In an incident of road rage, a teenager was shot at allegedly by security guard of a businessman after an argument, police said. The incident took place at Delhi Cantt area last night and the victim has been identified as Vikas (18). ...
02:45 AM, Mar 26, 2013
The number of popular social media sites available on kids' mobile devices has exploded in recent years. ...
02:32 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Officials from the English Premier League club have already made contact with Carlos' Brazilian club Corinthians about a possible deal in the next transfer window. ...
05:25 PM, Mar 05, 2013
A teenager was stabbed to death allegedly by a 60-year-old man following an argument at the ticket counter of a cinema hall in Mumbai on Monday, police said. The 19-year-old victim, Ajay Khamkar - who was with his brother - was stabbed in the back by the accused, who tried to escape but was caught by traffic policemen. ...
07:34 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Two youth on Sunday night allegedly molested one 18-year-old girl in east Delhi when she was returning home from a local market, police said on Monday. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 07, 2013
London: Gene that hard-wires people for binge-drinking, by boosting levels of a happy brain chemical triggered by alcohol, has been discovered, scientists claim. The gene - RASGRF-2 - is one of many already suggested to be linked with problem drinking. The new study, led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) helps explain why some teenagers are more prone to drinking alcohol than others. The research provides the most...
05:03 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Washington: Teens involved in activities such as music, drama and painting after school may become more depressed or sadder than peers who are not so inclined, says a new study. While girls were more likely to take part in the arts after school and reported somewhat greater degree of blues than boys, the study found that both boys and girls involved in arts reported more depressive symptoms than those who...
03:56 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Etawa: Giving full vent to her anger a teenage girl bit off the tongue of a youth, who allegedly tried to rape her in Bhartana area of the district. Kailash Bahelia (25) barged into house of the 17-year-old girl on Saturday and tried to rape her in Furra Salempur village, police said. In an apparent self-defence, the teenager cut off tongue of the youth with her teeth. The youth has...
12:49 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Fatehabad: A 13-year-old rape victim and her two sisters, studying in a government school in Fatehbad, left the institute on their own and were never expelled, authorities said on Sunday. The teenage girl, allegedly raped repeatedly by a 60-year-old fruit seller for the past five months, and her two sisters were enrolled in the Government Middle School in a village in Haryana's Fatehbad district. They were never expelled and left...
01:40 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Another shocker from Haryana where a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a food vendor outside her school for over three months. Now the school authorities have responded to the incident by throwing out the minor and her siblings out of school. This is the sixteenth rape reported from the state in one month. The 62-year-old accused who runs a food-cart outside victim's school in Fatehabad, allegedly lured...
08:01 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's peace campaigner Malala Yousufzai, who was shot at by the Taliban, will not be sent abroad for treatment, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He added that her attackers have been identified. Malik said he was satisfied with her treatment by Pakistani doctors, reported Geo News from Peshawar. The interior minister said Malala's attackers had been identified and would be brought to justice. Malala was shot and seriously injured...
12:57 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Islamabad: "I was afraid of going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools," wrote Malala Yousufzai in her diary in 2009. The Pakistani teenager today recuperates in a hospital after being shot at by the Taliban. Malala wrote the diary for the BBC in Urdu under her pen name Gul Makai. The diary offers a peep into the mind of a young...
10:43 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Bhopal: A 13-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide after his younger brother, who was watching a cartoon channel on television, refused to allow him to watch a programme of his choice, police said on Monday. The incident occurred in Barkheda area under Govindpura Police Station when their parents had gone to the market, police said. On Saturday night, Pandi had a fight with his brother Anees (9) over the issue of...
07:20 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Following the gangrape of a teenaged Dalit girl in Jind, who went on to commit suicide, a khap member in Haryana seemed to blame the victims for the rape. Speaking to a CNN-IBN reporter, khap panchayat member Sube Singh said that the only solution to rapes was to get girls married at the age of 16. His explanation for how it would prevent rapes was equally bizarre. He said that ...
03:30 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Washington: Longer sleep hours could prevent the onset of diabetes among teenagers, besides improving their insulin resistance, suggests a new study. "High levels of insulin resistance can lead to the development of diabetes," said Karen Matthews, who teaches psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. "We found that if teens that normally get six hours of sleep per night get one extra hour of sleep, they would improve insulin resistance by...
12:18 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: A teenaged girl was sexually assaulted in New Delhi allegedly by a driver while his friend recorded the crime on a mobile phone and circulated it as an MMS, in yet another instance of rape being filmed to blackmail the victim. The incident took place in east Delhi's Trilokpuri around 45 days ago and was reported to police on Wednesday when the victim's father came to know about...
10:36 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Washington: Researchers are harnessing a harmless virus living in the pores of our skin to seek out and kill bugs that cause pimples, the biggest woe of teenagers. "Acne affects millions of people, yet we have few treatments that are both safe and effective," said principal investigator Robert Modlin, chief of dermatology and professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). "Harnessing a virus...
03:47 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Savonlinna: A Finnish teenager won a mobile phone throwing contest on Saturday by hurling his old Nokia phone 101.46 meters. The annual contest is one of many offbeat events such as wife-carrying that are held in the summer when normally reserved Finns like to celebrate the warmer weather with silliness and outdoor sport. Ere Karjalainen, who beat around 50 contestants, including some who had travelled from England and India, said...
03:30 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Bangalore: The incident was aired on national television and written about extensively in newspapers; there were dharnas, protests by citizens, there was turmoil everywhere but in the journey to contradict an incident that hit our society, did we forget about the victims? Did the effect of the entire shameful episode on the teenagers was lost somewhere? Such events have a traumatic effect on the young minds. Media has done its...
02:04 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Guwahati: Amar Jyoti Kalita, prime accused in the molestation of a girl on July 9 outside a pub, was remanded to five days police custody on Thursday. Kalita, who was arrested on July 23 in Varanasi and brought to Guwahati on Wednesday on a transit remand, was on Thursday produced amidst tight security before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate SK Moitra. Moitra after hearing the petition of both Kalita's lawyer...
08:19 PM, Jul 26, 2012
