A police team from Chandrayangutta police station arrested four people for attacking Raheemuddin Khan, an electrician from Hafiz Baba Nagar. The arrested are Imran Khan, Shaik Raifq, Mohd Ali and Syed Feroze. Raheem had come to the City for his marriage on October 12 but the girl was in love with Imran Khan. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————– MeeSeva, [...]
Male: Maldives’ first democratically-elected President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested today, a week after he failed to appear before a court here to face charges of abuse of power while in office. Maldivian police arrested Nasheed, 45, at the Island of Faresmaathodaa of Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, south of Maldives. Police spokesman Hassan Haneef confirmed that the [...]
Fiona Apple, who was arrested on Wednesday in Sierra Blanca, Texas, for possessing marijuana and hashish, made her first public appearance post-jail at a Houston concert and revealed to the audience everything from an apology to her jailer to angrily suggesting other folks in the slammer had been “inappropriate.”
The belief that a wife is a shortcut to riches received a jolt when a mother-of-one, on being kicked out of her in-laws’ home, sat in dharna, lodged a police complaint and got her husband arrested.
Mumbai: Jailed cartoonist Aseem Trivedi will walk out of prison Wednesday afternoon, an India Against Corruption (IAC) spokesperson said. An IAC team will be present to receive Trivedi outside the Arthur Road Central Jail, where he has been lodged since the past couple of days, said IAC activist Preeti Menon. The development comes a day after [...]
Nambi Narayanan was heading Isro’s cryogenic division, and in 1994 his life changed for the worse after he was arrested on espionage charges along with another Isro official and two Maldivian women. Sanu George In the early 1990s, S Nambi Narayanan was working to develop cryogenic technology when things went for a toss and he [...]
Model-actress Milla Jovovich says she was once arrested for using stolen credit cards. Jovovich, 36, who is married to director Paul Anderson, said she and her friends broke the law all the time by refusing to pay fares on buses and the police also became involved when her behaviour took a turn for the worse, [...]
Hyderabad: Two Nigerians were arrested here for involvement in a credit card fraud, while an Ugandan and a South African were arrested for selling drugs, police said Thursday. All four, who included two woman students, were residing in Yapral in Ranga Reddy district on the outskirts of Hyderabad. According to M.V. Rao, additional deputy commissioner of [...]
Gurgaon: The Gurgaon Police today said 88 workers have been arrested in relation to the violent incident at Maruti Suzuki India’s Manesar plant, where one person was killed last evening. “So far 88 workers have been arrested,” DCP Maheshwar Dayal told reporters outside the plant here. He further said a special investigation team (SIT) has been formed [...]
Guwahati: Two more persons allegedly involved in the molestation of a girl have been arrested and a police official suspended for dereliction of duty amid ongoing raids in Assam and neighbouring states to nab the remaining culprits. “The total number of arrested persons in Monday’s molestation incident is now six,” Senior Superintendent of Police, Guwahati [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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