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  1. DMK’s day out on July 4 in Jail

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    / July 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is back to jail for the DMK-ites, most would snigger. The `fill the Jails’ agitation that will take place in Tamilnadu on July 4 is already giving jail staff nightmares, with very little space available. Usually in `taken into preventive custody’ demonstrations, those arrested are taken to the nearest...

  2. Nithyananda in the dock over tiger skins

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    / June 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It would seem Godman Swami Nithyananda’s troubles with the law will just not end. The Madurai police have raided Madurai Adheenam where he is the newly appointed junior pontiff. This was after Nithyananda was booked under the Wildlife Protection Act because he allegedly sits on tiger skin and elephant tusks....

  3. CBI – Blackmailing wing of the ruling party?

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    / May 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The arrest of YS Jagan raises more questions than it answers. It yet again reiterates how the investigating agency and its personnel can be visibly partisan. The march of event inspires little confidence. The methodology shows the Central investigating agency in poor light. So often has it happened that it...

  4. Maoist maneater on the prowl

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    / May 4, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “Yes, absolutely,” said a senior police officer when I asked him if he would use the phrase to describe the situation in Chhattisgarh and Odisha. “What Chhattisgarh government does not realise is that the Maoists are breathing down Raipur’s neck. So many of the districts around the state capital are...

  5. Andhra Pradesh’s two top cops in the dock

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    / April 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Embarrassment for two top cops in Andhra Pradesh. The High court has ordered the state government to order a probe into the assets of the DGP Dinesh Reddy and his batchmate Umesh Kumar after both officers levelled allegations against each other. While Umesh accused the DGP with concealing property transactions...

  6. Curfew in parts of Old city in Hyderabad

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    / April 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Curfew was imposed in Madannapet and Saidabad police station limits in the Old city area of Hyderabad today, following clashes between two groups. The situation in these areas remained tense but under control. The trouble began in the morning when two groups belonging to different communities clashed at Kurmaguda, after...

  7. Kiran buys peace with Botsa, transfers cop

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    / April 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Prodded by Ghulam Nabi Azad, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana have decided to smoke the peace pipe. Atleast for now. Their rift was seen as one of the reasons why the Congress government in the state is in a state of limbo. And...

  8. An elephant is `stolen’

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    / March 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In Hindi, they would say “bada haath maara”. Or rather in this case, it was a `haathi’. A man from Kerala was arrested by the police for `stealing’ an elephant. The man had `stolen’ to pledge it to repay a loan. UNI reports that Ashraf, a resident of Kerala was looking...

  9. Do journalists sleep with the `enemy’?

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    / March 26, 2012 / 5 Comments
    Sampad Mahapatra was heading back from the jungle when we spoke. The `long’ phone conversation, however had to be split into four parts, thanks to the cellphone signals that kept dropping. My former colleague in NDTV, Odisha, Sampad was returning to Bhubaneswar after one of the most adventurous and dramatic...

  10. Now, Hyderabad to have a super cop

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    / March 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Even as the debate whether to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh or not to continues, there has been a huge decision in the way policing will take place now in Hyderabad and Cyberabad. Changing the present system of a police commissioner for Hyderabad and another for Cyberabad, now a new post of...

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