I have been working as a crime reporter in Hyderabad for the past 17 years. I was encouraged to be a journalist by my late father. As a journalist I try to do something unique for society, especially the poor who suffer the most.
The terror caused by three criminal gangs in the City posing as policemen has alarmed police officials, who now call on the public to be alert and vigilant at all times.
Hyderabad: Dowry cases are increasingly proving a goldmine for the police, though not all police corps could be blamed for it. Arrest of a woman cop for trying to gain from a dowry case is still fresh in the memory while another, not known outside police circles, has come to light. One Malleswar (name changed) [...]
A girl’s charge against her lover of illegal detention and sexual assault turns out false. Hyderabad: City police commissioner Anurag Sharma faces an unenviable situation. A teenage girl approached him a while ago and sobbed out a story of her lover and his two friends kidnapping her and sexually assaulting her for 10 days. Investigation [...]
Attempts are being made to send a police team to Maharashtra after three minors from Andhra go missing. Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, three minor girls who were working in a seed factory situated in Bandla Maisamma village of Pet Basheeerabad have suddenly disappeared, and with them two young men who hail from Nanded in Maharashtra. [...]
He was kidnapped and beaten up for not paying ransom last year and yet the Gopalpuram cops sat on the case leading to a similar situation now. A businessman Keshav Rao has a question. If the police are not for the safety and security of the law-abiding citizens, what use are they? Rao, 40, a [...]
Customs men allegedly thrashed him and snatched his gold chain because he refused to pay bribe. Hyderabad: A man who worked in Qatar and came on vacation was allegedly manhandled by a pesky posse of customs officials at the RGI airport on Saturday. The issue was that he was carrying 50 grams of gold biscuit [...]
It was the longest chase by the City police in recent times. Finally, they caught up with the criminal and recovered most of the stolen gold, cash and vehicles. Chikalguda police had to give a 5,000-km chase across four states to collar Nikhilesh Kumar, a native of Allahabad, UP. When the law finally caught up [...]
Sultana was convicted of murdering her abusive husband, but when the conviction was overturned she decided to help those going through the hell she went through.
HYDERABAD: Another breach of promise and a pregnancy has been reported. A 20-year-old youth, Shiva, is now in custody for impregnating a minor girl on promise of marrying her. Asifnagar police said Shiva had fallen in love with the girl who is from Bojjagutta. They had developed intimate relationship with the result that she got [...]
HYDERABAD: The Banjara Hills police have arrested two girls who were involved in dozens of thefts in RTC buses and seized credit cards, valuables and cash, said Crime Inspector K Kiran. The arrested girls are identified as Swarna Lata, 24, and Nandni, 22. Both hail from Kurnool district. They came to the City a few [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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