
The wife of an Indian-American lottery winner in Chicago who was poisoned with cyanide said Tuesday she was devastated by his death and cannot believe her husband could have had enemies. Shabana Ansari said a day after news emerged that 46-year-old Urooj Khan's death in July was the result of cyanide poisoning and not natural causes, as authorities initially concluded. ...

12:51 PM, Jan 09, 2013

Panipat: A suspected honour killing case has come to light in Panipat, Haryana. A second-year BBA student was allegedly killed by her family for marrying her classmate who belonged to a different caste. The victim, Indu, had married her friend Ajay Rohil against her parents wishes. Indu's parents had convinced her in-laws to let her go home with them after the wedding. But on Saturday, a friend informed Ajay that...

07:34 AM, Oct 28, 2012

Bangalore: A 20-day-old baby girl died after her father allegedly fed her donkey's milk laced with poison at Nelamangala taluk in Bangalore District, police said on Tuesday. The 25-year-old man, a mechanic, was arrested in the morning following a complaint from his wife, police said. According to his wife, he did not want a daughter, and allegedly murdered their child by administering donkey's milk laced with poison on Monday night....

11:22 AM, Aug 21, 2012

Smokewater. Poisoned Arrow. The Laughing Corpse. Doctor Dread. They're the sort of books you'd see on street corners. Nestled next to a cobbler's shop or Paan wale ki dukan. Perhaps on a push cart, parked alongside another one offering pirated CDs of the latest jhankaar beats. The sort of books your apartment's guards and lift operators might. Or perhaps your driver, to kill time, while you finish off brunch at...

04:56 PM, Aug 02, 2011