A Las Vegas museum devoted to the exploits of Tommy gun-wielding mobsters will open a permanent display that explores the "rampant corruption" of global soccer's scandal-rocked governing body, which has drawn comparisons to organized crime.
Three days after Swami Nigamananda died after a 114-day fast against the desecration of River Ganga, his father Prakash Chandra Jha has demanded that his body be handed over to him for the last rites. The seer of Haridwar-based Matri Sadan Ashram, Swami Nigamananda was demanding immediate stopping of quarrying in the Ganga and alleged corruption in the government's system with active involvement of the mafia. He had begun his fast on February 19 and was in a coma since May 2.
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Yaniv Benaim alias Atala is probably one of the most known faces in Goa. After much effort, this man who controls the drug mafia in Goa, was finally extradited from Peru and was being interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday.
Seven persons were arrested in the murder of Additional District Collector of Malegaon district Yashwant Sonawane who was burnt alive by suspected members of a local oil mafia, as the victim's family demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the incident.
An additional district collector was on Tuesday burnt alive, allegedly by members of the petrol and diesel mafia, at Manmad in Maharashtra's Nashik district. Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane was accompanied by his personal assistant and driver when the shocking incident took place at a roadside dhaba near Manmad town, nearly 260 km from Mumbai. Preliminary reports say Sonawane had gone there to conduct a raid on the petrol and diesel mafia.
'Nothing will fall into anybody's lap for free.' 'There is a lot of competition out there, there are a lot of people to take your place.' 'It's never easy.'
She said she would not resign from the assembly and continue to carry out development works in Amritsar East assembly constituency.
The disagreements over what needs to be done on floodplains allows for illegal takeover by land mafia till nothing is left, observes Sunita Narain
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigative Team on black money, Justice Arijit Pasayat, said Rs 70,000 crore of black money has been unearthed so far and the sixth report on it will be submitted to the apex court in April.
Several actors have played the uber cool don over the years. Which one is your favourite?
Nazarwala, who predicted a triple century for the BJP in the UP elections, lists the challenges that await the new chief minister.
Yogendra Yadav, expelled co-founder of the Aam Aadmi Party, on the party's performance in the last one year.
'The government had six months to prepare for the contingency. When the government is forewarned, it needs to take a decision on contingency measures, evict villagers, provide them with alternate temporary shelter, accommodation, provide food, water, cattle stocks. But none of this is ever done,' says N Suresh.
'A six month extension, if not extended further, would make General Bajwa a lame duck chief, altering the balance of his equations with the senior peer group of lieutenant generals,' says Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
A number of young women have decided to take upon themselves the responsibility of saving the forest in Sambalpur near Rourkela from timber mafia by attaching themselves emotionally to the trees and protecting them as they would their own brothers.
"Twenty one persons have died so far in the liquor tragedy," District Magistrate Ajay Yadav said. The incident happened late on Friday, when several people from Luhari Darwaja and adjacent Laukhera village consumed spurious liquor and were taken ill.
Sharif is in London with his ailing wife Kulsoom, who is suffering from throat cancer and has undergone three surgeries so far.
International Players' Union chief Tim May fears the betting mafia might be targetting children in under-age cricket tournaments to get them involved in corruption at the senior level.
Supporters of the proposal voiced their grievances at the gathering on how their properties were allegedly taken over by government, mafia and illegal occupants.
Aditya Sam Abraham talks about his first Malayalam feature film, 24 Hours.
The nexus between the Telugu film industry and the drug mafia has been revealed with the Hyderabad police arresting two brothers of popular film actor Ravi Teja, along with two others. Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said that Naga Babu and Bharat Raju, both brothers of Ravi Teja, along with their friend Naresh and an Ugandan national Cheema were arrested near a hotel in Jubilee Hills on Thursday night while they were buying drugs from the foreigner.
Amid growing demand for revoking the suspension of Indian Administrative Service officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, the Centre on Wednesday said it is awaiting a report from the Uttar Pradesh government based on which it will decide the future course of action.
Of late, the dimensions of battles in Mangalore in costal Karnataka have transformed, turning more on the lines of Islamic dons vs the Hindu dons than mere gang wars.
Get your low down on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry right here!
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, she said: "The July 12 blast was carried out to target my minister, Nand Gopal Nandi, whose popularity had become an eye sore for the entire Opposition, whom he left far behind at the 2007 state assembly election."
The suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal, a young IAS officer, is likely to be withdrawn by the Uttar Pradesh government as the case has become extremely high-profile.
The biggest rage and the most popular application on Facebook, it is the magic pill which has set Zynga on track to pocket close to $835 million this year.
An officer within the Indonesian police was quoted by NDTV saying that Rajan is very scared, constantly smoking and doesn't talk to people.
As part of a light-hearted series, we bring you the lowdown on love in a truly unique fashion. Today: The Hazards of Dating a Teacher!
This time the actress is changing her looks for Balaji's Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai.
Anjuli Bhargava reports on how the Aam Aadmi Party is making quality education more inclusive and at no cost to parents.
The menace of match-fixing is life threatening and it's time the ICC steps in and take stringent action to wipe out the menace for once and all, feels former South Africa captain Clive Rice.
Police are continuing their look-out for Swedish model Lucky Mngrda, 34, after the 'whistleblower,' who has worked as an extra in Bollywood films and in reality TV show Villa Medusa, claimed to have in possession further video evidence of links between the Goa police and the drug mafia, Swedish news portal The Local cited a report in NDTV.
'I am not going to talk about fear and apprehension.' 'I can only talk about my expectation which at this moment is to bring back development and maintain that momentum in the coming months,' Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat tells Rashme Sehgal for Rediff.com
Whether they were part of the crimes they were out to erase or were victims of vendetta, we don't know. What we do know are just numbers. For the record, between 1993 and 2003, in a decade some 600 criminals got wiped off the crime charts.
Even as IPL franchise owners continue to face the heat from income tax authorities amid allegations of financial irregularities, netizens are making quick bucks after buying their favourite teams in the virtual world.
The Union home ministry wants state governments to take proactive action against illegal mining as it has become a national security threat. In a recent meeting with the states, the home ministry said that windfall profits from such mining of minerals and sand were being used by the mafia to aid extremist elements.
