Chairman of National Commission for Minorities Iqbal Singh Lalpura addressing media. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chairman wrote to the Director General of Police (DGP), Uttar Pradesh, asking him to conduct a fair investigation into the case of an attack on a Sikh man in the State. According to … Read more
A man who poured boiling water on his minor cousin has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of ₹35,000 by the Thiruvananthapuram Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Court. Thiruvananthapuram POCSO Court Judge M.P. Shibu sentenced Aneesh, 38, of Ulloor in the city, to rigorous imprisonment in a case … Read more
The Special Zonal Crime Team (West) of Central Crime Station (CCS) Hyderabad nabbed a person from Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, for cheating people by promising to arrange blood and plasma donors. Officials said that the man was previously booked and convicted in seven cases with a similar modus operandi but continued to run the scam. Police … Read more
A 25-year-old man was arrested for murdering his father in a drunken brawl on Monday night. The police identified the accused as R. Vivekanandan, a resident of Kadanad Village near Udhagamandalam. He and his father, Raghu, 53, had gotten embroiled in a dispute over property on Monday night, leading to Vivekanandan slitting his father’s throat … Read more
The Forest Department on Monday arrested a man in connection with the death of a tiger at Emerald in the Nilgiris recently. The officials said that two tigers, aged three and eight, were found dead in a water body in Emerald on Saturday. Investigations led to the discovery of a cow carcass in the area. … Read more
A 25-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of stealing a two-wheeler in Badnapur tehsil of Jalna district in Maharashtra, following which four persons were arrested on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred on Saturday night in Jawaskheda village, an official said. “Four persons caught hold of Siddharth Mandale on suspicion that … Read more
The man’s mother, who has mental health difficulties, did not accept the diagnosis either, the judge was told at a hearing at the Court of Protection in London, which considers issues relating to people who may not have the mental capacity to make decisions. Source link
RAVULAPALEM Ulava Suresh, 28, was arrested on August 11 (Friday) for allegedly killing his live-in partner and her one-year-old daughter by throwing them into River Gowthami from a bridge in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district in the early hours of August 6. Dr. B.A. Ambedkar Konaseema SP S. Sridhar said that Mr. Suresh had been … Read more
After trials in the US, Sweden and at an NHS hospital in Oxford, Prof Rupert McShane, of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, backed the calls for the NHS to use ketamine to treat drug resistant depression, rather than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which he says many patients are “too frightened” to have. Source link
Stephen Sweetlove says he was reluctant to seek help because did not want to “burden the NHS”. Source link