Murder: News

US: MIT researcher sentenced to 35 years for murdering student

A 33-year-old former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was on Tuesday sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of Kevin Jiang, a Yale University graduate student.

12 Apr 2024

Bollywood

Kamal Sadanah recalls day his father shot his mother, sister

Actor Kamal Sadanah, known for his roles in films such as Bekhudi, Pippa, Baali Umar Ko Salaam, and Angaara, has starred in a real-life tale more unexpected and frightening than movies.

28 Mar 2024

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand: Nanakmatta Gurudwara chief shot dead by unidentified assailants

The head of religious services at Uttarakhand's Nanakmatta Gurdwara, Baba Tarsem Singh, was reportedly shot dead by two unidentified people on Thursday morning.

14 Mar 2024

Uzbekistan

Uzbek woman found dead under mysterious circumstances in Bengaluru hotel

Days after a Spanish couple was harassed in Jharkhand, an Uzbek woman has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in Bengaluru.

11 Mar 2024

Australia

Hyderabad woman found murdered in Australia, husband flees to India

A woman from Telangana's Hyderabad was reportedly found murdered in Australia on Saturday. Her body was discovered in a wheelie bin on the side of a road in Buckley.

08 Mar 2024

Delhi

Delhi gym owner killed by father hours before wedding

A 29-year-old gym owner, Gaurav Singhal, was stabbed to death by his father, Rangalal, just hours before his wedding in Delhi.

01 Mar 2024

Kolkata

Kolkata woman kills live-in partner, calls police to confess

A 32-year-old woman stabbed her live-in partner to death in Kolkata and then called the police to turn herself in.

20 Feb 2024

London

UK: Indian-origin man gets life term for 1994 murder 

Sandip Patel, an Indian-origin man, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a London court on Tuesday for the murder of a woman that occurred 30 years ago.

16 Feb 2024

West Bengal

2 separate videos of men carrying severed heads go viral

Two separate videos of two men carrying the severed heads of their partners went viral on Friday, sparking widespread outrage.

14 Feb 2024

California

Indian-American family of 4 found dead in California

An Indian-American family of four, including two children, was found dead inside their residence in San Mateo, California.

13 Feb 2024

Goa

Goa murder-accused Bengaluru CEO's mental health assessment indicates no psychopathology

The Goa Police on Tuesday informed the Children's Court that a mental health evaluation of Suchana Seth—the Bengaluru CEO accused of murdering her son—revealed no signs of psychopathology.

10 Feb 2024

Mumbai

Cops believe Shiv Sena leader's murder was planned: Here's why

The Mumbai Police reportedly suspect that the murder of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was planned a long time ago by the accused, Mauris Noronha.

06 Feb 2024

Pune

Pune trader found murdered in Guwahati hotel, couple arrested

A Pune-based businessman was found dead in a ninth-floor room of a five-star hotel in Guwahati on Tuesday.

29 Jan 2024

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh: Shahpura bureaucrat smothered to death by unemployed husband

In a spine-chilling incident in Madhya Pradesh, Shahpura Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) Nisha Napit (51) was allegedly smothered to death by her husband on Sunday.

US: Indian student hammered to death by homeless drug addict

An Indian student was recently hammered to death by a homeless drug addict in Georgia, United States (US).

27 Jan 2024

Delhi

Delhi top cop's son pushed into canal over dispute: Police

Days after the son of an assistant commissioner of police (ACP) in Delhi went missing, his body was found in Haryana's Munak canal, per IANS.

25 Jan 2024

Japan

Kyoto Animation studio fire: Japan court sentences arsonist to death 

A Japan court, on Thursday, sentenced 45-year-old Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson attack on the famous Kyoto Animation studio.

25 Jan 2024

California

US woman who stabbed partner 108 times won't be imprisoned

A 32-year-old United States(US) woman, convicted of stabbing her boyfriend 108 times, has been spared prison time.

21 Jan 2024

Google

Google engineer found 'spattered with blood' after murdering wife 

A 27-year-old Google engineer is facing murder charges for allegedly killing his wife, Xuanyi Yu—also a Google employee—in their California residence.

US: Daughter jailed for 26 years over mother's 'suitcase' murder

A woman in the United States (US) was handed a 26-year jail sentence on Wednesday (local time), almost a decade after she helped bludgeon her mother to death in Indonesia's Bali.

15 Jan 2024

Gurugram

Gurugram ex-model murder: Victim shot from point-blank range, reveals post-mortem

Former model Divya Pahuja was shot at point-blank range, according to the 27-year-old's post-mortem report.

13 Jan 2024

Hollywood

Hollywood executive's son pleads not guilty in triple murder case

Samuel Haskell IV, son of Hollywood producer-agent Sam Haskell III, pleaded not guilty in a triple murder case in a Los Angeles court on Friday (local time).

11 Jan 2024

Goa

What did police find at murder-accused Bengaluru CEO's Goa apartment?

Suchana Seth, the 39-year-old founder of a Bengaluru startup arrested on charges of killing her four-year-old son in a Goa hotel, might have planned the murder, police have said.

11 Jan 2024

Bengaluru

Murder-accused Bengaluru CEO previously filed domestic violence charges against husband

Suchana Seth, the Bengaluru-based CEO arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old son at a hotel in Goa, had filed a case of domestic violence against her estranged husband, PR Venkataraman.

10 Jan 2024

Bengaluru

Bengaluru CEO killed son by smothering him: Post-mortem report

Mindful AI Lab CEO Suchana Seth smothered her four-year-old son to death during a vacation in Goa, post-mortem reports have revealed.

09 Jan 2024

Bengaluru

Bengaluru CEO murders 4-year-old son in Goa, travels with body

In a spine-chilling incident, a Bengaluru start-up CEO murdered her four-year-old son in Goa and was caught traveling back to Karnataka with his body in a bag on Monday.

05 Jan 2024

South Africa

Oscar Pistorius, jailed for murdering girlfriend, released on parole

South African Paralympics champion Oscar Pistorius, jailed for murdering his girlfriend and model Reeva Steenkamp, was officially released from prison on parole on Friday.

04 Jan 2024

Gurugram

Gurugram: 27-year-old model killed months after getting bail, body missing 

The Gurugram Police has ramped up efforts to apprehend two to three more suspects in the murder case of 27-year-old model Divya Pahuja.

US influencer shot dead by husband in front of daughter

A 33-year-old Hawaiian social media influencer and beauty entrepreneur, Theresa Cachuela, has been killed by her estranged husband.

25 Dec 2023

Chennai

Techie burned alive by ex-classmate who changed sex for her

In a spine-chilling incident in Tamil Nadu, a 24-year-old software engineer, R Nandhini, was allegedly brutally murdered by her former classmate, Vetrimaran, who underwent a sex change operation in hopes of marrying her.

20 Dec 2023

Italy

Pakistani couple kill daughter after she refuses to marry cousin

A court in Italy sentenced a Pakistani couple to life in prison on Tuesday for the murder of their daughter.

17 Dec 2023

Bihar

Tension grips Bihar after priest shot dead, genitals chopped off

Tensions remain high in Bihar after a priest was found shot dead with his eyes gouged out in the state's Gopalganj district on Saturday. It is also learned that the genitals of the priest were chopped off.

17 Dec 2023

Maharashtra

Maharashtra bureaucrat family dismisses influencer's 'attempt to murder' claims

Ashwajit Gaikwad's family, on Saturday, issued a statement dismissing model and social media influencer Priya Singh's claim that he tried to mow her down with his SUV. They also said that the relationship between the two was kaput.

14 Dec 2023

Indore

Indore: Man kills live-in partner for denying him sex, arrested

A man (24) stabbed his 20-year-old live-in partner with scissors for allegedly refusing to have sex with him in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.

01 Dec 2023

Uttar Pradesh

UP: Police intensify hunt for 'serial killer' after 9 murders

The Uttar Pradesh Police is on the hunt for a serial killer who reportedly murdered several women in Bareilly in the last few months. According to reports, a total of nine women have been killed in the city since June.

25 Nov 2023

Maharashtra

Pune realtor killed by wife during domestic dispute: Report

In a shocking incident in Maharashtra, a woman reportedly murdered her husband at their home in an upscale residential society in Pune during a domestic dispute on Friday afternoon.

US: 26-year-old Indian student shot dead in Ohio

A 26-year-old Indian doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati died after being shot inside a car in the state of Ohio in the United States (US).

23 Nov 2023

Delhi

On camera: Delhi teen stabs 18-year-old 60 times, then dances 

In an extremely disturbing development, an 18-year-old teenager was brutally stabbed 60 times in the head, neck, and ears by a 16-year-old boy in the Welcome area of Delhi on Tuesday night for Rs. 350.

20 Nov 2023

Mumbai

Mumbai: Woman's body found inside suitcase in Kurla, probe launched

In a shocking incident, the dead body of a woman was reportedly found stuffed in a suitcase in the Kurla area of Mumbai on Sunday.