Mid Day

Delhi Police vs Crime Branch

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:38:40 GMT

One-upmanship between the two police forces has led to each arresting a bookie wanted by the other, gathering evidence on their own, with hardly any co-ordination on the case

Youth stabs brother 14 times

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:12:11 GMT

Fed up with his 25-year-old brother's demands and drunken behaviour, youth stabbed him with a house knife

Cops take bribe from Ugandans

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:46:38 GMT

Now MRA Marg police station sports the stains of graft, with DCP calling for suspending the cops for taking bribe from 3 Ugandans, booked for trying to extort R108 cr from city businessmen

Unemployed youth kills mother

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:23:15 GMT

An unemployed youth allegedly killed his mother after she refused to give him money for his expenses in Balipur village, police said today.

Girl beats up boyfriend for not marrying her

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:14:57 GMT

A girl today thrashed a youth in public and handed him over to the police, lodging a complaint against him for establishing sexual relations with her on false promise of marriage, police said here.

Two Andhra ministers charged in Jagan case quit

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:38:33 GMT

Two cabinet ministers in Andhra Pradesh charged in the YS Jaganmohan Reddy's disproportionate assets case have submitted their resignations to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, sources said Monday.

Pakistani man lynched to death over prostitution

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:55:41 GMT

A man was lynched to death and two others, including an alleged prostitute, were injured after they were caught in an "objectionable" condition in a house near the Pakistani capital, a media report said Sunday.

Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball teams

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:17:10 GMT

Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand.

and #39;

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:06:49 GMT

The cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) is back in the news for wrong reasons. This time it is for the arrest of three Rajasthan Royals cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan for their alleged involvement in spot fixing dur

Dirty and #39; cricketers let down people, not the IPL: Srinivasan

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:27:03 GMT

A police official who was caught red handed while accepting bribe in this Haryana city consumed poison in the lock-up early Saturday. His condition is stable, police said.

IPL spot fixing: Cops arrest infamous bookie

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:21:20 GMT

Pankaj Shah, alias Babbu, is a relative of ex-Thane commissioner, linked to Dawood Ibrahim's gang

ICSE results out, Vile Parle girl tops Mumbai class Xth exam

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:39:13 GMT

Today the results of Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE) were declared.

Neighbours set house on fire after fight over drinks; 3 dead

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:29:37 GMT

Three members of a family, including a woman, were charred to death and another critically injured when their house was set afire by two neighbours after a fight over drinks.

Nun other than Sr Lucy Britto

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:56:40 GMT

A Goa-born nun, who worked in Mumbai, works in the archives section of the Vatican, serving under the pontificates of three Popes

Stir against abusive principal on

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:53:02 GMT

Parents claim that a one-person panel has declared Sunder to be '80%' at fault

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:17:24 GMT

Party supremo laughs off talks of merger with Sena as they celebrate their 7th anniversary in style

Animals at Byculla Zoo get and #39;fresh and #39; water only once a week

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:36:14 GMT

If you have promised your kids a visit to the zoo this summer vacation, you might want to consider a change of plans: the trip may leave your little ones scarred for life

Promising Rs 1,000 crore loan, conmen dupe firm of Rs 55 lakh

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:05:13 GMT

Trio posed as top officials of Finance India Limited; claimed to have 100 billion euros in their accounts to give out as loan

MHADA wants to call Dharavi transit camp and #39;Sion and #39; to lure residents

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:02:12 GMT

Prasad Lad, chairman of the state housing authority's repair and reconstruction board, has proposed to rename Dharavi and Mazgaon transit camps to draw attention away from their locations

Runway-like surface for Eastern Freeway

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:49:24 GMT

A mixture called polymer modified bitumen (PMB), used for constructing runways and also the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, was used to build the freeway

BJP men stop buses carrying IPL players outside Gahunje stadium

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:54:10 GMT

In a bid to mark their protest against cases of spot-fixing that emerged during the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season VI, over 100 BJP workers - under the leadership of Maval taluka's MLA Sanjay Bhegade - stopped buses carrying players of Pu

Dearth of e-machines forces conductors to punch tickets

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:08:42 GMT

Around 40 per cent of e-ticketing service used by PMPML has been halted due to shortage of around 600 machines; bus conductors are issuing punched tickets to passengers

Burglars now mortgage stolen booty

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:49:18 GMT

As gold loan companies ask for only identity and address proof to sanction loan up to 70% of total value of the ornaments, City's jewel thieves now mortgage them instead of selling them off; usually, they don't even return to collect the jewellery.

CoEP and #39;s health survey reveals 30% girls have anaemia

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:15:09 GMT

A recent health survey carried out by the College of Engineering also found out that 1.5 per cent of the girls as well as boys residing in the hostel suffer from high stress levels; they can now consult their doctors on video

Pakistan voters back at polls after senior politician and #39;s murder

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:08:18 GMT

Zahra Shahid Hussain, vice-president of Imran Khan's party, was murdered by unidentifed gunmen outside her home

Knife carried by Navy SEAL in Osama raid fetches Rs 19.35 l

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:14:00 GMT

The knife that was carried by one of the elite SEAL Team Six members in the 2011 raid on former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been sold at an auction, with the proceeds going to the family of another fallen SEAL, Brett Shadle.

60 hurt as US trains collide; NY-Boston corridor closed

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:32:05 GMT

Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in southwestern Connecticut, injuring 60 people, five of them critically, and closing the key corridor between New York and Boston.

79-year-old US woman goes skydiving against doctors orders!

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:57:51 GMT

Carolyn Meiselbach, a 79-year-old great-grandmother from Brooklyn, disobeyed her doctors' orders to skydive 13,500 feet out of an airplane in New York

Woman enrolls her yet-to-be-born daughter in beauty pageant

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:24:05 GMT

A seven-month pregnant mother from Lancashire is so obsessed with child pageants that she has already entered her unborn baby Ella's name into a competition

and #39;Dead and #39; man wakes up at his own funeral

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:01:52 GMT

Mourners got the fright of their lives and ran in horror, after a man who was pronounced dead woke up at his funeral

Midnight chase through streets of Bandra led to Sreesanth and #39;s arrest

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:51:27 GMT

After losing match against Mumbai at Wankhede on Wednesday, Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan headed to a pub to meet a bookie; the three split later, sending police squads waiting in the shadows into a hectic chase; Ajit Chandila was also picked up from a

Online results of scholarship exams on track, says MSCE

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:54:30 GMT

After last year's debacle, the government body plans to leave no stone unturned while declaring middle and high school scholarship examination results this year

Sachin, Dhoni must share our grief

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:56:04 GMT

It's the time to be proactive in Indian cricket. Yet, we hear so very little or at times, nothing, from our former and present cricketing stalwarts on the spot fixing scandal which hit Indian cricket last Thursday

What my mother wore at Cannes

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:11:41 GMT

The year 1957. My father's film Gotama: The Buddha was an Indian entry at the Cannes Film Festival (it subsequently won a Mention Exceptionnelle but that's not the point of the story.) The point is what my mother wore to Cannes