Patna, Jan 8 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a woman was killed and another seriously injured when some unidentified people threw them off a running train in Bihar’s West Champaran district, police said on Friday….
Hyderabad, Jan 8 (IANS) Tension prevailed in a village in Telangana’s Medak district after a mob attacked the village sarpanch and set afire her house on Friday to avenge the killing of a youth by…
London, Jan 6 (IANS) The hacking collective Anonymous has declared war on the Thai police, taking down multiple websites in protest against the conviction of two Burmese men convicted of killing a British couple last…
Visakhapatnam, Jan 6 (IANS) Maoists shot dead a former sarpanch (village headman) of the ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district late Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The killing occurred in Jarrila village…
Madurai, Jan 6 (PTI) Unidentified persons hurled three petrol bombs in the vicinity of the Sri Meenakshi Temple here late last night on Tuesday. Police said there were no casualties in the incident. The bombs…
Sunset over manhattan New York, Jan 4 (AFP) Homicides, gang-motivated shootings, rape and robbery rose in New York last year, slowing to 1.7 percent an overall decline in major crime, officials announced today. Major crime…
Mumbai, Jan 4 (PTI) A television actress today approached police alleging that four persons, whom she claimed to have posed as policemen, molested her at her residence in suburban Kandivali. Actress Pratyusha Banerjee, who works…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Over the over 2,000 cases of rape that occurred in the national capital in 2015, 96.61 percent were committed by people who had an “acquaintance” with the victim or “family…
New York, Jan 4 (IANS) Police in California arrested an 18-year-old man, accused of robbery, after he exchanged a Snapchat selfie he took with one of the victims. Police arrested Victor Almanza-Martinez and are searching…
Tokyo, Jan 4 (IANS) At least two million sets of personal data were stolen or feared leaked from 140 companies and other organisations in Japan that were hit by cyber attacks in 2015, the media…
Cuernavaca (Mexico), Jan 3 (AFP) Several gunmen burst into the home of a newly elected Mexican mayor and shot her dead, just hours into her tenure, police have said. Gisela Mota, 33, a left-of-center former…
Tehran, Jan 3 (IANS) Angry protesters against the execution of a Shia leader by Saudi Arabia set fire parts of the Saudi consulate in Iran’s northeastern religious city of Mashhad on Saturday, Tabnak news website…
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) An undertrial prisoner was killed on Saturday in a fight between him and other inmates in a prison van transporting them back to Tihar central jail from a district court…
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) A high-profile sex racket was busted here on Saturday with the arrest of five call girls and their pimp, police said. The racket was being run in Lucknow’s Madion area. Many…
London, Jan 2 (IANS) A group that says it targets online activity linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on the BBC’s website. All the BBC’s websites were unavailable…
Ghaziabad, Dec 31 (PTI) Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, who had set afire a car that purportedly belonged to Dawood Ibrahim in Ghaziabad, today claimed that he has received death threats from the underworld don. Chakrapani, who…
New York, Dec 31 (IANS) New York Knicks player Cleanthony Early was shot in the right knee while being robbed after leaving a strip club. The attack came when several unknown men assaulted the basketball…
Brussels, Dec 30 (IANS/EFE) A woman from the Netherlands managed to find the thief who stole her purse through Facebook, which allowed her to contact him to return her purse along with its contents. Hetty…
Taipei, Dec 30 (IANS) Two of 12 bronze animal head sculptures donated by actor Jackie Chan to the new branch of the Taipei Palace Museum were sprayed with red paint by two unidentified people on…
Patna, Dec 30 (IANS) A ransom of Rs.75 crore was demanded from the private construction company that employed the two engineers who were killed in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, a company official said on Wednesday. B.K….