A gunman who critically wounded two kindergartners at a tiny religious school in Northern California was mentally ill and believed by targeting children he was carrying out “counter-measures” in response to America’s involvement in Middle East violence, a sheriff said Thursday. Glenn Litton used a “ruse” of pretending to enroll a fictitious grandson to gain…
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a 35-year-old Indian national from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, to death on charges of drug trafficking. His family claims he was framed and has appealed to the Indian government to intervene and file a mercy plea with the Saudi authorities. The man sentenced to death is Zaid Junaid and…
NEW DELHI: A man opened fire at Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Sukhbir Singh Badal at the entrance of the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Wednesday morning. Badal, in blue ‘sewadar’ uniform, was at the entrance of the Golden Temple in his wheelchair, serving his punishment. He has a fractured leg. The person was overpowered…
Rowan Ford knew Christopher Collings as “Uncle Chris” after he spent several months living with his family. On Tuesday, Collings was executed for sexually assaulting and killing the child, then dumping her body in a sinkhole outside a small Missouri town. Collings, 49, was put to death with a single dose of pentobarbital on Tuesday…
A 37-year-old man has been indicted in the US on murder charges four months after his wife’s disappearance. According to court records, Naresh Bhatt googled “How long does it take to get married after spouse dies” months before his wife, Mamta Kafle Bhatt, went missing. Mamta Kafle Bhatt was a 28-year-old nurse and mother of…
NEW DELHI: A desperate man’s bid for freedom ended in tragedy. A 27-year-old man was taken into custody after attacking his parents and uncle with a knife and when he attempted to escape the police by leaping over a wall at the Mayapuri police station in west Delhi, he fell and sustained a fatal head…
NEW DELHI: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Saturday expressed deep concern over the disappearance of 56-year-old Meitei man Laishram Kamalbabu from the Leimakhong Army camp, calling the incident “very unfortunate.” He criticised the event occurring within the Army campus and assured that both the central and state governments are prioritising efforts to locate…
Image used for representative purpose only RAIPUR: In the first death sentence handed down in Chhattisgarh in 36 years, a Raipur court sent a historysheeter to the gallows for the brutal murder of a four-year-old, reports Partha Behera.Two years ago, convict Panchram Gendre had wrapped the child in a petrol-soaked towel and set him on…
NEW DELHI: A probe into a 15-year-old boy’s suicide revealed that a 26-year-old sales executive allegedly committed sexual assault and harassed him, according to Pune Police on Wednesday.“The investigation showed that an unidentified person had sent messages to the boy threatening to make his photos and videos public. Police tracked down the accused,” a police…
BENGALURU: In a horrifying incident reported on Tuesday, a man allegedly stabbed his lover to death and spent an entire day with her corpse in a rented service apartment in Bengaluru before fleeing, IANS reported, quoting police officials.The victim, identified as Maya Gogoi, a resident of Assam working at a private firm in HSR Layout,…