A suspended police head constable on Wednesday night kept a Superintendent of Police hostage for four hours protesting alleged harassment by the bosses before freeing him after a high drama.

Head co

A Superintendent of Police of Police Transport Organisation (PTO) was on Wednesday allegedly held captive by a suspended head-constable in Saifabad area here.

The head-constable, identified as Giripr

Five people were left dead after a hostage-taking during a home eviction in southwestern Germany on Wednesday, including the presumed gunman, police said.

Police said they found the bodies inside aft

A French prosecutor says that a gunman holding three hostages in a bank in the southern city of Toulouse is doing so for religious reasons.

Police say negotiations are under way with the gunman. Pros

Police sealed off a busy central London street during rush hour amid reports of an armed man causing a disturbance, but said the incident was not terrorism-related.

TV reports say four people have be

A 50-year-old man who failed to obtain a driving license thrice, and who threatened to blow himself up, after holding four hostages in an office in Central London, prompting Scotland Yard to deploy sh

Hours before the deadline set by Naxals for release of their jailed members in exchange of an abducted Orissa MLA, a retired Army officer on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court to restrain the s

As the deadline set by the abductors of BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka and Italian tour guide Paolo Bosusco ends on Tuesday, the chances of an early solution to the twin hostage crises in Odisha appeared to

Hitting out at the BJD government over the abduction of a tribal MLA, the opposition Congress and BJP in Odisha on Saturday accused it of being hand in glove with Maoists and pushing the state into

Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has decided to send two ministers of his government to the state's Korapur District to negotiate with the Maoists and seek the release of abducted Biju Janata Dal