Patna, Feb 27 (IANS) Over 1,200 students in Bihar have been disqualified from class 12 examinations for cheating and dozens of other people have been arrested for helping them, an official said on Saturday. “The…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) At least two people were killed in a bombing in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Saturday, police said. The bombs were suspected to have been stored inside a house in Suri…
Toronto, Feb 27 (IANS) A Canadian court has stopped the deportation of a man and his sister to India to face trial for the honour killing of the man’s niece in Punjab on grounds that…
Bengaluru, Feb 27 (IANS) Multinational computer technology company Dell on Saturday warned that cybercrime increased significantly around the world in 2015 despite organisations deploying end-to-end security solutions perfectly. Cybercriminals employed a number of new tactics…
Beijing, Feb 27 (IANS) A former senior official in China’s Guangzhou was dispelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for serious discipline violations. Wu Sha, a former standing committee member of the CPC Guangzhou…
Caltanissetta (Italy), Feb 26 (IANS/AKI) Police in Sicily on Friday impounded assets worth 3 million euros (approx $3.28 mn) from a businessman with alleged links to a prominent mafia boss. The assets included a quarry,…
Guwahati, Feb 26 (IANS) Assam Director General of Police Mukesh Sahai on Friday said police have intensified its operations against illegal weapons and executing the non-bailable warrants (NBWs), pending execution. Addressing a press conference at…
Lucknow, Feb 26 (IANS) A father hacked his three children to death in a fit of rage in Shravasti district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, the police said. The assailant Siyaram, who has been arrested,…
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The death toll in the nine-day violent Jat agitation demanding job quotas in Haryana has touched 30, the state police chief said on Friday. Director General of Police Y.P. Singhal said…
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) Haryana Police on Friday announced the formation of an all-women inquiry committee to look into allegations that women commuters were pulled out of their cars during the recent Jat agitation and…
Bangkok, Feb 26 (IANS) Two university students were arrested in Thailand’s capital Bangkok for selling weapons on social media website Facebook, the media reported on Friday. Sanit Mahathavorn, acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau,…
Shillong, Feb 26 (IANS) Security forces on Friday busted the hideout of Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) commander-in-chief Sohan D’ Shira but he managed to escape along with his accomplices. Security forces seized 16 improvised…
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) At least three people were killed and over 20 injured when an employee went on a shooting spree in the midwestern US state of Kansas, authorities said. The shootings took place…
Ragusa (Italy), Feb 25 (IANS/AKI) Italian police have taken into custody six suspected people smugglers including four minors that were among 327 migrants who reached Sicily late on Wednesday. The four minors piloted two of…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) An income tax official and a chartered accountant, arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for bribery, were on Thursday sent to two days police custody by a court here,…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested two more accused allegedly involved in illegal forex transfer involving the Bank of Baroda. Brothers Varun Bhatia and Gaurav Bhatia were presented before special…
Lucknow, Feb 25 (IANS) An Uttar Pradesh Police head constable was shot dead in Pilibhit in the early hours of Thursday by a mentally unstable person, police said. Subhash Yadav of Pooranpur police station was…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Ten Indians are among the 16 crew members rescued in Nigeria from a ship hijacked off the Ivory Coast earlier this month, a senior official said on Thursday. While one…
Panaji, Feb 25 (IANS) A British disc jockey was on Thursday sentenced by a special court in Goa to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment for possession of synthetic drugs LSD and MDMA. The special court handling…
Srinagar, Feb 25 (IANS) A Pakistani terrorist who attacked an Indian army camp in Jammu and Kashmir three months ago has been arrested, the military announced on Thursday. Mohammad Sadiq Gujjar, 17, of Daska in…