President Droupadi Murmu. File | Photo Credit: ANI President Droupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of Ravi Ashok Ghumare, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a two-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2012, officials said on Sunday (December 14, 2025). This is the third mercy plea rejected by the President since she assumed … Read more
A resident of Rampura village in Arsikere taluk succumbed to injuries he suffered in an assault by a person at the village on Saturday. Girish, 44, died at a hospital in Bengaluru on Saturday night. He was allegedly attacked by Ramesh, another resident of the village. Ramesh was reportedly quarrelling with residents of the village … Read more
The Saidabad police arrested a 48-year-old woman on Thursday for the murder of her 70-year-old relative, and stealing his silver ornaments. The accused, identified as Nenavath Manga, allegedly killed Katroth Shivaiah on the intervening night of September 14 and 15 at his under-construction house in Vishnu Nagar, said DCP (South East) Chaitnya Kumar. According to … Read more
Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Police resorted to lathi-charge and lobbed teargas shells on Thursday to disperse a crowd protesting against the murder of a farmer allegedly by poachers, after he stopped them from hunting deer at Dangri village in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district. The protesters hurled stones … Read more
Five men, as seen in this screengrab from a purported CCTV footage, outside the ICU of a hospital before shooting dead gangster Chandan Mishra on Thursday morning, in Patna. | Photo Credit: PTI Bihar Police on Sunday (July 20, 2025) said it has arrested the prime accused and his three associates for the murder of … Read more
The Korutla police said they have unravelled the mystery behind brutal murder of a five-year-old girl with the arrest of her aunt in Korutla town on Monday (July 7, 2025). The police identified the accused as Mamatha, the wife of victim’s father’s brother. The victim, daughter of a Gulf migrant worker A. Ramu, was stabbed … Read more
Police personnel with arrested property dealer Silom James after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Meghalaya Police on Sunday recovered key evidence, including a missing gold chain of Raja Raghuvanshi, who was killed in Sohra last month, during a raid at the former’s residence, in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, Sunday, June 29, 2025. | Photo … Read more
A 55-year-old man was brutally killed and his leg chopped off by a group of four persons at Sudireddipalle village in Kurnool district late Tuesday night. Police suspect alleged illicit relationship of the deceased with a woman as reason behind the killing. According to police, the deceased, Kuruva Seshanna, was a lorry driver. He was … Read more
The court also imposed a fine of ₹1.18 lakh on each of them, prosecution officer Kripa Shankar said. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters A special court in Barabanki has awarded life sentence to 12 people in an 18-year-old case pertaining to violence and murder over a dispute, officials said on Tuesday (July 1, … Read more
Image used for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu A man accused of killing and robbing truck drivers on highways was killed in an encounter with police in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat on Sunday (June 29, 2025), police said. Sandeep, a resident of Haryana’s Rohtak, was wounded in the encounter and later succumbed to his injuries, … Read more