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Jaspreet Singh, a midfielder with East Bengal and his cook were arrested late on Tuesday night for allegedly raping a 14-year-old help at the footballer’s apartment in a north Kolkata highrise. Jaspreet Singh along with one of this club mates and another player from Prayag United live in a rented apartment at…
DOMBIVLI: A 22-year-old youth travelling in a local train died after he accidentally hit a pole on Friday afternoon between Dombivli andThakurli railway stations. Milind Patiyane, (22), a resident of Andheri, worked in a private courier company in Santa Cruz. The Dombivli GRP said the incident took place at around 12.45pm. The deceased was on his…
CHENNAI: A manhunt has been launched after two workers of a Mumbai-based jewellery store complained that 5kg of gold jewellery worth about 1.5 crore was stolen from them on a bus from Madurai to Chennai. Two persons who got off the bus at Peerkankaranai near Tambaram are suspected to be…
Patna: A 15-year-old girl has been left blind in one eye after she was shot in the face by goons who she fought to save her father, a barber, in Bihar’s Naugarh village, less than 100 km from Patna. Doctors are battling to save her other eye. The girl’s father, Biseshwar…
Loading image. Please wait 'Frustrated' man kills wife, daughter Lucknow : A man on Monday killed his wife, daughter and a father-son duo allegedly due to frustration triggered by a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district, police said. According to police, Anand Singh Patel was having a land…
C’HENNAI: Nearly 18 months after a young software engineer, harassed for dowry and even suffered abortion, committed suicide in the city, her husband, who is also a software engineer, and his parents have been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years. The Mahila court here imposed the punishment on S Dineshkumar…
Ranchi: A woman suffered acid attack after she spurned two young men’s advances in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district, say local media reports. The 24-year-old married woman (name withheld) suffered burns on Sunday when the two young men threw acid on her face and body. The attack took place at Bagdehari village of…
Blinded by lust, the security guard at the residential complex lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha lived in, fatally stabbed her after she bravely resisted his attempt to rape, police said on Friday, claiming to have cracked the sensational murder. Pallavi (25), daughter of IAS officer Atanu Purkayastha, joint secretary in the agriculture…
NEW DELHI: The CBI on Wednesday registered a fresh case against alleged arms-dealer Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife Anca Neacsu for ‘writing’ a letter to the Prime Minister on a forged letterhead of then MoS for home Ajay Maken seeking easing of business visa norms in 2009. The registration…
SURI: Two teachers of Kaligati Smriti Nari Shiksha Niketan school in Suri were arrested after they allegedly strip searched a Class-XII student on Friday. The teachers were produced in court and later granted bail. The student alleged that she was brought to the teachers’ room after one of her classmates claimed to…
MUMBAI: Lalit Sheth, 56, founder of the country’s no. 1 leisure travel company Raj Travel World, reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the Bandra-Worli Sea Link on Wednesday. The Dadar police, who have registered a case of suicide, said Sheth’s body was found near the shore at Worli Fort three…
