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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...

omshivaprakash has added a photo to the pool: Lalbagh Flower Show's featured item for year 2011. January - Bangalore has got 8 of those watch towers built by Kempegowda in all directions to set the boundary of the city. Today bangalore has grown beyond all those boundries and one of those stand in the middle of the city at Lalbagh.

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...

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Ahmedabad: A boy and a girl, both classmates, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor of a building in Ahmedabad on Monday, police said. The incident took place in Bapunagar area where one Parth Joshi (17) and his classmate Ankita Patel (16) tied themselves together with a stole and jumped off the tenth floor of Shyam-Shikhar Tower, they said, adding both died on the spot. The duo, students of Shriji Vidyalaya in Bapunagar, had been missing since the last three days. Their bodies have been sent for postmortem, police said. Investigation was on to find out the reason behind the two teenagers taking such an extreme step, police said, adding they were questioning the family members of the deceased. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

Guntur, Jan. 24: Former UGC vice-chairman and renowned philosopher Kotta Satchidanada Murthy passed away in a private hospital in Guntur on Monday. He was 87. Murthy, a resident of Takkellapadu, Guntur, is survived by four sons. A recipient of Padma Bushan and Vibushan, Murthy won the first B.C. Roy award for philosophy.He had penned more than 50 books in English and Hindi. He was also the Sri Venkateswara University vice-chancellor in Tirupati. His funeral will be held at Takkellapadu on Thursday. &nbsp

Jan. 24: With the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) hopeful of obtaining cabinet clearance for locating the Rs 1,200-crore underground physics laboratory in the Bodi west hills at Pottipuram in Theni district, the scientists have envisaged other experimental plans under its umbrella.Besides research connected with neutrinos, the Neutrino Collaboration Group (NCG) aims to conduct other decisive experiments such as neutrino-less double beta decay and dark matter which require such a unique underground facility, INO spokesperson Naba K. Mondal of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, told reporters here on Monday.Prof R. G.Pillay of TIFR, a scientist working on neutrino-less double beta decay research said as the experiment to detect the radioactive decay process, which is at the level of research and development, requires an underground observatory of this nature, scientists into this research have collaborated with the INO recently.Mr Mondal said the lab, a ...

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Bangalore: Actor Yamuna who was caught by the Bangalore police for her alleged involvement in a sex racket at a five-star hotel never offered her services for a second time to the same client, a police source has said. "Yamuna would 'date' her client only once so that if she was ever caught, she could claim consensual sex," added the source. Not only Yamuna, Surakshit, her agent, never allowed clients a second time even with his other girls. Surakshit regularly 'updated' his client list, and even had contacts with call girls from other cities such as Mumbai and Delhi. Since he knew that this was a risky business, Surakshit took extreme precautions. Another one of his 'failsafes' was that he operated only during weekdays. He would always book rooms in 3 and 5 star hotels under his name. To this, the services were offered only for a few hours so that no one ever got suspicious. On his advice, Yamuna never saw the s...

Jan. 23: Tigers roaming in the dense forests of Karnataka will get watchdogs for their protection round-the-clock soon. The much awaited 112-member Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF), is likely to take guard in another five months, and become the first full-fledged STPF to be rolled out in India. The State Forest Department has speeded up the training, after receiving a pat on the back from the Central government, which accorded tiger reserve status to Biligiriranga Wildlife Sanctuary (BRT). With this addition, flora-fauna rich Karnataka, has the highest number of tiger reserves in South India, and is next only to Madhya Pradesh in the country.The forest department has decided to extend the purview of STPF to BRT. Initially, the plan was to test the STPF in Bandipur and Nagarhole tiger reserves, which are one of the sensitive and pristine forest covers in India today, and later extend it to other tiger reserves like Bhadra and Dandeli Anshi. Ravishankar, DCF (Wildlife), BR...

Hyderabad, Jan. 22: In a fraud similar to the one that hit CitiBank in Gurgaon, an investor of Royal Bank of Scotland (formerly ABN-Amro) was duped of Rs 13.8 lakh by its relationship manager in Banjara Hills in the city. The staffer, Vivek Kumar Singh, subsequently left the bank.Panjagutta police has registered a case of cheating against Singh, a native of New Delhi, who is now absconding. The West Zone DCP, Mr Stephen Ravindra, said Ms Manisha Parikh Dhir of Mohali, Punjab, had invested in mutual funds with RBS, Banjara Hills in 2006.This is similar to the CitiBank fraud but the amount is less. She was out of station and the fund manager was managing her investments. Mr Ravindra said. Singh used to keep Ms Dhir informed over email, and told her that her account had reached `31.49 lakh, Mr Ravindra said.Later, Singh persuaded Ms Dhir to issue two cheques, which were crossed for ABN-Amro, and fraudulently withdrew `13.8 lakh. He made her believe that her money was safe and tha...

Mumbai: The Antop Hill police today arrested a 21-year old person for allegedly raping an 18-month toddler. According to the police, the girl who stays in the slums near the Shaikh Mistry Dargah at Antop Hill, with her parents, was playing outside her house. Seeing that the girl was all alone the accused Aroz Shaikh, a carpenter, allegedly lured her with chocolates and took her to his house. Not seeing her daughter for a long time, the victim's mother raised an alarm and along with her neighbours started searching for her in the area. However when the victim's neighbours went near Shaikh's house, they heard cries of a baby from the house and when they broke open the door, they found the girl lying without any clothes on her and was crying. The police later arrested Shaikh for rape after neighbours informed them about the incident. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook...

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New Delhi: A thief who used to hide in a public urinal in west Delhi and rob people at gunpoint was finally arrested thanks to a CCTV camera installed in the vicinity, police said on Saturday. Jitender Singh, 24, robbed people who came to relieve themselves in the urinal on Najafgarh road near Tilak Nagar police station in west Delhi. Singh and his associates had recently robbed a person of two mobile phones, a gold chain and Rs 15,000 in cash. "In order to prevent repetition of such an incident, we decided to install a CCTV (closed circuit television camera) on a tree near the spot and monitored the footage for days," a police officer said. According to police, the accused was seen strolling around the spot for nearly an hour Friday. He was also seen going inside the toilet frequently. "We rushed to the spot and found him hiding inside the toilet structure. He was frisked and a loaded country-made pistol of .315 bore was recovered...

Vellore, Jan. 22: Chennai kids are now officially the unhealthiest in the country-a recent study by research firm AC Nielsen has found that 93 per cent of children here indulge in pre-dinner snacking. Children in the other metros were found to snack on healthier traditional eatables like uttappa and poha, with Mumbais kids choosing soup as their favorite pre-dinner snack.However, evening tiffin for children in the city, has moved from sundal and idlis to processed and deep fried junk food, complain doctors. This trend is all the more alarming considering that Chennai kids are regarded as the most obese in the country.Packaged ready-to-eat snacks may fill the childs stomach, but only with empty calories. They are full of fat and carbohydrates, but do not contain vitamins, minerals or fibre, says Mrs Meenakshi Bajaj, medical nutrition therapist at the government general Hospital.Unhealthy snacking in children who are not active enough to work off the extra calories, could lead to ...

Chennai, Jan. 22: Nearly three years after the state government stopped providing immunization for children at village sub-centers, a study conducted jointly by the Christian Medical College in Vellore and the Peoples Health Movement has recorded a distinct drop in immunisation coverage across the districts of Tamil Nadu. The mothers of over 4,000 infants were interviewed, and these women said that traveling to the town PHC for a vaccine was expensive, and meant losing a days wages.The average coverage of the measles vaccine, studied across 11 districts (and 30 villages from each district) had dropped to 87.1 per cent, from the 97.6 per cent claimed by the government- owned DLHS survey. Coimbatore district seems to be the most affected, with a meager 74.3 per cent babies receiving the measles vaccine. Tamil Nadu had the best immunization coverage in the country, because vaccines were taken to the doorsteps of the villagers. Village Health Nurses manned the sub centers and not o...

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New Delhi: Delhi Cantonment, a military land which is a secure and protected area and hidden behind the vast Defence establishments, is a sprawling, squalid basti, Kirby place, inhabited by construction labourers who have built Delhi Cantonment. Malnutrition has alarming proportions here. Out of 20 children, only two make it in the category of normal. But there are still no Anganwadis where under the Integrated Child development Scheme (ICDS), children can be given supplementary food and their health can be monitored. "For the last three years we have been trying to get an Anganwadi for our slum... we forwarded an RTI application... but without any luck we are still struggling," said Seema Singh, a social worker from the area. The ICDS mandates one Anganwdi for a population of a 1000, but here there are 7000 people fighting, long and hard for just one centre to open. The Delhi government says they are not responsible as Kirby place is o...

Ghaziabad: An engineering student allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with a country-made pistol in Muradnagar, 20 kilometres from here, police said today. The deceased, identified as Hitesh Kumar Jha (22) of Aligarh, was a third year student in Krishna Institute of Engineering College (KIET). Jha, who resided in the college hostel for the past three years, went near a temple around mid-night in the college campus and took the extreme step, Superintendent of Police (Rural) M M Beg said, adding, a suicide note has been recovered. On hearing the gunshots, security guards rushed to the spot and informed the college management authorities, who in turn informed the police. The body has been sent for post-mortem and Jha's parents were informed about the incident, who reached here this morning. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

New Delhi: They may have impressive resumes to approach any top company for a lucrative job but turned robbers for different reasons. One wanted money as he lost his job due to recession, his MBA friend wanted to fly to US to meet his girlfriend and another working in an industrial group wanted a fatter purse to entertain his wife as well as his girlfriend. All of them landed in police net along with four associates in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar yesterday following investigations into a case of robbers getting the signature of an NRI in three cheques on gunpoint and encashing them later. "They encashed one of the self-cheques worth Rs 30,000 from his bank through one of their associates while others remained present at the house and confined him until the cheque was encashed," H G S Dhaliwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said. The first to be arrested were Naved Khan (30), a post-graduate in Economics, and Mohd Savez ...

Pune: Pune being an IT hub, one more amenity to those having erratic work schedules is in the offing for the first time in the city and also in Maharashtra in the form of an ATM (Any Time Milk) vending machines for a whole range of milk products. Conceived by a milk co-operative which supplies over one lakh litre of cow milk in the region, the pilot project of Pune Zilla Sahakari Dudh Utpadkak Sangh or Katraj Dairy, is expected to take off within four months after a feasibility survey conducted by a team of dairy experts visiting the neighbouring Gujarat where such machines are already operating. "We have surveyed the system at Anand operating such ATMs in Gujarat and once our experimental run is successful in Pune, we will be replicating these vending machines at different points in the city, making available a whole range of our milk products at the push of button and insertion of currency for the first time in Maharashtra," said Ra...

Hyderabad, Jan. 21: Cracks have developed in the Telangana Telugu Desam Forum, with party MLA, Mr M. Narasimhulu, firing a salvo at forum convenor, Mr Nagam Janardhan Reddy, and rejecting his demand for a separate unit of the party in Telangana.Where is the need for a separate unit? Some people are daydreaming of becoming Chief Minister even before Telangana is carved out. Its unfortunate that these people are hankering for power, Mr Narsimhulu remarked caustically.Mr Narsimhulu is the second leader in the party after Mr A. Revanth Reddy to openly oppose the formation of a separate unit in Telangana even before a new state is formed.It is an unnecessary demand. Let Telangana be formed, the party unit will automatically come about. Some seniors are blackmailing Mr Chandrababu Naidu, he charged.In an indirect reference to Mr Janardhan Reddy, he said this sort of quest for power was not good for the party. Why are some people trying to project themselves as the lone T-protag...

Nagpur: A four-year-old boy died due to food poisoning while 17 other children were admitted to a government hospital in Tumsar in neighbouring Bhandara district, police said on Friday. Police said the children from the Aaanganwadi Vidyalaya in Beetpur village ate their mid day meals, and started complaining of uneasiness, stomach pain, etc. Vishal Maraskolhe (4) died on the way to hospital, police added. Police are investigating further. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

Moga: An elderly man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for killing his 18-month-old grandson by drowning him in a water tank. The court of Additional Sessions Judge S K Aggarwal also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Mohinder Singh. The convict will have to serve an additional imprisonment of two-and-a-half years if he does not pay the fine. According to the prosecution, Charanjit Kaur, mother of deceased Harpreet Singh, had started living with her father after the deaths of her mother and brother. In her complaint to the police, Kaur had also stated that her father Mohinder was a drug addict and an alcoholic person, who used to sell even household items to meet his needs. On November 24, 2009 when she was out of the house for half an hour, her father threw Harpreet in the water tank of the house drowning him. When Kaur returned, she found her son missing, and her father declined to say anything. Later, the child was found dead in t...

Pune: For the past year, 76-year-old Padmakar Darp and his 71-year-old wife Lalita Darp have been patiently answering about twenty calls a day about Deccan Education Society Law College on their landline. Reason being, the Deccan Education Society (DES) Law College website lists their landline number as the college's contact number. College authorities are clueless about the goof-up and have not bothered to change their contact details online. All the calls meant for DES college come on Darp's personal landline number. Ironically, Darp was a student of the same college about fifty years ago. His personal landline number is mentioned on the website along with the college address. Darp receives calls from various parts of the country enquiring about the admission procedures and other details about the college. The couple faces a horrible time, especially during admission season, when they receive calls even at 11 P.M. "Each time I get ...

Jan. 20: Four scientists of the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology have bagged the prestigious J.C. Bose National Fellowship-2011. The director of CCMB, Dr Ch Mohan Rao, along with senior scientists Dr R. Nagaraj, Dr Veena K. Parnaik and Dr Ghanshyam Swarup have been awarded the fellowship.The fellowship was constituted by the Union government in 2005 and is operated by the department of science and technology. It recognises a scientists outstanding performance and contribution to science. The fellowship comes with Rs 25,000 per month and a separate contingency of Rs 10 lakh per year towards conducting scientific research. Initially, it is for a five-year term. While Dr Mohan Raos focus is on protein folding, aggregation and diseases, Dr Nagaraj is working on host-defence peptides, fatty acid acylation and peptide self-assembly. Dr Parnaik is carrying out research in nuclear organisation and lamin biology and Dr Ghanshyam Swarup is looking into the molecular ...

Jan 20: Three people including two women died and one person was injured when a drunk driver lost control of a van and the vehicle ploughed into them at Mugalivakkam on Thursday. The police said the victims were waiting to board a bus to Porur at 5.30 am when the mishap took place.According to reports, the speeding van, which was proceeding to Sriperumbudur from Chennai airport, hit Saraswathi, 45, Janaki, 60, and her daughter Uma Maheshwari, 45, at the bus stop. The vehicle then hit a pedestrian, Gopalan, of Mangala Nagar in Porur, who was out on a morning walk.While Saraswathi died on the spot, Janaki and Gopalan died of their injuries at the Government General Hospital, the police said. Uma Maheshwari, who sustained serious injuries in the mishap, is said to have lost her husband a week ago. Her condition is said to be critical. Her mother Janaki and relative Saraswathi were reportedly going with Uma to her house in Porur.The police arrested van driver Kasilingam, 49, of Thir...

Noida: Police said on Thursday that they were investigating how a man in Sector 22 area in Noida received his death certificate. The family of Ishwar Chand Sharma, a resident of Chaura Raghunathpur area in Sector 22, were shocked when they received a registered post Jan 14 which had his photocopied death certificate. According to the document, Ishwar had died Aug 18, 2010 at his house. The certificate was issued August 30. "After receiving the letter, we complained to Sector-24 police station on Sunday. They are doing their job now," Ishwar Chand's son Dev Dutt Sharma said Thursday. Sub-Inspector Lokendra Singh said: "It is not yet clear from where the certificate was issued. The seal at the bottom of the certificate is unreadable. I went to the district hospital and they have denied issuing the certificate." The family members said they were fighting a case in the Allahabad High Court regarding compensation for their land...

Bhopal: As IAS officers in Bhopal, Tinnu and Arvind Joshi, brazenly put together assets worth Rs 360 crore. An income tax raid at their home last year uncovered details of 25 houses, seven plots in Bhopal, bank accounts worth 10 crores and speculative trading investments worth Rs 270 crores. Not too shabby for bureaucrats. Now, those investigating the extent of their corruption have found another twisted deal. Arvind Joshi violated the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and bought 100 acres of agricultural land in Madhya Pradesh in the name of his NRI sisters without informing the Reserve Bank of India. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued a notice against the couple after Income Tax officials informed them about the violation. The couple was immediately suspended after the raid in February last year and presently, no one knows about their whereabouts. They have two children and have apparently bought property in their son's name as we...

Ghaziabad: A fire broke out in the AC coach of the Guwahati-bound Rajdhani Express but was detected on time and brought under control, railway officials said on Thursday. The fire broke out in the first-class air conditioned coach of the Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express before Sahibabad railway station at around 10 PM on Wednesday night, they said. As the train left New Delhi railway station at about 9:47 PM, a train guard noticed the flames near the coach following which he alerted the station master and the train driver, who then halted the train, they said. Preliminary investigations reveal that the fire was caused due to brakes touching the wheels of the train. The fault was corrected after which the train resumed its journey. An inquiry will be conducted to know the exact reason of the fire, railway official Ashok Negi said. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

New Delhi, Jan. 19: After the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, took off the load from the agriculture minister, Mr Sharad Pawars shoulders by taking away the food and consumer affairs portfolio from the NCP chief, the new food and consumer affairs minister, Mr K.V. Thomas, said controlling high food prices would be his top priority.The biggest challenge will be price rise of onion and other vegetable items. I think everybody should work together, Mr Thomas said. He said prices of vegetables will have to be brought under control with the assistance of states, panchayats and the farmers.He will also be responsible for drafting the National Food Security Bill, besides fixing the corrupt and inefficient public distribution system. The food ministry had been citing unavailability of grains as a constraint towards the implementation of the Bill. Mr Thomas would also have to tackle the problem of grain wastage due to lack of storage facilities. Distribution of foodgrains to the poo...

Jan. 19: The Chennai city police arrested a doctor for allegedly misbehaving with a 24-year-old housewife in Villivakkam on Wednesday. The womans husband was also arrested for cheating the woman by marrying her while concealing the fact that he was already married.According to the police, Rani (name changed), member of a woman self-help group and resident of SIDCO Nagar in Villivakkam, married Babu, 40, of Puthur in Ambattur at a mass marriage organised by a businessman on January 2, 2010. Babu worked as a delivery man at a gas agency in Villivakkam.Babu told Rani that she had a sexual problem and took her to Arjun, 48, of Padi, claiming that he was a doctor and could cure her. Arjun misbehaved with Rani on the pretext of conducting an examination, a police officer said. When Rani complained to her husband, he asked her to cooperate with Arjun. Rani informed her father Ramar about the incident and Ramar lodged a complaint with us.Investigations revealed that Babu had already bee...

Bangalore: A 58-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl here, police said on Wednesday. The accused Dhanabal, a driver with a travel firm and a resident of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, had come here to visit his daughter who was working in a call centre, police said. The incident happened when his daughter was away at work last night. Dhanabal had lured the girl, who was playing in front of their rented house, inside and allegedly raped her, sources said. The girl had later complained to her mother that she was having severe pain and was unable to sit down. It was then that the mother came to know about the incident and lodged a complaint against Dhanabal, police added. For NDTV Updates, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook

Bangalore: A 27-year-old woman in Bangalore has complained against her ex-husband for hacking her account and posting obscene mails to malign her character. Mehataj Khanum divorced her husband Mohammed Hafeezulla according to Muslim laws on July 5 last year. She alleged in her complaint, "Hafeezulla has hacked my email id and sent a mail to my brother Zabiullah who is an IT Manager in Mumbai and to another brother Hidayath Ullah Khan, a techie in Bangalore. The mail said that Khanaum's father is a pimp and she is into prostitution." Not just the mail, but he also allegedly morphed her pictures for blackmailing. "He morphed my photos with bodies of film actresses and after sending them to my brother, he is threatening to mail them to my brothers' respective firms," she said. "Post marriage, I couldn't bear the torture and registered a dowry harassment case with Halasuru Gate police station. Hafeezulla and his p...

Ahmedabad: A deadly virus reported for the first time in India has killed three people in Gujarat. A central team will visit the state today to take stock of the situation. The state health department in Gujarat is also on alert following the deaths in an Ahmedabad- based private hospital due to the fatal Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever OR CCHF virus. The CCHF is a viral haemorrhagic fever and has a high mortality rate. The dead include a doctor with the private hospital who was attending to a women identified as Samina Banu from adjoining Sanand township. A nurse in the hospital also succumbed to the virus on Tuesday. "In the samples that were sent to Pune, the virus has been identified is CCHF. This virus usually stems or originates from pets that we keep at home from the ticks or fleas that they have. Once the virus enters the blood, it can then spread even via saliva to saliva between humans," said the state's Health Minister, ...