New York, Aug 12 (IANS)  Author Salman Rushdie, who has a multi-million-dollar bounty on his head, was stabbed on Friday while he was on stage readying to speak at an event in New York State on the US as the home of creative expression. State Police said Rushdie, who appeared to have been stabbed in […]

Thiruvananthapuram, August 11 (BPNS) The police have arrested a woman on charges of torturing a sixth-standard student. The arrestee happens to be the victim’s second mother and is also an Asha worker of Chittattukara grama panchayath in Ernakulam. The arrest follows after the girl revealed her ordeal to the school authorities after some teachers expressed […]

Chennai, Aug 10 (BPNS) Police are on the trial of promoters of an investment firm after a mega fraud of Rs 6000 crore is detected in Tamil Nadu.  Vellore-based LNS International Financial Services (IFS) has swindled a mammoth Rs 6000 crore from several investors across the state that including hundreds of policemen. Police sources told […]

Thiruvananthapuram, August 8, BPNS A 21-year-old migrant laborer has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 68-year-old woman in the capital city, Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. The accused, Adam Ali was arrested by the Railway Protection Force from Chennai. It was on Sunday that Adam fled to Chennai after committing the said murder of the senior citizen […]

Gurugram, Aug 6 (BPNS)  A retired woman IAS officer was reportedly duped of around Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of online home delivery of liquor in Gurugram. Based on a complaint received through the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), an FIR has been registered at the city’s cybercrime police station (east), the police said. […]

Kolkata, Aug 6 (BPNS)  A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) trooper, deployed at the Indian Museum at the busy Park Street crossing, on Saturday opened indiscriminate fire from his AK-47 rifle, killing a colleague and injuring another one critically, police said. After the incident, the rogue trooper hid within the museum premises with his weapon. […]

Chennai, Aug 4 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu police arrested a 41-year-old person working as a welder in an industrial unit in Vellore for raping and impregnating his 13-year-old daughter. The man and his wife have separated eight years ago and his children, a boy, and girl has been living with him and his parents since then […]

Thiruvananthapuram, July 31 (BPNS) A flight attendant with a private airline company was arrested at Karippur airport in Kozhikode on Sunday morning. The arrested Mohammed  Shamim was trying to smuggle in gold worth Rs 1 crore through the airport green channel after an international flight from a middle eastern country landed at the airport. CISF […]

Arun Lakshman/ July 31 (IANS) Kerala witnessed a sad and heart-wrenching scene on Tuesday, July 26 when an octogenarian, Devassy protested in front of scam-hit Karuvannur cooperative bank in Thrissur district of Kerala with his wife Philomina’s coffin.  Devassy and his family were protesting in front of the bank as his wife had died at Thrissur […]

Chennai, July 30 (BPNS) The Indian Institute of Technology –Madras has commenced an internal investigation into an alleged sexual assault of a student on the campus. According to a student who filed the complaint, her friend was assaulted in the early hours of Monday, July 25, and a man in his early twenties had pounced […]