Four sisters suffer acid attack in UP town
byLucknow, April 3 (IANS) Four sisters were sprayed with acid by bike-borne assailants when the girls were returning home from a coaching centre in…
Crime
President gives assent to anti-rape bill
byNew Delhi, April 3 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the anti-rape bill, providing enhanced punishment for rape, making stalking and…
A police officer dies every day in China
byBeijing, April 3 (IANS) On average, at least one police officer has died on duty and nine have been injured every day over the…
Puerto Rico varsity’s finance chief falls prey to scam
bySan Juan, April 3 (IANS/EFE) The head of finance at the University of Puerto Rico resigned after a scammer bilked the institution out of…
Washington confirms US woman raped in Rio de Janeiro
byWashington, April 3 (IANS/EFE) The US State Department Tuesday confirmed the US nationality of the tourist raped last weekend in a transit van in…
One police officer dies every day in China
byBeijing, April 3 (IANS) At least one police officer has died on duty and nine have been injured every day on average for the…
Maoists kill village chief in Odisha
byBhubaneswar, April 3 (IANS) Maoists have killed a tribal politician in Odisha’s Malkangiri district, police said Wednesday. About 25 armed rebels dragged 50-year-old Madhav…
Two Pakistani sisters killed for honour
byIslamabad, April 3 (IANS) Two brothers shot dead their two sisters and two men in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a media report said Wednesday in…
Pet kidnappings a lucrative business in Vietnam
byHo Chi Minh City, April 3 (IANS/EFE) Gangs in Vietnam are regularly kidnapping dogs and other pets to collect ransom or reselling them to…
Nine bodies found inside SUV in Mexico
byMexico City, April 3 (IANS/EFE) Nine bodies, the majority of them dismembered, were found inside an SUV with Texas tag in Ciudad Victoria, the…