The effective strategy devised by the Haryana Police to protect people from cyber criminals has started yielding remarkable results. In January 2025, a decrease of Rs 14 crore was recorded in the amount defrauded by cyber criminals compared to January 2024.

Gurugram police's Crime Branch has taken five individuals into custody for their involvement in multiple theft cases across different parts of the city, officials confirmed on Sunday.

A tragic accident occurred this morning in Hazira, Gujarat, when a dumper truck collided with a public bus, resulting in one fatality and leaving more than 25 passengers injured out of the 50 on board.

Tejashwi Yadav, the Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, met Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum regarding the surge in crime incidents in the state.

A man has tragically died after being stabbed near a train station in the western suburbs of Sydney.

Reiterating the firm commitment of the state government to check crime in the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday said that the Police officers will be held accountable for major crimes taking place in the areas under their jurisdiction.

At least nine people were killed and 11 injured in a collision between a pick-up van and canter truck while transporting workers of a catering service provider in Punjab's Ferozepur district on Friday, police said.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court directed the Centre to provide data on the criminal cases filed under the 2019 Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, which makes the practice of pronouncing triple talaq by Muslim men a criminal offense.

The Border Security Force (BSF) Eastern Command has initiated an ‘Ops Alert’ along the 4,096 km-long Indo-Bangladesh Border (IBB) ahead of India’s Republic Day celebrations.

A rape accused, who tried to escape from police custody when he was taken to the crime spot to recreate the scene, was shot in the leg in Torangal town of Karnataka's Ballary district on Thursday.

According to police, the accused attacked the police personnel when he was brought to the crime scene to conduct mahajar (documenting records regarding the details of a crime scene investigation).

The accused was identified as 26-year-old Manjunath, a resident of Kamalapura in Vijayanagara district.

The incident of rape had taken place on Monday. After getting the complaint, the police formed three teams and Manjunath was arrested in Hulagi of Koppal district.

The Central Narcotics Department (CBN) on Tuesday busted a clandestine laboratory manufacturing MDMA, a psychotropic drug, in a deserted area in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district.

The raid was conducted on a tip-off received by the unit of CBN, following which, a search was carried out at an orange orchard near Kharkheda village under Garoth tehsil and found a clandestine laboratory operating there, the CBN said in a statement.

"The agency has recovered 80.96 kg and 7.5 litres of chemicals, including acetone, toluene, hydrochloric acid, sodium sulphate, sodium carbonate, sulphuric acid, bromine water, ethanol," etc.

One person was arrested in connection with the matter, and he has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

Police have uncovered 43 kg of illicit drugs in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province and detained an individual on the charge of involvement in drug trafficking from the area, provincial police spokesman Tahir Ehrar said on Tuesday.

The contraband, including 43 kg hashish and a piece of AK-47, was discovered outside the provincial capital, Khost city, on Sunday, the official said, adding police have arrested one drug smuggler.

Police won't allow anyone to produce or smuggle hashish, poppy or the objects used in manufacturing heroin in the province, the official said, news agency reported.

 A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Bengaluru, police said on Tuesday.

The incident occurred around 7.30 p.m. on Monday when the victim's parents were out for construction work and she was alone at home in the Rammurthynagar police station area.

The accused, identified as 25-year-old man Abhisheik Kumar from Bihar, has been arrested.

When the accused, who also worked as a mason, found the victim alone, he lured her outside.

He took her to an isolated place and raped her.

However, the sources said that the girl died during the sexual assault.

In a shocking incident, a minor girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by three men while she was on her way to attend a birthday party in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh, police said on Saturday.

Police said the girl was going to her cousin's house to attend the birthday party, when one of the accused known to her, allegedly accosted her and forced her into a car with his two associates.

They drove the car for around two km at an isolated place near a pond and took turns to rape her.

After executing the crime, the trio fled from the spot leaving the victim who was unconscious near the pond, police said.

After regaining consciousness, the 11-year-old girl walked down to her home late Thursday night and narrated the incident to her parents. She was immediately rushed to Damoh District Hospital, where she was admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward.

In a tragic incident here, a 45-year-old man was injured after being allegedly shot at by his son's friend inside his house after he scolded him, the Gurugram police said on Tuesday.

According to the police, the accused, Tanmay of Gurgaon village, committed the crime after the victim, Sandeep Kumar, a resident of the same village, scolded him not to visit his house, following which the accused developed enmity with the victim and shot him in the stomach and fled on Tuesday morning.

As per the police, Gurugram Sector-5 police station received information that a firing incident took place in Gurgaon village on Tuesday morning.

Upon receiving the information, a police team reached the spot, but by then, the injured was taken to a private hospital for further treatment.

Sandeep used to work in a private company.

Myanmar authorities have seized 91 kg of heroin blocks in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Monday.

Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a vehicle in Kengtung township in Shan state on January 1, and seized the narcotics, the report said.

The confiscated narcotics are worth 1.365 billion kyats (about $650,000), and two suspects were arrested for the case, it said.

According to the investigation, the drugs were being transported from Kunhing township to Tachileik township in Shan state.

The suspects were charged under the country's law, and further investigations are ongoing, news agency reported.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it has arrested another key accused in the murder of BJP leader Bijoy Krishna Bhunia in East Midnapore district of West Bengal in May 2023.

The NIA in a statement said Mohan Mondal had been arrested in Pune in Maharashtra. He has been absconding since the murder of Bhunia in May last year,

“Mohan Mondal was nabbed by the NIA on Thursday in connection with the May 2023 case, in which Bijoy Krishna Bhunia was kidnapped and killed in Goramahal village in Moyna in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. Mohan Mandal had non-bailable warrants issued against him after he had absconded,” the NIA statement read.

As per the NIA statement, Mondal is the third accused to be nabbed in the case, the other two being Naba Kumar Mondal and Suvendu Bhowmick, who were arrested earlier. Naba Kumar Mondal was arrested in November last year.

A car, in which Ganja was being allegedly smuggled, ran over policemen at a toll plaza in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada district. Two police constables were injured in the incident that occurred at Krishnavaram toll plaza in Kirlampudi mandal in the early hours of Thursday.

As the car approached the toll plaza, police personnel deployed there for checking signalled the vehicle to stop.

The policemen were gathering details from the driver of the vehicle coming from Visakhapatnam and heading towards Rajamahendravaram. The driver pretended to cooperate but suddenly accelerated, hitting two police constables.

Lovaraju, a constable of Kirlampudi Police Station and another constable who were in front of the vehicle were injured in the incident. They were rushed to a hospital. Alert policemen then chased the car.

After travelling some distance the accused left the car at Rajanagaram and escaped.

Cambodia has recorded a sharp increase in both the number of drug-related suspects arrested and the amount of narcotics seized last year, according to an Anti-Drug Department's report released on Wednesday.

The authorities had detained 26,033 drug-related suspects in 2024, up 30.5 per cent from 19,940 in the year before, the report said, adding that 954 suspects were foreigners of 20 nationalities.

"A total of 14.7 tonnes of illicit drugs had been confiscated from those suspects' possession from January 1 to December 31, 2024," the report said.

According to the report, only 2.97 tonnes of narcotics had been seized in the entirety of 2023.

Most of the confiscated drugs were ketamine, crystal methamphetamine, methamphetamine tablets, heroin, ecstasy, and cocaine, news agency reported.

एक चौंकाने वाली घटना में, लखनऊ पुलिस ने बुधवार को पारिवारिक विवाद में अपनी मां और चार बहनों की हत्या करने के आरोप में अरशद नाम के 24 वर्षीय व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया।

नए साल के पहले दिन बुधवार को उत्तर प्रदेश के लखनऊ के थाना नाका क्षेत्र के होटल शरणजीत में भीषण हत्याएं हुईं।

पीड़ितों के शवों की पहचान होटल अधिकारियों ने की, जिनकी पहचान आलिया (9), अलशिया (19), अक्सा (16), रहमीन (18) और उनकी मां असमा के रूप में हुई, जिन्होंने तुरंत स्थानीय पुलिस को सतर्क कर दिया।

घटना की जानकारी देते हुए पुलिस उपायुक्त (डीसीपी) सेंट्रल रवीना त्यागी ने कहा, ''हमें थाना नाका इलाके से सूचना मिली कि होटल शरणजीत के एक कमरे में पांच शव मिले हैं. स्थानीय पुलिस तुरंत जांच के लिए घटनास्थल पर पहुंची.'' ।"

In a shocking incident, Lucknow Police on Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old man, identified as Arshad, for allegedly murdering his mother and four sisters over a family dispute.

The gruesome killings took place at Hotel Sharanjeet in the Thana Naka area of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Wednesday, the first day of the new year.

The bodies of the victims, identified as Alia (9), Alshia (19), Aksa (16), Rahmeen (18), and their mother, Asma, were discovered by hotel authorities, who immediately alerted the local police.

Informing about the incident, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Central Raveena Tyagi said, "We received information from the Thana Naka area stating that five dead bodies were found in a room at Hotel Sharanjeet. The local police immediately arrived at the scene to investigate."

Afghan counter-narcotics police have arrested 12 people on the charge of drug smuggling in seven out of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Monday.

According to the statement, police have detained individuals allegedly involved in the sale, purchase and smuggling of the contraband on the outskirts of Laghman, Bamyan, Kapisa, Parwan, Kunduz, Herat, and Farah provinces.

A quantity of illicit drugs, including opium, hashish and stimulant tablets, has been seized from the detainees and their dossiers were referred to the judiciary for further investigation, news agency reported.

Earlier on December 22, the Afghan counter-narcotics police seized 38 kg of illicit drugs and arrested 11 suspects in connection with drug trafficking, purchase, and sales, the Ministry of Interior reported.

A man who had links to organised crime syndicates was shot dead in Sydney, police said on Monday.

Emergency services were called to a street in Canley Heights, 25 km west of central Sydney, at about 6:50 pm local time on Sunday after residents reported gunshots being fired.

Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said a man in his 30s was treated for gunshot wounds by paramedics but died at the scene.

The man, who was allegedly involved in 'illicit drug activity,' was shot outside his family residence, Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said.

A short time after the shooting, emergency services were called to an abandoned car on fire in a neighbouring suburb, news agency reported quoting public broadcaster.

"Investigations into the incidents, which are believed to be linked, are underway," NSW Police said.

West Bengal Police on Saturday said that its sleuths have cracked a major inter-state fake railways’ job racket.

According to the cops, the racket has its roots in the industrial-cum-coal belt of Asansol in West Burdwan district.

The cops have arrested two persons, both original residents of Asansol, from Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow and they were brought back to Asansol on transit remand on Saturday.

The arrested persons have been identified as Dinesh Kumar and Priti Arora a.k.a. Seema.

While Kumar is a resident of Durand Colony in Asansol, Seema’s residence is at Sukanta Pally also in Asansol.

The West Bengal police, including the Kolkata Police, are under increasing scrutiny following revelations of fake Indian passport rackets operating across the state. Questions have been raised about the role of police officers responsible for conducting routine verification processes, a critical step before the issuance of passports by regional passport offices.

Concerns have been raised about whether the police officers tasked with physical verification visited the residences of passport applicants. Allegedly, many officers bypassed this requirement, instead summoning applicants to the police station to complete the verification process -- a violation of the rules.

The issue gained prominence after a city court, presided over by the chief judicial magistrate, directed investigating officers to probe their colleagues in relevant police stations. These officers had been tasked with verifying the details of individuals who later obtained fake passports using fraudulent identities.

 Around 100 infiltrators including 87 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested during the past five months at the Agartala railway station alone, while hundreds of other intruders from across the border were nabbed in different places of Tripura, officials said here on Friday.

After the unrest began in Bangladesh in July, especially after the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government on August 5, the infiltration into India's northeastern states increased to a large extent.

A senior official of the Government Railway Police (GRP) said that around 100 Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas were detained at the Agartala railway station between August 1 and December 24.

In a shocking case, the Pune Police have arrested a 54-year-old man for the alleged kidnapping, rape and murder of two minor girls in the Rajgurunagar area of the city.

The man, identified as Ajay Das, is accused of committing the heinous double crime with the two siblings aged nine and eight before he absconded, said a police official.

The dual crime occurred on Wednesday when the two girls were playing outside their home around noon, but later suddenly ‘disappeared’.

The family, which was keeping an eye on them, started a frantic search in the vicinity but failed to trace them and finally in the evening lodged a complaint with the Khed Police Station.

The West Bengal Police on Wednesday arrested one more person in connection with the racket of arranging fake Indian passports for Bangladeshi infiltrators entering Indian territory through the state's porous borders, both land and coastal.

The arrested person, identified as Mokhtar Alam, was arrested from his residence at Duttapukur in North 24 Parganas district.

Several incriminating documents, including fake PAN cards and bank ATM cards, have been seized from his possession.

With Alam’s arrest, the total number of arrests in connection with the fake passport rackets from different pockets in the state during the last 10 days has increased to six.

Five persons, including two juveniles, were nabbed on Monday for opening fire in South Delhi in which a youth was injured, police said.

The incident took place in Ambedkar Nagar on Sunday when 20-year-old man Kunal, from Madangir, was shot and later admitted to Safdarjung Hospital, they said.

A police officer said that a used cartridge was recovered from the spot and an FIR was registered against the accused.

The police officer added that investigations led to the arrest of Kamal alias Anna and Shubham -- both 23-year-old -- Sahil (22) and two juveniles.

Two country-made pistols, a knife and two motorcycles used in the commission of the crime were also recovered from their possession, he said.

 An incident of a software professional losing Rs 11 crore after falling victim to digital arrest has been reported from Bengaluru on Monday, the police said.

According to the police, the cyber fraudsters disguised themselves as police officials from the Mumbai Crime Branch and committed the crime through digital arrest.

The victim is identified as 39-year-old Vijaykumar, who working with a reputed IT company in Bengaluru.

The case has been registered in this regard with the North East Cybercrime, Economic Offences, Narcotics (CEN) police station in Bengaluru.

The victim was told that a case was registered under his name in Mumbai's Colaba police station and they found that a cash transfer was made using his Aadhaar number.

A man in New York has been arrested for setting a sleeping woman on fire inside a subway train, leading to her death. The man reportedly stayed during the incident.

The horrifying incident occurred on Sunday morning around 7:30 a.m. as the train approached the Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn.

During a press briefing, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the attack as "one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being," adding that it claimed the life of an "innocent New Yorker."

"As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was seated at the end of a subway car. Using what we believe to be a lighter, the suspect ignited the victim's clothing, which became fully engulfed in flames within seconds," Tisch said.

J&K Cyber Police said on Saturday that it has recovered over Rs 11 lakh taken in online frauds in the UT's Kulgam district.

A police statement said that cyber police recovered Rs 11,09,565 taken from common people in online financial frauds in Kulgam.

"During the current year, multiple applications and reports were received from the general public in Kulgam about missing/stolen mobile phones by the Cyber Cell of J&K Police. Acting upon these applications and reports, a special and dedicated team of Cyber Cell Kulgam under the supervision of DySP Hqrs Kulgam recovered 30 smartphones so far from different places which were either lost or stolen. All 30 smartphones were handed over to their legal owners after completing legal formalities," a police statement said.

Moreover, Cyber Cell Kulgam solved a huge number of online financial fraud cases in which an amount of Rs 11,09,565 was recovered and has been refunded to the victims' account after completing all legal formalities & an amount of Rs 21,88,715 was put on hold on receipt of various complaints, the statement added.

 A Saudi man was arrested after a car rammed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, central Germany, leaving two people dead, including a child, and over 60 others injured, according to Saxony-Anhalt's state premier.

The incident occurred on Friday evening when the market was bustling with crowds gathered for Christmas shopping.

Condemning the attack, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took to X and posted, "My thoughts are with the victims and their families. We stand by their side and by the side of the people of Magdeburg."

Speaking to the reporters, Saxony-Anhalt state premier Reiner Haseloff revealed that the suspected driver is a Saudi Arabian doctor, who has been residing in Germany since 2006 and working in the region.

Tripura Police have detained six Bangladeshi nationals including two children and two women, after they came into the state from Delhi, as they were trying to return to their country clandestinely, officials said.

A police official said that the six Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from a private guest house in Khowai district.

“The Bangladeshi nationals came to the bordering Khowai district from Delhi and briefly stayed in the private lodge before returning to their country with the help of Indian touts. They are residents of Feni district of Bangladesh,” the official told the media.

He said that the Bangladeshi nationals during preliminary interrogations confessed that a few months back they went to Delhi in search of jobs and illegally made Aadhaar, PAN, and EPIC cards. Police seized these fake cards.

A Sydney police task force targeting organised crime syndicates has arrested 33 people and seized drugs worth millions of US dollars.

Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) on Friday said that 33 people had been charged by detectives from Task Force Lupin since it was secretly established in July to address an escalating conflict between organised crime networks hailing from Asia.

In addition to the arrests, police seized prohibited drugs worth more than 10 million Australian dollars (6.2 million US dollars) as well as 600,000 Australian dollars (372,000 dollars) in cash, seven firearms and more than 20 dedicated encrypted criminal communication devices.

Detectives executed over 35 search warrants and identified three clandestine methamphetamine labs, two in western Sydney and one in the remote town of Mollyan over 300 kilometers northwest of the city.