-The Telegraph BDO Sisir Kumar Singh and Co. could never have imagined this treasure hunt to go bad. But it did. They were assaulted yesterday on their way back from Kamarchak village where they had traced about 100 antique silver coins that were recovered from a school construction site in neighbouring Bodaiya village, about 40km from the Dumka district headquarters. In the end they managed to salvage 23 coins, the rest were looted, allegedly...

-The Telegraph Damayanti Sen, who broke the glass ceiling at Lalbazar to become the first woman to lead the detective department, is likely to be transferred out of the city police headquarters. The buzz in the police corridors is that Sen will be appointed deputy inspector-general (DIG) of training, a post where there is far less chance of her word being pitted against the chief minister’s, as had happened in the Park...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which went through 2,097 cases of killing of youth and mass cremation of their bodies by the Punjab police during the peak of militancy in the State, has ordered a relief of Rs.27.94 crore to the families of 1,513 victims of such extra-judicial killings. The remaining bodies were not identified. When the terrorism was at its peak during 1984-1996 in the State, police personnel, whether...

-The Times of India Seventy-year-old Kalyanasundaram's face wears a permanent look of defiance. Popularly known as 'Thagaval Thaatha', a veteran of over 300 applications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, he faces threats from close to home - his neighbours.  Kalyanasundaram, who gathered with 50 other people from the city on Link Road in Egmore on Sunday morning in response to Anna Hazare's call for a day-long nationwide hunger fast, says...

-The Telegraph Lakshman Seth, the former CPM member of Parliament blamed for much of the bloodshed in Nandigram, was arrested by a Bengal police team this afternoon while hiding in a Mumbai guesthouse along with two party colleagues. Seth, former MLA Amiya Sahoo and East Midnapore leader Ashok Guria are the key accused in the alleged killing of six villagers during the CPM’s “recapture” of Nandigram in November 2007. Seth, entangled in...