Jaipur: Two differently-abled girls have allegedly been raped at an NGO near Jaipur where they had gone for speech therapy. The teenagers suffer from speech and hearing disability and are orphans. They live in a government-run home in the city, but had gone to the NGO, Awaaz Foundation, for speech counseling in April.
According to the [...]
Srinagar: A Junior Commissioned Officer was killed while a soldier was injured as Army on Saturday foiled an infiltration bid by militants in Macchil sector along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
Troops of 56 Rashtriya Rifles noticed some suspicious movement of two to four persons along the LoC in Macchil sector at [...]
Cannes, France:A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted on Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying for cover.
Actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were among guests being interviewed on the Canal Plus program “Le Grand Journal” when what sounded like gunfire rang out.
Television footage showed [...]
New Delhi: In a swift operation, CBI on Friday night arrested its own Superintendent of Police, who was heading the Coalgate probe team, an inspector and two others for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman outside its headquarters here to settle a land dispute.
CBI’s internal vigilance apprehended Inspector Rajesh while [...]
Bhubaneswar: A man has been arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl in an Odisha village, police said on Saturday.
Santosh Rout, 45, was arrested after the girl’s father lodged a complaint Friday. The victim, a Class five student, had suffered injury marks on her body, a police officer said.
Rout allegedly dragged the girl to a secluded [...]
Moradabad: In a heinous incident, a 35-year-old woman has been allegedly gang-raped and beaten up by four men in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
According to a news channel, the suspects allegedly gang-raped the woman, with whom they had a dispute earlier, while she was working alone in a farm.
Her condition is critical now.
“They gang-raped me [...]
Kolkata: A nine-year-old boy has died after allegedly being beaten by his teacher at a school in West Bengal’s South 24 Paraganas on Wednesday.
The Class III student, Bapi Joardar, was allegedly assaulted by his teacher after he was involved in a quarrel with another student, police sources said today. They added that the teacher had [...]
Washington: An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into the United States, the Department of Justice said.
Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar, 33, along with Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were sentenced on Friday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to [...]
Lucknow: A woman died here of swine flu late Friday, health officials said on Saturday.
Neelam Singh had recently returned from Delhi and had complained of breathlessness and other complications. Her husband, a doctor at the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) here, got her admitted to a medical facility in the city.
Tests conducted on her confirmed [...]
Beijing: Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China this week have killed 55 people and left 14 others missing.
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest, with 36 deaths and 10 [...]
Paris: The gay marriage bill has been legalized in France with the French president Francois Hollande signing the bill into a law.
With the signing of the bill, the first gay marriage is expected to take place within next two weeks, as per a BBC report.
The gay marriage bill was passed by the Parliament last month [...]
Abuja: Nigerian military pounded the camps of Islamic militant group Boko Haram’s strongholds across the northeast, killing dozens of militants, the military said.
“The extremists were hit inside their camps since Wednesday in the affected states,” Army spokesman Brigadier General Chris Olukolade said on Friday.
The spokesman said a military plane was hit by an anti- aircraft [...]
New Delhi: The mastermind behind the whole spot-fixing saga was reported to be a close aid of Dawood Ibrahim. His name was Sunil Ramchandani alias Sunil Dubai while the principal bookie referred to as ‘Jupiter’ in phone conversation is a person called Chandresh.
A leading newspaper quoted an unnamed Delhi police officer as saying that the [...]
New Delhi: A man has been jailed for eight years by a Delhi court for repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter and threatening her not to disclose the incident to anyone.
Additional Sessions Judge T R Naval sentenced Northeast Delhi resident, saying the convict, who was supposed to protect his daughter, had repeatedly committed the crime when [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea seeking court’s direction to the GoM on CBI autonomy to consider parliamentary committee reports on the agency before making its recommendation to the government.
The government constituted a Group of Ministers after the CBI was rapped on the knuckles by the SC and called it a [...]