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Chennai, March 13 Tamil Nadu has become an "unsafe state" for women and children, and the ruling DMK has shown no concern for its people following a series of incidents, TVK leader Aadhav Arjuna alleged on Friday.Arjuna, General Secretary of the actor-politician Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri...

Thrissur (Kerala), March 13 A 49-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kerala court on Friday for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl during her school holidays in 2019, police said.The Chavakkad Fast Track Special Court sentenced Unnimon, also known as Vinod, to life...

Pilibhit (UP), March 13 A self-proclaimed godman was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman, claiming he was giving her medicine to help her conceive a son, officials here said.The accused, Bhagwandin, a resident of Balrampur village, had reportedly been practicing...

Ballia, March 13 A 36-year-old man has been arrested on charges of allegedly raping a married woman in the Bairia area here, police said on Friday.According to police, efforts are underway to arrest the accused, identified as Pankaj Thakur.Police said the incident occurred on the evening of...

Jhansi, March 12 A local court on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 25,000 for raping a college student in the Kotwali area of the city in 2022.After the trial, the court of Additional District Judge-II, Anubhav Trivedi, found the...

New Delhi, March 12 A private tutor in north Delhi's Burari is alleged to have sexually assaulted three minor students over nearly two years, threatening them with dire consequences, including circulating AI-generated obscene images and harming their family members if they spoke about the abuse...

Chennai, March 12 There has been a significant decline in the number of crimes reported in Tamil Nadu since 2021, although certain sections are creating the impression that crime rates have been rising in recent months, the state government said on Thursday.Whether the cases involved sexual...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 12 A fast-track special court here has sentenced a 50-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor girl.The convict, identified as Abubakkar, was booked by the Bantwal Rural police station under Sections 64(1) (rape) and 351(2)...

Chennai, March 12 – TVK President and actor-turned-politician Vijay and BJP leader Annamalai launched a strong attack on the ruling DMK government on Thursday, raising concerns about women's safety in Tamil Nadu following a series of violent crimes reported across the state in recent days.In a...

Thane, March 12 A fast-track court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a 34-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy nearly seven years ago.In his order of March 7, Judge V A Patravale also imposed a fine of ₹31,000 on Vicky, also...

Kolkata, March 12 – A civic volunteer has been arrested in Howrah on charges of allegedly molesting a teenage girl who later died by suicide, police said on Thursday.According to a senior police officer, the accused civic volunteer was arrested following the incident that took place in Amta...

Kanpur (UP), March 11 A special court here has acquitted an Indian Air Force personnel accused of molesting his minor sister-in-law after she revealed that the alleged incident was only a dream and her raising an alarm was a misunderstanding, officials said.The court also directed that...

New Delhi, March 11 The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to a man, who was convicted for sexually assaulting and murdering a five-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh in 2024.A three-judge bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria...

Los Angeles, March 11 – The disgraced producer, Harvey Weinstein, has alleged that he was violently assaulted while serving his prison sentence.The 73-year-old former movie producer, who was convicted of rape and sexual assault in New York and Los Angeles, described the incident and his daily...

Kanpur (UP), March 11 A special court here has acquitted an Indian Air Force personnel accused of molesting his minor sister-in-law after the complainant revealed that the alleged incident was only a dream and her raising an alarm was a misunderstanding, officials said.The case was registered...

Sonbhadra (UP), March 10 Police have registered a case against a man in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh after his 19-year-old daughter accused him of rape, an official said on Tuesday.Local SHO Akhilesh Kumar Mishra said the woman in her complaint alleged that her father sexually...

Kochi (Kerala), March 10 An event manager was arrested here for allegedly raping a woman after promising to marry her, police said on Tuesday.The accused, identified as Ayoob, who runs an event management company here, was taken into custody on Sunday following a complaint lodged by the woman...

Los Angeles, March 10 – Hollywood actress Ashley Judd is reflecting on one of her earliest box office successes. In a recent Instagram video post, Judd noted how her relationship with the 1997 film "Kiss the Girls" has "evolved" over the years.The actress shared that the shift happened due to...

Mathura (UP), March 10 (UP) A man who disguised himself as a religious figure has been arrested for allegedly having unnatural sexual relations with a 14-year-old boy here, police said on Tuesday.He was arrested after a video of the incident went viral on social media.The incident occurred...

Bengaluru, March 10 A Karnataka court has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 40 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl with physical and mental disabilities in the Belagavi district.The accused, Dhareppa alias Dheeraj Angata Khanase, illegally entered the girl's house while her...