The Kerala high court has asked the Director General of Police (DGP) to weed out criminals in the state police force. “Persons with criminal antecedents in the police force will not be allowed to cont

Militants have shot dead a woman candidate of panchayat elections in Chrar-e-Sharief area of Budgam district in central Kashmir, officials said here on Saturday.

Hasina Begum (40) was shot dead by th

New Delhi, Feb. 13: The CBI, which is probing possible criminal aspects, if any, in the allotment of spectrum licences since 2001, will question the former communications minister, Mr Arun Shourie, he

New Delhli, Dec. 18: The Congress general secretary, Mr Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday suggested that the demolition of the Babri Masjid should be mentioned as a “criminal act” in the draft of the party’s

Raipur, Dec. 18: The Maoist movement has considerably weakened in the country following recent arrests and killing of some of top rebel leaders, a document prepared for internal circulation among the

New Delhi, Dec. 18: Undaunted by the controversy over his Karkare remarks, the AICC general secretary, Mr Digvijay Singh, on Saturday launched a frontal attack on the RSS and the BJP by claiming that

London: A woman prison officer in Britain has quit after she was alleged to have had sex in a prison room with a criminal jailed for robbery.

Giselle Woodford, 28, married and mother of a two-year-o

A notorious criminal was killed in a shootout with the police in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district on Tuesday, but his family alleges he was murdered in cold blood and claims it had earlier complained

New Delhi , Oct. 1: Matters of faith were at the core of the Ayodhya title suits though it was purportedly about the disputed land at the town. So it is perhaps no wonder that religious metaphors pred

New Delhi, Oct. 1: A day after the Allahabad High Court’s verdict in the Ayodhya land title suits the Congress initiated an exercise to consolidate its support base among the minority community spread