Gurgaon | 13 hours ago
Maid jumps to death in Gurgaon, employers booked
Gurgaon, May 14 - A 19-year-old girl who worked as a domestic help here allegedly committed suicide Monday by jumping from the ninth floor of an apartment building.Sultana leapt to her death from a flat's balcony in the multi-storey Taarika Apartments in Sector 43, according to police.The girl, who hailed from West Bengal's Dakshin Dinajpur district, was working as a domestic help for Manjeet Sing ... read more

Gurgaon | 3 days ago
Suicides in Gurgaon: Over 100 cases in four months
Gurgaon, May 11 - When Dana Sangma, an MBA student and niece of Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, committed suicide in her hostel room April 24, she was following in the footsteps of dozens of others who took the extreme step in Haryana's Gurgaon district which has recorded over 100 such incidents since January.At least one suicide, on an average, is taking place every 36 hours in Gurgaon as ... read more

New Delhi | 6 days ago
Man jumps off Metro station, dies
New Delhi, May 8 - A 22-year-old youth committed suicide by jumping from an elevated Delhi Metro station here Tuesday, police said, in the fourth such incident on the network in six days.Anil Kumar, a resident of J.J. Colony in Okhla, met his death at the Govind Puri station in south Delhi around 11.30 a.m. He was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead. The reason for his suicide is not kn ... read more

New Delhi | 10 days ago
MCD employee poisons relative, arrested
New Delhi, May 4 - A Municipal Corporation of Delhi - employee and his wife were arrested in connection with the murder of a youth who had an illicit relationship with the killer's wife and had been extorting her for money, police said Friday.The accused have been identified as Dinesh Kumar, 42, and his wife Asha, 35, sister-in-law of the deceased, both residents of east Delhi's Nand Nagari. Both ... read more

New Delhi | 10 days ago
Chidambaram denies discrimination against northeast students
New Delhi, May 4 - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday denied that students from the northeast were rampantly discriminated against and said the government had taken steps to curb a subtle discrimination against any section of the society in the country.Chidambaram was speaking in the Rajya Sabha following a calling attention notice by Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley over the deaths of three nor ... read more

New Delhi | 11 days ago
Youth beaten to death in West Delhi; 3 held
New Delhi, May 3 - A youth was beaten to death in West Delhi's Jahangirpuri area when he objected to some people passing certain remarks against him and his brother, police said Thursday. Three people have been arrested in this connection.The incident took place at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when Kuldeep, in his early 30s, and his brother, Pradeep, were walking along a street near their house. Th ... read more

New Delhi | 21 days ago
Teen kills aunt, two others to avenge grudge
New Delhi, April 23 - Harbouring a grudge against his aunt ever since her complaint led to his mother severely beating him over Rs.50 he had borrowed, a 16-year-old boy stabbed his aunt to death with a pair of scissors as well as two other women who tried to intervene, police said Monday.The boy, a factory worker, has been arrested. The incident took place around 9.30 p.m. Sunday in west Delhi's J ... read more

New Delhi | 25 days ago
Body at nursery: 'Killer' arrested in Delhi
New Delhi, April 19 - A young man from the Khan Market area was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly murdering a teenager at a nursery near the market on April 10 and later setting the body on fire, said a senior Delhi Police official Thursday. The brunt body was discovered early Wednesday.The official claimed that Neeraj, 21, strangulated Atul, 15, with a plastic cord at the abandoned Kamal Nur ... read more

27 days ago
Cop fails to save stab victim, catches killer
New Deli, April 17 - The prompt action of a Delhi Police officer could not save the life of a man, who was stabbed Monday in a busy market in north Delhi, but managed to catch one of the accused.Assistant sub-inspector Om Prakash arrested Shamim Ahmed when he along with his associate Santosh stabbed a 25-year-old man around 4.50 p.m. Monday in Yamuna Bazaar.As the incident occurred, Om Prakash so ... read more

Jaipur | 28 days ago
Woman, three grand children slaughtered in Rajasthan
Jaipur, April 16 - A 60-year-old woman and her three grandchildren, aged between 8 and 13, were found slaughtered in their house in a village on the city's outskirts Monday, police said.Police said the woman, Shravani Devi, appeared to have struggled with the unidentified assailants but the children -- Ramjilal, 13, Keshanta, 10 and Kavita, 8, -- were killed in their sleep. The motive behind the b ... read more