West Bengal panchayat poll violence: Victims to meet President...

The father of the victim, who owned a transport business in Shahjahanpur, had so much confidence in Asaram that one-fourth of his earnings was donated to his ashram. This blind follower of Asaram sent his minor daughter to Asaram’s Chhindwara Ashram for ...

32 Chinese tourists were killed and two injured after a bus traveling from Kaesong to Pyongyang fell from a bridge in North Korea.

Even the dead have dignity. They cannot be "named or shamed." This was the observation of the Supreme Court today as it dealt with the issue of disclosure of identity of rape victims, including the eight-year-old girl who was raped and brutally murdered recently in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir. It said that even in cases where the rape victims were alive and were either minors or of unsound mind, their identities should not be revealed as they have the right to privacy and they cannot live ...

He was a retired, medal-winning wrestler, often one of the first to arrive after a suicide bombing to help evacuate the wounded on the shoulders of his muscular frame. On Sunday those shoulders were needed again when a suicide bomber killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 120, including children, outside a Kabul voter-registration office. But the wrestler, Wakil Hussain Allahdad, could not help. He was among the dead.  Read the story ...

Kochi:Alleging lapses in the police investigation into the custodial death of a 26-year-old man near here, the victims family has moved the Kerala High Court seeking a CBI probe into the incident. Akhila, wife of S R Sreejith, who died after allegedly being ...

A 19-year-old Dalit woman, whose house had been burnt during the violence at Bhima Koregaon in Pune district earlier this year, was found dead in a well yesterday, with her family alleging that it was a suicide.

Not just child right activists, even parents of minor victims today came out against the Union government's ordinance providing the death penalty to child rapists, saying it could lead to victims being killed by perpetrators.At a programme in New Delhi, three ...

The Surat police confirmed on Monday that the unidentified woman’s body that was recovered on April 9, exactly three days after the 11-year-old girl’s body was found, belonged to her mother. The DNA reports finally confirmed it and police have ...

Offering condolences to the victims, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the attack "tragic and senseless"."It was with great sadness that I heard about the tragic and senseless attack that took place in Toronto this afternoon. On behalf of all Canadians, I offer my heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed, and my thoughts for a fast and full recovery to those injured," he said in a statement. "I thank the first responders at the scene who managed this ...