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Chilling details have emerged in the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa. The minor ‘s teen brother sexually assaulted her after watching porn on his mobile phone, cops reveal. After that, he strangled her. Their mother and two elder sisters helped him in the cover-up of the gruesome incident on April 24, the probe has revealed. “A nine-year-old girl was raped and strangled to death under Jawa police station limits on April 24, after which the police had filed a case and started a probe. The victim’s body was found in the courtyard of her…
22-year-old shooter Manu Bhaker won bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol final, becoming the first Indian to win a medal in Paris Olympics 2024. Manu Bhaker also created history by becoming the first female Indian shooter to win an Olympic medal. Bhaker maintained an excellent standard from start-to-finish, showing incredible skill and composure and spending the majority of the event in the top 3. Bhaker opens India’s medal tally at Paris, as the nation aims to eclipse their medal count of seven from Paris 2024. Bhaker was 0.1 ahead in second heading into the final shot, but slipped to…
Olympics 2024 Day 2 Live Updates: Shooter Manu Bhaker clinched India’s first medal of the Paris Olympics 2024, striking bronze in Women’s 10m Air Pistol final at the Chatearoux Shooting Center. By doing so, Bhaker scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to win a medal in shooting at the Olympic games. Meanwhile, Arjun Babuta and Ramita Jindal also raised India’s medal hopes by qualifying for the Men’s and Women’s 10m Air Rifle finals. Later in the day, Indian women’s archery team will take on the Netherlands in the quarterfinal tie. India’s Day 2 Schedule | Medal Tally) Here are the…
Three UPSC aspirants died after they were trapped in the basement of a popular coaching centre in Delhi late last evening, triggering massive protests. The victims have been identified as Tania Soni, Shreya Yadav — both aged 25 — and Navin Delvin, 28. While Tania was from Telangana and Shreya from Uttar Pradesh, Navin was a resident of Kerala. Shreya Yadav – the eldest among three siblings – had come to the national capital to prepare for civil services in April. His father runs a dairy shop in Uttar Pradesh and his two younger brothers are in school. His uncle Dharmendra…
Writing in the Times Literary Supplement in October 1921, English poet and critic Thomas Stearns Eliot remembered John Donne thus: “Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think, but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.” Eliot’s assessment of Donne was true of some others too whom Samuel Johnson had in the eighteenth century called the the-extinct “race” of metaphysical poets. Not incidentally, however, the crown of thinking-as-experience is also befitting for Indian poet, lyricist, author, and filmmaker, the Sahitya, Oscar and…
The brutal murder of a 24-year-old woman at a hostel in a posh Bengaluru locality has sent shockwaves across the nation. The accused has been arrested by the police and is believed to be the boyfriend of the victim, Kriti Kumari’s roommate. The accused, Abhishek, and the roommate frequently argued about his unemployment, and these disputes often grew intense. Kriti would sometimes get involved, and end up making the situation worse. Allegedly, she suggested that her roommate should distance herself from the man. The relationship, however, soured, and Kriti and her friends started to avoid him. Sometime ago Abhishek came…
Earlier this week, a disturbing video emerged from the UK, in which a young Asian boy could be seen being kicked and punched while he lay defenceless on the floor of Manchester Airport. Most reports said that three Greater Manchester police officers were first assaulted – one of whom was left with a broken nose – and that this led to the police response. One officer has been suspended after the incident – which, by the way, the right-wing Reform Party took no time in politicising as it praised the police action. No national outrage followed the incident, barring some…
Team India is all set to face Sri Lanka in the first T20I of the three-match series on Saturday in Pallekele. The entire country is waiting to behold Team India’s performance under the guidance of the newly-appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir. Known for his aggressive approach, Gambhir will aim to maintain India’s dominance in all the formats of the game. In the T20Is against Sri Lanka, India will be led by Suryakumar Yadav and the selectors chose him over all-rounder Hardik Pandya. Ahead of the 1st T20I, Surya and co hit the practice ground, where a very unique moment was…
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 has courted a massive controversy over the drag queen-themed apparent parody of “The Last Supper,” a mural painting by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci of Jesus and his apostles. Soon after videos of the performance were shared on social media, they drew flak from all quarters. On Friday, as part of the opening ceremony of the Olympics, several performances shed light on France’s history and culture. At the ceremony, a group of around 18 performers struck poses behind a long table, with the Seine River and Eiffel Tower placed in the background.…
A 20-year-old was brutally stabbed to death, allegedly by her boyfriend, and her body was dumped in the bushes near a railway station in Navi Mumbai, police said on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Navi Mumbai) Vivek Pansare said the police received a call around 2 am that a girl’s body was found in the bushes near the Uran railway station. Officials said the body bore multiple injury marks and stab wounds, indicating that she was murdered very brutally. The woman who was killed has been identified as Yashashree Shinde, who had been reported missing. The 20-year-old was a resident…