A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday slammed the police for the delay in tracing a 15-year-old girl who was reported missing and later found dead along with her 42-year-old neighbour in Kasaragod on March 9, nearly a month after she and the man went missing. The Bench comprising Justice Devan Ramachandran … Read more
Members of the Navnirman Krushak Sangathan (NKS) take out a candlelight march in protest over the death of a Nepali student at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) campus, in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: PTI A day after more than 500 students from Nepal were forced to leave the campus of Kalinga … Read more
Illustration for The Hindu | Photo Credit: Satheesh Vellinezhi An alleged sexual assault on a nine-year-old girl studying in a private CBSE school near Manapparai in Tiruchi district sparked protests in the late hours on Thursday (February 6, 2025) with a group of people vandalising a nearby matriculation school belonging to the same management and … Read more
“The forest department has formed eight teams and set up cages in the surrounding areas to capture the feline,” officials said. Representational image. | Photo Credit: Dinesh Kumble “A 7-year-old girl has been mauled to death by a leopard in Gujarat’s Amreli district, prompting authorities to set up cage traps in the area to catch … Read more
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: AP A court in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Thursday (January 2, 2025) extended by two days the police custody of the couple arrested in connection with the alleged abduction, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl at Kalyan. Prime accused Vishal Gawli and his wife Sakshi … Read more
NDRF and SDRF personnel during a rescue operation to save a 3-year-old girl who fell into a borewell in the Kotputli-Behror district, Rajasthan on December 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI A three-year-old girl pulled out from a 170-foot deep borewell in Rajasthan’s Kotputli-Behror district was declared dead on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) after one … Read more
BBC Jodee Seeley with her daughter Alana The mother of a young girl operated on by a disgraced surgeon at a famous London children’s hospital says she should never have been left in his care. Jodee Seeley told BBC Newsnight she was considering legal action after Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), whom she accuses of … Read more
A 7-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly kidnapped and raped while returning home from school after giving her half-yearly exam in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district. According to the police, she was allegedly kidnapped and raped by an unidentified man when she was walking home through a stretch of farmland located between the bus stop and her home. The … Read more
BBC Annabel Ashmore was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at the age of four The family of a young girl with cancer say they face a race against time to get her potentially life-saving care abroad. Annabel Ashmore, from Gateshead, needs to start a two-year drug treatment by November to reduce the risk of her … Read more
Family photo Isabelle Cooper died on Thursday leaving her family “absolutely broken”, her mum says A mother has lost her two-year-old daughter to a rare genetic condition that claimed the life of her son three years ago. Dr Emily Cooper’s daughter Isabelle, who carried the same gene mutation as older brother Alexander, died on Thursday. … Read more