Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said the stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was invoked to strengthen the case against those involved in the IPL spot-fixing saga.
Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi compared the tainted Rajasthan Royals trio of S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila with Duryodhana, the character that epitomizes evil in Indian mythology, saying there are many of them going scot-free and enjoying life.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday criticised the government for its approach towards the cause of Sarabjit Singh, who passed away at a hospital in Lahore.
'The worst has happened to us. My brother could have returned to India, but our government did not take effective and strong initiatives.' Sarabjit Singh's sister tells Rediff.com's Onkar Singh.
Senior officials in the Research and Analysis Wing and the Intelligence Bureau are convinced that the attack on Sarabjit Singh, the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan, was planned by Pakistani intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence.
The Union home ministry pulled up Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar for the lack of prompt action to trace the five-year-old girl, who was kidnapped and raped, despite her parents registering a missing complaint on Monday. The police team was accompanied by Prabhakar, deputy commissioner of police East Delhi.
Former president of the Indian Youth Congress M.S Bitta, who was the target of the 1993 blast that Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar is accused of carrying out, on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's refusal to commute his death penalty sentence to life imprisonment, and added that he would work to ensure it was carried out.
Former Intelligence Bureau chief and two-time governor of Jammu and Kashmir Girish Saxena has said that the terror outfits are getting desperate to vitiate the atmosphere and hit the tourism industry.
All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has accused the Jammu and Kashmir government of outsourcing the handling of the state to security agencies and is treating it as law and order situation than a political one.
Budget has received mixed reaction from experts.
Former president of the Bhartiya Janata Party Venkaiah Naidu expressed his sadness after meeting several injured in the Hyderabad bomb blasts and visiting the blast sites on Saturday.
The police should have been alert in preventing the Hyderabad blasts rather than look for culprits once the damage is done, said Ajit Doval, former director of the Intelligence Bureau.
The Delhi police have arrested a man identified as Anurag and his associate for trying to access Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley's phone records. A special team of the Delhi police is now on its way to Uttrakhand, where they are likely to question two senior leaders of the BJP, at whose behest Aunurag allegedly collected information about Jaitey's telephone records.
The wife of slain soldier Saheed Hemraj, Dhramvati, has been forced to move out of their house following a tiff with her in-laws. Dhramvati has shifted to her own house in Chatta, Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh.
'Eight policemen were sitting in my drawing room, feeling at home. They had locked up my 13-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son in a room that did not have a toilet.' Onkar Singh reports on Iftikhar Gilani's plight after Afzal Guru's execution.
The policemen who were deployed in and around Tihar Jail, where Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged on Saturday morning, had no idea why they were on duty there. "We were given orders to secure Tihar," said one of the policeman manning the entry point of jail no 3. He added that they were not told why they were being asked to secure the prison premises.
The Himachal Pradesh government has dismissed media reports about an avalanche claiming the lives of seven people in region of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh plans to constitute a new parliamentary board for the party soon. "As and when I do that, I would announce it to the media," Singh said.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha has asked newly-appointed party president Rajnath Singh to name Gujarat Chief Minister Narendre Modi as the party's official prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi on Sunday met Bharatiya Janata Party's newly-elected president Rajnath Singh in New Delhi. "Narendra bhai had congratulated me over the phone after my election was announced. He expressed his desire to convey his feelings personally. Today, that meeting took place," Singh told media personnel after his nearly two hour long meeting with Modi.
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