Azamgarh: An elderly person was hacked to death in Kritmalpur Ahirauli village in Vardah area in Azamgarh, police said on Tuesday. Ishtiyaq alias Chutkan (80) was killed on Monday night by some unidentified persons when he was sleeping outside his house, they said. The body of the victim has been sent for postmortem and a probe is on, they said. No arrests have been made so far. ...
11:08 AM, May 14, 2013
Bhopal: A 14-year-old girl is battling for her life after she attempted suicide. The teenager set herself ablaze following an alleged rape bid by a youth two days back. She is in a hospital in Udaipur, Rajasthan now and her condition is said to be critical. The girl said in her statement that she felt 'humiliated' after a youth attempted to rape her. The accused, Pratap Singh, reportedly tried to...
10:45 AM, May 14, 2013
Moscow: A 23-year-old man beaten to death in Volgograd in south Russia was the victim of a homophobic gang, Russian investigators have said. The naked body of the man with various injuries, including to his genitalia, was found in the courtyard of an apartment building May 10. The victim's skull was smashed with a 20-kg rock and he appeared to have been raped with beer bottles. The suspects also tried...
10:09 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: A five-year-old girl was on Monday sexually assaulted by her landlord's 15-year-old son in Delhi, police said. The juvenile suspect was caught. The incident occurred in Aman Vihar area of outer Delhi on Monday morning. "After spotting the minor alone in her house, the juvenile took her to an abandoned room built in the same building and sexually assaulted her. When the minor began to cry, he fled...
05:01 AM, May 14, 2013
Visakhapatnam: Two girls jumped from a speeding autorickshaw to escape a rape attempt and one of them was severely injured at Paderu in the Vizag agency area on Monday in the wee hours, police said. The girls, both residents of G Madugula area in the district had gone to Paderu on Sunday evening to witness the local Sri Modakondamma festival which began on Sunday, they said. The girls boarded a...
01:10 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing the December 16, 2012 gangrape on Monday sought the medical report of an accused admitted to hospital with high fever, while the victim's friend deposed against two accused involved in the assault in a moving bus. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna called for the medical report of Vinay Sharma from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where he was taken on May 6 from Tihar Jail...
11:10 PM, May 13, 2013
Guwahati: The recent Delhi gangrape shook the conscience of the nation, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said and underlined the need to ponder and "reset the moral compass" of the society during this difficult time. "Sometimes certain events shake the national conscience. Recently the brutal rape on a young woman in Delhi shook the conscience of the whole nation and it compelled us to sit back and think where we...
09:25 PM, May 13, 2013
Guwahati: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a tea garden at Titabor in upper Assam, police said on Monday. According to the FIR filed on the complaint of the girl's father, she was called out of her house in the labour lines of Rongdoi tea estate on Sunday by the accused, who is known to the family. The man fled after committing the crime, it said. The girl's father...
07:23 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: An unidentified man was on Sunday arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a two-year-old girl in Mayur Vihar Phase 1 area of Delhi, police said. The police have registered a case of attempted rape against the accused and girl has been admitted to the Lal Bahadur hospital for treatment. The incident reportedly occurred just about 100 meters from the Mayur Vihar police station. The accused was caught by...
01:07 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: A two-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a 23-year-old neighbour inside her house, police said on Sunday. The man has been arrested. The incident was reported from Adarsh Nagar area in north Delhi and occurred when the child was alone at home on Saturday evening. A neighbour, who chanced upon the crime, raised an alarm following which the accused fled. The girl was taken to hospital where the...
08:56 PM, May 12, 2013
Palanpur: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a man living in Fanwara locality near the victim's house in Deesa, around 28 Kms from Palanpur, the police said. The incident happened on Sunday when the 14-year-old girl was alone at her home and the accused Kishore Panchal (25) lured her, the police said. According to the complaint filed by the mother of the victim, the accused took her to the...
08:10 PM, May 12, 2013
Boston: Two companies with major operations in India were the weak links that opened the door to a $45 million global cyber heist brought to light by US authorities this week. EnStage Inc, which operates from Bangalore, and ElectraCard Services, which is based in Pune, processed card payments for the two Middle Eastern banks that were hit in the theft, according to several people familiar with the situation. US prosecutors...
03:41 PM, May 12, 2013
Washington: The police officer who risked his life to save victims of the Wisconsin Gurdwara shootout in 2012 was honoured by US President Barack Obama at a White House award ceremony. Six people were shot dead while three others injured when gunman Wade Michael Page went on a shooting rampage in August, 2012. The toll could have been much higher if not for Lieutenant Brian Murphy of the Oak Creek...
11:16 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has granted 13 days parole to Santosh Kumar Singh, undergoing life sentence in the Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case, to appear in his LLM examination. The court directed Singh to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000 before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Saket while allowing his plea against the single judge's order dismissing his application for parole. A bench of Chief Justice...
10:25 AM, May 12, 2013
Mumbai: A second-year engineering student of a Navi Mumbai college committed suicide after allegedly being ragged. The 19-year-old jumped in front of a local train on Friday. He has named two of his fellow students in his suicide note for harassing him for several months. The victim, Nitin Padalkar, ended his life by jumping before a running train at Kalyan railway station in the neighbouring Thane district on Friday evening,...
09:20 AM, May 12, 2013
Gurdaspur: In a shocking incident, a step-father allegedly married his minor daughter after forcibly taking her in Jammu on the pretext of getting her 'Aadhar' card. The incident came to light when the girl's mother, lodged a complaint against her husband, Pardeep Malik, following which police conducted raid at his house in Shahzada colony in Gurdaspur and rescued the girl, police said on Saturday. However, the accused managed to escape...
02:12 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: The youth, who allegedly shot dead a teenaged girl in her south Delhi home, was enraged at her for ignoring him after she came to know that he was a sweeper and a school dropout, police said on Saturday. Sakshi was shot dead by Subhash, a distant relative of the victim, in her Munirka house on Friday. Subhash, the cousin of victim's sister-in-law, was arrested from Ghitoli village...
09:09 PM, May 11, 2013
Salem: In a shocking incident, an 80-year old woman was allegedly raped by a 41-year-old man following which she was admitted to a hospital in a serious condition. The woman, a widow, is battling for life at a government hospital in Salem, police said on Saturday. The accused Palanivel, a vegetable vendor, of Malliyakari in the district was detained by the local people and handed over to police who arrested...
04:37 PM, May 11, 2013
New York: A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack. "It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday. On the creative side of the heist, a small team of highly skilled hackers penetrated bank systems, erased withdrawal...
11:30 AM, May 11, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has directed the police to lodge a case of kidnapping in instances of missing children below 14 years. "The Home Minister has directed that instead of filing the case of missing children below 14 years in police register, an offence of kidnap be lodged," a spokesperson for the minister said in a statement here. Patil has directed that a circular in this regard be...
09:58 AM, May 11, 2013
