Based on clues provided by Alexander Raja, one of the three arrested by the Tamil Nadu STF on Monday, Mudalemutthu, Amul Raj and Sagairaja were held.
The RJD chief said four STF teams, each headed by a DSP, were working round-the-clock to secure the release of Hindustan Times photojournalist Ashok Karn, who was abducted on December 27.
'We gathered information that Veerappan never believed his close lieutenant Sethukuli Govindan and used to speak contemptuously and dismissively about Sethumani of the TLA,' STF chief Vijaykumar said.
The intelligence input was as specific as it gets -- four persons, including Veerappan, are moving in an ambulance on their way to a hospital.
A Special Task Force team of the Tamil Nadu police, headed by Jaykumar, shot dead the dacoit and three of his associates in an encounter in Dharmapuri district.
Two kg of RDX and two detonators were recovered on Friday from Unnao, about 50 km from Lucknow, by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on the basis of information provided by a Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami militant.
Arjuna Ranatunga was arrested on Monday for the first violent incident amidst the on going political crisis in the country.
Yadav has repeated that the phone-tapping was done on Sonia Gandhi's behest.
Yadav said the killing was the fallout of a gang war.
Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna thinks so. He said the forest brigand would be captured any time 'before or after election'. \n\n
'We hope one of these days we will get a message that can make us feel very relieved,' Krishna said.
The boy was kidnapped by two motorcyclists while the child was being escorted to the bus stop by maid servant Seema.
A Special Task Force of police seized the explosives and detonators from a hideout near a school in Ramban area early Saturday morning.
The STF had captured Veerappan and his three associates two days before they were actually killed, human rights activists claimed.
They were engaged in getting three seriously injured Nepali Maoists treated in a private nursing home in Patna.
Agitated activists pelted stones at the police prompting the latter to fire teargas shells.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, replying to queries from journalists in Patna, said the decision to send the team was taken after deliberations that took place over a couple of days.
In one of the worst natural disasters in Kerala, at least 123 persons were killed and 128 injured in massive landslides triggered by torrential rains in Wayanad on Tuesday. With hundreds trapped under the debris, sparking fears of mounting fatalities, rescue agencies were racing against time to pull out any survivors.
"Chief Minister S M Krishna, who is in Delhi, spoke to his Tamil Nadu counterpart, Jayalalithaa, and both decided to launch operations immediately," Kharge said.
Vijaykumar said he had sent his suggestions about the STF's future to the chief minister.
The Uttar Pradesh police will get a psychological test done on Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, accused in the attack on security personnel outside Gorakhpur's Gorakhnath temple, a senior official said on Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint police and STF patrol challenged the criminals while they were planning a strike.
Arvind alias Guddan Ramvilas Trivedi, 46, an aide of Dubey, was allegedly involved in the killing of eight policemen during a raid on the slain gangster's house in Kanpur district.
According to a statement released by the STF, Dubey was being brought to Kanpur from Ujjain for appearance in a local court when the vehicle in which he was coming overturned in front of Kanhaiyalal Hospital on the national highway after a herd of cattle suddenly came in front of it.
The Centre told the apex court that it has not issued any SOP that makes it mandatory to carry the vaccination certificate for any purpose.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also issued instructions to book those found involved in facilitating cheating during examinations under the National Security Act, the statement said.
Internet services, however, were restored in the district after nearly 33 hours, Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan said.
Khan had made inflammatory statements on December 12 last year during the protest near Bab e Syed Gate outside the Aligarh Muslim University in front of more than 600 students. The official also alleged that the Gorakhpur doctor had made objectionable comments against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Earlier, in a major joint offensive, separate teams of nearly 600 personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF) and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) -- an elite unit of Central Reserve Police Force, launched an anti-Naxal operation from three sides towards Elmagunda after getting inputs about a huge gathering of ultras there on Saturday.
'There is a sense of achievement but it has come at a great cost.'
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