Ghaziabad: Delhi police constable Ajit Baliyan, who had died of bullet wounds on April 10, 2013, was murdered by his wife's paramour and had not committed suicide, the police on Wednesday said. Constable's wife Raj and her lover Mukesh have been arrested and the two have confessed to their involvement in the crime, SSP Nitin Tiwari said. According to initial reports, Ajit, who died of bullet wounds, had committed suicide...
03:10 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Kolkata: There was another suicide bid by a Saradha Group agent hit by the chit fund scam in West Bengal. Twenty-eight-year old Tapasi Singha tried to commit suicide by consuming sleeping pills. She had a liability of Rs 5,30,000. Tapasi and her husband Sri Nandan Singha were agents of Saradha realty. She has been admitted in Jangipur Sub Divisional Hospital. As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings...
12:47 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Vidarbha region has seen 168 farmer suicides in the first three months of this 2013. Made up of 11 districts, Vidarbha is home to two-thirds of the state's mineral resources and three-quarters of its forest resources. But poverty and malnutrition and endemic. "According to police reports, 168 farmer suicides have been registered till March 31 this year," said Kishor Tiwari, president of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, a...
05:35 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Two more of the eight men who allegedly gang-raped a 13-year-old girl in Delhi in March 2013 have been arrested, taking the total to five, police on Sunday said. The girl, who attempted suicide on Saturday, is stated to stable in hospital. "We have arrested two people in the case," a police officer told IANS but refused to divulge any more information. Three people were arrested on Saturday,...
05:05 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kabul: Insurgents killed six police officers at a checkpoint and a suicide bomber killed three civilians at a shopping bazaar in separate attacks on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, while an independent security group warned 2013 is on track to be one of the most violent years of the war. April already has been the deadliest month of 2013 for security forces and Afghan and foreign civilians as the US and...
01:14 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Sangareddy: A rape victim who was in a state of mental depression committed suicide on Sunday afternoon at the Kohir mandal headquarters in Medak district. According to Zaheerabad Circle Inspector of Police Pulimamidi Sridhar Reddy, the 18-year-old girl who was raped by a 36-year-old driver called Shekhar in the wee hours of April 20 near Zaheerabad railway station, committed suicide at her village. She was discharged from hospital at about...
11:12 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: A 13-year-old girl attempted suicide Saturday after being allegedly gangraped by eight men, four of whom are known to her. She is in ICU in serious condition, the family said. Three of the accused have been arrested, police said Saturday. The girl, who was abducted March 15 by the men and released after nine days, consumed an overdose of sleeping pills in the morning at her house in...
11:33 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Kolkata: Unable to bear the ignominy of seeing the youth who had allegedly raped his wife go free, a man in West Bengal's Hooghly district committed suicide, his family said. Police maintained there was no evidence against the accused. "Despite our complaint, the police released him (alleged rapist) the very same day he was arrested. He used to threaten us with dire consequences after we filed the complaint. My husband...
01:38 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Jammu: A girl allegedly committed suicide in Rajouri district after she was caught cheating during her BA first year examination at Degree College Thanamandi, police said. Rubina (19) committed suicide by consuming poison on Tuesday after a case of unfair means was registered against her, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajouri, Mubassir Latifi, said on Wednesday. The girl was reportedly caught copying during the English paper of her BA examination...
02:33 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Islamabad: Terrorists targeted senior politicians campaigning for Pakistan's upcoming General Election in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces on Tuesday, killing 22 people and injuring dozens more and triggering concern about security for the landmark polls. Six persons were killed and about 30 injured when PML-N leader Sanaullah Zehri's motorcade was targeted with a bomb in Khuzdar district of the restive southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday afternoon. Zehri escaped unhurt but...
08:55 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Islamabad: A suicide bomber on Tuesdya targeted leaders of the secular Awami National Party in Peshawar city of northeast Pakistan, killing 15 people and injuring dozens more in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks ahead of May general election. The bomber struck when a car carrying senior ANP leaders reached Yakatoot neighbourhood, where they were to address an election rally on Tuesday evening. "The bomber detonated his explosives...
11:37 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Islamabad: A suicide bomber targeted on Tuesday leaders of the secular Awami National Party in Peshawar city of northeast Pakistan, killing nine persons and injuring nearly 50 others in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks ahead of next month's general election. The bomber struck when a car carrying senior ANP leaders reached Yakatoot neighbourhood, where they were to address an election rally this evening. "The bomber detonated his...
11:23 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Jammu: An Army jawan allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday. The body of Naik Bhagwan Singh, a jawan of 23 Grenadiers, was found hanging from a tree near his official quarters at Bari Brahmana area of the district last evening, SHO Bari Brahmana, Arun Jamwal said. A case has been registered in this regard while...
06:21 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday in suicide bombings and assaults by al Shabaab militants linked to al Qaeda, breaking a fragile return to peace in Mogadishu. A bomb exploded outside law courts in the city as gunmen stormed the compound. Security forces then arrived and battled the fighters inside. Later, a bomb exploded near an African Union and Turkish Red Crescent convoy...
07:20 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: A student from Manipur has allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room in Delhi University's Hindu College. His body was found in his room at around 5.30 am on Sunday morning. The student strangled himself using a mobile phone charger. A suicide note has also been recovered. The parents of the student said he was undergoing treatment for depression. The body has been sent for postmortem. Police said...
11:36 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Islamabad: A schoolgirl committed suicide by shooting herself inside a classroom in a town near the Pakistani capital after she was allegedly harassed by a man. The 16-year-old student of class 10 shot herself with a pistol during an examination on Wednesday. She was a student of the Government Girls Centennial Model High School in Haripur, located about 60 km from Islamabad. Officials at a local hospital said the girl's...
01:09 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Los Angeles: A man in the US cut through his arms with saws at a hardware supply store, shocking employees and customers who watched the grisly scene. The man calmly walked into the store on Azusa Avenue in Los Angeles area on Wednesday and grabbed the handsaws, the West Covina Police Department said. "He just began sawing away," Cpl Rudy Lopez told The Los Angeles Times. "He was pretty much...
10:48 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Beirut: A suicide car bomb killed at least 15 people and wounded 53 in the main business district of Damascus on Monday in what the Syrian prime minister said was a response to army gains against rebels around the capital. The bomb near a school in the Sabaa Bahrat district, which also houses the Central Bank and Finance Ministry, set cars ablaze and damaged buildings, state television footage showed. A...
07:02 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: In a tragic incident, a family of four including two children was charred to death in Uttam Nagar. Police sources said that prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide. Meanwhile, the neighbours claimed that the family had a financial debt of over Rs 40 lakh. The neighbours informed the police and the fire station after noticing the blaze. The police are now investigating the case....
11:00 AM, Apr 06, 2013
