New Delhi: The recent cases of a 12-year-old who died aping a TV serial suicide and a 15-year-old who stabbed his teacher to death after being reportedly influenced by watching revenge drama 'Agneepath' have put the spotlight on the influence showbiz exerts on young, impressionable minds. But films and TV shows are not alone to blame, say experts. Media literacy for kids is one way out, suggests child psychiatrist Samir...
02:49 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: A 13-year-old student kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old after she snubbed his friendship request; a teenaged girl gang-raped by two men in a car and another yet to be traced after being forced into a car by two young men. It was a night of shame for Delhi on Thursday as the three incidents were reported from the city within hours. In one of the incidents, one...
05:21 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Jefferson City, Missouri: A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 slaying of Elizabeth Olten in St Martins, a small rural town...
10:36 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a man for allegedly opening a fake Facebook account of his former woman colleague and publishing obscene pictures. T Satish, an engineer working with an MNC in Bangalore, was arrested on Thursday and officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seized a laptop and a hard-disk from his possession, used for uploading allegedly obscene images of the victim, Cyber Crime SP U Rammohan...
07:49 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: Parents of murdered Noida teenager Aarushi, Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar have approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the case from the Ghaziabad court, where the matter was scheduled to come up for hearing on Saturday, to Delhi, citing security concerns. The Supreme Court issued a notice to the CBI and said that the Ghaziabad court will consider transferring the case to Delhi if the Talwars rake...
12:43 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court would hear on March 29 a city police plea for dropping stringent MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem whose extradition was terminated recently by the Portuguese Supreme Court on the ground of alleged violation of extradition terms by India. Justice Sudarshan Kumar Mishra slated for hearing on March 29 Delhi Police petitions, declining a government counsel's request that the matter be heard as the...
06:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood movie 'Don 2', has already appeared in a newspaper campaign in which he exhorted Delhiites to help end violence against women. "Now we are planning an audio-visual campaign with the actor on the issue....
01:55 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Mumbai: Unit V of the city's Crime Branch solved five robbery cases with the arrest of two youngsters from Kurla on Tuesday. According to police, the accused -- Pinto alias Amardeep Singh alias Shyam Bhau (22), and Sainath Aarote (21) -- committed burglaries during the day to splurge the money at Bandra and Khar pubs by night. Elaborating on how they chanced upon the duo, Shashikant Mane, an inspector attached...
12:37 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Mumbai: Mother of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, said on Tuesday that her daughter had been "falsely implicated" and was "innocent". "My daughter cannot even kill a worm and this is not what is taught to her. She cannot not commit any such act," Sarla Devi, who came to meet her daughter at the women's jail in Byculla in Mumbai, told reporters....
05:36 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Mumbai: Around 10.00 pm on Saturday a 20-year-old man walked into the Vile Parle police station, clothes soaked in blood and a large knife in one hand. As he entered the police station the youth screamed belligerently, "I have killed a man, which I don't regret. Arrest me." The accused was later identified as Noor Alam Abdul Aziz (20), originally from Lucknow, who was working as a scrap dealer in...
02:11 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mumbai: A massive search involving 400 cops for an abducted youth turned out to be a waste of time. The Dahisar police who conducted the search were left amazed and annoyed when they realised that the 'abductee' himself had staged the drama. Arvind Mane (24), resident of Kajupada, Dahisar (East), cooked up the plan to extract money from his father, who had reduced his pocket money to Rs 20. His...
02:01 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: Amid concern over frequent incidents of crime against women in the capital, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Sunday that migration and "criss-crossing" of people through the city are the biggest hurdles in keeping a check on criminals. She said it was true that the environment is such that women in Delhi do not feel safe. Dikshit's comments came days after a 20-year-old Manipuri girl was raped by...
11:58 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Indicating signs of possible funds related to crime and terror trickling into the Indian casino sector, a government report has said that more than 7,000 instances of suspicious transactions have been detected in the elite gaming business during the last financial year. A total of 7,006 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) during the 2010-11 fiscal have been reported by the casino business and allied payment operators to the Financial...
12:59 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: A young inventor, Manu Chopra, may soon change the way women travel in the country. He has invented an anti-molestation device for women, which can be worn as a wrist watch. Many women from the national capital have faced terror on the roads of Delhi, which has a high rate of crime against women. Some of them may have survived to tell the tale, but it has not...
10:05 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Moscow: Moscow has accused Washington of unlawfully extraditing a Russian national from Switzerland, the Russian foreign ministry spokesman said. Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday that Russian national Vladimir Zdorovenin, accused of financial cyber crimes, faces up to 142 years in prison in the US, where he was extradited from Switzerland earlier this week. "Unfortunately, this is not the first time when US special services organise the detention of our nationals...
05:10 AM, Jan 20, 2012
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