BENGALURU: Saving lives was the childhood dream for 28-year-old Indian doctor Radhika, but after the brutal rape and murder of a colleague her own safety has increasingly become a top concern. Earlier this month, at the government-run hospital where Radhika works in the eastern city of Kolkata, the battered and bloodied body of a 31-year-old … Read more
This image shows 10-year-old Sara Sharif. — Surrey Police handout A trial date has been set for the father, stepmother and uncle of 10-year-old Sara Sharif who have been accused with the murder of the little girl in the United Kingdom. Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan’s brother, Faisal Malik, 28, … Read more
Vishnu Dabad, 30, a politician with the regional political party Jannayak Janta Party, attends to a cow at a shelter run by him for injured and sick cows in Chamdhera village, Haryana, India. — Reuters NEW DELHI: Indian police on Thursday said they were compiling lists of right-wing Hindu “cow vigilantes” after a young man … Read more
Medics paint slogans inside Kolkata Medical College and Hospital campus condemning the rape and murder of a female trainee medic at a government-run hospital, in Kolkata, India, August 19, 2024. — Reuters KOLKATA: Thousands of protesters blocked train tracks, halted buses and shouted slogans in India’s state of West Bengal on Wednesday in the latest … Read more
Doctors shout slogans during a protest demanding justice following the rape and murder of a female trainee medic at a hospital in Kolkata, in New Delhi, India, August 19, 2024. — Reuters KOLKATA: Police in India fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of Kolkata on Tuesday … Read more
Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan attends a practice session at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore on August 15, 2024. —AFP A case of murder has been filed against Bangladeshi cricketer and ousted lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. According to Bangladeshi media, Shakib, currently on Pakistan tour with his national team, is charged with … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a written order addressing a six-year delay in deciding an appeal related to a double murder case in Wazirabad, Punjab. The appeal, heard by the Shariat Appellate Bench, was initially filed in 2018. The accused, Imran alias Mani, had been charged with double murder and adultery 21 years … Read more
“Sanjoy was deployed by someone to kill our daughter. We are unable to tolerate fake news about our daughter on social media. My daughter must have cried out for me (mother) when such things were happening with her,” she said. She claimed that Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College,had not … Read more
“At first, she told me to wait, she said we couldn’t manage the EMIs [monthly instalments] and she didn’t want to overburden us. But then she found the bus ride so tiring after a long shift that she agreed to the car,” said the father. Although they remained in the same lower middle-class suburb where … Read more
BENGALURU: Saving lives was the childhood dream for 28-year-old Indian doctor Radhika, but after the brutal rape and murder of a colleague her own safety has increasingly become a top concern. Earlier this month, at the government-run hospital where Radhika works in the eastern city of Kolkata, the battered and bloodied body of a 31-year-old … Read more