Over 40 persons belonging to different political parties and Tamil organisations were taken into custody here on Wednesday after they staged demonstrations in various parts of the city to protest the visit of Nirupama Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and cousin of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and her husband Thirukumaran Nadesan to Tiruchi.The couple arrived here from Madurai by road on Tuesday...
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Security forces Wednesday fought a long-drawn gun battle with the Maoists in West Bengal's troubled West Midnapore district while police fired tear gas shells to quell an agitation by tribals.The central paramilitary troopers and state armed police personnel, conducting a joint operation to flush out Maoist rebels from around Lalgarh belt, faced a volley of fire from the ultras in the jungle area of...
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Shiv Sena doesn't want to see Kareena Kapoor in the nude. And they have decided to go all out to drape her in a sari -- at least in her upcoming film,The party on Friday threatened to stall screenings in cinemas if the scene showing Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan undressed is not removed. More than 200 Sena workers gathered at the JVPD circle in Juhu and draped Kapoor -- in the film's poster -- in a saffron...
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session court here lambasted a committee of doctors on Thursday for their “callous and casual” medical report on four boys, who had alleged they were forced to sodomise each other in a city police lock-up nine days ago.The medical report only confirmed torture and found bruises on the buttocks of a victim but failed to elaborate on the cause and was silent on any act of sodomy having been committed.Reading...
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