Five persons, suspected to be involved in the two recent daring bank robberies in the city, were shot dead by police in an alleged encounter in the wee hours on Thursday.
A scheduled wedding, taking place between two alleged gangsters -- Anuradha Choudhary alias 'Madam Minz' from Rajasthan and Sandeep alias Kala Jathedi from Haryana -- is being discussed in police circles.
Businessman Nandu Gupta, a resident of Noida, fears for his safety whenever he has to travel in trains that pass through Bihar. Gupta had witnessed a robbery by armed criminals nearly two years ago who had looted the passengers of a New Delhi-bound train while it was nearing Patna.Gupta's is not an isolated case. Thousands of passengers pray for their safety when their trains pass through Bihar, especially in the night.
A man was killed and three others injured while trying to resist armed robbers who looted passengers of the Punjab Mail near Simutala halt in Kiul-Asansol section of East Central Railway early on Saturday.Nearly 12 bandits boarded the S-4 coach of the Amritsar-bound train from Howrah and looted valuables worth Rs two lakh from the passengers, police said. They fired a couple of rounds when some passengers tried to resist.
The Centre on Monday extended the ban on terrorist group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for five years for its involvement in fomenting terrorism and disturbing peace and communal harmony in the country.
Prohibition is resulting in prisons getting overcrowded.
According to state government data, the first 10 months of last year -- January to October 2020 -- witnessed 2,649 murders in Bihar, an average of nearly nine murders a day.
Seven gunmen boarded an AC-III tier coach of the train at the Bhabhua Road station on the Mughalsarai-Sasaram section of the East-Central Railway and went on a looting spree.
The political turmoil in Bihar has pushed the law and order to the back burner.
If you can't control law and order, then resign, VHP tells NDA government in Bihar.
Opposition parties on Sunday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party after Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and eight others were inducted into the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, saying the ruling party's 'washing machine' has resumed its operation to clean tainted leaders and it was an 'ED-facilitated power grab'.
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With extortion, robberies, fake currency and arms smuggling, the homegrown terror outfits may have raised Rs 200 crore.
As many as 77 rape cases were reported across India on an average every day in 2020, totalling to 28,046 such incidents during the year, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau data.
The ban was being imposed with investigations revealing that in most of the cases of bank robbery, the criminals used their cellular phones.
The moves comes in the wake of a recent robbery in Farakka Express train in Bihar.
According to a document by the Association for Democratic Reforms, the average number of years a case against a member of Parliament or a member of Legislative Assembly is pending is seven years. Vicky Nanjappa reports
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Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
Nitish Kumar had a week's time to prove his majority, but Laloo Yadav made full use of Siwan don Mohammad Shahabuddin. A revealing excerpt from Rajesh Singh's Baahubalis Of Indian Politics: From Bullet To Ballot.
Taking on the grand alliance in Lalu Prasad Yadav's home turf of Gopalganj, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whether he wanted the old days of 'jungle raj'-- when the region had turned into a 'mini Chambal' -- to return.
Rampant crime challenges the chief minister's promise to maintain law and order. But some say there are other forces at play.
Election watchdog Association of Democratic Reforms also reported that Janata Dal-United's Mahendra Prasad was the richest with assets worth Rs 4,078 crore.
Following is the chronology of events in the keenly watched trial of the December 16 gang rape and murder case of a 23-year-old girl in which a Delhi court on Friday awarded death penalty to the four convicts:
'Forming cults around Lalus, Nitishes, Mulayams, Mayawatis and Mamatas will do as much harm to the Republic as the bhakti of the Hindus for Modi will do,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
A special court trying four adult accused for allegedly gang-raping a 23-year-old paramedic in a bus in New Delhi on Wednesday concluded recording of the evidence and would hear final arguments from Thursday.
Sher Shah Suri ruled for only a few years, but his huge influence on India continues six centuries later, reveals Farhat Nasreen.
The Association for Democratic Reforms came out with the figures in a report after analysing affidavits of the candidates of 12 Lok Sabha seats that are going to polls. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab as protesters agitated against the dilution of the SC/ST Act.
'It was only relatively recently that Subhash Kapoor was able to secure the sources in India, Afghanistan and Cambodia, that allowed him to get the really highest level objects, and that helped propel him in recent years up the ranks.'
