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Nalgonda principal murder: How her last words, blood-stained Rs 500 notes led police to 2 juveniles

Police found that last month, Kallu Rupa Reddy had reprimanded the juveniles, both 16 years old, after they were found with unaccounted money in school hostel.

Murder convicts get bail with unusual rider. Punjab & Haryana HC orders one-month ‘hospital duty’

The duo was also asked to file an affidavit undertaking not to indulge in any criminal offence, with suspension liable to be cancelled if named in any fresh case.

He smashed a baby boy to death because he wanted to marry his mother. In 5 weeks, he got death penalty

As quick police investigation swept up evidence and witnesses to file chargesheet within 5 days, Firozabad court found murder to be rarest of the rare crime and pronounced sentence.

‘Tormented’ by son’s alcohol addiction, Amroha family makes ‘Rs 5 lakh deal with hitman’ to kill him

32-year-old's father, mother & younger brother were involved in the plan, with the mother pawning off jewellery to pay 'screwdriver killer', police say.

3-yr-old raped, murdered in Pune: Accused charged with sexual assault twice before & acquitted, police say

Bhimrao Kamble, a 65-year-old labourer, was arrested after he allegedly raped the girl and smashed her head with a stone.

IRS officer’s daughter murdered: Arrested house help was booked in Alwar rape case a day earlier

Prime suspect in the early morning crime is a 22-year-old domestic worker who was fired recently and has since disappeared, police say.

How Ramavatar Jaggi was killed—a reconstruction of one of Chhattisgarh’s most chilling political murders

How the first elections in Chhattisgarh escalated into cold-blooded elimination of a political rival of Ajit Jogi—police to CBI, probes revealed murder most foul & institutional cover-up.

4 dead children, Haryana’s ‘killer mom’, a confession, and many questions

Only one autopsy, shifting statements, and delayed forensics complicate an investigation now unfolding alongside rumours, stigma, and deeply gendered assumptions about women’s violence.

Charged in US for killing 6-yr-old son, FBI most wanted Cindy Rodriguez Singh arrested in India

The 40-year-old flew to India in 2023 after lying to police about her son, last seen in October 2022. She allegedly starved him, believing he was 'possessed' and a danger to her twins.

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.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.