In an apparent attempt to derail the probe, Nooriya Haveliwala, the 27-year-old woman arrested for alleged drunk driving and killing two persons including a cop, on Tuesday again changed her version even as the police recorded her friends' statements.
A local court on Wednesday deferred till Monday the hearing of bail application filed by corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who is accused of mowing down two persons while driving under the influence of alcohol.
Floral tributes were paid to martyrs of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks on the fourth anniversary of the strike on Monday with Union ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Sharad Pawar laying wreaths at the police memorial in South Mumbai.
The seventh anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which had claimed lives of 166 people and left hundreds injured, would be observed on Thursday.
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Pence and Trump will challenge Democratic Patry's presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris in the November election.
Two Catholic priests from Italy visited the home of one of the two fishermen gunned down by marines of Italian ship Enrica Lexie, fuelling speculation that their mission was to explore possibilities of settling the case through out-of-court mediation.
United Force of India -- a citizen initiative to bring the youth of the country on a common platform -- was launched at the Police Gymkhana, Marine Lines in Mumbai. Smita Salaskar, wife of slain Inspector Vijay Salaskar, who fell to terrorists' bullets during the last year terror attack, was the guest of honour.
A Special Investigation Team of the Kerala Police on Saturday began the search and ballistic examination of weapons on board oil tanker Enrica Lexie in the presence of Italian experts who arrived in Kochi on Saturday morning from Rome. Police will seize and seal the fire arms, suspected to have been used by the two arrested Italian naval guards Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone, in the killing of two Indian fishermen off Kollam coast on February 15.
Yakub Memon, who was convicted for helping finance the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed, was hanged at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning shortly before 7am.
Italian oil tanker Enrica Lexie, detained off Kerala coast since February 15 after its Marines shot dead two Indian fishermen, on Saturday sailed off from Kochi for Colombo after completion of all legal formalities, including execution of a bond for Rs 3 crore.
The Kerala high court on Thursday ordered release of Italian ship Enrica Lexie, detained off Kochi port for over a month in connection with the gunning down of two Indian fishermen allegedly by marines aboard the vessel.
Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker was allegedly due to a collision with an Iranian fishing boat, Iran's official news agency IRNA said.
Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande was present at an event where political tamasha and inflated egos gained prominence over the sacrifice of a valiant cop who stopped Ajmal Kasab from running amok in Mumbai.
The organisers of the controversial 'Kiss of Love' event against moral policing have claimed that their Facebook page and accounts of at least 5 persons linked with it have been hacked.
No masks, no sanitisers, and many rules of COVID-19 are not in place and every human activity, including marriages and public gatherings continue, thanks to strict standard operating procedure that bars easy entry of people to the island in the Arabian sea.
'Since I felt there could be more, I had told the local authorities to screen every hostage carefully, since we felt that some could have been staying as guests.'
Country's largest paramilitary force CRPF has decided to appoint Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu as it's brand ambassador and bestow the honorary rank of Commandant on the ace badminton player. Official sources said the force has moved a formal proposal in this regard to the Union Home Ministry and after getting required sanctions, Sindhu will be honoured and presented the rank badges and camouflage combat fatigues of the CRPF at a ceremonial event.
'I did not find anything atrociously out of place about the depiction of the IAF's image,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
A 'kiss of love' protest organised by a group of youngsters on Sunday against vandalism by the Bharatiya Janata Party at a coffee shop in Kozhikode has now drawn the ire of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
Students, parents and teachers gathered in large numbers at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai and demanded action against officials for allowing elements like dismissed constable Sunil More to find a place in the Mumbai police ranks.
However, flight operations at the Mumbai airport were not impacted due to rains, an airport official said.
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The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said it had blocked accounts at several banks in Switzerland after police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday in US and Swiss corruption cases.
Businessman Ness Wadia, who has been accused of molestation and abuse by his former girlfriend and Bollywood actress Preity Zinta in a police complaint, said on Friday he was shocked by the allegations and termed them as "false and baseless".
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist media, identified the shooter as Mohammed al-Shamrani, and said that prior to opening fire he condemned America as a "nation of evil" in an online manifesto on twitter, according to media reports.
The development is likely to bring to standstill Trump's hectic election campaign.
In a gory incident in Mumbai's busy Marine Drive last Thursday police constable Sunil Atmaram More (30) allegedly raped a minor girl.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy will wrap-up his four-day India visit with a stop at Mumbai on Tuesday, where he will pay homage to victims of the 26/11 terror attacks.Sarkozy will arrive from New Delhi in the morning and will first pay a visit to the Police Memorial on Marine Drive, dedicated to security men killed in fighting terrorists during the attacks in November 2008, official sources said.The French President will take part in a special memorial service.
A local court on Wednesday extended till June 13 the judicial custody of dismissed police constable Sunil More, who was arrested for allegedly raping a teenager at a police outpost in south Mumbai in April.
The Mumbai police have provided security at the office of industrialist Nusli Wadia following threat calls from fugitive underworld don Ravi Pujari, police said on Thursday.
Three months after two legislators allegedly assaulted a police officer inside the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly premises, the crime branch has filed 130-page chargesheet against them.
An American national was attacked and robbed of her mobile phone in the ladies' compartment of a local train in Mumbai on Sunday.
A constable attached with the marine unit of the city police died on Monday morning after he fell off a speed boat during patrolling near the cargo vessel MSC Chitra, which had collided with another vessel. The victim, Ramesh Tukaram More, 45, and three other constables were patrolling in a speed boat in the wee hours of Monday at approximately 1.5 nautical miles from the Chitra.More's body was recovered by life guards later and sent to the state run J J Hospital.
"The decision to dismiss Sunil More was taken considering the seriousness of the case and was done as per the Indian Constitution," Joint commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Ahmed Javed said.
The BCCI had field an FIR against him for alleged misappropriation of funds during the 1996 World Cup
The United States on Thursday launched a major operation against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, according to military officials.The operation comes in the wake of a similar operation by British troops last week, and is the largest since the US moved additional troops to the strife-torn country earlier this year.Operation Khanjar -- 'strike of the sword' involves 4,000 US troops, mostly Marines, and 650 soldiers from Afghanistan as well as the police.
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