarh Friday led to the death of a youth, who had recently returned after ... Read more...
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Court summons Shimla officials on illegal parking
January 11th, 2012 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Jan 11 (IANS) Irked over illegal parking of tourist vehicles in Shimla's auto-free zones on New Year's Eve, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has summoned top administrative and police ... Read more...
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Space crunch keeps diaspora delegates out at PBD inaugural
January 8th, 2012 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Jan 8 (IANS) A space crunch at the venue forced many delegates from abroad to miss Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's inaugural address at the Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas here ... Read more...
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Dala Lama’s security tightened at Bodh Gaya
January 7th, 2012 - 12:32 am ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 6 (IANS) Security for Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been tightened at the Buddhist holy site of Bodh Gaya, where he is attending the Kalchakra ... Read more...
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Crime up slightly, women’s safety, terror top agenda: Delhi Police (Roundup)
January 6th, 2012 - 11:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Delhi saw a four percent increase in crime in 2011 with women and senior citizens being the most vulnerable, Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said Friday, ... Read more...
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In delhi, nearly all rapes are by relatives, neighbours
January 6th, 2012 - 8:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) It is mostly relatives, neighbours and acquaintances who are involved in rapes in the national capital, whereas the indulgence of strangers in this brazen crime ... Read more...
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Chandigarh’s elderly bank on 100 in times of trouble
January 6th, 2012 - 12:32 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Jan 6 (IANS) When in trouble, dial 100. That's how it has been for Chandigarh's elderly and that's clearly how they want it to be with police saying their ... Read more...
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Karnataka government in a fix over illegal mining report
January 3rd, 2012 - 11:20 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Jan 3 (IANS) The illegal mining report of the Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) that forced B.S. Yeddyurappa to quit as the Bharatiya Janata Party's first chief minister in south ... Read more...
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Low traffic fines no longer a deterrent: Delhi Police
January 3rd, 2012 - 6:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Delhi Police officials Tuesday called for an increase in fines levied for traffic violations, pointing out that low fines were no longer a deterrent."The ... Read more...
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Delhi Police warn against drunk driving on New Year’s Eve
December 29th, 2011 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Drunk driving on the eve of the New Year may land motorists and scooterists in the capital behind bars, Delhi Traffic Police said Thursday, ... Read more...
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Parties welcome poll announcement (Lead)
December 24th, 2011 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Political parties Saturday welcomed the announcement of assembly elections for five states, including the most populous and politically important state of Uttar Pradesh, from ... Read more...
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Religious twist to traffic rules has clerics fuming
December 24th, 2011 - 12:21 am ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, Dec 23 (IANS) Over-zealous traffic police officials in Gurgaon have raised the hackles of religious leaders after they made traffic violators swear on their respective holy books that they ... Read more...
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Kerala sex scandal case: Police get a month to finish probe
December 22nd, 2011 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Kerala High Court Thursday asked police to complete within a month the investigation into the two-decade-old Kozhikode sex scandal case involving state minister and Indian ... Read more...
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Delhi Police ASI shoots colleague over throwing of garbage (Second lead)
December 21st, 2011 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) A quarrel over chucking garbage led a Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) to pump three bullets into his junior colleague, injuring him critically, in east ... Read more...
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Police officer apologises to Meghalaya assembly panel chairman
December 20th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 20 (IANS) A top Meghalaya police official Tuesday apologised before the chairman of the state assembly's privileges and ethics committee on behalf of the two traffic police officials ... Read more...
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Make Lokpal independent but accountable, say former officials
December 18th, 2011 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) As India awaits the Lokpal, prominent former bureaucrats and police officials say an independent and efficient anti-graft ombudsman will be a step forward in efforts ... Read more...
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