He had vowed to shave off his head the day he killed the notorious forest brigand Veerappan. On October 18, 2004, when he appeared before the media and announced the death of the dreaded sandalwood smuggler, he became a hero in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.Today, K Vijay Kumar is the Director General of the elite Central Reserve Police Force, which faces the task of combating the Naxal menace.
As part of efforts to ensure peaceful, free and fair assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana, the Election Commission has directed the authorities to set up effective pickets and carry out patrolling to check influx of both licensed and illicit arms and ammunition into the poll-bound states.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha, party member Brinda Karat claimed that Headley, earlier a drug smuggler, worked as an undercover agent of the US intelligence agency CIA since 1999 and the US government helped him make frequent trips to Pakistan.
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Selvarasa Pathmanathan, an alleged arms smuggler who is the new Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam chief, was arrested on Thursday night from Thailand, reports said.
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The Department of Revenue Intelligence, DRI is tracing a major counterfeit currency racket with roots in Kerala and wings spread across Middle east and Far East.
India for the first time has said that the Maoists are getting arms from China, which is a "big supplier" of small weapons.
Terror groups are building a base in south India and using the sea route to smuggle in arms and drugs.
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'It's not only holy reverence that drives them to such vigilantism -- there is adventure too.' 'Some of the younger gau rakshaks enjoy the thrill of the chase: Stopping vehicles, wielding weapons, badgering passengers and then gloating.'
The Lankans had to pay Indian human smugglers Rs 50,000 per head for the arduous and risky journey to Australia.
Federal authorities in the United States have seized two valuable artefacts stolen from India valued at about $450,000 (Rs 3 crore) from the premier auction house Christie's, just days before a scheduled auction of the items as part of planned festivities to celebrate Asia week.
'The Tamil Nadu government should ask Andhra Pradesh to speed up the investigation.'
Bhagwat presented Sangh's views on a number of contentious issue while answering wide-ranging written questions on the last day of the three-day conclave, including on matters like inter-caste marriages, education policy, crimes against women, cow vigilantism.
Two persons, including a child, died and another person was injured in a bomb blast at Mahabbatpur village near India-Bangladesh border, the police said on Wednesday.
A super-rich village in Switzerland, one of the wealthiest in Europe, has chosen to pay a fine of 200,000 pounds instead of accepting 10 refugees under the country's newly imposed quota system.
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The intelligence wing will have 650 field and staff agents to gather actionable information.
The principal of a government polytechnic college has been arrested for defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi by featuring his photo in the college magazine under a list of "negative faces" with Adolf Hitler, George W Bush, Osama bin Laden and a few others.
The president said Syria did not know if it was an Israeli trap and refused the offer.
According to a recent RTI query, UP tops the list for most jailbreaks.
India also said Bangladesh was carrying out a disinformation campaign.
The agreements were reached during the 11th round of Home Secretary level talks between the two countries in Yangon.
The Yartsa gombu, a rare species, is still not on the endangered list.
'I don't think such a meeting ever happened... I don't see how it is even possible without people coming to know immediately,' says Julio Ribeiro.
Three men, who survived the April 6 'encounter' in the Seshachalam forests, give crucial evidence to the National Human Rights Commission on how their friends and family members were wrongly detained and later shot dead.
This suspense thriller about sandalwood smuggler Veerapan is good.
'The chief minister has said on the floor of the House that he knows everything (about the criminal-politician mafia).' 'If you know about this nexus, why aren't you acting against them?' 'Ask him why is he so helpless.'
After gunning down sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, the Special Task Force has decided against returning to M M Hills in Karnataka to unearth arms, ammunition and money hidden by the brigand, a top STF official said in Bangalore on Wednesday.
Each of the defendants in the case is charged with one count of conspiring to harbour illegal aliens, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 (about Rs 1.1 crore) fine.
Police have bust a major illegal emigration racket by capturing a snakehead, or human smuggler, taking people out of China.
A pro-Tamil forum has threatened to blast the Doordarshan's relay station at Sikkil near Nagapattinam.
'Remember, they are all volunteers unlike other forces, and they said they would not come out of the forest until they finished the job. That was the kind of dedication and perseverance they had.' says former STF boss Walter Dawaram.
The last unnamed member of the so-called Islamic State 'Beatles' gang was on Tuesday identified as a 27-year-old from west London.
According to an agreement signed by the two countries, anyone found to have strayed over the border by accident will be released 'without going into lengthy and complicated (repatriation) procedures," Maj Gen Zia said.\n\n
