Police action injures five seekers of voter identity cards in Kanpur

September 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday that the proposed unique multi-purpose national identity cards would be issued to all citizens of the country by 2011. Speaking to newsmen here, Chidambaram informed that in the first phase during the current fiscal, 1.2 crore people in about 3,331 coastal villages and cities would receive the cards.

July 24th, 2009 PURI - Now onwards, tourists and pilgrims planning to visit the temple city of Puri in Orissa will have to show their valid photo identity cards or relevant documents like passports before they can check-in at any of the hotels, lodges and paying-guest facilities. The move was initiated by the Orissa Police on July 21 to make the city safe and secure from anti-social elements.

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - About 120,000 residents of 3,331 coastal villages will be given identity cards in the first phase of a scheme that will eventually cover the entire country, the Rajya Sabha was informed Wednesday. "In nine states and four union territories, we have identified 3,331 coastal villages where identity cards will be distributed to all usual residents over the age of 18," Home Minister P.

June 28th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir police team from Sopore in the State's Baramulla district has rescued a kidnapped child from the clutches of an inter-state gang of kidnappers of Kanpur within three days of the incident. The incident was brought to the notice of police on June 22 when a local resident Habibullah Mir informed the police authorities at night that his five-year-old son had been kidnapped by one Ajay Kumar of Kanpur, who had been staying in Bulgam village, posing as a labourer.

May 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - The principal of a Hyderabad college Tuesday testified before the court hearing the Mumbai terror attacks case that the seven identity cards of his institution, recovered from Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab and his nine associates, were forged. Principal C.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'I voted!' said an excited 70-year-old Prithvi Chand after he cast his vote at the Ramnagar polling booth in Paharganj in central Delhi. The septuagenarian is happy because he voted for the first time in his life - thanks to an NGO working for the destitutes.

May 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Dharmendra, a wheelchair-bound citizen in north Delhi, is among hundreds of homeless people in the national capital who will be able to cast their vote Thursday - perhaps for the first time - with the help of an NGO working for the destitute. 'Our organisation has already enrolled 2,000 homeless people in the voter list and among them 500 have already got their voting card,' said Sanjay Kumar, executive director of Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Haven't got an electors' photo identity card? Use your alternative photo identity proof and vote in Delhi May 7 for the Lok Sabha elections. According to the Delhi chief electoral office, there are over 1.6 million people in the national capital who have not received their photo identity cards.

April 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Police resorted to a baton charge to disperse a crowd near a polling station in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district where people, including members of political outfits gathered, alleging that the authorities were not allowing persons without voter ID cards to cast their votes. 'We had to use force when people started assembling near the Azimiyam School polling booth, alleging that they were not being allowed to exercise their franchise without the voter identity card,' police inspector D.R.

April 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The death of a 12-year-old boy, mowed down by a truck Tuesday, sparked off violence and tension in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur city, police said. According to police, the accident took place in the Khulwa area of the city, when the cement bags-laden truck ran over Karan, killing him on the spot.

April 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi has said that the poll panel would consider whether the ration card could be used as a valid identity proof during the upcoming national elections.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Even as a large number of people, especially young first-time voters, are looking forward to casting their ballot, there are quite a few who are content to use their voter card just as a proof of identity. 'I got my voter I-card made because it works as an identity proof in many places.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishan Advani on Saturday said that the National Democratic Alliance would enact multi-purpose national identity cards mandatory for citizens of the country, if voted to power. Citing security being the main concern behind the need to make national identity cards mandatory, Advani pointed out the increasing infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals into the country, particularly in the northeast, as he unveiled the IT Vision Document of the party for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

February 11th, 2009 BOKARO - Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) supporters Thursday ransacked the main post office of Bokaro district to protest the sale of Valentine's Day cards. A post office employee was injured, police said.

January 2nd, 2009 KANPUR - Apparently depressed over the denial of a campus placement, a 26-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) committed suicide Saturday, police and institute officials said. 'G. Suman, a final year student of M.Tech, was found hanging inside his hostel room,' director IIT-K Sanjay Dhande told IANS.