Mahendra Singh Tikait farmer leader has been arrested by the police in Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday.
He has been arrested for his alleged castiest remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
Tikait may be get bail immediately after being arrested & produced in court. His surrender & subsequent arrest has ended the standoff that had gripped the Sisauli village in western Uttar Pradesh.
Mahendra Singh Tikait left Sisauli village with his ….

Tamil movies has been banned in Karnataka & will not be allowed to be screened in Karnataka & Tamil TV channels to be blacked out in the state from Wednesday in protest against Tamil Nadu`s stand on Hogenakkal water project issue.
Police beefed up the security for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s daughter Selvi in the wake of violent protests by pro-Kannada groups over his remarks on the Hogenakkal water project.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously ….

Sikhs are potesting against the Sotheby’s plans to auction off historic body armour on April 9, which may have belonged to the tenth Sikh Guru. SGPC will go to London to stop the auction of Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s armour.
London’s premier auction house Sotheby’s doesn’t claim that the artefact belonged to Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th guru of Sikhs, but a number of Sikh organizations, ….

An army officer has been arrested by Police on the charge of abetting the murder of his wife, also an armed forces officer, who was found hanging in their house here last year.
An official of Police said that the Captain Chaitanya was arrested on Tuesday late night for abetment to murder of his 26 years old wife Capt Megha Razdan & cruelty under section 306 & 389-A Ranbir Penal Code & would be produced in a court tomorrow.
Police had conducted ….

A 52 years old NRI lodged an FIR that she was raped in a renowned five star hotel in Goa. Panaji Police have registered a case after they received the communication from Delhi Police, with whom the woman has filed the complaint.
Police stated that the incident occurred on March 7 in a five star hotel where she was dragged into a room from a stairway & raped by an unknown person.
An official of Police said that the incident was reported ….

A Truck & School bus has been collided with each other near Silaj village in Ahmedabad, in which 1 student killed & 18 students injured. According to a private channel Zee news the fourth standard student Atul Rathore has died at the spot.
The bus was of Delhi public School (DPS) of Ahmedabad. The injured were taken to the nearby hospital in Ahmedabad. Three are said to be critical.
The bus was carrying 30 children when the accident took place. According to ….

Police has killed two top commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag district of Srinagar on Tuesday, Police said on Wednesday.
“Divisional commander” Aslam Khan alias Ziaur Rehman & “District commander” Javaid Ahmad Lone alias Nazar were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Dudoo-Marhama village in Bijbehara area.
The killing of the duo comes close on the heels of the arrest of another top Hizbul commander, Rayees Ahmad Dar alias Kachroo, who was allegedly involved in large number ….

Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt & his wife Manyata have been directed by a local court to appear on April 15 in connection with an undertrial’s application submit by Meraj Rehman stating the couple’s marriage was illegal.
Sanjay Dutt & Manyata were to appear before a local court on Tuesday to prove their marriage is legal, however the couple filed for an exemption citing that they were not in town.
Sanjay Dutt’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde said that the couple did not come as ….

Some unidentified men on Tuesday killed two police constables after opened fire on them in Udhampur district of Jammu & Kashmir. They opened fire on two policemen during their duty on Dhar road near GREF office in Udhampur town. Soon after the firing, the assailants fled from the spot.
One policemen, Arun Kumar was died at the spot while other Deep Kumar was injured. He was shifted to a local hospital where he had died. A senior official of police ….

The persons who were willing to migrate to Britain will have to apply for visa under the new points-based system which comes into force in India from Tuesday. The point-based system-Tier 1 (PBS-TO), which covers highly skilled migrants, investors & graduate students, replaces the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme, the Entrepreneur & Investor schemes & the International Graduates.
The initial visa will be granted for three years. India, Britain’s most important market for highly skilled migrants, will be the first country where ….

Police has arrested two persons in Varanasi in connection with the murder of a local leader. Police claimed that Dharmendranath Mishra, a local leader, was killed by his friends last week due to rivalry.
An official of Police said that the accused were identified as Sanjay Singh, Bachhi Gupta, Guddu Sonekar, Sheru, Santosh & Sonu.
They invited Dharmendranath for a party & later murdered him. Bachhi & Ramesh have been arrested while Guddu, Sheru, Sonu & Santosh are still absconding.

Ketan Parekh the stockbrokers has been awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment in the 1992 securities scam case. The Bombay High Court on Tuesday awarded Parekh & Hiten Dalal along with five others to one year rigorous imprisonment each in the 1992 security scam case.
An official said that the two other accused have been sentenced to six months imprisonment. Bangalore-based Canbank Financial Services was the victim of this scam. However, ….

A 12 years old boy has been attacked for eating biscuit without asking anyone. The boy is now having to live with a deformed face all because he ate a biscuit from the bakery where he worked.
The wife of the owner of the bakery attacked the boy with a piping hot pair of tongs on Monday. The boy’s mother, on learning about the incident filed a complaint at the local police station.
Both the owner & his wife have been arrested ….

Manipur Public Works Department’s assistant engineer has been shot dead on Monday night by militants in front of his wife & daughters in Bishenpur District, Police said on Tuesday.
The two militants gunned down Keisam Nabachandra 48 years old when he stepped out of his car at the gate of his house at Utlou area, about 35 kms south of Imphal, at 8.10 pm on Monday night.
His wife & two children were returning home along with him after visiting a temple ….

The lawyers of Patna high court are on three-day strike to register their protest against the recent steep hike in court fees introduced by the Bihar government, barely a month after they abstained from work for two days against the decision. The decision to go on strike was taken at an extraordinary meeting of the coordination committee of the three associations of the advocates of the court on March 28.
An official said, “We have been compelled to go on strike ….

Sikhs are against the Sotheby’s plans to auction off historic body armour on April 9, which may have belonged to the tenth Sikh Guru. London’s premier auction house Sotheby’s doesn’t claim that the artefact belonged to Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th guru of Sikhs, but a number of Sikh organizations, including SGPC, suspect a piece of steel armour plate that will be put on the block at Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World Sale on April 9 is indeed a ….

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel killed 8 Naxalites in an encounter in Jharkhand’s Garwah district. An official of police said that the reports reaching at the CRPF headquarters said that eight Naxalites were killed in an encounter between the naxals & 13th battalion of the CRPF late yesterday night in Garwah district.
A huge quantity of arms & ammunition, including 20 quintal of gelatin explosive, were recovered from them.

The district authorities in Barabanki issued a notice aginst the Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bchchan on Monday accusing him of undervaluing the stamp duty on a plot of land he bought in Barabanki. Additional District Magistrate (Finance) of Barabanki issued the notice to Amitabh Bachchan through his local lawyer Pradeep Roy & fixed May five for a reply.
The notice against Big B accusing Bachchan of violating relevant sections of the Indian Stamp Duty Act on the basis of a report filed ….

the Union Railway Minister’s nephew Anil Rai has been arrested in Patna on charges of attempting to kidnap a doctor in the city.
The doctor in question is Dr Ajay Kumar, former president of the Indian Medical Association.
The police intercepted a vehicle involved in the kidnap attempt. Police is investigating the matter.

Security at Roshantekari village has been beefed up after a Dalit allegedly installed a plaque in a temple. An official of police said that fearing a communal clash security has been increased in the region.
The temple was renovated & the plaque was installed by a Dalit, which was objected to by people belonging to the higher castes.
Senior police officials are present in the area & the situation is under control.