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Foreign-linked targeted killing plot foiled in Ludhiana, 2 held with 9mm pistol

Ludhiana, Jan. 8 -- In a major intelligence-led crackdown, the State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), SAS Nagar, in coordination with the Counter Intelligence, Ludhiana, foiled a planned targeted killin... Read More


Maharashtra Cong vice president dies after being stabbed at mosque in Akola

India, Jan. 8 -- Maharashtra Congress vice president Hidayatullah Barakatullah Patel, who was stabbed near a mosque in Akot town in Akola district on Tuesday, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday mo... Read More


Fireworks during poll campaign spark blaze in Bandra high-rise, seventh-floor flat gutted

India, Jan. 8 -- An election campaign in Bandra East took a dangerous turn on Tuesday night when fireworks allegedly set off by some political party workers entered a flat in a residential high-rise, ... Read More


18 Bangladeshi nationals convicted for illegal entry, stay in Pune

India, Jan. 8 -- A sessions court in Pune has convicted 18 Bangladeshi nationals for illegally entering and staying in India without valid travel documents, sentencing them to rigorous imprisonment an... Read More


Clashes near Delhi masjid; encroachments razed

India, Jan. 8 -- Municipal authorities tore down a raft of encroachments on public land abutting a decades-old mosque in central Delhi's Turkman Gate area at 1.30am on Wednesday after a brief bout of ... Read More


Daddy's girls ride on redevelopment and civic issues in Dagdi Chawl

India, Jan. 8 -- Geeta Gawli, 42, a three-time corporator, and her poll debutante sister Yogita, 37, have been campaigning daily in their municipal wards -- 212 and 207 respectively -- in Byculla ahea... Read More


Police bust extortion module linked to gangster Dasuwal; 2 shooters held in Amritsar

AMRITSAR, Jan. 8 -- Commissionerate Police Amritsar has busted an extortion and firing module linked to gangster Prabh Dasuwal, arresting two shooters and nominating another accused in connection with... Read More


BJP in damage control after local units tie up with Congress, AIMIM

India, Jan. 8 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday blamed "a breach of discipline" for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s alliances with archrival Congress and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul... Read More


Lucknow gets its first woman JCP (Crime)

LUCKNOW, Jan. 8 -- An IPS officer of the 2002-batch, Aparna Kumar was on Wednesday appointed the joint commissioner of police (Crime) of Lucknow. She is becoming the first woman officer to hold the po... Read More


'Narwekar offered money, made threats so that I would withdraw'

India, Jan. 8 -- An independent candidate contesting the civic elections claims that speaker of the legislative assembly Rahul Narwekar offered her and her husband contracts, money and even a position... Read More