At least 12 passengers in the three trains were robbed.
Grant Moore, one of the attackers, was jailed for three years for stabbing 25-year old Balijinder Singh to death, The Age daily reported. Moore pleaded guilty to one charge of attempted armed robbery and one charge of reckless causing serious injury during the court hearing
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The heightened militancy this year in Pulwama is receiving ground support with the local people posing maximum resistance to the forces.
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Eight persons, including three policemen, have already been arrested in connection with the case
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Amidst anger and grief over the unprovoked killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford in the United Kingdom, another Asian man has suffered group assault and racial abuse in the city.
Trouble is brewing in Arunachal Pradesh where Maoists are instigating the locals to join anti-dam movements in eastern part.
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Honduras national team midfielder Arnold Peralta was shot to death in a shopping mall parking lot in his hometown of La Ceiba on the country's Caribbean coast, police said. The country is plagued by gang violence and has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Another accused in the sensational Rs 8 crore heist at Lajpat Nagar was arrested in New Delhi on Monday with police saying that he was one of the key henchmen involved in the plot.
Six persons, most of whom have criminal past, have been arrested for allegedly robbing and killing a freelance television journalist from Uttar Pradesh in broad daylight here last week, police said on Wednesday.
Suspected terrorists on Wednesday targeted two banks in south Kashmir's Pulwama district within a span of two hours and decamped with several lakh rupees.
An Australian court on Thursday sentenced a Melbourne teenager to 13 years in jail for murdering Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress.
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McAllister, the son of Union City Police Chief Darryl McAllister, and the juvenile have been charged with attempted robbery, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon.
A 16-year-old boy today pleaded guilty to killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which threatened Australia's ties with India. The teenager, whose identity has not been revealed, appeared in Supreme court where he pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of attempted armed robbery in the killing of Garg.
A 41-year-old man in the United States has been executed for killing a convenience store clerk from India during a shooting spree in 2001. Mark Stroman, a Texas death row inmate, shot at least three men he mistook for 'Arabs' in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, killing two of them. He was convicted of killing Vasudev Patel, 49, during the attempted robbery of a convenience store near Dallas in October 2001.
An Indian cab driver in New York has been arrested on charges that he raped and robbed a 26-year-old passenger in his taxi last year.
A key Taliban commander has been arrested in connection with the violence in this Pakistani port city that has been hit by gang warfare since the last two years.
Napoli striker Lorenzo Insigne was held up at gunpoint and robbed as he was driving through crime-plagued Naples over the weekend, his agent said on Monday. Insigne was driving with his wife and two friends late on Saturday when he stopped at a traffic light. A gunman on the back of a motorbike pulled level with the car and forced the four occupants to hand over their valuables. As he drove away, the thief asked Insigne, who comes from Naples, to dedicate a goal to him at Monday night's Serie A clash with Fiorentina, local media reported. Italian media said the masked robber got away with a Rolex watch, jewels and 800 euros ($872.48) in cash.
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Pakistani cricketer Kamran Akmal's relatives were robbed of 1.5 million rupees, jewellery, mobile phones and other personal items while on their way to attend a wedding ceremony near their home in Lahore.
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In a daring daylight heist, two unidentified armed assailants looted a cash van of around Rs 1.5 crore after allegedly killing an ATM security guard in Kamla Nagar area of North Delhi on Saturday morning.
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Czech Petra Kvitova won the Aegon Classic in Birmingham on Sunday after fighting back to beat Australian Ashleigh Barty 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Arun Kumar Narote, who hails from Hyderabad was gunned down on Monday at a grocery store at Bridgeport in Connecticut where he was working as a part-time employee. The incident happened around 9:30 pm (local time).
A South African court handed rapid punishment to two men who robbed World Cup journalists from Portugal and Spain, sentencing them to 15 years in jail, police said on Saturday.
Three Greek World Cup players had money stolen from their hotel rooms and Chinese journalists were robbed at gunpoint, officials said on Thursday.
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The development came a day after the Jammu and Kashmir government issued a statement asking political leaders not to visit the Valley.
An Indian-origin British billionaire businessman, accused plotting the murder his Indo-Swedish wife during their honeymoon in South Africa in 2010, told a court that he is bisexual as his trial for began in Cape Town on Monday.
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Amid a spate of attacks on Indian youths in Australia, a Senate committee which probed the issue has concluded that the assaults were more likely to be "opportunistic robberies" than prompted by racism, prompting a student body to say the authorities "are still in denial."
In what could be the biggest cash heist in the national capital, the driver of a cash transit van allegedly fled with around Rs 22.5 crore from southeast Delhi's Govindpuri area on Thursday.
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