Pakistani girls trafficked to China as brides
LAHORE: Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country’s poor and vulnerable. The list gives the […]
Mother charged with murdering 2 children who were found hanging in basement
A Pennsylvania woman was charged Monday with murdering two of her children, more than two months after they were found hanging from a beam in the family’s basement, the authorities said. The woman, Lisa Snyder, 36, who was arrested at her home in Albany Township, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, had told the police that her […]
Dark side of K-pop
The Korean Pop industry seems to have a dark underbelly, Goo Hara’s recent suicide shook South Korea as a whole as it came only a short while after Sulli’s reported suicide. This second suicide has done much to raise awareness regarding mental health and the large amount of scrutiny that idols and celebrities have to […]
Protests in India over Telangana vet’s suspected rape, murder
NEW DELHI: Protests over the alleged rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor spread to cities across India on Monday as people demanded tough and swift punishments, including public lynchings, to stop crimes against women. The woman was raped, asphyxiated and her dead body then set alight on November 27 on the outskirts of […]
BoycottDabangg3 has been trending on Twitter since Friday
Mumbai: #BoycottDabangg3 has been trending on Twitter all through Friday morning after a section of netizens claimed that they are upset with Salman Khans upcoming movie “Dabangg 3” because the film allegedly hurts religious sentiments of Hindus. They mentioned a scene in the song Hud Hud Dabangg, which shows sadhus (holy men) clad in saffron and dancing with […]
Harassed by teacher, student ends life in Chandigarh
Beaten up and stripped by a school teacher for wearing a pair of trousers short in length, a Class 11 student committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his residence in Ludhiana city, the police said on Saturday. The incident took place in a private school in Dhandari area. The victim, who […]
Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile
NEW YORK: Online sales on Black Friday in the United States hit a record $7.4 billion this year, with a jump in the number of transactions made from smartphones, according to data released Saturday by Adobe Analytics. The figure was a 19.6 percent increase over last year and the second biggest day of online sales […]
London Bridge attacker named as Usman Khan, 28
LONDON: A man suspected of stabbing two people to death in a terror attack on London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted for terrorism offences and released last year, police said Saturday. Police identified the man, who was shot dead by officers after Friday’s attack, as 28-year-old Usman Khan, saying they were not actively seeking […]
Young veterinary doctor is abducted, gang-raped and murdered in India
Hyderabad: The 22-year-old veterinarian, whose charred body was found on Thursday near Shadnagar town, was suspected to have been raped and murdered by two persons who offered to help her punctured two-wheeler repaired. Priyanka Reddy is suspected to have been killed near Tondupally toll plaza of Outer Ring Road at Shamshabad on the outskirts of […]
British police kill knife-wielding man who fatally stabbed two people on London Bridge
LONDON: A man wearing a suspected hoax explosive device knifed two people to death in a terror attack on Friday before being shot dead by police on London Bridge. Three more people were injured in the stabbing spree which revived memories of a three-man attack on London Bridge two years ago that killed eight people. […]
