'Some semi-literate lunkhead tweeting at Rs 2 per tweet from a dingy basement in Chennai or San Diego accomplishes nothing, but give hundreds of thousands of them a time, date, and talking points, and they can create a wall of sound -- a nonsensical wall, perhaps, but one that is heard, and that can occasionally prevail just because it's there,' says Mitali Saran.
The encounter took place under Kalasa police station when an ANF team began combing operations following a tip off late Tuesday night. During the operation a gang of four Naxalites, including a woman, started firing at the ANF team, A M Prasad, IGP (Western Range) told PTI from Kalasa over phone.
In yet another shocking incident at a school, an eight year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her 63 year-old teacher inside its premises near Bangalore. Both the teacher and the principal have been arrested, a senior police official said.
Over 60 target killers have been arrested during operations to combat ethnic and political violence in the troubled city of Karachi that has witnessed over 500 lives since July.
'Let us not fool ourselves into thinking that by sidestepping the rule of law, justice has been served in this case because we have once again very conveniently and completely absolved society's responsibility in all of this,' says Neetika Vishwanath.
'When these fugitives flee to Karachi they don't have much to do, but tweedle their thumbs.' 'I have seen a number of criminals coming back to India because they realise they can meet more people over here.' 'After the 1993 blasts, Latif was not mentioned in the chargesheet.' 'He probably felt he could safely return to India.'
The encounter occured on Friday night on the Karnataka, Tamil Nadu border.
What was the need to fictionalise a series on real events that were far more horrific because they were real? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Locals mistook them for child-lifters and started attacking them.
Speaking to reporters, Kaushalendra Pratap Singh, the station officer of Bithoor police station in Kanpur district who was injured in the savage attack on a police team, recalled the events of the intervening night of Thursday-Friday that unfolded like a gangster film.
The first encounter took place when a police team was approaching to arrest Vikas Dubey, a history-sheeter facing 60 criminal cases, in Dikru village under the Chaubeypur police station on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, police said.
Pakistan would want to take full advantage of the situation to direct Taliban trained terrorists into the Kashmir Valley, alert Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar, a close confidant of Pakistan's Army Chief Raheel Sharif, on Friday took over as the new head of the powerful spy agency Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence.
Was the recent Nabha jailbreak a comment on lax security in Punjab jails? Or a sign that the separatist movement of the 1980s is dormant but alive?
It is alleged that the attackers included a group of men against whom Joshi had filed a complaint on July 16 accusing them of harassing his niece after he had objected to their betting racket in the locality.
While a gang of seven was apprehended by Crime Branch in a span of four days from November 18, South District Police arrested three persons on November 19. The arrests by Crime Branch team came following investigations into an input about the operations of Sandeep Dahiya, the alleged kingpin of the racket, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand said.
The sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday found all the accused in the Shakti Mills gangrape cases guilty.
Statesmanship requires that the prime minister himself reaches out to those amassed at the Singhu and Ghazipur borders. Modi should be able to win over this domestic front with sheer compassion, observes Virendra Kapoor.
A turf war has broken out between two underworld dons in Mangalore, and both are trying to fuel communal tension to strengthen their network and expand their business in the city, said the police.The murky operations of the underworld have shifted from Mumbai to Mangalore, say the police, as the financial capital has now become the hotbed of terror.
Russia's top anti-terror agency on Tuesday confirmed Maryam Sharipova, a 28-year old IT teacher from a Caucasus village as one of the two suicide bombers, who blew herself up at Moscow's metro Lubyanka station last week.
The minister also hoped that a resolution should be reached before the year ends and asserted that the Modi government is committed to address all genuine concerns of the farming community.
The gang, which Symantec calls Morpho, is financially motivated.
Efforts are underway to nab the alleged mastermind Pulsar Suni and another accused V P Vigeesh.
He and his friends were denied entry on the ground that they were 'Ismaili, Vohra and Sindhis', Jani said.
The world according to Neeraj Pandey. Observed by Sreehari Nair.
'What we are actually missing in India is a platform wherein the government engages with cybersecurity experts, gets them employed and then utilises their capability to deter such attacks.'
The masked, blue gowned and now fogged face shields were highly skilled and capable health care workers -- but inside their protective clothing they were people, with emotions -- sad, fearful, tears pouring down their masks and dripping off the sky blue water repellent gowns. Even Kevin the hulk, the male nurse who I saw lift a patient single-handedly to place an X-ray plate under the chest, was staring at his foot wear, moved to tears. Dr Sanjeeth Peter reveals what goes on in a Covid ICU: The second of a heart-wrenching multi-part diary of a Covid Warrior.
During the hearing, the bench said it would decide whether to re-conduct the examination after receiving the status report from the police on June 10.
Three mine owners, on whose plea the Supreme Court recently stayed mining operations of a company owned by the powerful Reddy brothers--who are Karnataka ministers, were attacked on Monday by an eight-member gang in Bellary.
In the 17th minute, Justice Misra read out the concluding part stating that Delhi high court has correctly confirmed the death penalty.
'We feel thrust into a motion picture that has all the makings of a carnival but no real fireworks,' Sreehari Nair notes after watching Malik.
The court also framed charges for destruction of evidence and under Section 328 (causing hurt by poisoning with an intent to hurt) of the RPC.
Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has said she hoped to resolve the Tipaimukh Dam issue with India through talks in co-operation with her arch-rival Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is opposed to the cross-border hydro-power project in Manipur.
India's excitement around their current pace attack is palpable but they would do well to temper their sunny optimism in Australia.
The Mangalore police on Friday cracked the murder case of Naushad, advocate of Rashid Malabari by arresting 6 persons of the Ravi Poojary gang.
As per police, the company handled cash for bank ATMs, malls and jewellers. At the time of the incident, the cash collected was kept in the office.
India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim has figured in the Forbes' first-ever list of the world's ten most wanted fugitives, which is topped by terror mastermind Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The son of a policeman, Dawood reportedly oversees a criminal empire involved in all sorts of international activities, including drug trafficking, counterfeiting, weapons smuggling and murder, the magazine says. Dawood is also suspected to be behind the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the angst-ridden discourse of the day.
Leading non resident Indian MP Virender Sharma on Thursday demanded stringent action against gangs involved in abetting illegal immigration from the Indian state of Punjab to the UK, following a BBC exposure on the issue. An undercover operation by BBC claimed to have exposed a London-based criminal network that used fake passports, identity documents and human carriers to bring in illegal migrants, mostly from Punjab.
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
