Nagpur/Shahdol: A nine-year-old girl from Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, who was allegedly gangraped by two persons last week, has been brought to Nagpur and admitted to a private hospital here after her condition deteriorated. The victim is being attended to by a team of doctors, after she was shifted to Nagpur on Thursday from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Government Medical College in Jabalpur (MP), hospital sources said on Friday....
06:01 PM, May 03, 2013
Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Sanchita Shetty, Radha Ravi, M S Bhaskar, Simha, Ashok Selvan, RJ Ramesh Thilak and Karuna Karan Director: Nalan Kumarasamy Packed with several funny, outrageous twists, 'Soodhu Kavvum' (SV) makes for a great one time watch. You can't possibly enjoy the film a second time because most of the plot is closely attached to the twists. Treading the path few Tamil films have attempted, 'Soodhu Kavvum' proves yet...
03:36 PM, May 03, 2013
Hyderabad: A three-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father on Thursday, after he "suspected" his wife's 'fidelity' in the Mancherial town of Adilabad district, the police said. After allegedly throwing the baby girl Harini, into a water tank on Ashok Road in Mancherial, her father C Krishna, a painter, initially claimed that she had been "abducted". "After the incident he reported the matter to his relatives and police. However,...
02:11 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday took Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik into preventive custody. Malik was to hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the capital to press for his demands, including handing over the body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to his family. The Delhi Police had denied permission to Malik to hold his protest. "Yes," said Commissioner Neeraj Kumar when asked by reporters whether any decision...
11:27 PM, May 02, 2013
Phagwara: A series of protest demonstrations were held here over the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani hospital, leading to diversion of international buses running between Delhi and Lahore in the neighbouring country. Activists of Shiv Sena, led by its state unit vice-president Inderjit Karwal, took out a protest march from Hanumangarhi temple and converged on National Highway 1 at Sugar Mill crossing. They blocked the traffic briefly in...
08:50 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur appealed on Thursday to all countrymen to unite and attack Pakistan, where her brother breathed his last in the wee hours of the day after remaining comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by his fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail. "Pakistan is a coward. It's time to wage a war against it," said Kaur, while addressing a...
12:03 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has denied claims in Pakistani media that the Indian High Commission officials were consulted by Pakistani authorities before Sarabjit Singh was taken off ventilator support resulting in his death late on Wednesday night at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital. Sarabjit's family members also claimed that they came to know of his death from the Pakistani media and nothing was communicated to them officially. Meanwhile, Pakistan...
09:41 AM, May 02, 2013
Lahore/New Delhi: 3:46 pm: Another post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh will be conducted when his body reaches Amritsar. 3:29 pm: Sarabjit Singh's post-mortem report will be released in Pakistan in three weeks. 3:09 pm: The post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh has been completed in Pakistan and his body will be handed over to Indian officials shortly. 2:44 pm: The Indian Foreign Secretary has spoken to his Pakistani counterpart asking him to speed...
08:31 AM, May 02, 2013
Karimnagar/Hyderabad: Four rape incidents, including that of a minor girl and a "mentally challenged" girl, were reported in past five days in Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Three rape incidents were reported in different parts of the state capital since Friday, while another incident occurred in Karimnagar district, the police said. An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her step father on Friday night at her home in...
02:06 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi on Wednesday batted for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as prime minister calling him the most well known backward caste leader nationally. "India's next Prime Minister should be from the backward classes. Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi has never talked about his background to seek votes. But we are aware that he doesn't come from a privileged background. He overcame poverty to...
11:17 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The family of Sarabjit Singh, who is lying in coma in a Lahore hospital after an attack in a Pakistan jail, will meet Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi on Thursday to seek his better treatment and bringing him back home. Official sources said Shinde has given time to the family, including Sarbjit's sister Dalbir, to hear their grievances. The family, which crossed over to India...
08:41 PM, May 01, 2013
Mumbai: Son of Maharashtra leader of Opposition Eknath Khadse who shot himself died on Wednesday. Nikhil Khadse was moved to Jalgaon City Hospital from the village where the incident occurred and the doctors declared him dead. Jalgaon SP Jai Kumar said, "The doctors have declared him dead. It was around 6 pm." Nikhil Khadse was at a place called Muktaynagar which is about 55 km from Jalgaon. The 37-year-old is...
06:19 PM, May 01, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh minister Shivpal Singh Yadav's letter to US President Barack Obama on cabinet colleague Azam Khan being detained at Boston airport has triggered a controversy with opposition parties and civil society activists terming it objectionable. In a petition sent to Governor BL Joshi, activist Urvashi Sharma termed the letter written by the Public Works Department (PWD) minister as unconstitutional and against diplomatic norms under which external affairs is...
05:58 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The main accused in the gangrape of a five-year-old girl in east Delhi, Manoj Sah, has been sent to judicial custody till May 9 by a city court after being grilled by the police for five days. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg remanded Manoj, 22, in judicial custody after the Delhi Police said he was not required for further interrogation. Co-accused Pradeep, 19, is also in judicial custody...
05:34 PM, May 01, 2013
Purulia: Every second girl in India is married underage, according to UNFPA data. The UNFPA also says that India has the highest number of child brides. Nearly 47 per cent of girls are married under the legal age of 18. The agency adds that nearly 140 million child marriages may take place between 2011 and 2020 across most developing nations. This means that on an average, 39,000 child marriages will...
04:54 PM, May 01, 2013
Ballia: A 12-year-old child bride was allegedy raped by her 60-year-old father-in-law in Nagra area in Ballia, a senior officer said on Wednesday. A person filed a complaint that her niece was raped by her father-in-law following which an FIR was lodged on Wednesday, additional superintendent of police Ashok Tripathi said. The girl, who is currently staying with her parents, had got married in 2012 in November. A medical examination...
04:33 PM, May 01, 2013
Telugu film 'Dhokaradu' starring Sivajji and Gayatri as the lead is inching its completion. The film is directed by Vara Prasad and Sriram Ajay is producing the film under the banner of Chandrakala Arts Creations. The director said in an interview, "This is an action entertainer and it will become one of the landmark films of Sivaji's career. The audio of the film will be released in the second week...
12:39 PM, May 01, 2013
Lucknow: Holding the Samajwadi Party government responsible for the alleged dismal condition of farmers in Uttar Pradesh, the state unit of BJP on Tuesday said it will organise a 'Swabhimaan' rally in Bareilly district on Wednesday to be addressed by party president Rajnath Singh. "The rally will be addressed by senior party leaders, including national president Rajnath Singh, general secretary Varun Gandhi and state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai," BJP's chief...
05:07 AM, May 01, 2013
Jaipur: A man was arrested in Rajasthan's Karauli district on Tuesday for raping a six-year-old girl during a wedding function, said police. The girl was admitted to a hospital with serious injuries, they added. According to police, the incident occurred late on Monday night in a village near Masalpura town in the district, some 200 km from Jaipur. "The girl had come with her parents to participate in the wedding....
02:06 AM, May 01, 2013
