New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Dubbing female genital mutilation as violative of bodily integrity of a girl child, the Supreme Court on Monday said that religious practices cannot be cited to justify such mutilation in…
Pathankot (Punjab), July 9 (IANS) Following a complaint of harassment filed against the special investigation team (SIT) by one of the accused in the gruesome rape and murder of a eight-year-old minor nomadic girl in…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the shifting of seven accused in rape-murder of a eight-year-old minor nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua to the district jail in Punjab’s…
Ghaziabad, July 9 (IANS) Thirty-eight criminals wanted for a string of crimes have been arrested in the last 72 hours, the police announced here on Wednesday. The criminals included those who carried rewards of Rs…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Three persons were arrested for demanding Rs 60 lakh from a businessman here, police said. Satbir, 25, and Rahul, 28, are ex-employees of the trader, who is a resident of…
Tokyo, July 9 (IANS) The remains of Shoko Asahara, founder of the Supreme Truth sect, were cremated on Monday here after he was executed for perpetrating the Tokyo subway nerve gas attacks in 1995. The…
Bangkok, July 9 (IANS) Four more boys were rescued on Monday by divers from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, where 12 of them and their soccer coach have been trapped for more than two…
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), July 9 (IANS) An Israeli newlywed couple on their honeymoon collided while zip-lining in Honduras, leaving the husband dead and the wife seriously injured, the Washington Post reported. The wife was zip-lining amid…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said West Bengal government should act immediately to stop illegal transactions after state Finance Minister Amit Mitra had recently claimed that hawala dealings had…
Dharamsala, July 9 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has written to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressing his sympathy for the victims of the unprecedented floods in western Japan in recent days, his…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected review petitions filed by three of the four convicts and upheld the death punishment in the horrific 2012 gang rape and murder of a…
Ranchi, July 9 (IANS) The bodies of a young man and a married woman who were reportedly in love were found in a well in Jharkhand’s Giridih district on Monday, police said. Dileep Hansda, 22,…
Lucknow, July 9 (IANS) Dreaded gangster Munna Bajrangi was shot dead inside a high security prison in Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh early on Monday, causing a major embarrassment to the Yogi Adityanath government. The 51-year-old…
Tokyo, July 9 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday cancelled his trip to Europe and the Middle East to attend to the search and rescue operations underway in the country pummeled by torrential…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) After the Supreme Court decided to reaffirm its verdict of upholding the death sentence to four convicts who gang-raped and murdered Nirbhaya, Indian chapter of the global rights group, Amnesty…
Gurugram (Haryana), July 9 (IANS) The Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (HRERA) on Monday issued a final notice to real estate developer Supertech Ltd for allegedly cheating customers for a non-existent residential project, an official…
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh), July 9 (IANS) A girl was gang raped in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district, police said on Monday. The girl was admitted to a hospital after she was found in a dizzy state…
Srinagar, July 9 (IANS) Two Amarnath pilgrims from Punjab were killed and six others injured in a road accident on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said. The accident occurred when the driver…
Colombo, July 9 (IANS) Sri Lankan authorities have seized 103.9 kg of heroin worth seven million US dollars in one of the country’s biggest drug busts, officials said on Monday. Two suspects have been arrested…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) After the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence to four men in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, the victim’s mother Asha Devi said she had been vindicated once again…