Indian national Maninder Pal Singh Kohli was on Tuesday found guilty of kidnapping, raping and murdering 17-year-old British schoolgirl Hannah Foster in Southampton in March 2003.
The gunman, believed to have been dressed in a Santa costume, opened fire inside the Reina nightclub in Istanbul's Ortaky district, where hundreds were celebrating the New Year.
Three associates of the dreaded D Gang were picked up in Mangalore in connection with several cases of extortion. A team of the Ullal police station in Magalore launched a massive manhunt for three of Chota Shakeel's associates and finally managed to nab them on Friday night.
The United States is said to have tracked down the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, in the impenetrable Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan's scenic Chitral region, according to a media report.
A senior police officer said that Zafarullah Khan who was working as a soldier with the Territorial Army, and posted in the Doda district, deserted his unit this morning and a manhunt was launched to nab him.
Bangladeshi law enforcement and intelligence officials said a manhunt was underway for Jibon Singh, a suspected leader of Assam-based militant group Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, in line with requests from the West Bengal police, but they could not track him down yet. They said they received from their Indian counterparts documents of cases filed against Singh which were circulated among police stations across Bangladesh.
In his post, the suspect wrote he wished to give up his Indian citizenship and become a spokesperson for the ISIS -- the terror group which currently controls a large part of Iraq and Syria.
Three masked men on motorcycles threw the firebombs into the club in the Agouza district early Friday morning and fled.
The Kolkata police made a major breakthrough on Thursday when they identified two youths who bought the SIMs which were used by the terrorists during the Mumbai terror attacks. The two SIMs were bought from two mobile outlets in Beniapukur and Tiljala. The youths have been absconding from November 26.
The Goa police on Monday launched a manhunt and issued fresh summons for Goa Education Minister Antanasio Monserratte's son Rohit, who is wanted for the alleged rape of a German teenaged girl.The police searched for Rohit at his residence at Taleigao in Panaji, but could not find him there.
A special taskforce formed on Saturday to probe the gruesome killing of two Indian doctoral students at their Louisiana State University apartment has launched a massive manhunt for three suspects described as "black men".
The motive of the crime is still unclear.
A 25-year-old married woman from Delhi was allegedly gang raped in a moving car by four youths, including two sons of her landlord, in Sahibabad area in Ghaziabad.
Nayan Kachrolia was kidnapped for ransom by two persons near his school on Thursday.
Gangster Aziz Reddy alias Baba Reddy was shot dead by the Hyderabad police in the posh Jubilee hills area of the city on Wednesday night. As the policemen closed in on the gang, Reddy and his associates tried to flee. The police asked them to surrender, but Reddy started firing at the police. The police returned the fire and Reddy was killed in the ensuing shootout.The police commissioner said that Reddy was a close associate of Mumbai's underworld don Chhota Rajan.
CM Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences and directed DGP Sulkhan Singh to immediately follow up on the investigations to nab the culprits.
Militants killed the two cops they had abducted from a village in the North Kashmir frontier district of Kupwara on Thursday.
Deputy Police Superintendent A K Lal said about 40 Maoists activists armed with sophisticated weapons opened fire on Sharma's family. His wife along with an uncle and a bodyguard were killed in the incident, he added.
In an audacious incident, kin of a rape accused tried to chop off the teenage victim's tongue on Thursday in Pratapgarh district in order to prevent her from giving her statement in the court. The crime took place in Jethwara area of the district.
The cracker unit, located in a 12 x 12 feet room, is located in the ground floor of a two-storied building. After school hours, the children of poor and lower middle-class families of the locality worked part-time in the unit under the supervision of three adults. The children were paid Rs 10 for making 100 crackers. The blast occurred due to a wrong mix of chemicals.
With his surrender, the police hope to unearth the racket and investigate the alleged role of some of the politicians from Andhra Pradesh in the scandal.
Islam was released on Saturday after a 10-year jail term.
The incident has triggered protests by party workers who fought a pitched battle with the police.
In Jaipur, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said that it was "alright" that some people caught those who were illegally transporting animals but added that "no one has the right to take the law in their own hands".
Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national, was killed during an operation in Subirats.
She was travelling in an Ola cab when unknown persons stopped the vehicle, pulled her out and thrashed her.
The correction was made in the Urdu version of the book Sub Sey Pehlay Pakistan, (Pakistan First) released two days ago.
A camp bed is kept for him and his boots are polished and uniform kept ready every night. The sheets are reportedly crumpled every morning and boots muddy by evening.
Two persons were killed and 13 others injured when an improvised explosive device planted by the banned United Liberation Front of Asom went off in the Upper Assam business hub of Tinsukia town at around 6.20 pm on Saturday.
A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped allegedly by two youth earlier this month in the neighbouring Raigad district, was also molested by a local Nationalist Congress Party leader on the very same day of the incident, the police said.
Police custody of alleged handler of the most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account Mehdi Masroor Biswas was extended by 15 days by a court on Thursday.
Bangladesh has launched a nationwide manhunt for 400 members of a banned Islamic militant outfit and its allies, suspected to be responsible for Wednesday's serial blasts across the country.
Police said the grenade was thrown from a speeding vehicle, and no one was injured.
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Pramod Singh Kushwaha, then the additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) and who headed the investigation team, said each member of the team pitched in to prepare a watertight case against the convicts.
Seven members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India have escaped from a prison in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district. While jail authorities managed to nab one SIMI member, the rest are still on the run.
Some residents of Nani Daman area alerted the police about suspicious movements of six persons in military uniform on Wednesday, thinking they could be terrorists.