missing persons

Hyderabad, March 12 – In yet another shocking incident in Telangana, a woman killed her two minor daughters by throwing them into a well before committing suicide by jumping in herself, police said on Thursday.The incident occurred in Yelkicharla village in Bhootpur mandal in the state's...

Imphal, March 12 Two men who went missing in the Kamjong district of Manipur were found dead on Thursday, officials said.The deceased have been identified as Thangboimang Khongsai (35) from Shangkai in the Ukhrul district and Thengin Baite (40) from the nearby Thawai Kuki village.The two had...

Seoul, March 11 – Ham Jin-woo, a North Korean defector turned journalist who went missing in 2017 in the border areas between North Korea and China, has been officially recognized by the government as one of seven South Koreans being held in North Korea, officials said on Wednesday.The...

Rudraprayag, March 8 Three people, including a mother-son couple and a woman from Haryana, were murdered in two separate incidents in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday.According to the police, the alleged killers in both incidents have fled, and efforts are underway to trace and...

Hyderabad, March 8 An auto driver in the Kamareddy district of Telangana was arrested for allegedly killing his three minor daughters by drowning them in a lake, police said on Sunday.The auto driver and his wife had approached the police with a complaint on March 6 that their three daughters...

Kochi, March 8 Two people are missing after a fishing boat sank following a collision with a ship off the Kollam coast, officials said on Sunday.According to coastal police, two crew members are missing, while nine others were rescued by the ship involved in the collision.The fishing boat...

Mauganj, March 7 – Police in Mauganj district of Madhya Pradesh reported on Saturday evening that the decomposed body of an unidentified man was recovered from a drain surrounded by bushes along the National Highway.According to Mauganj Police Station Officer Sandeep Bhartiya, the body was...

Islamabad, March 7 – Pakistan will continue to see disappearances buried in administrative records rather than being investigated as crimes, unless trafficking is recognized not only as a humanitarian crisis but also as an institutional vulnerability. Such neglect enables organized criminal...

Surat, March 7 Two women in the 18-20 age group were found dead inside the bathroom of a temple in Surat city, Gujarat, with police stating on Saturday that they had recovered anaesthetic injections from the scene and that the two had used an AI-powered conversational tool, ChatGPT, to search...

Pratapgarh (UP), March 5 At least three girls are feared to have drowned while bathing in the Sharda canal in the Sangramgarh area here on Thursday. Search operations for the bodies are underway, police said.Additional Superintendent of Police (West) Brijnandan Rai said that Aanchal (14) and...

Bhubaneswar, March 5 Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to inaugurate a three-day exhibition on the new criminal laws, organized by the Odisha Police here on Friday, Director General of Police (DGP) Y B Khurania said.The ‘Nyaya Sanhita Exhibition’, to be inaugurated in the presence of...

Dehradun, March 5 A brief phone call is all that the families in Ambari village here have to hold onto as they wait for news of their relatives stranded in Iran amid the escalating conflict in the region.Zakir Hussain, a resident, has been anxiously monitoring his mobile phone for any word on...

Mumbai, March 4 – Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the legislative council on Wednesday that the state government has established a special cell to locate missing women in Maharashtra, with Additional Director General (ADG)-level women officers appointed to head it.The cell will...

Quetta, March 3 – Several families of detained leaders of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) were prevented by Pakistani police from holding a press conference at the Quetta Press Club, according to local media, citing family members.The families alleged that police cordoned off the press...

New Delhi, March 3: In a major humanitarian initiative under 'Operation Milap,' the South-West District Police successfully traced and reunited 118 missing persons, including 31 missing or kidnapped children and 87 adults, with their families between February 1 and February 28, the Delhi Police...

Barabanki (UP), February 27 A young man and a woman were found hanging from a tree on the Hetmapur-Suratganj road here on Friday, with police suspecting that the two died by suicide, an official said.The deceased have been identified as Haroon (22), a resident of Dashwantpur village, and...

Mumbai, February 24 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday informed the legislative assembly that the police had traced 86,228 women and girls who had been reported missing in 2024 and 2025.Of the 93,940 women reported missing over the last two years, 67,458 were found...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, February 24 Three people have gone missing after a car fell into the canal of the Jayakwadi dam near the Paithan town in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district of Maharashtra, an official said on Tuesday.The incident took place near a college in Changatpuri village...

Mumbai, February 24 – The Maharashtra government informed the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that a total of 45,662 women were reported missing in 2024, of whom 30,877 have been traced. In 2025, 48,278 women were reported missing, with 36,581 found so far.In addition, a total of 11,313 minor...

Jaipur, February 23 BJP MLA from Rajasthan's Ahor, Chhagan Singh Rajpurohit, expressed concern on Monday over young couples entering into love marriages or live-in relationships without parental consent and called for legal safeguards.Rajpurohit said that young men and women should obtain...