Written By Tanima Biswas

A doctor in Delhi was kidnapped by an Ola cab driver and held captive for 14 days in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, for a five-crore ransom.

On Monday evening, Naseem Ahmed went out to buy a birthday cake for his baby boy, not knowing he would not live to see the party. On his way back with the cake, the 23-year-old was attacked at his village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, allegedly by the family of his Hindu wife.

Back home in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar for his son's first birthday, a Muslim man was shot dead, allegedly by his in-laws. Nazeem Ahmed, 23, was shot from point-blank range when he was out to buy a birthday cake for his son.

It is 10.30 am, and Deputy Commissioner of Police Nupur Prasad is in office, holding meetings on security. After the attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims that killed seven in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this week, security for large groups of pilgrims of Lord Shiva known as Kanwariyas is a big focus for the Delhi Police next week.

The arrest of four of its men for the murder of 16-year-old Junaid Khan, is nothing less conspiracy, feels Khambi village in Haryana's Palwal. The general feeling is that the men of the village cannot commit murder.

A 36-year-old Japanese woman who has flown down from Tokyo to Delhi to file a complaint alleging rape and extortion. Twelve years ago, she alleges, she was first raped by the man who had promised to marry her. She landed in the city Wednesday for 72 hours. The cops are yet to file an FIR. It will take time, she has been told.

The inferno at a London residential building that killed 79 people last week has raised concerns for architects and builders in India. One of the main reasons identified by experts for the 24-storey Grenfell Tower going up in flames in a matter of hours was the cladding or material coating used on the structure of the building. This cladding techno...

The Gurugram police have arrested a 20-year-old autorickshaw driver for raping a seven-year-old girl on Monday.

Business tycoon Vijay Mallya was "the prime mover in the plot" to launder a big chunk of the 900 crore-bank loan taken to keep Kingfisher Airlines flying in 2009 and had used part of the IDBI bank loan to even fund the Force India Formula 1 Team, the Enforcement Directorate has alleged in charges filed in a Mumbai court on Wednesday.

Colonel Anil Kaul, 66, has written several letters to the army headquarters, but says he is still to receive a satisfactory response. He is a war veteran, who lost his right eye and left hand while saving 250 soldiers in a rescue mission in Sri Lanka's Jaffna in 1987. He got a Vir Chakra for his bravery, but says that the institutional support need...

A five-year-old girl was brutally raped by two men in the national capital in April 2013. Four years later, no justice in sight for the young girl. A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Karkardooma has accepted one of the accused as a juvenile, and he may soon walk out of jail.

Early this month, say investigators, an ISIS operative called Abdul Rasheed created at least two WhatsApp groups. He added about 200 people in Kerala to each of them and began transmitting messages, several of them in audio, urging them to join the Syria-based terror group.

Long after the government shut the window to exchange old banned currency notes, a gang in the national capital that duped people into believing that they could still exchange the scrapped Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes has been busted. The income tax authorities have told Delhi Police about a city-based 'social activist' who had been running t...

Two weeks after a notice by the Union Home ministry seeking more details on source of their donations, the Aam Aadmi Party has filed a reply - in which they have also raised questions on the timing of the query.

Days after the CBI raided Karti Chidambaram being probed for criminal misconduct related to approval of investment deals, the Enforcement Directorate, or the ED, has also moved in. On Friday, the ED, which investigates financial crimes, registered a case against the son of former finance minister P Chidambaram under the money laundering law.

A doctor in Delhi was kidnapped by an Ola cab driver and held captive for 14 days in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, for a five-crore ransom.

On Monday evening, Naseem Ahmed went out to buy a birthday cake for his baby boy, not knowing he would not live to see the party. On his way back with the cake, the 23-year-old was attacked at his village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, allegedly by the family of his Hindu wife.

Back home in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar for his son's first birthday, a Muslim man was shot dead, allegedly by his in-laws. Nazeem Ahmed, 23, was shot from point-blank range when he was out to buy a birthday cake for his son.

It is 10.30 am, and Deputy Commissioner of Police Nupur Prasad is in office, holding meetings on security. After the attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims that killed seven in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this week, security for large groups of pilgrims of Lord Shiva known as Kanwariyas is a big focus for the Delhi Police next week.

The arrest of four of its men for the murder of 16-year-old Junaid Khan, is nothing less conspiracy, feels Khambi village in Haryana's Palwal. The general feeling is that the men of the village cannot commit murder.

A 36-year-old Japanese woman who has flown down from Tokyo to Delhi to file a complaint alleging rape and extortion. Twelve years ago, she alleges, she was first raped by the man who had promised to marry her. She landed in the city Wednesday for 72 hours. The cops are yet to file an FIR. It will take time, she has been told.

The inferno at a London residential building that killed 79 people last week has raised concerns for architects and builders in India. One of the main reasons identified by experts for the 24-storey Grenfell Tower going up in flames in a matter of hours was the cladding or material coating used on the structure of the building. This cladding techno...

The Gurugram police have arrested a 20-year-old autorickshaw driver for raping a seven-year-old girl on Monday.

Business tycoon Vijay Mallya was "the prime mover in the plot" to launder a big chunk of the 900 crore-bank loan taken to keep Kingfisher Airlines flying in 2009 and had used part of the IDBI bank loan to even fund the Force India Formula 1 Team, the Enforcement Directorate has alleged in charges filed in a Mumbai court on Wednesday.

Colonel Anil Kaul, 66, has written several letters to the army headquarters, but says he is still to receive a satisfactory response. He is a war veteran, who lost his right eye and left hand while saving 250 soldiers in a rescue mission in Sri Lanka's Jaffna in 1987. He got a Vir Chakra for his bravery, but says that the institutional support need...

A five-year-old girl was brutally raped by two men in the national capital in April 2013. Four years later, no justice in sight for the young girl. A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Karkardooma has accepted one of the accused as a juvenile, and he may soon walk out of jail.

Early this month, say investigators, an ISIS operative called Abdul Rasheed created at least two WhatsApp groups. He added about 200 people in Kerala to each of them and began transmitting messages, several of them in audio, urging them to join the Syria-based terror group.

Long after the government shut the window to exchange old banned currency notes, a gang in the national capital that duped people into believing that they could still exchange the scrapped Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes has been busted. The income tax authorities have told Delhi Police about a city-based 'social activist' who had been running t...

Two weeks after a notice by the Union Home ministry seeking more details on source of their donations, the Aam Aadmi Party has filed a reply - in which they have also raised questions on the timing of the query.

Days after the CBI raided Karti Chidambaram being probed for criminal misconduct related to approval of investment deals, the Enforcement Directorate, or the ED, has also moved in. On Friday, the ED, which investigates financial crimes, registered a case against the son of former finance minister P Chidambaram under the money laundering law.