Mohali (Punjab): Punjab police on Saturday said that they had busted an inter-state gang of vehicle thieves, arresting four people and recovering 27 vehicles from their possession. Working on a secret tip-off, Mohali district police arrested these four from Kharar town February 1. "We have recovered 27 vehicles worth Rs 1.46 crore. This gang was active in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for the last many months," Mohali police chief Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said. The arrested accused were identified as Surjit Singh, 42, his son Pawan Kumar, 19, Devinder Singh, 26, and Gurmit Singh, 27. "The accused used to steal vehicles from different parts of this region and were selling them after making forged registration certificates and other documents. Nearly 31 cases of vehicle thefts were registered against them in different parts of Punjab and Haryana," he added. Mohali town is around 10 km away from Chandigarh. ...

Bijnor: A 12-year-old boy was thrashed and beaten up by an Uttar Pradesh politician in the Bijnor district of the state on Saturday. RLD leader and former UP minister for sugarcane, Swami Omesh, claims he caught the child red handed when he was attempting to pick his pocket. The child had come to the leaders rally and was later detained by the police. He was let off and handed over to his parents. The boy was thrashed and the minister twisted his ears to extract a confession. The incident took place when the rally being led by Swami Omwesh was crossing the district magistrate's office in Bijnor. The minister was not available for comment. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

david.hayes77 has added a photo to the pool: She may be taking water but loco 798 of the Darjeeling Hill Railway is none too happy. Pictured at Sukna, and not yet into the serious business of climbing the hill, 798 receives attention and eventually limps on only to fail half way up the climb. Taken on 22 November 1983

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Madurai, Feb. 4: The headmasters of the recently upgraded government high schools in the state now double up as head masons also. Under the Rashtriya Madyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), a central government scheme being implemented in collaboration with the state government to provide universal access for students to secondary education, headmasters have been vested with the task of supervising construction works of the buildings for the high schools.Last March, the state government announced upgradation of 200 middle schools into high schools and funds for buildings at an estimated cost of `49.67 lakh each too were sanctioned later.As per the guidelines of the RMSA, though a school management development committee comprising the HM, assistant HM, a member of the Parents-Teachers Association (PTA), ward member and a social worker was formed, only the HM and the PTA member are authorised to release funds.It is a noble scheme but problematic for the school heads. Some ward and PTA m...

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Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today announced a special fund to encourage litterateurs and setting up of an Rs 25 crore idol with potential to become a Bangalore landmark. Yeddyurappa said he would set aside Rs ten crore in the annual budget, to be unveiled this month, for the benefit of litterateurs in financial need and also encourage authors to publish their first book. The scheme would be implemented through the Kannada Sahitya Parishath, he said, addressing the inaugural function of the 77th "Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana" (All India Kannada Literary Conference). The Chief Minister also said a mega idol of "Thayi Bhuvaneshwari", the native goddess of Karnataka, would be established here at a cost of Rs 25 crore and work on it would begin in April. This idol would be built on a grand scale similar to the "Statue of Liberty" in New York and the Budhha statue in Lumbini park in ...

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Thrissur: One person was arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 23-year-old woman passenger of a local train, who was seriously injured in the incident and continues to battle for her life. Govindaswamy, a hardened criminal hailing from Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu had admitted to the crime. He has been charged under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), police said. The accused, which does not have the left arm, was taken into custody from Palakkad district in Kerala, they said. The woman was pushed out of train by the accused after she resisted his attempt to snatch her bag. He also jumped out of the Ernakulam-Shornur passenger train, along with her and raped the severely injured woman. Meanwhile, Thrissur Medical College Hospital Superintendent, V K Mohanan said the woman's condition showed no signs of improvement and she was still on the ventilator. The w...

Akash-Too foggy to shoot in New Delhi! has added a photo to the pool: Its only now that Indian women are speaking up from themselves and what matters to them... but for the hundreds of years they have been forced to be silent - they have learnt the art of expressing themselves through their eyes. If it's said that Indian women have very expressive eyes - then there is a good reason for that! ;-)

Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan: Jhunjhunu, a sleepy district in Rajasthan, has stood up to protest the transfer of its Collector, Mugdha Sinha. The residents claim that she was doing good work, but was transferred in barely four months due to pressure from a local MLA of the ruling Congress Shrawan Kumar who, they say, instigated Mugdha's transfer as she was taking action against the mining mafia in the area. Jhunjhunu residents want the Collector's transfer revoked. "This Collector was doing good work. But shady politicians of our area have got her transferred and the way her transfer was managed for political reasons is totally wrong," said Phool Chand Dhewa, Secretary, Farmers Union , Jhunjhunu. The concerned MLA is now silent but the government claims Mugdha's transfer was a routine matter as 14 IAS officers were transferred along with her on January 30. But sources say Mugdha was pro-active in checking illegal mining and corrupti...

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Feb. 3: With more families showing up to get the Aadhaar/unique identification number, officials have decided to increase the number of enrollment centres from the present 80 to 112.Most of the families turning up at the centres are white ration card holders as the government has decided to give ration to only those who have Aadhaar-based smart cards in coming months. The chief rationing officer, Mr D.S. Lokesh Kumar, said the department would procure 200 more kits that record biometric data to speed up the process. Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, Smart Chip Limited, Infronics and Techsmart India are the four firms executing the project in AP.Aadhaar enrollment was launched in the state in seven districts, including Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, East Godavari, Srikakulam, Chittoor, Anantapur, and Adilabad in the first phase. &nbsp

bogenvolia has added a photo to the pool: He is the priest at one of the many famous 'Terracotta' temple in Bishnupur, West Bengal. One can see the terracotta works on the temple wall. Most of these excellent art works in most of these temples are on the verge of extinction due to lack of maintenance . A place deserve to be a World heritage site, but who cares !!! [ Bishnupur , West Bengal, India. ]

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Mumbai: As recovery agents come to assume Shylock-like proportions for those defaulting on their loans, Wednesday night saw a family being made homeless, allegedly because of persecution by the agents for being unable to make loan payments on time. The harassment has driven them to the extent of threatening to commit suicide. The residence of Diliprao Patil, who lives in Empire Building in Sher-e-Punjab society in Andheri (E) with wife and two kids, got caught in the recovery agents' crosshairs, after he skipped a few months' payment on a business loan of Rs 44 lakh. Patil said, "I had taken a loan of Rs 44 lakh in February 2009 and I had been paying the installments. But I skipped some months' payments." But things threatened to spin out of control when the finance company's goons broke in an entry in the Patil residence yesterday in their absence, shoving their elder son out of the house. On Wednesday morning at about ...

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New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday ordered termination of a senior resident doctor of premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) who allegedly molested an eight-year-old brain tumour patient. This is for the first time in the history of the 54-year-old institute that a senior resident doctor has been terminated on the charges of molesting a patient, official sources said. The Health Minister in his capacity as the President of the premier institute issued the order after receiving initial reports from the officials in this regard, they said. The Minister has also ordered withdrawing the registration of the accused doctor in the super-speciality MCh course in surgical sciences at the institute, sources said. The doctor with the Neurology Department had molested the boy on January 23, a day before he was to be discharged from the hospital, the family of the victim had alleged. The boy, a resident of north-east Del...

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Hyderabad, Feb. 2: A division bench comprising Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed the state government, all Bar Associations in the state and the police to strictly adhere to the orders of the Supreme Court and the High Court for smoother functioning of the courts in the state.The Bench was dealing with a motion moved by one Mr Syed Yasar Mamoon seeking a direction to provide security for smoother functioning of the courts and to take steps to allow advocates and parties to enter the courts without any hindrance.The petitioner told the court that at Ranga Reddy courts some advocates had threatened some parties and their advocates who wanted to enter the court premises on February 2. He also said that at most of the courts in Telangana, advocates were on relay hunger strikes. He brought to the notice of the court that there were not enough cops at the lower courts to protect the advocates and t...

Hyderabad, Feb. 2: The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, on Wednesday condemned the senior Congress leader, Mr G. Venkataswamys comment that the party was losing heavily under the leadership of Mrs Sonia Gandhi.Speaking to mediapersons here, the Chief Minister said he was deeply pained over the remarks made by such a senior party leader.One should not forget that the party regained the lost glory after Mrs Gandhi took over, he said. We came back to power and also won several states under her leadership. The Chief Minister also ridiculed the Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidus criticism of Mrs Gandhi. A person who cheated his father-in-law for the Chief Ministers post has no moral right to talk about a person who sacrificed the Prime Ministers post not once but twice, he said.The Chief Minister found nothing wrong in the Union minister, Mr A.K. Antony, meeting the Praja Rajyam chief, Mr K. Chiranjeevi. After all we are not enemies, he said. When asked wheth...

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Tomorrow, yet another meeting will be held by the IPL governing council to decide whether Sourav Ganguly and few others who were left without any takers in the IPL auction can be given another chance or not. Surely, Ganguly would have never dreamt hed face a day when all his glorious contributions would be sidelined and hed be considered unworthy to be a part of a cricket team. His performance in the three IPL seasons hasnt been that bad, yet, he finds no takers.However, the cricketing world is abuzz that although hes a great player, he comes with a major attitude. KKR management is unwilling to go on record, but sources say that for three years now, players and support staff have been complaining about Gangulys behaviour. While the coaches felt he did not take them seriously, foreign players thought of him to have a superiority complex. Even the juniors found his aggression very annoying. His attitude was touted to be the reason when the team began to falter. This definitely...

Handheld-Films has added a photo to the pool: ...the national tree of India - this one stands alone on farmland in northern Rajasthan ( Handheld Films 2011)

Pune: If you are an MBA student, be careful the next time you get a job offer by email. It might be a fake offer designed to lighten your pocket. Bogus offer letters from reputed Indian companies are landing in the inboxes of MBA students in the city. More than a dozen of MBA students from Sinhagad Institute have got such fake mails from companies like Tata Motors, Maruti, Videocon among others. The fake offer letters have the company logos mentioning fake names of persons claiming to be head of the HR department. The letters also claim to have selected the resume online and arranging the interviews on Feb 5, 2011. Speaking to MiD-DAY, Priya Mehta (name changed), one of the student from Sinhagad Institute said, "I received an fake email on Jan 20 claiming to be from Tata Motors and saying that I have been short listed for a particular job. I was very excited for a moment and told my dad about the offer. Since the letter said that I needed to...

Pune: Their relationship began with chatting. Soon the man, a 26-year-old techie, popped the question and she, a 26-year-old front office executive, was on top of the world. And then she got the jolt of her life when she stumbled upon a sex clip of hers uploaded on a website by her fiance. According to the police, Sandip Ramlal Patil forced the woman to appear in the video clip saying he wanted to show her how beautiful she was. They said he shot the obscene clips on four occasions and uploaded them on a website. The Yerwada police arrested Patil, a resident of Vinod Residency in Pashan who came to the city from Nimkhedigaon in Jalgaon, for sexually exploiting the front office executive by promising marriage and later cheating her by uploading her obscene clips on the Internet. The police said Patil, who was earlier working with a reputable bank, had first seen the woman somewhere on a road and after that he began chasing her on her way to office...

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Nashik: An Army helicopter crashed in a residential area of Nashik in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, killing two people. Those killed were both Army Majors. There is an Army aviation training school in the vicinity of site where the Cheetah helicopter crashed. The helicopter was on a routine flight from Nashik to Goa when it crashed minutes after takeoff around 9.15 am. More details are awaited. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

Hyderabad, Feb. 1: The fatal illness known as Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) claimed another life in Ahmedabad on Tuesday taking the overall toll to four in Gujarat. The deceased has been identified as Shabbir Ali Umatiya, an intern doctor. In a unique development, three among the four who succumbed were medical practitioners two doctors and the nurse who treated a patient afflicted by the illness. However, even a fortnight after the outbreak of CCHF in Gujarat, the AP health department seems to be uninformed about any guidelines for the treatment of the disease. Local doctors are assuring people that theres no need to panic since the disease is not as quick-spreading as swine flu. But considering the regular influx of people from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad, it may just be a matter of days before the killer disease strikes the city. CCHF is a viral disease characterised by high fever, severe abdominal pain, head ache, body pain and nausea. Absolute isolation of the pati...

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Tirupati, Feb. 1: Panic gripped about 50 villages in Kuppam division in Chittoor district, bordering Karnataka, as a herd of 21 elephants trampled across their fields, destroying crops in the early hours of Tuesday.The villagers of Lakshmipuram, 2 km away from Kuppam town, woke up to the trumpeting of the tuskers around 3 am.A big herd of elephants was seen splashing about in the village tank. The elephants would emerge only briefly from the water to graze in the jungle adjacent to the tank. To scare away the animals, the villagers turned up the volume of their television sets while others began shouting. Women offered camphor harathis to the animals from a distance.The Chittoor DFO, Mr G.V. Subba Reddy, monitored the situation and dispatched forest officials to alert the villages between Kuppam and the forests along the Karnataka border.Mr Reddy said that around 7 pm the elephants emerged from the tank and started moving back in the direction from where they had come.It is a ...

New Delhi: An 11-year-old girl was repeatedly raped allegedly by two men for about a month in the national Capital. Police today said they have arrested Anil Kumar and Mohammed Umar. The incident was reported from Patel Nagar in Central Delhi and the victim, a class IV student, was living in their neighbourhood. "Umar has been allegedly raping the girl for the past one month while his friend Anil too raped her a few days ago," a senior police official said. The incident came to light when the victim told her sister and later her uncle about it and they approached the police. After a medical examination confirmed rape, the duo were arrested. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

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Jaipur: In a case of honour killing, a married woman who had eloped with her paramour was murdered by her brother in Sriganganagar district, police said today. "The accused Radheyshyam was unhappy over his sister Santosh's extra-marital affair and slit her throat yesterday with some sharp-edged weapon in Sadulshahar area," they said. "Santosh, a mother of three kids, allegedly abducted with her paramour a fortnight ago from her husband's house in Khatwa village, but Radheyshayam located her in some other area and brought her back home. She was not ready to live with her husband so his brother killed her," they said. The victim's father lodged an FIR against his son after he found the body of his daughter at the home. A local court today sent Radheyshyam to judicial custody. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

Night Sky Glow has added a photo to the pool: The chaos that is the older part of Udaipur, Rajasthan. And of course, its not just Udaipur, it's a scene that repeats in every Indian small town. What made these parts of India so half-hazard and unorganized over the years?

Patna: He is called the 'MBA sabziwalla' and wants to make Bihar India's vegetable hub. Kaushlendra, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), is now working towards pre-paid cards for buying vegetables but complains of irritating hurdles that discourage budding entrepreneurs. Kaushlendra, who refused to join a multinational company like his peers as he wanted to work towards making Bihar a better place, says something as simple as encashing a cheque can take days. "There are many small things that impede the growth of an entrepreneur in Bihar. We cannot compete with entrepreneurs of other states because other support services come at huge indirect and direct costs," Kaushlendra, a topper of the IIM-A's 2007 batch, told IANS in an interview. His earlier project of selling vegetables through ice-cooled push-carts became a hit in Bihar and Kaushlendra, in his 20s, now is working hard on his Organi...

Bangalore: Refusing a man's sexual advances cost a woman more than just her life. Not only did the accused kill Pavithra (30), but he also murdered her 10-year-old niece Aishwarya. Pavithra's five-year-old nephew Charla, however, survived the assault on the family. Pavithra, who had come to Bangalore a month ago, was staying on the terrace of an old building in Kaveri Nagar, KHB Main Road. She was taking care of the children on her aunt's behalf. According to the police, Raju came to Bangalore a little before Pavithra and was living on the same terrace. "He started liking Pavithra and made sexual advances, but she consistently refused," said a police officer. Things took a turn for the worse on Monday night at around 10.30 pm, when Pavithra again turned down Raju's advances. "In a fit of rage, Raju stabbed her. Her screams woke up the two kids who were sleeping nearby, so Raju attacked them as well. The elder of the...

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Delhi: Policemen in Delhi denying anyone a copy of First Information Reports (FIRs) will soon be a thing of the past. From February 1, people can download new FIRs registered in the Capital from Delhi Police's official website - www.delhipolice.nic.in. An accused can get a copy from the police station by paying Rs 25. The move comes following a direction by the Delhi High Court on December 6 last year when it said that an accused is entitled to get a copy of the FIR within 24 hours of its registration and police cannot deny supplying it. The court had said that the FIRs should be uploaded online within 24 hours of its registration though it exempted the force from making public FIRs on sensitive issues. However, whenever it does not make FIRs public, such a decision has to be taken by an officer not below the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police and they have to inform the area magistrates. "We will be uploading the FIRs from February o...

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray on Monday travelled on a suburban local train, reminding the people of a similar journey by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi last year. Raj travelled from suburban Dombivali to Dadar in central Mumbai (where he lives) on the train and blamed increasing number of "outsiders" for the rush. The MNS chief said he was not aping Rahul Gandhi. The Dombivali-Dadar road was very bad, and people prefer trains, he said. "This is not the first time I am travelling by train. I used to take trains during my college days some 25 years ago," Raj told reporters. "But now the crowd is increasing like anything, and the outsiders coming to the city are responsible for this burden on the infrastructure," he said. Raj was in Dombivali to meet the party corporators who got elected in the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation elections three months ago. Rahul Gandhi had take...

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Mumbai: A major fire is being fought on board a naval warship off the Mumbai harbour. The ship has been evacuated. Reports suggest that the warship is tilting over 50 percent and with over 300 tonnes of fuel in vessel, there are now concerns about a possible oil spill. The Navy has complained that the merchant ship did not follow standard operating procedure. The fire was reported early this morning on the INS Vindhyagiri, which was hit on Sunday evening by a merchant ship, M N Nordlake. The Navy's fire brigade has teamed up the Mumbai fire brigade to fight the fire. The Vindhyagiri was entering the harbour last evening at 5 pm and the Nordlake was on its way out when it hit the warship near the Sunk Rock Lighthouse. According to reports, the collision was a result on confusion between Nordlek and another merchant ship Sea Eagle. The Sea Eagle (which was ahead of Vindhyagiri) was entering the harbour and M V Nordlake was on its way out. These...

Gregory Warran has added a photo to the pool: I got back yesterday from a trip to India. Unfortunately the time difference has left me falling asleep at 6pm last night and awake at 5am this morning so I thought I'd upload a photo. For those who have never been, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Just be prepared to enjoy the best and the worst that India has to offer and there is an abundance of both. These photos should keep me busy for a few weeks, and I'm back to India, but Bombay this time in October.

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Ludhiana: A seven-year-old boy died after he fell into an open gutter near the Grand Trunk road in Ludhiana on Sunday, police said. A case of negligence has been registered against local civic authorities and private company engaged in road construction at the Grand Trunk road stretch, where the sewer was located, after residents blocked the traffic, they said. The child was riding on a scooter with his parents when he accidentally fell into the sewer. The body was recovered nearly 2 km from the spot where he had fallen, they said. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

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Mumbai: The decomposed body of a three-year-old girl, missing for the last eleven days, was on Sunday found in a gutter in suburban Vakola, police said. The girl has been identified as Anjali Gupta and her body was taken to a nearby civic-run hospital for post mortem, police said. The residents of New Shastri Chawl noticed foul smell from a gutter behind a public toilet and when they opened the gutter, the body was found. The locals immediately informed the police. On January 19, the girl's father, Vineet Gupta, had lodged a complaint after his daughter went missing, police said. Apparently, the girl fell into the gutter while playing and drowned, police said adding that further probe was on. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

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Hardoi: Son of a lawyer, who was missing for the last fortnight, was kidnapped and killed by his neighbour and his accomplice in Azad Nagar area, police said on Sunday. Dharmendra Singh (17), who was missing since January 15, was kidnapped, killed and later his body was dumped in Sharda canal by his neighbours Ramu Pandey and his aid Vishal, they said. The accused have been arrested, they said. Love affair is suspected to be the motive behind the kidnapping and murder, police said, adding that efforts were being made to fish out Dharmendra's body from the canal. Dharmendra, whose father Yogendra Singh is a prominent lawyer of the city, was killed on the day of kidnapping, they said. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

Hyderabad, Jan. 29: The crucial AP Assembly Budget Session will begin on February 17. According to sources, the Governor, Mr E.S.L. Narasimhan, will address the joint sitting of the Assembly and Legislative Council on that day. The sessions are likely to continue till March end. As per conventions, a minimum of 30 clear working days are needed to complete the business related to Budget. Presentation of state Budget for the year 2011-12 will be done by the finance minister, Mr Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, between February 21 and 24. The first major political challenge for the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, will be to conduct the Budget Session in a surcharged political atmosphere in the state on account of the Telangana demand and other issues like corruption.The Telugu Desam is bound to utilise the session to raise several issues concerning the people and may also demand the reopening of Paritala Ravi murder case to probe Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddys role among others. The ...

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Puducherry: The police rescued an eight-year old boy who was kidnapped for ransom here and arrested a three-member gang which was allegedly involved in the abduction. The boy, studying in the second standard, went missing since Friday evening. His mother had complained that her brother had received a call from an unidentified person that the boy would be released on payment of Rs five lakh, police said. The boy's father is employed abroad and the mother suspected her husband's friend, the police said. He was taken into custody on Saturday and on interrogation confessed to having kidnapped the boy with the help of two other accomplices for ransom to be used in starting a self-employment project, the police said. The accomplices were later arrested. The police rescued the boy who was confined in a rented house. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

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Mumbai: A five-year-old girl has been killed, and six people have been injured as the weathershed of a building collapsed in Mumbai today. The building is located in Byculla in South Mumbai. More details are awaited. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

kalyand has added a photo to the pool: Day 29/365 Not really, While my machine is getting formatted and getting restored to its previous bets condition, I thought I will do some experiments with backlight. Here a pipal leaf is stuck on a boom stand with a 580 EXII at full power through a snoot covered soft cloth. BTW: The most horribe thing happened to me today. My primary HDD backup drive got formatted by mistake. I have a secondary backup which misses out on one event coverage. God help me and the recovery process which is running on.

Mohali: The security supervisor of a law college here has been booked for molesting a first year student, police said Saturday. Amandeep Singh, in his late 30s, is the security supervisor of Army Institute of Law. The victim, a resident of Gurgaon, was staying at the college's hostel. "The girl says she had gone to a beauty parlour on Jan 23. She came back at 8 pm, missing the 7.30 pm deadline to enter the hostel," police officer Harbans Lal told IANS. "She requested Amandeep to put the entry as 7.30 pm. The accused said that he could do that for her and forcibly embraced her and kissed her," he added. The college authorities have ordered an internal probe into this matter. However, Amandeep denied the allegations. "The girl had returned late and told me to put the timing of her arrival as 7.30 pm. When I refused to do it she raised a false alarm. I have already made my stand clear in my two-page statement submitted w...

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Chennai, Jan. 28: The Madras High Court on Friday issued notices to the Coimbatore CB-CID inspector, former DMK minister N.K.K.P. Raja and six others on a petition challenging the acquittal of Raja in an abduction and murder attempt over a property dispute. Justice K.N. Basha adjourned further hearing of the petition filed by the complainant P. Sivabalan. Raja was accused of abducting Sivabalan in 2008 and attempting to grab his property. The former minister was also charged with threatening to gun down Sivabalan he went to his house. After a criminal case was registered against him, Raja was dropped from the Cabinet in 2009. The Erode Judicial Magistrate-III acquitted Raja of all charges on September 21, 2010. Sivabalan filed a petition contending that the order acquitting all the accused was delivered in a hasty manner and on flimsy grounds. The lower court erred in concluding that it was Sivabalans fault for going to Rajas house where he was allegedly threatened with a gun. E...

Chennai, Jan. 28: The body of three-year-old girl was fished out from a pond near Sriperumbudur on Friday. The police is conducting investigations to find out if it was a murder or an accidental death.Police said, the girl Abhinaya, who was playing outside her grandfathers house in Panchalampatti village went missing around 7 pm on Tuesday.Later, her grandfather Dilli, 60, lodged a complaint with the police who traced the body to a pond near his house.Abhinayas mother Hema and father Kumarasamy of Kodungaiyur had left the child in her grandfathers care a few days ago after she fell ill, a police officer said. On Tuesday, the child, who was playing with a few other children, went missing after a power cut. The grandfather searched for her a while. When he could not find her, he informed the police.Meanwhile, a few passersby found the body of the girl and alerted the police. The body was fished out and sent for a post-mortem to a government hospital in Sriperumbudur. There were no...

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Bengaluru, Jan. 28: She forgets, not her homework or her glass of milk, but she forgets to breathe. This three-year-old, who should be playing around like any other normal child, is in need of a special machine to help her breathe. Hruthika was hospitalised in Mysore with a severe cold and cough, which was followed by a cardiac complication. Unable to breathe, she was shifted to the ICU, where she was put on a mechanical ventilator to help her breathe. Once she was stable, she was taken off the ventilator. Then she was doing fine for a day till she stopped breathing again, needing the help of a breathing machine. The frequency of the attacks gradually increased and her breathing condition deteriorated. She was referred to us and we diagnosed her with an extremely rare genetic disorder, called Late-onset central hypoventilation syndrome with hypothalamic dysfunction, explained Dr. Gunda Srinivas, Manipal Hospital. He said this is a condition in which a person forgets to breathe,...

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New Delhi: A gunman and driver of a private security agency van fled with Rs 68.5 lakh meant to be deposited in different ATMs in the city when the cash custodians were depositing money in an ATM. Police said the accused have been identified as Ram Kumar, driver of the cash van and Sanjeev Kumar, the gunman. The incident took place in Alaknanda in Southeast Delhi on Friday evening, police said, adding that the accused even managed to disconnect the Global Positioning System installed inside the van. The accused worked for Scientific Security Management Private Limited. Ram, a resident of Mahipalpur, and Sanjeev, resident of Kotla Mubarakpur, were waiting outside the HDFC Bank ATM in the market at around 3.15 PM when the custodians Rajesh and Suresh went to the ATM to deposit the cash. After waiting for sometime, Sanjeev handed over his gun to the ATM guard and told him that he and his colleague will come after having lunch. "However, they ne...

New Delhi: A man has sought the Delhi High Court's help in getting police protection to facilitate his live-in relationship with his wife's sister after apprehending threats from her family members. The court, however, asked the man to explain which law of the land allows such a relationship. Justice Hima Kohli, instead of dismissing the plea right away, has kept it pending for adjudication and has asked the city police to ascertain if the man faces any threat due to his live-in relationship with his wife's sister. Meanwhile, the judge also asked the petitioner Raj Kamal's counsel to provide her with various case laws and legal provisions, if any, relating to such relationship. "Is it permissible in Indian society?" Justice Kohli said while asking the counsel as to which provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act permits such a relationship. While asking the police to file its report on the alleged threat to petitioner...

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Pune: MNS corporator Vasant More has been arrested along with two associates by the Bharati Vidyapeeth police on charges of facilitating the marriage of a minor girl. More (37), Rajabhau Kadam (41) and Mahadevi Dengle (33), all residents of Katraj, were arrested under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act of 2006. The three were remanded in police custody till January 29. The complaint was filed by Nanabhau Waghmare (51), father of the minor girl. The police said the three had organised a mass marriage at the Mauli Garden hall on Katraj-Kondhwa road. Dengle had brought the minor there. The girl tied the knot with a 25-year-old identified as Bhavarlal Meena and the three suspects facilitated it against a payment of Rs 20,000, said the police. When the suspects were produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class Manik Satav, public prosecutor Rajendra Suryavanshi sought their police custody to recover the Rs 20,000, the birth certificates...

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New Delhi: With the arrest of two youths hailing from Mumbai, Delhi Police claimed to have cracked a gang of cheats who used international bank data to prepare cloned and forged credit cards. Police recovered 87 cloned debit and credit cards of various banks containing data of foreigner customers, two magnetic strip reader machines and a specially designed Embosser machine made in France used for preparing cloned credit cards, which has been caught first time in North India. The arrested have been identified as Dharmesh (24) and Rashid Sheikh (24), H G S Dhaliwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said. "They have used data of international customers only," he said. The arrest came on January 25 from south Delhi's Saket mall following investigations into a complaint filed by an official of Axis Bank that some unknown persons with the help of cloned cards in the names of various customers of the bank which caused huge loss to th...

Jan. 27: After battling for eight-and-a half years, a couple who had been beaten and tortured by the police, finally got a favourable ruling from the National Human Rights Commission, which directed the state government to pay an immediate interim relief of Rs 2 lakh each to the couple.Ms Haritha and Mr Qadir had got married in 2000 and soon after, fearing opposition to the inter-religion marriage, Ms Harithas grandfather, Mr Ramulu, had sent them to his friend, Mr Krishnaiah, who was the chairman of Flytech Aviation Academy. The couple begun living in a flat at Mayurmarg in Begumpet. Their trouble began when the CBI raided Flytech Aviation Academy and Sigma Online, belonging to Mr Krishnaiah, who escaped the CBI net and came to them for shelter.The couple said that on August 9, 2002, when Mr Krishnaiah had left, the then IG, Special Protection Force, Ms Tejdeep Kaur Menon, arrived at their flat and tortured them to find about Mr Krishnaiahs whereabouts. We were beaten badly u...

Firozabad, UP: A 13-year-old girl attempted self-immolation after being allegedly raped by two youths when she was returning from a Republic Day function, a senior police officer said here today. The girl, a class five student, attempted self-immolation at her residence in Nagla Gumani village after being raped by Rahul (18) and Bablesh (19), Additional Superintendent of Police Daddan Pal said. He said that the girl was admitted to the district hospital where her condition was stated to be serious. "The girl in her statement given before a magistrate has stated that she was raped by the two youths," he said. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

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Patna: A first-year student of Patna Medical College and Hospital allegedly committed suicide, prompting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to order a probe. Sunny Kumar (17), a resident of Saran district, hanged himself from a ceiling fan at a private lodge on Wednesday in Sultanganj, city SP Manu Maharaj said. "We have not recovered any suicide note from the place. Even his father has not said anything about it," the police official said. On learning about the incident, Chief Minister Kumar asked the Senior Superintendent of Police B S Meena and District Magistrate J K Sinha to jointly probe the case, especially into allegations of ragging and submit a report immediately, officials said. Meanwhile, Ashwini Kumar, an MBA student, also committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in S K Puri area in Patna on Thursday morning, officials said, adding, the reason prompting the student to take the extreme step remains to be known. ...

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Pune: For a police constable, to lose his cap can be a cumbersome. For it is required that he file a missing complaint, failing which it can be considered an offence. On September 22, an auto driver deposited a cap of a constable with a police station. But till date, no one has come to claim ownership of the cap. The reason is simple. Instead of facing an inquiry that will follow, the anonymous constable has chosen to keep mum. Tushar Pawar, the rickshaw driver who found the cap near Dr Ambedkar Statue near West End Cinema, Cantonment, said, "The cap was dusty and was in a ugly state. The national emblem on the cap was also covered with dirt." Pawar had met DCP (Traffic) Manoj Patil to hand over the cap. Patil told him to submit it at the Bund Garden police station. "It is really surprising that no one has come forward," he said. Bund Garden Police confirmed that they received a missing cap from an auto-rickshaw driver but the...

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New Delhi: A man accidentally shot dead his 32-year-old wife in central Delhi on Wednesday after she asked him to prove he knew how to use a rifle, police said. "The incident was reported at 10.30 am and the victim has been identified as Sunita Mishra. We have arrested her husband Pappu," said a senior police officer. According to the police, the incident occurred when Pappu, a driver by profession who married Sunita in 1998, was fiddling with a licensed .32 rifle that belonged to his brother-in-law. "Pappu's brother-in-law Ashok Pandey, who is a Railways employee, was visiting the couple and had brought along his licensed rifle. Pappu was fiddling with it when his wife challenged him to use it. He got angry, kept it to her forehead and accidentally pressed the trigger," the police officer said. Police said that initially Pappu claimed that she was cleaning the rifle when it fired accidentally. "When we reached the sp...

Mumbai: Cops reached the end of their tether after Bigg Boss 4 winner Shweta Tiwari lodged a fourth complaint against her former husband Raja Chaudhary. The TV actor is infamous for beating up Shweta and mauling and abusing a number of people. Fed up with Chaudhary's terror tactics, a team of senior police officers at Malad police station has decided to extern the actor from the city, after he allegedly barged in Shweta's house on Tuesday to assault her, again. Senior Inspector R Prabhu of Malad police station said, "Raja Chaudhary forcefully entered Shweta's house and assaulted her and her friend Abhinav Kohli." He added, "As per court order, Raja is not supposed to go to Shweta's residence. But he breached the order. We have booked him for assaulting, trespassing, and abusing Shweta and Kohli. He already has a number of cases against him, some at Oshiwara police station. And now we will extern him." Shweta, w...

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New Delhi: A man heading to Guwahati allegedly carrying over 1,000 cartridges without documents was arrested from the New Delhi railway station today after police found his movement suspicious. The man said to be a manager with Mizoram Rifles Club was apprehended this morning while he was entering platform to board Guwahti-bound North-East Express, senior police and railway officials said. Police recovered 1,025 bullets of .22 bore from him, a senior police official said, adding no arms were recovered. "The man was entering the platform but refused to keep the bag he was carrying in the X-Ray scanner for checking despite security personnel's insistence. He kept on refusing to hand over the bag to the personnel," the official said. This raised suspicion, he said, adding the security personnel at the railway station then apprehended him and checked the bag from which the cartridges were recovered. When questioned, the official cl...

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Gurgaon: A 28-year-old woman was found murdered in her house in Gurgaon's Saraswati Vihar area Tuesday evening, police said. Shweta Singh, the victim, had married just last year and police said the murder looked like the work of professional killers. She was found dead at around 7 pm. "Shweta was attacked by a sharp-edged weapon, which suggests that it was a handiwork of professional killers," a police officer said. Shweta married Kuku Ranjan, a Chartered Accountant with a multinational company, last year. A case of murder has been registered at the Sector 29 police station of Gurgaon, the officer added. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

designldg has added a photo to the pool: We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death. (Quotes from the Yajurveda, the third of the four canonical texts of Hinduism) Since a few days this sadhu is sleeping on a board lifted from the ground by several ropes at Dashaswamedh (Main) Ghat in Varanasi (Benaras). This morning it was a little colder than the rest of the week and he took a long time to wake up. A priest came and gave him a cup of tea in order to warm him up. I think that he made a vow not to leave this board in order to keep the attention of Lord Shiva and to be able to be free, liberated from the cycles of life and death... View On Black All photographs are copyrighted and all rights reserved. Please do not use any photographs without permission (even for private use). The use of any work witho...