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Lima, Sep 17 (IANS/EFE) A 15-year-old boy in Peru has confessed to killing 10 people, including a pregnant woman, in the past three years, local media reported. The boy, nicknamed Gringacho, surrendered before the authorities and said he was recruited by a criminal network in the city of Trujillo, 570 km north of Lima, when [...]

Chandigarh, Sep 13 (IANS) Curfew was imposed in Punjab’s Malerkotla town Monday following communal tension in which the property of a church was set on fire by a mob enraged after rumours that the Quran has been burnt in the US. Police officials in Malerkotla, about 150 km from here, said curfew would continue till [...]

Chandigarh, Aug 21 (IANS) At least five workers of a private paper factory near Malerkotla town in Punjab were killed when a blast took place in the boiler of the unit Saturday, police officials said. While five workers died instantly, three others were injured in the accident. Punjab police officials said they were investigating what [...]

Ahmedabad, July 30 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted its status report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to the Supreme Court. According to television reports, CBI in its status report has asked for the case to be shifted out of Gujarat as it feels that investigation cannot be carried [...]

New Delhi, July 30 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will submit its interim report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case before the Supreme Court today. According to television reports, the investigating agency will seek 3-4 months extension from the court before the final report is completed. The apex Court had set July [...]

Islamabad, July 23 (ANI): A day after the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered a judicial inquiry into the broad daylight murder of two Christian brothers accused of blasphemy out side the Faisalabad court premises, an FIR has been lodged against the senior police officials who neglected directives regarding providing a full security cover to both [...]

Hyderabad, July 22 (IANS) There’s fresh tension on the Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border. After Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) protest over the Babhali dam project in Maharashtra, it is now the Shiv Sena’s turn to rake up a controversy over a lift irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh. Tension prevailed on the Andhra-Maharashtra border near Bodhan in Nizamabad [...]

New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Delhi University reopened Wednesday to thousands of anxious first-year students stepping into a new phase of their lives and police personnel mounting strict vigil to check any ragging incidents. All colleges opened at 8 a.m. and most planned orientation programmes for students on the first day. ‘I am very excited [...]

Panchkula (Haryana), July 18 (ANI): In a daring rescue operation, a special squad of divers saved three people from drowning in the raging Ghaggar rivulet in Haryana”s Panchkula District. The three men were stranded on a small islet on Saturday surrounding by strong currents in the overflowing rivulet since many hours, unable to swim across [...]

Islamabad, July 18 (ANI): Pakistan has once again demanded that the Indian magistrate who recorded the statements of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the convicted 26/11 Mumbai attack gunman, should appear before the anti-terror court hearing the terror attacks case. Talking to reporters here, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said India must allow the official to present Kasab’s [...]

Srikakulam (Andhra Pradesh), July 15 (ANI): Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh”s Srikakulam District have demanded a judicial probe into an incident of police firing on protestors, who refused to vacate their lands for a proposed 2,000 MW Srikakulam Thermal Power Project. The opposition Telugu Desam, Praja Rajyam, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India [...]

Islamabad, July 14 (ANI): Pakistan has asked India to send the police officials and the magistrate who had recorded the statements of lone surviving 26/11 gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab to testify his records. According to reports, Interior Minister Rehman Malik met Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal here and put forth the demand of sending the [...]

Islamabad, July 14 (ANI): A senior leader of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) Habib Jalib was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Quetta on Wednesday morning. According to reports, a couple of unknown gunmen on a motorcycle fired at Jalib, who was BNP’s secretary general, outside his residence situated in Musa Colony of the provincial [...]

Karachi, July 11 (ANI): In an incident which reveals the deplorable plight of females in Pakistan, a woman, who was declared a ‘Kari’ by her husband, was publicly thrashed and threatened to be killed by her brother and spouse in Larkana, Sindh. According to reports, Hafeezan Bhutto, 30, was forcibly taken into a vehicle by [...]

Karachi, July 9 (ANI): In an incident which showcases the brutal hatred with which Hindus are seen in Pakistan, at least 60 members of the minority community, including women and children, were forced to abandon their house in Karachi’s Memon Goth area just because a Hindu boy drank water from a cooler outside a mosque. [...]

Karachi, June 25 (ANI): A top Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander has been arrested from the Baldia Town locality here. The commander, who has been identified as Zafar Hussain, hails from Swat, and is said to have carried out various terror attacks across the country in the recent past. According to reports, acting on an intelligence [...]

London, June 23 (ANI): A German terror suspect, clad in burqa, has been arrested by Pakistani security officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’ Bannu District. According to local police officials, the German man was in a vehicle with two other men and a young girl when they were stopped at a check-point. Further investigations revealed that [...]

Raipur, June 12 (ANI): In a major development, the Chhattisgarh Government has transferred 16 police officers including Dantewada Superintendent of Police Amaresh Mishra who came under criticism from Rammohan Committee in the wake of killing of 75 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. Mishra came under severe criticism for handling of anti- Naxal operations in [...]

Quetta (Balochistan), Jun.9 (ANI): In yet another incident which showcases the plight of the minority Hindu community in Pakistan, a prominent trader was shot dead and his son kidnapped here by armed assailants. According to reports, Rajesh Kumar, a rice dealer, and his son Hamesh Kumar were near their shop situated on the Maddrasa Road [...]

North Island (New Zealand), June 8 (ANI): Indian national Dev Sangha, whose wife and 18-month-old daughter were found dead in their Tauranga home in New Zealand, touched down at the Auckland International Airport on Tuesday. Dev had been holidaying in India when he was informed about his wife Ravneet’s death and, initially, the disappearance of [...]