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Goalpara (Assam), July 30 (ANI): Four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and 36 others were injured when militants triggered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at Dhalukbudi in Assam’’s Goalpara district on Friday morning
According to sources, CRPF personnel were patrolling the area when the unidentified militants set off the explosion.
The National [...]

Guwahati, July 30 (IANS) At least four paramilitary troopers were killed and about 30 injured in a powerful landmine explosion in Assam Friday, police said. The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) claimed responsibility for the explosion in the restive northeastern state.
A police spokesperson said militants triggered the remote-controlled landmine when Central Reserve Police [...]

Guwahati, July 30 (IANS) At least four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion Friday in Holmari in Assam’s Goalpara district.
Militants, suspected to be from the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), triggered a landmine blast around 8 a.m. when [...]

West Midnapore, July 24 (ANI): The police and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel arrested four suspected Maoists in a joint operation from Ranja forest in Salboni in West Bengal’’s West Midnapore District.
West Midnapore Superintendent of Police (SP) Manoj Verma said the four suspected Maoists arrested on Friday are Rajesh Munda, Rajesh Hazda, [...]

London, July 21 (ANI): The United State’s plans to begin handing control of provinces in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces by the end 2010 have been quietly dropped amid European countries fears that the new US commander General David Petraeus, is not too keen about the transfer of power.
According to The Guardian, a Nato official [...]

Srinagar, July 21 (IANS) Curfew and restrictions were imposed at many places across the Kashmir Valley Wednesday to prevent separatist protests, police said here.
‘Curfew has been imposed in Sopore town and old town Baramulla while restrictions are in place in old city areas of Srinagar as a precautionary measure,’ a senior police officer said.
‘The restrictions [...]

Raipur, July 21 (IANS) His state is the worst to be hit by Maoist insurgency in India. But despite a series of deadly attacks in 2010, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh is confident that his government is ‘capable of finishing’ the rebels although the war will be ‘long-drawn’.
‘The Chhattisgarh government is not losing the [...]

London, July 20(ANI): A British watchdog report has raised fresh concerns over the police’s ability to protect the public, after it disclosed that just one in ten police officers is free to tackle crime at any given time, as the majority of them are either off work or tied down with other duties.
The ‘Valuing the [...]

Lalgarh (W. Bengal), July 20 (ANI): West Bengal Police came forth with the formula of ”Two Birds with One Stone” and organised a football tournament as a part of their public relations exercise and welfare programme for youth in Maoist infested areas.
The aim to organise the match was to convince youngsters to consider the police [...]

Srinagar, July 15 (ANI): The paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel deployed in Jammu and Kashmir to combat militancy and contain incidents of violence on Thursday said it never wants to hurt innocent civilians.
“We think that the local people here are same as in our plain areas. But some people instigate them. So they [...]

London, July 10 (ANI): A British woman who refused to return a 3.99 pound cricket ball to kids was locked up by cops for five hours.
Lorretta Cole decided to take a stand after the ball damaged her mother-in-law’’s car and was found in the garden seven times in 30 minute, in a quiet cul-de-sac house, [...]

Srinagar, July 6 (ANI): Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and his supporters took to the streets here on Tuesday to protest against the death of two young men.
The situation in the city is tense.
Mirwaiz Farooq has asked the authorities to remove all the police bunkers from the populated areas of the valley.
“People should come out [...]

Srinagar, July 6 (ANI): One person was killed in Srinagar on Tuesday morning when the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) allegedly opened fire after protesters once again indulged in stone pelting.
The youth named Fayaz Ahmed died in firing during clashes between stone pelter and security forces in Tengpora.
The protesters were agitating against the killing of [...]

West Midnapore, July 6 (ANI): The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) arrested wanted Maoist leader Santo Singh in West Bengal’’s West Midnapore District this morning.
Santo Singh is the key accused in the March 22 Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express attack.
More details are awaited. (ANI)

New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General Vikram Srivastava on Monday claimed that his force has not fired a single bullet since morning in violence hit Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir.
Interacting with media, Srivastava said: “No ammunition has been fired by CRPF at the funeral procession. Our basic position is that we [...]

Washington, June 28 (ANI): While there has been substantial progress in the US’ ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan, the results of the nine year old struggle have been “harder and slower” than expected, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta has said.
Speaking during ABC’s ‘This Week’ programme, Panetta conceded that “there are some serious problems” [...]

Islamabad, June 26 (ANI): Pakistan on Saturday proposed the formation of a common police force for the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) countries.
Addressing the SAARC Home / Interior Ministers” Conference, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there should be a “SAARC Police Force” to facilitate information exchange among the member countries.
In his [...]

Kolkata, June 26 (ANI): Advocates of Calcutta High Court Bar staged a demonstration to protest against uncivilised behaviour of certain policemen towards women lawyers and demanded intervention of the Chief Justice to initiate appropriate action.
Volunteers of Ganatantrik Nagar Samiti of Howrah also joined the agitating lawyers in their protest.
The lawyers claimed that around 200 policemen [...]

Jalalabad (Afghanistan), June 20 (ANI): A U.S. effort to get tribes to form militias to fight off the Taliban in return for development aid is not paying off as expected, a Los Angeles Times report has quoted sources, as saying.
Recently, 12 fighters of the Shinwari Tribe took on the Taliban in hope of regaining their [...]

Johannesburg, June 18 (ANI): The two Dutch women arrested in the orange dress ambush-marketing saga were “very traumatised” by the experience, their lawyer said on Thursday.
“They were very traumatised; they were treated by bullies,” sports24.co.za quoted
lawyer Kobus Lowies as telling the South Africa Press Agency (SAPA).
The two, Barbara Castelein and Mirte Nieuwpoort, appeared in the [...]