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 duo told an elderly woman that their sons had been admitted in the hospital with cancer. They then exchanged their fake gold jewellery for cash with the woman, who believed and pitied them. Two con women, acting convincingly, duped a senior woman who made the mistake of empathising with the duo’s false misery, and [...]
The half marathon organised by the Hyderabad Central University (HCU), in collaboration with the Hyderabad Runners and Bharati Airtel at the HCU campus today received an overwhelming response from all age groups. Nearly 900 participants took part in the event. This was the 4th edition of the Hyderabad Runners Club, which included 21k, 10k and [...]
Two bikers went on a snatching spree in the City on Friday, pocketing 43 tolas of gold ornaments worth `12 lakh from eight women
He was beaten up by his brothers-in-law for he followed a different religion. S John, a 28-year-old Christian, who had fallen in love with Sweta, 24, a Hindu, was allegedly attacked by his brothers-in-law on Wednesday at Kottapet Road. He is in the hospital with injuries all over his body, Chaithanyapuri police said. It is [...]
In a heinous crime, a 25-year-old man has been charged with attempting to rape a 65-year-old widow in Shanthi Nagar of North Lalaguda. The man has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. According to the police, M Laxmamma is a widow with one son. After she lost her first husband, she had remarried, only [...]
With this arrest, police say they have vital clues in the DPS scam. He was a scrap dealer and he became a partner in a school scam, police say. With the arrest of Syed Farooq Hussain (pictured), a scrap dealer-turned-educationist, Shamshabad police claimed to have got vital clues to the two main people behind the [...]
The builder began to construct on a plot as directed by them, only to be confronted by the real owner. A gang of a four, including a woman, allegedly cheated Mohd Abdul Shukur, the owner of a construction company for a pretty sum after giving him fake documents of a plot that belonged to another. [...]
A boy was asked to stand on the bench for not completing his homework, and when he did not oblige, he was brutally beaten by the teacher.
Wanting an English medium education for their children lands parents in trouble as the principal bolts with their money.
Failure of our justice system to bring culprits to book is encouraging cheats to fleece unwary youth looking for employment. RGIA is the latest victim of an employment scandal involving insiders.
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There are positive signals from the G8 summit regarding the plan of action that must be pursed in Syria. Russian leader Vladmir Putin, the man who is the main hurdle to the creation of some means formidable to bringing down Assad, has hinted that he may allow removing Assad provided there is a plan for [...]
Rowhani offers softer tone, same policies
Newly elected president Hassan Rowhani struck a diplomatic chord in his first news conference but offered little real change in key policy areas, especially on the long-running dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. Concretely, he ruled out any halt to the nuclear activity that has drawn UN, EU and US sanctions, repeating a long-standing Iranian position [...]
Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
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