
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition of Leader of Opposition V S Achuthanandan seeking a copy of the investigation report in the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex case allegedly involving state minister and Indian Union Muslim League leader P K Kunhalikutty. It was Achuthanandan as the then chief minister in January last year who had ordered a fresh probe by the Kerala Police in the wake of...

04:29 PM, May 02, 2012

The US Secret Service and military have been accused of getting prostitutes before President Barack Obama's visit to Colombia. ...

02:09 PM, Apr 26, 2012

Chennai: Self-styled godman Nithyananda has claimed that four US-based forensic agencies have concluded that visuals showing him in a compromising position with an actress were "morphed." "Forensic reports from four US-based agencies have endorsed my claim showing 60 reasons. So the video aired (by regional channels) was absolutely a fabricated lie," he told reporters in Chennai. He claimed the software used by those who morphed was sophisticated and could not...

05:35 PM, Mar 15, 2012

New Delhi: The high profile Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is in the news once again and for all the wrong reasons. An IRS officer working for the project has moved court against a colleague, an IAS officer at the authority's Hyderabad office, over alleged sexual harassment. She was forced to approach court after the UIDAI didn't act against the officer despite orders from the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)....

07:17 PM, Feb 21, 2012

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