Woman beaten up over posters, critical

August 15th, 2009 BIRBHUM - Maoist posters asking students and teachers to boycott this year's Independence Day celebrations were found pasted on the walls of schools here on Saturday. According to sources the posters were found in the Rajnagar area of Birbhum District of West Bengal.

May 24th, 2009 WADEGAON - In an unusual event in Wadegaon village of Maharashtra, a seventy year-old Dalit woman, Ruddha, was accused of practicing witchcraft. She was stripped and beaten by the villagers before being paraded astride a donkey.

May 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A man was allegedly beaten to death in the national capital by the family members of a woman because they were opposed to the relationship between the two, police said Tuesday. A clash took place between members of the two families Monday night in Bhajanpura area in northeast Delhi, in which the man, identified as Rajesh, 35, was beaten to death with rods and sticks by the woman's relatives, a police official said.

April 29th, 2009 IPOH - Malaysian Indian woman Indira Gandhi was facing a fresh hurdle in recovering her infant daughter from her husband who has been granted interim permission to retain the child by an Islamic court. Gandhi's husband had converted to Islam and taken away the one-year-old girl from her.

April 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After a series of posters with the photographs of Congress trinity Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the party has now come up with some new ones. In this series, the trinity has been relegated to the background.

April 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh are still waiting for posters and banners to arrive from New Delhi. Never mind that the Lok Sabha polls will kick off in the state April 22.

April 8th, 2009 RANCHI - Through posters and banners put up at several places, the Election Commission has launched an awareness programme in Jharkhand, urging voters to go out and exercise their right to vote. 'Wake up voter, Wake up.

April 7th, 2009 HOWRAH - Tension ran high among the residents of Kolkata's twin district Howrah Tuesday morning after at least 30 Maoist posters calling for an armed revolution and mass boycott of the coming Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal were spotted near a market place, the police said. 'The posters were seen on the boundary wall of a government-owned residential complex at Kadamtala under Bantra police station area in the district,' a senior district police officer said.

March 30th, 2009 VADODARA - Civic officials in this Gujarat city are investigating reports of hundreds of posters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) debutant leader Varun Gandhi appearing in a neighbourhood since Saturday night. A team of senior officials from the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) visited Raopura area in the old city Monday morning to verify the reports.

March 21st, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Gandhigiri has landed a 65-year-old man, who claimed to have contested the presidential elections in 2007, in police custody. Attired as Mahatma Gandhi, Mahesh Chaturvedi had been distributing pamphlets and pasting posters here asking people to boycott elections, till he was arrested Friday.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first lot of Congress posters displayed in Delhi had three prominent faces - that of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party chief Sonia Gandhi and her MP son Rahul Gandhi. But now there is a 'big' change.

March 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A Dalit woman suffered a miscarriage after she was beaten up by residents of an Uttar Pradesh village following an argument between her son and their children, the police said Monday. Some locals of the Pakariyapur village in Sitapur district Friday beat up Geeta, 30, after her son had a verbal dispute with their children while playing in the fields, the police said.

February 27th, 2009 NOIDA - A jeweller was beaten up and robbed of cash and jewellery as he was on his way home after closing his shop in Noida, the police said Thursday. Mahesh Chand Verma, who owns a jewellery store in Bhangel Phase-11 area in Noida, was on his way home when he was intercepted the robbers.

February 16th, 2009 GUATEMALA CITY - Six suspected members of a car-theft gang were beaten and set on fire by an enraged mob in Guatemala's Chimaltenango province, EFE reported Tuesday. The five men and one woman, who suffered severe burns, have been admitted to a hospital.

December 25th, 2008 DHAKA - The non-Bengali voters of Bangladesh, who migrated from Bihar in 1947, are debuting as voters in the upcoming general election and are being wooed with promises and posters in Urdu. Candidates and workers of the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Thursday set foot for the first time on a camp at Pallabi on the outskirts of the national capital, The Daily Star newspaper said.