Seoul: South Korea will chemically castrate a serial rapist who preyed on young girls, the first time it has employed the punishment under legislation passed in 2010, Korean media reported on Wednesday. The 45-year-old offender, identified only as Park, was convicted of four rapes or attempted rapes on children under the age of 13 between 1984 and 2002, the Joongang Daily reported. The legislation is intended for use against people...
01:22 PM, May 23, 2012
Mumbai: A 38-year-old man meted out retribution in the most macabre form to his friend on Tuesday night. He killed his friend by chopping off his private parts after his sister alleged that she had been raped by him. He then surrendered before the Pant Nagar police in Ghatkopar (East). The Pant Nagar police were shocked when a man came to the Kamraj Nagar police chowky, chopper in hand. Identifying...
01:14 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: A gas explosion at a residential building in Astrakhan, Russia, brought down a nine-storey building and injured 12 residents. Eleven others are still believed to be stuck in the debris. Reports say the blast blew out the lower section of the building. As people rushed in to help evacuate the victims, the upper storeys collapsed as well. The explosion, possibly caused by natural gas, occurred on Monday in...
06:19 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Moscow: Paedophiles in Russia may soon face chemical castration under a new law approved by the upper house of the Russian Parliament - the Federation Council. Currently, paedophiles only get away with mandatory medical treatment, but under new draft law, they will face chemical castration, life imprisonment and psychiatric drug treatment, Ria Novosti reported. Chemical castration is being introduced in Russia for the first time to deter paedophilia. The new...
07:41 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has deleted names of 142 Sikh NRIs from the black list after a detailed review while the exercise is still continuing in 27 cases, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday. The Home Ministry has conducted a detailed review of names of 169 Sikh NRIs included in the black list but could not get "full information" about activities of 27 individuals during last 15-20 years. Leaving...
08:55 PM, Jun 01, 2011
Cape Canaveral: Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens Saturday, with NASA's help. Speaking from the Vatican, the pontiff bestowed a historic blessing upon the 12 astronauts circling Earth during the first-ever papal call to space, wishing a swift recovery for the shuttle commander's wounded congresswoman wife and condolences for a station astronaut mourning his mother's death. The "extraordinary" conversation, as Benedict described it, occurred after the...
10:22 PM, May 21, 2011
Balasore: For the second day in a row, India conducted a successful ballistic flight test of indigenously developed Astra - Beyond-Visual-Range Air-to-Air Missile - from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on Saturday. "The missile was test-fired around 1032 hrs and the trial was successful," Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) sources said. The missile is envisaged to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft at supersonic speeds in the head-on mode...
11:50 AM, May 21, 2011
New Delhi: The capital reported 489 cases of rape last year and the figure for Mumbai was 189. Little surprise then that a court's suggestion of surgical and chemical castration for rapists has found favour with some Indian women. However, there are just as many who feel it will not serve the purpose. "I fully agree with the judge's view to castrate the rapist rather than sentence him to jail....
12:56 PM, May 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Chinese foreign ministry has rejected spying charges against three Chinese nationals who were arrested on the Indo-Nepal border on Monday. The trio including a woman was caught taking photographs of the Sashastra Seema Bal paramilitary force at a checkpost on the Indo-Nepal border. The three claimed they had arrived in a vehicle till the border, parked it there and then entered Indian territory on foot. The Chinese...
09:51 AM, Jan 21, 2011
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02:55 PM, Jun 26, 2010
He has asked the public to share information about the blast. ...
12:03 AM, Mar 03, 2010
Investigators under pressure to zero in on those behind the Pune blast. ...
10:51 AM, Feb 23, 2010
Vikas Suresh Tulsiani breathed his last at the Jehangir Hospital. ...
08:59 PM, Feb 20, 2010
Fourth foreign national to die in February 13 blast. ...
01:13 PM, Feb 20, 2010
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