Six arrested for gang-raping married woman in Punjab
byGurdaspur (IANS) Six men have been arrested by Punjab Police yesterday for allegedly gang-raping a 29-year-old married woman in this frontier district, police said. The…
Crime
Teenaged rape victim attempts suicide in Haryana
byRohtak (Haryana) (IANS) A teenaged rape victim was admitted to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) here with severe burn injuries after she attempted…
Crimes against women on the rise in Uttar Pradesh
byWith crimes against women in the national spotlight, the country’s most populous state reported as many as 23 rapes in the first 10 days…
Gunmen kill contractor in Kashmir
bySrinagar (IANS) A contractor was kidnapped and later killed by unidentified gunmen in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said here Saturday. “Muhammad Shafi Wani…
NHRC seeks reports on killing of journalist in Imphal
byBhubaneswar (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an independent investigation report from the authorities on the alleged killing of a journalist by…
Police firing incident – Magisterial enquiry records bullet victims statement
byShimla: Tension in the city having subsided after the death of a young man by a police gunshot late on Wednesday night, the time…
Guerrillas kill village head in Kashmir
bySrinagar: (IANS) Separatist guerrillas today killed a sarpanch in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. Habibullah Mir was shot dead in the compound of…
IAS officer continues to haunt Hooda government
byChandigarh (IANS) He set the cat among the pigeons by cancelling the mutation of a multi-crore-rupee land deal involving UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert…
No safety for women on Delhi roads: Supreme Court
byNew Delhi (IANS) Holding that there was no safety for women on Delhi’s roads, the Supreme Court Court said Friday: “We are failing to treat…
Toll in Pakistan bombings rises to 116; 235 wounded
byIslamabad(IANS) The toll in four deadly blasts yesterday in Pakistan — three in Quetta city and one in northwest Swat district — has risen to…