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Inside Gujarat's 'prostitute village': Where child engagements are way out of flesh trade

India, Sept. 20 -- Child 'engagement' or prostitution. That is the stark choice facing girls in this 'prostitute village', the disparaging moniker not a throwback to a shackled past but a lived presen... Read More


Activists allege Mumbai Police stopped screening of Umar Khalid documentary

India, Sept. 20 -- Activists Shrishti Khanna and Prashant Pundir have alleged that Mumbai police got the screening of a documentary on Umar Khalid, a former JNU students' union leader arrested in 2020... Read More


TPC commander Brijesh Ganjhu killed in UP ATS encounter in Varanasi

India, Sept. 20 -- Brijesh Ganjhu, alias Gopal Singh Bhokta, a senior commander of the banned Jharkhand-based Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Anti-T... Read More


SC/ST Act invoked against IIT Bombay prof as parents allege 3 months of caste abuse

India, Sept. 20 -- Mumbai Police have registered a case of abetment to suicide against IIT Bombay professor Suryanarayan Dulla following the death of a second-year student, with two other accused left... Read More


2 dead, 4 injured after electrocution near Ganesh pandal in Mumbai

India, Sept. 20 -- An eight-year-old girl and a woman were killed, while four others were injured after suffering electric shocks at a temporary drinking water stall near a Ganesh pandal in Mumbai's L... Read More


17-year-old among 3 dead in BMW crash on Mumbai's Coastal Road

India, Sept. 20 -- Three persons were killed and one was critically injured after a speeding BMW crashed on the Coastal Road in Mumbai early on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred at 5.20 am w... Read More


China's Wang Zifei sets qualification record as India take silver at Asiad

India, Sept. 20 -- India's shooting campaign at the Asian Games got off to a flying start on Sunday as Sonam Uttam Maskar, Elavenil Valarivan and Vidarsa Vinod combined to win the silver medal in the ... Read More


Vidarsa K Vinod becomes first woman from Keralam to win Asian Games shooting medal

India, Sept. 20 -- Vidarsa K Vinod has become the first female sportsperson from Keralam to win a medal in a shooting event by securing silver in the women's 10 meter air rifle team event at the 20th ... Read More


NMDC looks to hit 60 MT iron ore production mark this fiscal, says Chairman

India, Sept. 20 -- NMDC is working on strategies to achieve the 60 MT iron ore production mark this fiscal to meet growing demand from domestic steelmakers for the key raw material, its Chairman Amita... Read More


In Hyderabad, TGSRTC buses are strained and women pay the price

Hyderabad, Sept. 20 -- A group of college students had been waiting an hour-and-a-half at the Nampally stop for the bus number 49 to show up. While they waited, they said, drunk boys sometimes come ar... Read More