Pawan Ruia has finally done it, a beaming Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then West Bengal chief minister, had said at the reopening of the 70-year-old Sahagunj factory owned by Dunlop in 2005. But with the Calcutta high court passing a winding-up order in 2013 and the Trinamool Congress-led state government passing a Bill to take over the company in 2016, the once-upon-a-time undisputed leader in the Indian tyre industry looks vastly undone. But that can hardly be a deterrent for Ruia, who has a penchant for making headlines one way or the other.
West Bengal with its porous borders has turned into an easy transit point and secure hideout for the agents of terror outfits like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and Pakistani secret service Inter-Services Intelligence.
The CBI has dispatched a special team to conduct the probe in which several Tamil Nadu Police personnel are under the scanner and some have already been arrested by the state police, they said.
Bowing to mounting public pressure, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday decided to hand over to the Central Bureau of Investigation the probe into the mysterious death of an upright Indian Administrative Service officer that had led to national outrage and state-wide protests.
Troubles mounted for Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze, who has been facing heat in the murder case of businessman Mansukh Hiran, as a sessions court in Maharashtra's Thane district has refused to grant him interim bail and noted that there was prima facie evidence and material against him.
The Calcutta high court on Thursday said it would monitor the Criminal Investigation Department investigation into the Kamduni gangrape and murder case and also questioned the justification of state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's fixing of a time frame for completing the probe.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday sought to know from Maharashtra government if it has decided to seek a CBI probe in the Govind Pansare murder case as claimed by the lawyer of family of the slain activist, even as the prosecutor said he has no such instruction so far.
Sanjiv Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case.
'Police officers should be selected on merit and not on the basis of who is close to the political party in power.'
Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday started a preliminary enquiry into the "unnatural" death of Karnataka cadre IAS officer D K Ravi whose body was found hanging at his residence in Bengaluru a month ago.
Aamir Khan promotes his film Talaash on CID.
A website article on an alleged 'Assam Rape Festival' has sparked widespread protests for denigrating the image of the state.
Earlier, the Bombay high court, which is hearing a petition on the Yunus case, had instructed the state DGP to file the chargesheet in the case.
The officials, however, believe these tests will help them speed up their investigation
With the surrender of Gujarat police officer Dr N K Amin, state CID hopes that it could know exactly how Kauser Bi, wife of fake encounter victim Sohrabuddin, was killed in Ahmedabad in 2005.
The Gujarat CID on Monday filed a chargesheet against 13 police officials, including DIG D G Vanzara, before the metropolitan court in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Another Gujarat police official, M L Parmar, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case surrendered before the CID on Friday.
Moving the court of Justices Ranjana Desai and Dilip Bhosale, Harish Bhalchandra Vichare's lawyer C U Singh said, "He (Vichare) has vital information about the incident in question and wants to give the information to state CID."
Metropolition judge K J Upadhyay rejected the CID application.
"For Afzal, Yakub, Ishrat, Burhan, Batla (House encounter) they'll cry foul and chatter. Human rights are for terrorists only, lives of soldiers don't matter," Harsh Vardhan, minister for science and technology, tweeted.
The 'American dream' of a 15-year-old girl from an orphanage in Jammu and Kashmir to study in the United States is all set to come true as authorities on Tuesday issued a passport to her which she had claimed was denied earlier due to her uncle's militant past.
The concerned official is known to have worked with one of the arrested senior IPS officers, D G Vanzara, when he was heading the Ahmedabad Crime Branch.
Kunal Kemmu's crime thriller Abhay 2 continues to be gripping in the second season, notes Moumita Bhattacharjee.
The CID has detained certain policemen of the ranks of Inspector, Sub-inspector and Constable, who were members of the team that tracked Sohrabuddin all the way from Hyderabad and then were part of the encounter near Ahmedabad.
Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka said the 'traitors,' who perpetrated the riots would be dealt with an iron hand and steps would be taken to ensure that such incidents do not recur.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday took over the probe in the rape case against former Rajasthan minister Babulal Nagar who is accused of sexually assaulting a 35-year-old woman.
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The probe into the mysterious death of a 24-year-old woman IT employee, whose decomposed body was found at Siruseri near Chennai, was on Sunday transferred to the Crime Branch-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police, a senior police official said.
Vishal Rajoria had been absconding since the murder.
According to the CID data, more crimes have been committed in Bihar in 2006 than in the previous five years.
Their identity could be established on the basis of seized diaries.
On the intervening night of September 22-23, 2012, three Dalit youths were killed when police opened fire to disperse a violent mob to control a clash between Dalits and OBC Bharwad community members at Thangadh town in Surendranagar district.
Shakila's seductive performances in the ever-popular club number Babuji Dheere Chalna and the fabulous torch song Hoon Abhi Main Jawaan made filmmakers sit up and notice this new talent.
Police have detained a total of 10 persons in connection with the alleged gang rape of an elderly nun and loot at a convent school in West Bengal's Nadia district.
The fire broke out late on Thursday night when 17 people were inside the plant, run by the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation.
She's been flung from a building, but for police inspector R Susheela she's exactly where she wants to.
Our funny take on External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
"For the last one month a rather strange broadcast is being heard over the radio...The broadcast only says 'Neta Subhas Chandra transmitter...wanted to speak," this was written by Netaji's nephew Amiya Nath Bose in a letter to his brother in 1949 as revealed by one of the secret files on the leader declassified by the West Bengal government.
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