1,000 held in week-long protests against AP division: Police
Hyderabad: Over 1,000 people have been taken into preventive custody in connection with the agitation by supporters of united Andhra Pradesh even as the protests continued for the eighth consecutive...
View ArticleGuard held for stealing Baal Shivaji's crown gems from Rani Baug
Friday night saw the BMC-run Byculla zoo authorities and the police entangled in an absurd theft scenario, after it was reported that panache - plumage with some jewellery embedded in it - had been...
View Article1,000 held in week-long protests against Andhra Pradesh division: Police
Hyderabad: Over 1,000 people have been taken into preventive custody in connection with the agitation by supporters of united Andhra Pradesh even as the protests continued for the eighth consecutive...
View ArticleHC quashes charges against publisher
The Kerala High Court on Thursday quashed the proceedings against a publisher who had been charged with promoting enmity between different groups on...
View ArticleGovt to tell police to act against khaps
MUMBAI: The state government told the Bombay high court on Tuesday that pending approval of the Prevention of Social Disabilities Bill, it shall issue a circular to all police...
View Article'Sanyasi' held after 24 years, out on bail
PUNE: A 78-year-old 'sanyasi' was arrested in the city more than 23 years after he was booked for making religiously provocative speeches. Swami Durganand Nadkarni, who lives the life of a...
View ArticleMan who stuck posters threatening Kanhaiya Kumar arrested
--> One person, who was allegedly involved in sticking the posters, was questioned soon after and other sections were later added in the FIR. The Delhi police on Monday arrested Adarsh Kumar for...
View ArticleAdarsh Sharma held for Rs 11 lakh bounty on Kanhaiya’s head
New Delhi: JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar. PTI Photo by Kamal Kishore Delhi Police Monday arrested Adarsh Sharma, the man who claims to be president of Purvanchal Sena which had announced through...
View ArticleVijayakant moves apex court against defamation complaint
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed an early hearing to a writ petition filed by DMDK founder and Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Vijayakant to quash a criminal defamation complaint...
View Article'Why so many criminal defamation cases from Tamil Nadu?'
The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the Tamil Nadu government about a flood of appeals to the apex court by persons seeking protection from criminal defamation cases registered against them by the...
View ArticlePolice book case against Sadhvi Ballika Saraswathi for hate speech
MANGALURU: Mangaluru City Police have registered a case under section 153A of the Indian Penal Code against Sadhvi Balika Saraswati who delivered the keynote address in the Virat Hindu Samajotsav...
View ArticleFolk singer Kovan's anticipatory bail pleas: HC grants TN govt a week's time...
MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday granted a week's time to the Tamil Nadu government to file counters to the two anticipatory bail petitions filed by Tamil folk singer S...
View ArticleRamanathapuram custodial death: Human rights organization wants action...
MADURAI: The Human Rights Protection Centre (HRPC) urged the Tamil Nadu government to register a case against BJP state vice-president H Raja for allegedly promoting enmity among people after a...
View Article‘Burn-auto’ remark can attract penalty for creating societal disharmony, say...
MUMBAI: The police should book MNS chief Raj Thackeray for the hate speech, said legal experts on Thursday. The near unanimous reaction among lawyers and civil rights activists followed Raj's Wednesday...
View Article6 held for murder of CPI(M) worker
A special team of the city police arrested six persons in connection with the murder of S. Sreejith, a worker of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], at Morikkara, near Kakkodi on the...
View ArticleArchbishop condemns poster
The Archbishop of Madurai, Most Rev. Antony Pappusamy, has appealed to the government to take action...
View ArticleHC quashes charges against publisher
The Kerala High Court on Thursday quashed the proceedings against a publisher who had been charged with promoting enmity between different groups on...
View ArticleFIR against Amitabh, Nutan for instigating against minister Azam Khan
LUCKNOW: An FIR under section 153A of India Penal Code has been registered against suspended IPS Amitabh Thakur and his activist wife Nutan at Kotwali police station in Rampur for instigating people...
View ArticleGuard held for stealing Baal Shivaji's crown gems from Rani Baug
Friday night saw the BMC-run Byculla zoo authorities and the police entangled in an absurd theft scenario, after it was reported that panache - plumage with some jewellery embedded in it - had been...
View ArticleCase against Anbumani Ramadoss for inciting caste enmity
The Dharmapuri police on Saturday registered a case against the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) candidate for Lok Sabha poll and former Union Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss, and two others on charges of...
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