Crime

ERNAKULAM: The Kerala High Court sent a notice to various educational institutions to direct them to remove prefixes such as ‘Indian’ and ‘India’ from their names, on Friday. “The use of the prefixes ‘India’ and ‘Indian’ by private educational institutions is highly misleading, especially to the young and gullible aspiring students freshly graduating from school, […]

ERNAKULAM: On Tuesday morning, the dead body of a young doctor who had died by suicide was recovered from her apartment at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala when another doctor stopped their marriage at the nth moment because their family was not able to match their exorbitant dowry demands. Dr Shahana, 26, was found dead when her […]

NEW DELHI: Kerala police arrested Dr Ruwaise, on Thursday, in the death-by-suicide case of the PG Medical student Dr Shahana, who was found dead at her apartment on Tuesday morning. “The accused was arrested few minutes ago. He has been charged under sections of Abetment to Suicide and the Dowry Act. During the questioning we […]

NEW DELHI: On Thursday, the widow of slain Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena President, Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, revealed that her family had constantly demanded security from Rajasthan’s Director General of Police and former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, after receiving multiple threats to their lives over the phone. Sheela Shekhawat, Gogamedi’s widow, stated that her family’s pleas […]

NEW DELHI: As the annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau was released on Wednesday, a startling revelation emerged: West Bengal has experienced a surge of 23.91 per cent in attempted murders related to dowry since 2021. As per the NCRB report, the state has witnessed 322 attempted murders with the primary motive being […]