NASHIK: Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl in Chopda taluka of Jalgaon district on Saturday evening.He was arrested based on the description provided by the deceased girl’s younger sister, who witnessed the crime. The man had killed the 13-year-old by hitting her on the head with a stone…
BHUBANESWAR: A third year BTech student of IIT-Bhubaneswar died after falling from the fifth floor of the administrative building of the institute late Tuesday. Police suspect it was a suicide, but are waiting for the postmortem report to provide concrete answers, reports Hemanta Pradhan. The student, Kritika Raj from Delhi, was undergoing treatment for obsessive…
LUCKNOW: A five-year-old girl sleeping in her house in Girdharpurwa village of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district was injured in a wolf attack early Tuesday, a day after wolves killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and injured two women in back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours Monday.This was the third wolf attack in the region in the…
AGRA: A surgeon, who works at a nursing home in Muzaffarnagar, was charged under sections of BNS for “assaulting or using criminal force against a woman” and the Pocso Act after a 14-year-old girl admitted to the facility for removal of gallbladder stones alleged that she was molested by him. SHO (Nai Mandi), Babloo Kumar,…
MUMBAI: Even as the sexual abuse of two pre-school girls by a janitor of a Badlapur school and the subsequent protests by the public is fresh in people’s minds, in another disturbing incident, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by a 16-year-old canteen boy in a private school in the Vasai region over a…
BENGALURU: A 21-year-old college student was allegedly sexually assaulted by a biker whom she had hitched a ride with for a drop home past Saturday midnight.The alleged incident took place at an isolated spot in Rajeev Gandhi Nagar, HSR Layout, in southeast Bengaluru’s Sector-7. The woman was returning to her accommodation in Chandapura area, off…
NEW DELHI: A video has gone viral showing a girl breaking down at the gates of an exam centre after she was reportedly denied entry for her NEET PG exam. The girl was seen crying and screaming outside the gate, as she was allegedly refused entry for being just 2 minutes late. The incident quickly…
GUWAHATI: A second-year MTech student of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G), allegedly died by suicide on Friday, reports Dhrubajyoti Malakar. The deceased Soumya Kumar (23), from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, was found dead in her room at the institute’s hostel.“We received information from IIT-G authorities about the death around 10.45am. Soumya might have died by…
NEW DELHI: A boy shot dead the mother of a 15-year-old girl from another community inside her house in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area on Friday. The boy, a few months short of 18, wanted to befriend the girl and had allegedly been harassing her for some time, even accosting her on the road on one…
TIRUPATI: In a heart-warming tale of grit and perseverance, a girl who dodged child marriage and braved odds to pursue her education has topped the first year intermediate board examinations in Andhra Pradesh.S Nirmala, who hails from Pedda Harivanam in Kurnool district, secured 421 marks out of 440 (95.7%). A bright student throughout, she had…
