'This committee underscores the Indian State's longstanding conventional approach to leverage top-down conflict management in North East India in general and Manipur in particular.' 'Trying to 'manage' violent conflicts top-down has not worked in the past, and apparently does not seem to work this time either.'
A woman was robbed of her gold jewellery, cellphone and ATM card by an unidentified person after he terrorised.
'The linking of Aadhaar to births and deaths will revive the debate around citizenship.'
'India has a conviction rate of about 25% for serious crimes. This means that 75% of the time the police probably get the wrong suspect, and this makes murdering them in an encounter more morally problematic for the officers concerned.' says Aakar Patel.
'Article 370 laid down the edifice of the relationship between J-K and the Union of India.' 'If you look at the Article, what is there now is a provision which states that all provisions of the Constitution of India applies to J-K.' 'The veto that the state could exercise previously on most Union laws has ended.'
Fifteen persons were killed and more than 35 others injured, some of them seriously, after an Uttar Pradesh-bound bus collided with a stationary truck in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Saturday.
The letters were reportedly recovered after the anti-Naxal operations in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, in which 39 Maoists were killed, in April.
The sources said that during the boarding, the male passenger behaved in an unruly manner and touched the female cabin crew member inappropriately.
Singh, known for his hardline religious rhetoric, was suspended by the party following protests in Hyderabad against his comments leading to his arrest by the Telangana Police.
The 32-year-old woman, a divorcee with three children, sustained burns in her right eye and is under treatment in a private hospital, they said.
On hearing about the death of her husband U Ramesh in Hyderabad, constable Shanta Kumari collapsed in Punganur police station of Chittoor district, where she served as a police constable. Ramesh, a constable in Andhra Pradesh Special Police's 11th battalion based at Kadapa was in Hyderabad on a special duty after the recent outbreak of communal violence.
The old Hyderabadi-ness would not resurface. Nor can be recreated. For like in other cities, others too have a right to live and prosper and regardless of what states it gets, the city will not be what it was. Only people, romantic fools at that, look back. Cities don't; they look to the future, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
"How can the police do this? The matter is sub judice. The Supreme Court is seized of the matter. In such cases, revealing information pertaining to the case is wrong," Justice Bhatkar said.
Amjed Ullah Khan, who carried out investigations of his own and helped rescue 15 women from Hyderabad, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com how the women get trapped in an underground slave market that 'sells' them to employers who force them to work for less or no pay and often under inhuman conditions.
The investigation process went on the lines of the Hyderabad blasts. Finally, the cops came to the conclusion that the blasts at Hyderabad and Ajmer were carried out by the same outfit-HuJI.
Police said they have expunged a case after no evidence supporting the complaint was found during the investigation.
On Thursday, the city police had arrested three MIM legislators for their bid to attack Taslima Nasreen when she was in the city to release a Telugu translation of her controversial novel "Shodh."
Some media reports have speculated on a possible link between Malegaon blast accused Lt Colonel Srikant Purohit and the Mecca Masjid blasts. However, the Hyderabad police maintain that they have not found any links so far. They say Purohit's remand application before the Nashik court makes no mention of the Mecca Masjid blasts.
Two persons were charred to death and seven others suffered severe burns when a bogie of Solapur-bound passenger train from Hyderabad caught fire during its halt at the station in Gulbarga on Tuesday, the police said.
Two persons including a Hyderabadi woman has been arrested in the Mecca Masjid blasts case, police said on Friday.
Even as the Hyderabad police struggle to find vital clues into the twin blasts that rocked Hyderabad on Thursday, they have found that the accused persons had booked themselves in a hotel at Dilsukhnagar and had stayed there for over 10 days. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Challenging the rejection, the SIT had approached the high court with a criminal revision plea to quash the court's order.
Pro-Telangana students on Thursday clashed with police on the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad for the second consecutive day.
The Opposition on Sunday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party over the killing of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf Ahmad in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district, alleging that 'jungle raj' and 'mafia raj' were prevalent under its rule.
The two-storeyed Hotel City Light and Bakery, located on RP road in Secunderabad, crashed at around 6 am on Monday.
The tributes to Fr Stan by his associates and his co-accused (which were read out) provided a clue to why his death continues to touch so many.
It is said that terror operatives were under the impression that the Mecca Masjid blasts were triggered off by some Hindu outfits and hence to avenge this, the twin blasts at Hyderabad were executed.
A trainee pilot and his trainer were killed when their Cessna trainer aircraft crashed in to thickly populated area near Begumpet airport in Hyderabad on Monday morning.
Bharadwaj claimed a number of human rights lawyers, activists and organisations were deliberately named to cast a stigma over them, obstruct their work and incite hatred against them.
He was produced before chief judicial magistrate Ajanta Agrawal at her residence.
After their acquittal, the people demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the incident. After lot of deliberations, the case was finally handed over to the CBI. It was decided that the FIR pertaining to the exploded bomb would be handled by the CBI and the other FIR would be probed by the Hyderabad police.
The conspiracy was hatched by Shahid and his friend Khaja, both residents of Moosarambagh here, police sources said quoting a confessional statement.
The arrested Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Thadiyantavida Naseer has revealed to the investigating officers that the terror outfit has made Hyderabad as its headquarters for all its operations in India and the LeT bosses in Karachi were directly monitoring the base.
Just where are the stars travelling? We find out.
Some of our leaders were busybusy over the weekend.
After a thorough interrogation by Mumbai police, Shafiq arrived in the city Tuesday night and was handed over to Begumpet police.
'Does anyone understand India?' 'Does anyone have a larger perspective for India as a whole?' 'Today we have rulers who do not understand the ruled.'
Police teams from both Rajasthan and Hyderabad confirmed on Saturday that the same operatives carried out both the Mecca Masjid and the Hyderabad blasts. The link has been established in the form of a sim card, found in one of the bags outside the blast site, which is reportedly in the name of one Babu Lal Yadav. A sim card found at the blast site in Mecca Masjid was also in the name of Babu Lal Yadav.
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