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Gujjars to protest in North East soon

Gujjars to protest in North East soon

As protests of the Gujjars, who are demanding ST status, spread to fresh areas, the community living in the North-East will also take up the cudgels & launch an agitation in support of the cause. A representative of the Gujjar said, “Rajasthan Government has betrayed the Gujjars. In spite of the protests, both the Rajasthan [...]

Bomb scare at Metro station in New Delhi

Bomb scare at Metro station in New Delhi

Panic was triggered in metro station in New Delhi on Saturday afternoon after the metro station officials have received an anonymous phone call threatening to blow up the facility. The Delhi Metro officials received the threat call at around 1 p.m. that bombs were placed in the Chaawri Bazar metro station & it would be [...]

CPM-RSP clash in West Bengal village, houses burnt

CPM-RSP clash in West Bengal village, houses burnt

In a fresh flare-up the panchayat elections, several houses have been set on fire during a clash with bombs & guns between supporters of Left Front partners CPM & RSP in Birbhum district in West Bengal on Saturday morning. Trouble started on Friday night with a number of houses being set ablaze & the violence [...]

Ansar Burney deportation: Govt ordered probe

Ansar Burney deportation: Govt ordered probe

The Home Ministry has reacted to the shocking deportation of Ansar Burney by ordering a probe into the entire matter. The preliminary report of Foreigners Regional Registration Office has already been submitted to the Ministry. The report, claims that Burney was deported, as his papers were not in order. Ansar Burney had arrived in India [...]

IAF reopened strategic base in Ladakh

IAF reopened strategic base in Ladakh

IAF the Indian Air Force has on Saturday made operational an old air base in mountainous Ladakh region in Jammu & Kashmir that was closed 43 years ago. An AN-32 transporter plane carrying Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (Western Air Command) P K Barbora landed at the Dawaltbaigh Oldi air strip around 8:50 a.m. after flying from [...]

CBI to begin probe into Arushi murder

CBI to begin probe into Arushi murder

CBI will begin its probe into Arushi murder next week after getting all the details from the Noida Police. CBI had got a letter from the Union ministry of personnel seeking its opinion on the Arushi murder case. A senior CBI officer said, “Although the case does not seem to have any interstate ramification or [...]

93 Mumbai riots: Warrant issued against cop

93 Mumbai riots: Warrant issued against cop

The Special riots court has on Saturday issued warrant against police inspector Madhav Khanolkar, who is a prime witness in the 1993 riot case against senior Shiv Sena leader Madhukar Sarpotdar.
The warrant was issued as Khanolkar failed to appear before the court at the last two hearings, despite summons served to him. He will have [...]

Ansar Burney: “I am shocked at the behaviour of Indian Govt”

Ansar Burney: “I am shocked at the behaviour of Indian Govt”

The leading Pakistani Human Rights activist who was “deported’ on Friday to Dubai from the New Delhi airport has on Saturday expressed deep shock over the entire episode. For Ansar Burney, who has been an ace campaigner for the release of Indian death row prisoners Kashmir Singh & Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, it came indeed [...]

Plane crashed killed 7 in Tegucigalpa

Plane crashed killed 7 in Tegucigalpa

A jet owned by Central America’s TACA airlines slid across a runway & onto a road as it tried to land at Tegucigalpa airport killed seven killed & wounded 80. The plane was an Airbus A-320 carrying 124 passengers plus crew & was flying a Los Angeles-San Salvador-Tegucigalpa route. The plane skidded off the runway, [...]

Ansar Burney deported back to Dubai

Ansar Burney deported back to Dubai

The leading Pakistani Human Rights activist Ansar Burney has been deported back to Dubai on Friday night. Burney, who was the Human Rights Minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi by an Emirates Airways flight at around 2030 hours because of a “look-out” [...]

Gujjar agitation: Rajasthan DGP removed

Gujjar agitation: Rajasthan DGP removed

Unhappy with the handling of the Gujjar crisis, the Rajashtan government has on Saturday asked Director General of Police Amarjot Singh Gill to go on a long leave. KS Bains will now act as the new DGP. Till Friday, more than 42 people had lost their lives in the clashes between Gujjars & Rajasthan police.
Meanwhile, [...]

Defence Minister A K Antony fainted during NDA function in Pune

Defence Minister A K Antony fainted during NDA function in Pune

A K Antony the Defence Minister fainted during the passing out parade ceremony at the National Defence Academy in Khadakvasla in Pune on Saturday morning & was rushed to a hospital. After receiving the parade & conferring medals on cadets of the 114th batch, Antony slumped on the dais & officials around him immediately brought [...]

Attack on Panaji Police

Attack on Panaji Police

Mapusa Cops have attacked Panajo Police. The Mapusa cops have prepared a systematic plan of attack against their Panaji counterparts on Saturday. Stones with which to pelt the Panaji police have been assembled & an ambulance is standing in readiness to carry off the injured.
The rising number of attacks on the police has affected the [...]

Katara murder case: Life term awarded to Vikas, Vishal Yadav

Katara murder case: Life term awarded to Vikas, Vishal Yadav

A Delhi Court has on Friday awarded life term to Vikas & Vishal Yadav, the key accused in the sensational Nitish Katara murder case. Both have also been fined Rs 1.6 lakh by the court.
Ravinder Kaur Sessions Judge while passing the sentence, said that the crime did not fall in the “rarest of rare” [...]

Nine Bangladeshis detained in Jammu

Nine Bangladeshis detained in Jammu

Nine Bangladeshis have been arrested in Samba sector in Jammu on Friday when they were trying exfiltrate to Pakistan.
Security forces observed some movement near the International Border in Gole Panj Pir border out post & asked a group of exfiltrating persons to stop. They were later caught & identified as Bangladeshis.

Former Bihar minister found guilty in murder case

Former Bihar minister found guilty in murder case

Aditya Singh the former Animal & Husbandry Minister of Bihar & his son Suman Singh were on Friday convicted by a local court in a murder case dating back to 2000.
Additional Sessions Judge of fast track court Vijay Shankar Pathak found the duo guilty of killing Ashok Singh, a manager of brick kiln, at Govastha [...]

Aarushi murder case: Dr Rajesh Talwar denied bail

Aarushi murder case: Dr Rajesh Talwar denied bail

A Noida Court has on Friday denied the bail of Dr Rajesh Talwar in the sensational Aarushi murder case. Dr Rajesh Talwar, Aarushi’s father, is accused of killing his teenaged daughter Aarushi & servant Hemraj. Police told court that they have so far been unable to recover the murder weapon. Dr Talwar has been remanded [...]

Aarushi murder case: Talwar taken to Haridwar, priest questioned

Aarushi murder case: Talwar taken to Haridwar, priest questioned

Noida Police has on Friday took Dr Rajesh Talwar to Haridwar to look for leads into the sensational Aarushi murder case. Dr Rajesh Talwar, Aarushi’s father, is accused of killing his teenaged daughter Aarushi & his servant Hemraj.
Police interrogated the priest who helped the Talwars perform the puja in Haridwar after 14 years old Aarushi’s [...]

Yeddyurappa sworn in as Karnataka CM

Yeddyurappa sworn in as Karnataka CM

BS Yeddyurappa was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka on Friday. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore. Governor Rameshwar Thakur administered the oath of office & secrecy to the new CM.
Initially, the swearing-in ceremony was scheduled for Thursday. But the date was rescheduled as the central government took [...]

Rajasthan police opened fire on Gujjar agitators

Rajasthan police opened fire on Gujjar agitators

Police has on Friday opened fire on Gujjar agitators during a road blockade in Rajasthan’s Sawaimadhopur district killed two & six injured, including four policemen, in clashes between them & the protesters.
Police fired after the protesters who have been indulging in a road blockade agitation at Usali Darra, 12 km from Sawaimadhopur since Thursday, threw [...]

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