One in six women in Sikkim has experienced spousal sexual violence till date.The recently conducted National Family Health Survey (NFHS) points out that 19 per cent of women have experienced physical violence while four per cent have experienced sexual violence. In all, 21 per cent of women have experienced sexual and physical violence including [...]

A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court will today pronounce its verdict in the six-year-old Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar twin blasts case. On August 25, 2003, two bombs left in taxis exploded in south Mumbai – the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in the busy Kalbadevi area, killing 52 people and [...]

Two army soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a powerful landmine explosion in Assam Monday, officials said. A defence spokesperson said the army vehicle hit the landmine near the Balipara reserve forest area in Sonitpur district, about 210 km north of Assam’s main city of Guwahati. “The impact of the landmine was severe with [...]

The Jharkhand vigilance department Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against former state agriculture minister Nalin Soren and former director Nistar Minz for allegedly siphoning off Rs.41.6 crore (Rs.416 million) meant for farmers’ welfare, an official said.
An FIR (first information report) has been lodged against Nalin Soren and Nistar Minz in the vigilance police station. An [...]

Three Uttar Pradesh policemen were suspended for allegedly beating to death a 60-year-old Dalit man in their custody, an official said. Rajbal, a resident of the Shikar village in Muzaffarnagar district, died in the Chapaar police station Tuesday and his body was left outside the district hospital in Muzaffarnagar, some 350 km from Lucknow.
“Preliminary investigation [...]

A 21-year-old Nepali woman, who had come to Delhi a few weeks ago was gang raped by three men in east Delhi, police said Sunday. The woman from Nepal had come to Delhi June 21. She was staying in north Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar area. She was promised a job in the Gulf by a person [...]

Police arrested a Sicklerville woman Wednesday in three bank robberies that occurred within one hour in South Jersey. Tanisha Walsh, 20, is charged with three counts of robbery for allegedly targeting banks in Gloucester Township, Berlin Township and Evesham. Police say she handed over notes at all three banks and left the latter two with [...]

A gangster who had 28 criminal cases pending against him was found shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh town, police said Saturday.
“Babloo Dubey’s bullet-ridden body was found today (Saturday) in the fields near Jahanganj town in Azamgarh district,” police inspector O.P. Srivastava told IANS over the telephone. Even as the reason behind his killing [...]

Two separate robberies of Chinese food delivery men occurred, according to Suffolk County police. The first occurred, police said. Shu Chui Li was making deliveries for the New Yan Chun Chinese Restaurant in Wyandanch, police said, when four men attacked him, beating him with sticks and taking his cell phone and cash.
The second robbery occurred [...]

The turn of events in Shiney Ahuja’s life has put a question mark over the actor’s future projects – one of them is his mentor Sudhir Mishra’s “Hitman” and other is Pritish Nandy’s “Accident”. “Accident” requires three more days work by the actor, who is in police custody on the charge of raping his [...]