Karachi, Nov 5 (IANS) Bare shoulders, exposed navels and a lot of skin show ruled the ramp at the Pakistan fashion week that begun here Wednesday defying the Taliban's preference for ...

Varanasi, Nov 3(IANS) An accomplice of gangster Munna Bajrangi was arrested by a team of Delhi Police here Tuesday evening, police sources said. Meraj Ahmed was picked up from his house in Jaitpura ...

Kolkata, Nov 2 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will Saturday visit West Midnapore district, hit by Maoist violence, to review law and order and progress of development work, ...

Kolkata, Nov 2 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will visit three districts hit by Maoist violence Saturday to review law and order and progress of development work, an official said ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the government had not asked the Maoists to lay down their arms as it was "too realistic" to know that ...

London, Oct. 29 (ANI): A report published by the Manifesto Club, a civil liberties group, has claimed that British schools have to face or deal with more than 40,000 cases of racism ...

New Delhi/Kolkata, Oct 27 (IANS) After over five hours of high drama, a New Delhi- bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was freed from Maoist-backed tribal activists who held the train hostage at ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday evening said the New Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express train held hostage by Maoist guerrillas in West Bengal's West Midnapore district has ...

Kolkata, Oct 25 (IANS) Under assault from Maoists, the West Bengal government Sunday said it would spend Rs.7.5 crore to beef up security in and around 30 police stations across three rebel-dominated ...

Kolkata, Oct 25 (IANS) Under assault from Maoists, the West Bengal government Sunday said it would spend Rs 7.5 crores to revamp security in and around 30 police stations across three ...

Bhopal, Oct 23 (IANS) As many as 1,500 more police personnel of various ranks would be deployed mainly in Maoist-hit areas of Madhya Pradesh which are running short of cops, an official ...

Chandigarh, Oct 22 (IANS) In a bid to check the circulation of fake currency, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials will train Punjab police officers to verify the authenticity of notes, a ...

Baghdad, Oct 21 (DPA) At least four people were killed and three injured in fresh violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, police said. Armed men burst into a family ...

By Peter Alex ToddGuwahati, Oct 18(ANI): In a daylong closed-door meeting, Joint Secretary (North East) of Union Home Ministry, Naveen Verma, recently reviewed the internal security and ways to tackle militancy in ...

Lucknow, Oct 19 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who is here to shoot for a film, was harassed by a group of hooligans in the Kaiserbagh locality of the city. Kangana is here ...

Ghaziabad, Oct 14 (IANS) Nearly 150,000 kg of adulterated khoya has been seized in the past few days in Ghaziabad, police said Wednesday. "We have recovered over 1,500 quintals (150,000 kg) of ...

Agartala, Oct 13 (IANS) Tripura's Left Front government has extended for another six months the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), a controversial anti-terror law enacted 50 years ago that gives sweeping ...

Patiala, Oct 12 (IANS) With the arrest of six men here, Punjab Police Monday claimed to have busted an inter-state gang involved in bank robberies in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. "This was ...

Lahore, Oct. 10 (ANI): Many police stations in Lahore are accepting bribes to let prostitution rackets and drug dealers operate freely, an inside report has revealed. According to a departmental report prepared ...

Bangalore, Oct 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday affirmed the government's determination not to succumb to the increasing threat of Maoists but ruled out the use of the army against ...

Panaji, Oct 8 (IANS) Police will crack down on rave and late night parties in Goa this tourist season, says state Home Minister Ravi Naik. "We will not tolerate rave parties and ...

New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) A 20-year-old computer teacher was raped in the Indian capital by six men but police investigation was delayed following a row between two police stations over the ...

By Sahil Makkar New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Indian capital will turn into a state-of-the-art fortress when it hosts the Commonwealth Games in October next year. Delhi Police are buying the latest ...

Srinagar, Oct 2 (IANS) A 13-year-old boy was killed and eight others, including two policemen, wounded in clashes that erupted in Baramulla in north Kashmir after the Friday prayers. Police said the violence ...

Colombo, Sep 29 (Xinhua) The Sri Lankan government will recruit Tamils in the police force, an official said Tuesday. There had been an overwhelming response from Tamils to join as constables in northern ...

By Sahil Makkar New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) The 40 new police stations opened in the capital following the Mumbai terror attack are functioning with half their allotted strength -- and fewer ...

New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram has really shaken up North Block that houses his ministry, not just with his biometric attendance system that has even peons and ...

Raipur, Sep 26 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Baliram Kashyap's two sons were shot by suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district Saturday, killing one of them, police said. "Maoists fired ...

Kochi, Sep 26 (IANS) Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Saturday called for the central government to take up the security of the coasts. "The need of the hour is that the centre should ...

Chicago, Sep 25 (IANS) An American convert to Islam was Thursday charged with a plot to blow up the court building in Springfield, Illinois and trigger mass murder. Michael Finton, who converted ...