Days after an attack on a hospital in Gaza triggered global outrage, India on Thursday called for strict observance of international humanitarian law.
A 40-year-old Sikh man, abducted over a month ago by a terrorist group in Pakistan's restive tribal region for allegedly spying for a rival outfit, has been found beheaded.
According to reports, Bansri Lal Arendeh was kidnapped at gunpoint on Tuesday in the Afghan capital city.
Five men in a car abducted Bharat Singh, a noted orthopaedic surgeon, on Wednesday night from Srikrishna Nagar in Patna.
The police found out the truth after looking into the complaint and talking to the boy's parents.
Khan, 70, was arrested from his home in Lahore on Saturday shortly after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty of 'corrupt practices' in the Toshakhana corruption case and sentenced him to three-year imprisonment.
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The Rajasthan police has got concrete evidence against eight accused named in the FIR registered after the abduction and murder of two Muslim men whose charred bodies were found in Haryana's Bhiwani, officials said on Wednesday.
Heavily armed Maoists on Thursday attacked a police station and a forest office setting them on fire and abducted a policeman in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
Ashfaq Alam had been in jail for one month in connection with the crime committed in New Delhi and later came out on bail, Aluva Rural Superintendent of Police Vivek Kumar told reporters in Kochi.
A pall of gloom descended on the Harmain area of Shopian as people bid final adieu to Lieutenant Umer Fayaz, the army soldier who found killed on Wednesday. Fayaz was abducted by five to six terrorists from his relative's house in south Kashmir's Shopian on Tuesday night. His bullet riddled body was found on Wednesday morning, a police official said. The officer, who was commissioned in the army in December last year, had come to Kulgam district on leave for attending a wedding in his family.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's comment to the Security Council that attacks by Hamas 'did not happen in a vacuum' angered Israel, which called for the UN chief's resignation and apology.
Guterres urged members of the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appealed for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.
Sixteen Indians stranded in violence-affected areas of Iraq have been evacuated even as one of the 40 abducted Indians has fled from the captors in Mosul town which is under the control of the militants.
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the alleged abduction of a Bihari youth by the Indian police in Saudi Arabia has turned into a diplomatic issue with Riyadh "not saying anything."
Maoists for the first time claimed responsibility for the gruesome killing of Jharkhand police officer Francis Induwar.
Former chairperson of the National Commission of SC/ST, B D Sharma, told rediff.com that he has not been approached by the Chhattisgarh government to mediate in the release of the abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon.
The hostages were reportedly tortured throughout Saturday night before three of them were killed.
The radical preacher's brazen activities evinced his methodical efforts to undermine the fabric of society, they claimed and added that he during his speeches and sermons alleged that the government was leaving no stone unturned in its quest to disarm Sikhs by revoking their weapons licences.
All the four accused, who were allegedly part of a mob that disrobed and paraded two women in Manipur on May 4, were remanded to 11-day police custody on Friday, the police said.
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Eight persons, arrested for allegedly kidnapping a British couple and also demanding a ransom of Rs 2.58 crore, were on Thursday detained under the National Security Act.
In a forceful statement in the Lok Sabha, Swaraj rejected allegations that she misled the country.
Orders prohibiting gathering of people were clamped down in Mhow tehsil of Indore district on Thursday after a 25-year-old tribal man died in police firing during a protest over the death of a young woman, officials said.
Sonu, who was abducted by two women in 2010, was rescued by a Bangladeshi citizen Jamal Ibn Musa, who put in great efforts to reunite him with his family.
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Manipur Police have so far arrested five persons in connection with the May 4 parading of two tribal women in Kangpokpi district of the state, officials said on Saturday.
On the Islamic State-style video sent by the ULFA-I to TV news channels, the DGP said it was the first time that such a video has been received.
Additional Director General of Police Rajwardhan Sharma told rediff.com on Monday, "The Special Task Force has launched a search operation to recover them. Till now there is no trace of them, as their cell phones are switched off."
India immediately rejected the charge, saying it was carrying out operations to stop large-scale infiltration from across the border.
Former Punjab Minister Bibi Jagir Kaur was today granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana high court about seven months after her conviction in a case for conspiring in forcible abduction, kidnapping and wrongful confinement in connection with the killing of her daughter.
The video, which drew widespread condemnation, shows the men constantly molesting the two helpless women, who cry and plead with their captors to spare them the horror.
A member of the banned militant group Laskar-e-Jhangvi was awarded death penalty on 3 separate counts and slapped with a hefty fine of Rs 5 million by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Lahore for abducting an American doctor in 2011.
The FIR was registered at Chauhatan police station based on a complaint filed by a local resident, Pathai Khan, a police officer said.
Three Indians held at gunpoint for three days by kidnappers in Hong Kong have been freed following a rare international operation. The three men - travelling on a business trip to Hong Kong -- were abducted within hours of their arrival on Saturday.
Ismail was a witness to the gangrape and murder of his wife.
"I express my profound gratitude to the Government of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj for their relentless efforts for my safe release," he said.
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