Chennai: Madras High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of former disciple of controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda and another person, who apprehended arrest in connection with a blackmail complaint. The complaint by one Nithya Atma Prabhananda had accused the duo - Lenin alias Dithya Dharmanantha and K Kumar - of having blackmailed Nithayananda using a video film showing the godman in a compromising position with an actress. Dismissing bail...
10:12 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Ajmer: An absconding accused in the sensational Ajmer sex scandal of early 1990s was nabbed on Tuesday by Special Operation Group of Rajasthan police in Ajmer. Salim Chisty (42), carrying a cash reward of Rs 25,000, is among the accused who had sexually exploited several girls of the city by blackmailing them on basis of their photographs taken in compromising situation. "Following a tip-off that Salim is in the city,...
10:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Paris: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to public life on Monday as guest speaker at a Beijing conference, seven months after his arrest on now-dropped attempted rape charges ended his hopes of becoming France's next president. No longer bound by the constraints of financial diplomacy and economic rescue negotiations, Strauss-Kahn faulted Europe's leaders for being in denial for too long over the region's debt crisis. "The problem is they...
03:57 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: In Rajasthan, more politicians have been named in a new sex scandal - this time from the BJP. A former state minister, an ex-BJP MP and 2 police officers are among 17 people who have been booked in a rape case. The victim, who hails from Haryana, has alleged that her husband had colluded with the accused, who sexually exploited her. This comes as quite a setback for...
09:21 AM, Nov 22, 2011
Bangalore: To add to the woes of Soumya (name changed), a victim of a spurned lover's revenge, her career with the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has been shot down abruptly. Soumya had filed a complaint against her former boyfriend for uploading videos and photos on the Internet of the two having sex, which came to be infamously known as the Karavali-MMS scandal, after the accused refused to break off their relationship....
03:12 PM, Jul 15, 2011
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with his household help a decade ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is accused of sexual assault and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is standing trial for statutory rape. Magazines and newspapers have slammed the men in question, often bunching them together; Time Magazines May 30 issue calls them pigs which is a bit harsh on Schwarzenegger. The Terminator...
12:42 PM, Jun 16, 2011
New York: Huma Abedin helped then-first lady Hillary Clinton weather the storm surrounding President Bill Clinton's affair with a White House intern. Abedin is in the centre of a storm herself, with the disclosure of her congressman-husband's online sex antics. Abedin still works for Hillary Clinton and is travelling overseas with the US secretary of state as the scandal involving her husband, Anthony Weiner, continues to dominate US news. While...
11:31 PM, Jun 09, 2011
New Delhi: The prime accused in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) MMS scandal has been arrested. The accused, 22-year-old Janardan Kumar had allegedly recorded a video-clip involving himself and a girl he shared an intimate relationship with. He had then allegedly circulated the video after their relationship strained. Authorities had expelled Janardan and another fellow mate earlier this year after the incident came to light. DCP (South), Chhaya Sharma said,...
07:39 AM, May 22, 2011
Dominique Strauss Khan under immense pressure resigned from the IMF on Thursday - and now the focus is who will be his successor. ...
09:52 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: African-American singer Akon crooned "You can put the blame on me" after simulated rape with an underage girl onstage at a club. But champion boxer Mike Tyson took a different tack. The enraged boxer famously spewed after being convicted in 1991 for raping a 19-year-old and serving three of a six-year imprisonment: "I just hate her guts Now I really want to rape her and her mama." On...
12:01 PM, May 19, 2011
CNN brings to you the implications of the arrest of IMF chief Dominic Strauss-Kahn. ...
10:55 PM, May 16, 2011
London: Adding to woes of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi facing trial on charges of paying for sex with a teenager, new audiotapes of his supposed dalliance with a high-end prostitute at his Rome residence have surfaced. "I'm going to take a shower too. If you finish before me, wait for me on the big bed," a man purported to be the Italian Prime Minister can be heard saying in the...
05:40 PM, Apr 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed ND Tiwari's petition challenging the Delhi High Court verdict on conducting a regular DNA test. On March 14 Tiwari had said that he would consider taking the test by giving hair from the forehead or saliva, rather than a regular DNA test (blood sample). The SC Bench had granted time till March 18 to ascertain, from forensic laboratories, whether such tests would...
01:14 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Milan: Premier Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with an under-age Moroccan teen 13 times at his villa near Milan, prosecutors have said in a document filed seeking indictments against three aides for allegedly soliciting prostitutes for the Italian leader. The seven-page document, obtained by The Associated Press, alleges that the sex-fueled parties started with dinner, progressed to erotic dancing involving the premier and culminated with Berlusconi's choice of a sex...
10:57 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered an investigation into the sex-for-marks scandal at the Rani Durgavati University in Jabalpur. Madhya Pradesh Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma said that the state government has formed a committee to investigate the matter. "The government has taken the matter very seriously. We have suspended two officials. Also we have formed a high level committee and sent it to Jabalpur to look into the matter....
03:06 PM, Mar 04, 2011
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