Monday, April 23, 2012

Dacoits loot cash, jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh

Dacoits loot cash, jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh

Dacoits loot cash, jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT

Three members of a family were critically wounded as armed dacoits looted cash and jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh from their residence in Pipiganj area of Gorakhpur district on Monday, says police.

Maharashtra cop gets bail in rape case

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:37 PM PDT

In a relief to Anil Mahabole, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of Mumbai, the Bombay High Court has granted him interim bail in a rape case. He was accused of raping and blackmailing a middl...

Sixteen-year-old refuses to accept her child marriage

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:04 AM PDT

She was married off when she was only an infant yet, but coming of age the 16-year-old Rajasthani girl now wants that marriage annulled and freedom of choice to be educated and working restored to her...

Speedy trial of corruption cases need of the society: Andhra Chief Justice Lokur

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:13 AM PDT

The Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court Madan B Lokur said on Monday that speedy trial of cases, particularly those pertaining to corruption, was the need of the hour.

Madras High Court imposes costs of Rs one lakh on petitioner

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:29 AM PDT

Annoyed with a petitioner for wasting the time of the court, the Madras High Court no Monday imposed costs of Rs one lakh on a petitioner for seeking an issue of 'quo warranto' against Army Chief, Gen...

Three labourers die as water tank collapses

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:53 AM PDT

Three labourers died and six others were seriously injured when a water tank collapsed over them in Ghaziabad on Sunday, police said. The incident took place in the Vijay Nagar area when the water tan...

Two teens get seven years jail for robbing Rs 600

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:14 AM PDT

Two teenagers, accused of robbing Rs 600 from two men and injuring them, have been convicted and sent to seven years rigorous jail term today by a Delhi court.

Woman allegedly gang-raped, dies in Ranchi hospital

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

A middle-aged woman, who was gang-raped and beaten up by her assaulters, died in a hospital in Ranchi on Monday, police said. According to police, the woman took an auto-rickshaw Sunday night from the...

Tamil Nadu woman behind Agni V launch

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:26 AM PDT

Tamil Nadu will have special reason to cheer on Thursday when an Indian rocket puts Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) into orbit and the remote sensing satellite starts performing, as a local woman is...

Five killed in Uttar Pradesh firecracker blasts

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT

Five people, including three women and two children, were killed on Monday when stockpiled firecrackers exploded at two places in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Two women and two children were killed in ...

Punjab amends law to check theft of canal water

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:56 AM PDT

In a bid to check the theft of canal water, the Punjab Government on Monday approved amendments to the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873, to make it more stringent and punitive.

Will move court to see Ram Setu declared national monument: VHP

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:17 AM PDT

The VHP on Monday said that it would move court to get Ram Setu declared a national monument and slammed the Congress led UPA government for shifting to the Supreme Court the task of taking a decision...

Power sector employees threaten agitation in seven cities

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:09 AM PDT

Power sector engineers and employees have threatened to launch agitation against the privatisation of electricity in seven cities of Uttar Pradesh, including the state capital. Convenor of Power Emplo...

Man 'beaten up' by police dies on way to hospital

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:08 AM PDT

Charging night patrol police with beating up a man resulting in his death on way to hospital, nearly 100 persons gathered near the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Monday, demanding immediate ar...

Girl allegedly burnt alive by molesters in Uttar Pradesh

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:54 AM PDT

A 19-year-old girl succumbed to burn injuries after she was allegedly burnt alive by three men in Bareilly on Saturday. The incident occurred after the parents of the victim had filed a molestation ca...

George Orwell museum to come up in Bihar

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:32 AM PDT

George Orwell's birth place at Motihari in Bihar's East Champaran district will soon be turned into a full-fledged museum. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Orwell's birth place, the decrepit two-room ...

Massive fire destroys 150 shops in Kanpur

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:24 AM PDT

More than 200 shops were gutted in Kanpur on Monday when a fire broke out in a busy area, police said. The fire broke out in the Bakarganj area of Babupurwa, according to police sources. Before the sh...

Teenager kills three in Delhi for Rs 50

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:23 AM PDT

A teenager has been arrested for the murder of three women in a slum cluster of Jehangirpuri area of north-west Delhi.

Bandstand gets new garden

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:03 AM PDT

The construction of a new garden at Bandra Bandstand is yet another effort by the BMC to increase open spaces in the city. While the land is owned by the BMC, it was being maintained by private contra...

Children spend two hours in jail for a game of cricket

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:44 AM PDT

In a shocking case of inhuman treatment meted out to innocent children, the Vashi police detained six kids for over two hours on Friday evening. Their mistake was that they were playing in their build...

Robbers caught red-handed, turn on cop

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:16 AM PDT

At 10 am on Saturday, Constable Shyamrao Gangaram Patil of Marol police station was attacked by two pickpockets as he boarded a bus to Ghatkopar. The incident took place at Jambhali Naka in Ghatkopar....

17-year-old dies after shooting himself over love affair

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:07 AM PDT

Manoj Sudam Jadhav, 17, a student of class XI at DY Patil College in Pimri, who had shot himself in the head on Saturday morning, succumbed to his injuries at Birla Hospital on Sunday. Manoj had shot ...

Mini-gun factory unearthed in Bihar Sharif

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:05 AM PDT

The police today unearthed an illegal mini-gun factory at Mirzapur village in Bihar's Nalanda district, Superintendent of Police, Nishant Kumar Tiwary said.

Dhobighat vs children's park

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:52 AM PDT

The fact that he washes people's dirty linen in public isn't the crux of the problem. But for a group of residents in the Juhu-Versova Link Road, a single dhobi has come to symbolise unbending obstina...

Leopard enters Mumbai school, captured after being lured by a hen

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:22 AM PDT

It's not often that you hear a five-year-old wanting to stay back in school after classes. But, in the case of the leopard that ventured in to the National Education Society school in Mulund West on S...
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