New York: Stephen King will take on crime for a novel coming out next year. The author of 'Carrie' and other horror classics has a deal with the publisher Hard Case Crime for 'Joyland,' a whodunit scheduled for June 2013. King was an early advocate for e-books, but in a statement released Wednesday he said he has such fond memories of reading crime stories as a kid that 'Joyland' will...
01:25 PM, May 30, 2012
Rome: A US marine sergeant has been arrested by Italian police after he allegedly made a video of his repeated rape of a seven-year-old girl and posted it online. The 28-year-old soldier from Florida was arrested on Tuesday by the Italian Carabinieri military police and is being held at a prison in Pisa. The US has the right to request his extradition. The US marines took part in the investigation....
12:51 PM, May 30, 2012
Mumbai: The next time you find strangers at your doorsteps, claiming that they have come to invite you for a wedding at your hometown, think twice before you welcome them. On Monday, a group of three unidentified men, under the pretext of giving a wedding invite, robbed a housewife and her daughter at gunpoint. According to the Chembur police, the unidentified trio had introduced themselves to Sohani Naval, 48, a...
12:36 PM, May 30, 2012
Guwahati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the rise in crimes against women in Assam but described the situation as better on the issue of rights violations. "The data available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that Assam is ranked second in the country in the category of crime against women. Most of the cases are related to kidnapping, rape and cases of...
03:02 AM, May 30, 2012
Rome: A 37-year-old Indian migrant in Italy killed his pregnant wife because she loved wearing western clothes and he wanted to punish her for going against Indian traditions. The Indian, whose name was given as Singhj Kulbir, told police in Piacenza city in northern Italy that he strangled to death his 27-year-old wife - named as Kaur Balwinde - before throwing her corpse in the Po river, a news agency...
10:16 AM, May 29, 2012
CHENNAI: An initiative by the city police to enhance security and prevent crimes against senior citizens who live alone has received an enthusiastic response. Following a spurt in crimes targeting the elderly, City Police Commissioner J K Tripathy hammered out a special plan. Senior citizens who are 'home alone' were requested to register with the police so that the cops could enhance security measures. In the last four months, 850...
08:10 AM, May 28, 2012
Lucknow: In a shocking incident late on Wednesday, a 40-year-old man knifed his 20-year-old son for asking him not to be abusive. Police said the incident took place at Banthara village, when an inebriated Prakash reached his home after work and had a brief altercation with his son Sailakh. Sailakh, who was a labourer, objected to his father's habit of drinking liquor and protested the use of foul language. Enraged...
10:24 AM, May 24, 2012
London: A 17-year-old Pakistani girl was murdered by her parents and her body dumped into a river after her westernised lifestyle brought shame on her strict Muslim family's honour, a British court has heard. Shafilea Ahmed was murdered and her body was dumped near Sedgwick, Cumbria, in September 2003. Her remains were discovered five months later, The Sun reported. Her death remained a mystery for seven years, till October 2010,...
02:07 PM, May 23, 2012
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: One person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a murder case of a four-year-old girl in Goa. The girl, a Mumbai resident, was on a visit to her grandfather's house to spend her summer vacation. The girl was living in her grandfather's house in south Goa from where she went missing on May 20. The victim's body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon about 200 metres away from the...
10:59 AM, May 23, 2012
Thane: A man attempted to burn alive his eight-months pregnant wife in a bid to get rid of her and has gone absconding, police said. Inspector RG Mhatre of the Hill Line police station of Ulhasnagar township said on Tuesday that the accused Allamin Saddam Samir Mandal,28, originally from West Bengal was married to Manina Begum, 20, of Assam some three years back. Later, Mandal fell for another young woman...
07:49 AM, May 23, 2012
Bangalore: A 25-year-old software engineer was found dead in his car at Mahadevapura area with his head covered in a plastic bag and his body wrapped in cellophane tape, police said. The man, Srirag, hailing from Kozhikode in Kerala, was working for Hewlett Packard in the city, police said. They said the post-mortem had been conducted and the body has been kept at the government-run Bowring hospital for his parents...
09:11 PM, May 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Well-known evangelist KA Paul was arrested on Monday morning from Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh. He was arrested for attempting to murder Koteswar Rao, accused of killing his brother, Daniel. Paul was charged under IPC sections 120 B (for hatching criminal conspiracy to abduct) and 307 (attempt to murder), Superintendent of Police (Prakasam) Raghurami Reddy, said. Paul is also facing a charge under Prevention of Corruption Act, the SP...
11:28 AM, May 21, 2012
Pune: Seven girls staying at a residential school run by the state government in Yerawada have finally broken their silence and accused the headmaster of making sexual advances. Despite this, the Social Welfare Department has only issued a show-cause notice to the person concerned asking him why he should not be terminated from service. The matter has been put up for further inquiry, but no FIR has been lodged against...
11:08 AM, May 21, 2012
Washington: Sri Lanka will conduct investigations into the allegations of war abuses, its Foreign Minister said while presenting a detailed reconciliation plan of the island to the US. The visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, GM Peiris, presented to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a detailed reconciliation plan and said that Sri Lanka itself would conduct investigations into allegations of war abuses, which includes those by the security forces. The...
01:01 PM, May 19, 2012
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