The people of Vilappilsala, some 10,000 of them, defeated the City Corporation's attempt to resume transportation of garbage to the solid-waste treatment plant in the area on Monday. They put up a strong resistance, and despite the deployment of 500 police personnel, officials had to decide to stop the transport. The Kerala High Court, in its interim order on January 23, had ...Read More

A Bengaluru court Monday ordered police to probe Karnataka's three sleeze watching ministers on charges of transmitting and viewing porn films. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kiran Kheny directed the state police to complete the probe against Laxman Savadi, C.C. Patil and J. Krishna Palemar by Feb 27. The probe will be conducted by Vidhana Soudha or the state secretariat police. The assembly ...Read More

The former Union Home Secretary, G.K. Pillai, on Monday urged political parties and NGOs in Assam to counter Maoist propaganda at the grassroots level. Mr. Pillai also said the Army's role in counter-insurgency operations in the northeast could be reduced provided the State governments were willing to upgrade their police forces. “The subtle campaign of the Maoists to portray themselves as champions ...Read More

New Delhi: In a major development in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested a key suspect after police interrogation. India's premier anti-terror probe body, NIA has identified the suspect as Kamal Chouhan, key accused in the case who allegedly planted the bomb in the train. Samjhauta blast case: NIA arrests bomb planter However, Kamal Chouhan was ...Read More

The Supreme Court had sought dismissed IPS officer R K Sharma's response on a Delhi Police plea challenging his acquittal in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai on Monday issued notices also to Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash, who too were acquitted by the Delhi High Court in the sensational 1999 ...Read More

Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan on Monday underlined the overall growth achieved by the State even as he skipped contentious issues like the Telangana statehood demand and the series of scandals in which some ministers and legislators were allegedly linked to. The Governor reaffirmed the government’s resolve for “speedier and balanced” economic development for delivering the fruits to ...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to brief it on whether it has conducted any inquiry on allegation against ex-Chief Justice of India and NHRC chief K G Balakrishnan of amassing assets disproportionate to his income. A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia directed the government to respond within a month on action ...Read More

Pratapgarh: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi alleged hooliganism and casteism reared their ugly heads and development took a back seat during the successive non-Congress regimes in the state in the past 22 years. Only the Congress could ensure development in the state and for this people's mindset needed to be changed, he told a public meeting here. Asking people to get ...Read More

New Delhi: High drama was witnessed in South Delhi when three personnel of Maharashtra's elite Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) were detained by Delhi Police for nearly three hours after they attempted to forcibly take 13/7 Mumbai blasts accused Naquee Ahmed's brother Taquee to Mumbai Taquee, who has raised objections to the arrest of his brother Naquee by the ATS despite ...Read More

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has said she would continue to serve the people of Tamil Nadu unmindful of the criticism or appreciation of others. Laying the foundation stone for Rs 240 crore worth new schemes, including distribution of various welfare measures for Rs 71.82 crore to over 1.02 lakh beneficiaries at a function at Thiruvanaikovil, here, on Monday, ...Read More