NHRC issues notices to states, UTs over women being 'forced' into sex trade by anti-social elementsThe NHRC has taken serious note of reports alleging women are being coerced into sex trade under false job promises by criminal elements. F...
06 Jul, 2024, 08.43 AM IST
'All Indians should feel ashamed when...': Singer Chinmayi Sripaada on Spanish tourist's gang-rape in JharkhandSinger Chinmayi Sripaada expressed concern over the reported gang-rape of a Spanish tourist in Jharkhand's Dumka district. She emphasized t...
06 Mar, 2024, 01.04 PM IST
Hemant Soren refused to receive arrest order; has 'illegal possession' of a dozen Ranchi plots: EDThe criminal case filed by the federal agency against the 48-year-JMM leader emerges from a June 2023 ECIR (ED term for FIR) following raid...
01 Feb, 2024, 08.55 PM IST
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi demand speedy justice, punishment for perpetrator in Dumka killingThe incident took place in Dumka district of Jharkhand on August 23. The accused, identified as Shahrukh, allegedly poured petrol on the te...
30 Aug, 2022, 03.18 PM IST
Crimes too went digital in the pandemic, up 12%Uttar Pradesh pipped Karnataka to emerge as the state with the highest number of cybercrimes reported in 2020 - constituting over a fifth o...
29 Sep, 2021, 02.41 PM IST
ED attaches assets of Jamtara-based cyber criminalsIt said the assets, provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), include three immovable residential propert...
11 Mar, 2021, 11.55 AM IST
Bihar top cop to focus on liquor banThe 1987-batch IPS officer, who took over the command of the state police last week, was recently in the news for his personal campaign for...
07 Feb, 2019, 07.58 PM IST
Rajasthan polls: WhatsApp and DEF conduct training with community leaders in JaipurIn August, WhatsApp and DEF initiated a series of educational workshops in 10 states as part of an effort to educate users how to use the m...
19 Nov, 2018, 03.22 PM IST
Law ministry to decide if new bill needed to curb lynchingsThe meeting was presided over by Narcotics Control Bureau director general Abhay. Home secretary Rajiv Gauba also participated in the proce...
04 Aug, 2018, 09.27 AM IST
West Bengal plans new law to tackle fake news on social mediaPeople who post fake news which commit an offence against the state or against public tranquillity are booked under Sections 505(1)(b) of t...
15 Jun, 2018, 11.51 AM IST
When trouble comes calling and empties your bank accountPolice have warned people against sharing such details on phone, SMS or email.
15 Jan, 2018, 11.07 AM IST
Giving lynchings communal colour not right: Yashwant Sinha"To relate lynching to beef and giving it a communal colour is not right. Lynching represents a very brutal aspect of society. It should be...
05 Jul, 2017, 09.06 PM IST
Nitish Kumar hits out at Centre, Maharashtra govt over Raj Thackeray threatBihar CM Nitish Kumar today charged the Centre, Maha govt with failing to rein in MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his threat to throw Biharis o...
02 Sep, 2012, 07.01 PM IST
- Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik asks Maoists to release Italian hostages
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday appealed to Maoists to release Italian tourists who were abducted in Ganjam district borderi...
19 Mar, 2012, 04.48 AM IST
- Congress, BJP cross swords in Koda scam
The war of words between the BJP and the Congress over alleged corruption by former Jharkand chief minister Madhu Koda intensified today af...
16 Nov, 2009, 10.51 PM IST
- Mulayam hires Big B to wash off Noida stains
Worried over the bad publicity that a spate of high-profile cases have been bringing to Uttar Pradesh and its ruling alliance.
06 Jan, 2007, 01.49 AM IST
- Coal on his face, Soren gets life sentence
Shibu Soren, former Union minister for coal and JMM president, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case.
06 Dec, 2006, 03.26 AM IST