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Washington, April 11 – Bishop Samson Shukardin, the head of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, has expressed concern over a government committee formed to review a recent ruling by the country’s top constitutional court that validated the marriage and forced conversion of a Christian minor girl...

Bareilly (UP), April 7 Two children who were injured in a fatal road accident here were found to have been abducted from Gurugram, and police have also rescued their kidnapped father, an official said.The development came after a Bolero vehicle was involved in an accident on the Delhi-Lucknow...

Bareilly (UP), April 6 Two children who were injured in a fatal road accident here were found to have been abducted from Gurugram, and police have also rescued their kidnapped father, an official said on Monday.The development came after a Bolero vehicle met with an accident on the...

Muzaffarnagar (UP), April 6 A fast-track court in Muzaffarnagar on Monday awarded the death sentence to three individuals and seven years of imprisonment to another in connection with the abduction and murder of a lawyer in 2019, officials said.Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast...

Imphal, April 3 – Security forces arrested four notorious insurgents based in the valley of Manipur's Tengnoupal district on Friday, which shares an unfenced border with Myanmar, officials said.A senior police official stated that the four insurgents were apprehended from the Yangoubung...

Pilibhit (UP), April 3 A 16-year-old girl is alleged to have been abducted by two men on a motorcycle in broad daylight from a village here, police said on Friday.The incident occurred around 2 pm on March 31, and the girl has been missing for over three days.In his complaint, the girl's...

Quetta, April 3 – Four more civilians have been forcibly disappeared in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, according to a leading human rights organization, raising fresh concerns about enforced disappearances in the region.These latest incidents come against the backdrop of a growing wave...

Karachi, March 31 Members of Pakistan's minority Hindu community staged a sit-in protest here to highlight the rising cases of abduction and forced conversion of Hindu girls to Islam before marriage to older Muslim men.The protesters came together under the banner of Pakistan Darawar Ittehad...

Jammu, March 31 A man who had been on the run for nearly seven years after allegedly abducting and raping a minor girl has been arrested, police said on Tuesday.He had been evading arrest since a case was registered against him at Janipur Police Station in Jammu in 2019.Sunil Bhagat was...

Gurugram, March 29 A 25-year-old nurse from Punjab was allegedly abducted and repeatedly sexually assaulted by a truck driver for several days in a village in Haryana's Nuh district, police said on Sunday.The nurse alleged that the accused pressured her to convert to Islam by promising to...

Hyderabad, March 29 Two men have been arrested for allegedly attempting to sexually assault two minor girls in the Nirmal district of Telangana, police said on Sunday.The incident took place in Nirmal town on Saturday when the two men allegedly attempted to sexually assault the minor girls...

New Delhi, March 28 Five people have been arrested for allegedly abducting and robbing a man after luring him through a dating application in the Kalkaji area of southeast Delhi, police said on Saturday.The victim was identified as Anurup Narula. In his complaint, he said that the incident...

New Delhi, March 28 The CBI has arrested an alleged killer of a student who had evaded authorities for over two decades while living under an assumed identity in Nagpur, Maharashtra, an official said on Saturday.Durga Bahadur Bhat Chetri, alias Deepak, was apprehended on Friday in connection...

Quetta, March 25 – A leading human rights organization expressed serious concerns on Wednesday over the continued enforced disappearances of Baloch women at the hands of Pakistani forces.As atrocities against civilians continue to rise in Balochistan, Paank, the Baloch National Movement's...

Hazaribag (Jharkhand), March 25 A 12-year-old girl was abducted and murdered by unidentified individuals using stones in Hazaribag district, Jharkhand, on Wednesday, police said.The incident occurred in the Bishnugarh police station area, with her family alleging that she was raped and...

Hamirpur (HP), March 24 Himachal Pradesh Police arrested a proclaimed offender on Tuesday, officials said.The accused, identified as Rajeev Kumar (53), a resident of Bhoranj Tehsil in Hamirpur, was declared a proclaimed offender by the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Hamirpur on February...

Islamabad, March 24 – A leading human rights group expressed concern on Tuesday over the recent abduction of a 15-year-old Hindu girl in Sindh province, Pakistan, highlighting the vulnerability of minority girls in the country.Citing family and community members, Voice of Pakistan Minority...

Amaravati, March 22 – Three people were killed and four were injured in a collision between two cars in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district, police said on Sunday.The accident occurred on the national highway near Yernagudem in Deverapalli mandal.A car, which was traveling from...

March 22, New Delhi: On March 22, 2012, India experienced a significant failure in internal security when Maoist insurgents abducted two Italian tourists and Jhina Hikaka, a sitting MLA in Odisha. While the abductions began days earlier, March 22 marked the critical day when the central and...

Quetta, March 19 – The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) strongly condemned on Thursday what it described as “baseless, politically motivated allegations” against the organization and its central leader, Sabiha Baloch, asserting that it has always been a peaceful movement consistently advocating...