
Salem: Upset over her husband declining to have food prepared by her, a newly married wife took her life by setting herself ablaze at her home near Salem, police said on Tuesday. Salem District Valapadi DSP P Mathavan said the 20-year-old woman had prepared dinner for her husband and brother on Monday night, but after tasting it, he refused it. Immediately, she poured kerosene and set herself ablaze, the DSP...

11:19 AM, May 07, 2013

Cleveland: Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up and held in a home just south of downtown before being found on Monday, and three brothers were arrested, police said. One of the women frantically told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come...

10:59 AM, May 07, 2013

Hyderabad: Actor and Union Minister Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan lands in trouble after his bodyguards beat up two IT professionals for coming in the way of the star's Aston Martin in the posh Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad on Sunday. Ram Charan was caught flexing his muscles after being caught in a street brawl. The IT professionals said that they were beaten up at the behest of the star after...

10:07 AM, May 07, 2013

Shillong: A minor girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified armed man in Boldamgre village in Meghalaya's Garo Hills district, police said on Monday. A group of over 15 people armed with daggers, machetes and other weapons from Assam's Hat-Singimari area raided the village, located about 12 km from Garobadha town near Shillong, and went from house to house attacking its inhabitants on Sunday, they said. The girl, who ran...

10:01 AM, May 07, 2013

Ranchi: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step-daughter for the last seven months, police said on Monday. A woman neighbour helped the police in arresting accused Mahendra Sonar. Sonar was married to a woman in Giridih. He later came in contact with a divorced woman in Ranchi and fathered two children -- a three-year-old boy and six-month old daughter, they said. The accused allegedly raped the...

12:40 AM, May 07, 2013

New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing the December 16 gangrape case on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna's order came after counsel VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh (Ram Singh's brother), told the court that jail authorities have not yet complied with the court's March...

11:41 PM, May 06, 2013

Etah: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old youth in Hayatpurmafi village in the district, police said on Monday. The 15-year-old girl, who had came to the village to attend a marriage ceremony, was raped by the accused, identified as Devendra while she was slleping on the terrace, they said. On hearing the cries of the girl, her family members rushed and caught hold of the accused and...

07:14 PM, May 06, 2013

Sydney: An India-born doctor in Australia, convicted of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old patient, has walked free from an immigration detention centre. Suhail Durani, 36, was convicted of inappropriately touching the patient and asking her indecent questions in the February 20, 2010, incident at the Royal Perth Hospital. He was held at the centre after he was released from the Casuarina prison south of Perth in February, 2013 and the Australian...

04:10 PM, May 06, 2013

New Delhi: An eight-year-old girl was raped by a 40-year-old neighbour in New Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused is on the run. Suspect Rajinder, a jobless man who is the neighbour of the girl in Sarai Rohilla area of north Delhi, lured the victim to his house on Saturday evening and raped her, police said. "The girl's parents approached us on Saturday night," said a police officer, adding...

10:33 AM, May 06, 2013

New Delhi: Missing since five days from their houses a minor girl and a youth were found dead with their hands tied in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, police said on Sunday. A suicide note was recovered from the girl's house. They were said to be brother and sister but their relationship was not liked by their family members, police said. "The 16-year-old girl and the 20-year-old youth, whom...

09:58 AM, May 06, 2013

Ahmedabad: The prime accused in the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case of 2008, Mohammad Shahid Nagori, was remanded in nine days police custody by a local court on Sunday. Nagori, a member of Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and an alleged Indian Mujahedeen (IM) operative, was arrested by Madhya Pradesh police on May 3, 2013 from Ujjain and handed over to the Gujarat police team lead by DCP Crime...

02:27 AM, May 06, 2013

New Delhi: A 24-year-old pregnant woman was strangled allegedly by her jobless husband who surrendered before investigators on Sunday with police suspecting it to be a case of dowry death. The incident was reported from Najafgarh on Saturday night and the deceased has been identified as Pinky. Vicky (30) surrendered before police this morning. Pinky's family alleged that Vicky used to beat her for dowry, police said. Vicky said that...

02:02 AM, May 06, 2013

New Delhi: With the trial in the Delhi gangrape case "almost 90 per cent complete", the court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. In an interview with a news channel Neeraj Kumar said: "The trial of December 16 (2012) case is almost 90 per cent complete and judgment is expected by the end of May." On December 16, 2012, a...

10:46 PM, May 05, 2013

New Delhi: Close to 3,450 children who went missing in Delhi in the past over three years are yet to be traced and girls accounted for 55 per cent of them. The capital witnessed the missing of 17,252 children, including 8,724 girls, between January 2010 and April 15, 2013 out of whom 13,863 were traced. Of them, 6,941 were girls. According to Delhi Police statistics, police are yet to trace...

06:59 PM, May 05, 2013

Bilaspur: A man has been sentenced to death by a local court in Bilaspur for abducting and killing three minor siblings in February 2011 in Ratnapur town of the district. First Additional District and Sessions Judge Neeta Yadav on Saturday sentenced - Manoj Suryawanshi - to death for abducting and killing the children from his neighbourhood. According to police, Suryawanshi had kidnapped his neighbour Shivlal Dhivar's children - Vijay (8),...

02:31 PM, May 05, 2013

London: British MP and senior Conservative Party politician Nigel Evans was arrested on Saturday by the London Police after being accused of raping two men. The reports identify the politician as Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans, a 55-year-old from Lancashire, northwest England, who has served in Parliament for two decades. The alleged victims are understood to be men in their 20s. It is understood that Prime Minister David...

07:23 AM, May 05, 2013

London: British media say that a senior Conservative Party politician has been arrested for questioning on suspicion of rape and sexual assault. The reports identify the politician as Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans, a 55-year-old from Lancashire, northwest England, who has served in Parliament for two decades. British police do not identify people arrested for questioning who have not been charged. Asked about the arrest of Evans, Lancashire...

03:00 AM, May 05, 2013

Jaipur: A 30-year old married woman was burnt alive for resisting rape in Rajasthan's Hanumgarh district on Saturday, police said. According to police, the incident took place on early Saturday at the district's Nohar area, some 500 km from Jaipur. Circle Officer Kishori Lal said that the woman was sleeping along with her four-year daughter, while her husband was working in the farm when the accused, identified as Jitendra Kumar...

08:30 PM, May 04, 2013

Nagpur: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth at a wedding hall in Kanhan near in Nagpur, where she had come with her parents to attend a marriage celebration, police said on Saturday. Rakesh alias Chakradhar Jagoji Bele (27), working in an office on the top floor of the wedding hall complex, lured the girl on Friday on the pretext of giving her an ice-cream and raped her...

12:47 PM, May 04, 2013

San Jose: President Barack Obama came to Latin America eager to move the region's relationship with the US beyond fighting drugs and organized crime, yet the pervasive problems still trailed him throughout his three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. In the Costa Rican capital on Friday, Obama defended his administration's efforts to stem US demand for drugs that many regional leaders see as a driving factor in their security...

07:30 AM, May 04, 2013