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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicCrime

Topic: Crime

Don’t ask what to do with boys who rape. Ask what turned them into assaulters in the first place

Young boys who should be sweating about schoolwork are learning how to corner women. Are we now supposed to add children to the list of people we need to protect ourselves from?

Beauty & the ‘beef’: How Lucknow woman & lover she met on Instagram laid trap for husband

Lucknow’s Ameena met Bhopal’s Amaan through Instagram in 2022. He is now behind bars and she is on the run. Lucknow police confirm the two hatched plan to frame Ameena’s husband.

Curtain raiser for Crime Literature Festival goes looking for stories—injustice against men

The discussion at the third edition of the Crime Literature Festival revolved around how men are struggling for justice and the way laws are biased in favour of women.

Ahmedabad cops crack murder of man killed in his sleep, buried in kitchen. It began with a tip-off

A mason from Bihar went missing about a year ago but no complaint was raised. Police have now found a body buried in kitchen floor of the house he lived in with his wife & kids.

Jharkhand is the honour killing capital of India now. Haryana is second

The latest NCRB report also shows that Jharkhand constantly features in the list of top ten states when it comes to murders, with over 1,400 such cases recorded between 2021 and 2023.

‘Death threats’, a cop’s car & a body in the river: The mysterious death of an Uttarakhand journalist

Rajeev Pratap Singh's pregnant wife says that in the days before his death, he appeared disturbed & frustrated after getting threat calls to pull down videos from his YouTube channel.

Driven by ‘domestic stress’ over birth of 3rd daughter, UP woman ‘kills’ newborn with sedatives, held

According to police, the woman was suffering from mental stress over the fact that she already had two daughters. She ‘confessed’ about murder to husband.

Planting 100 trees in a year to cleaning police stations, unusual punishments imposed by Indian courts

Last week, a Delhi court ordered four men to stand with their hands up for entire day for wasting its time. Turns out, there are other instances wherein punishments are unique.

Crime stories dominated Indian TV news headlines—murder, suicide to execution

The fate of Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse in Yemen accused of killing her business partner, was comprehensively covered by television and newspapers — it was a page-1 story.

Fear of criminals and cops—Bihar traders say ‘it’s jungle raj’, want Yogi-style justice

Businessman Gopal Khemka’s murder has rattled Bihar traders. With crime rising and police busy chasing liquor, the Nitish Kumar government faces a reckoning just months before Assembly elections.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.