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Dehli India: Another rape reported within days of Danish tourist rape

asianage.com reported that days after a 51-year-old Danish tourist was gangraped in the heart of the national capital, another rape case of a 17-year-old student has been reported from the city. The police has arrested three people in connection with the case.
According to the police, the girl was raped last week in Central Delhiā€™s Ranjit Nagar area and reported the matter only on Thursday. Read Article

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Indian man arrested for drugging and robbing foreign tourists in New Delhi

According to the Times of India, a man who drugged and robbed foreigners visiting Red Fort has been arrested. The accused, Ayaz Ahmed Rahmani, is originally from Darbhanga, Bihar, and resides in the Kalindi Kunj area, said Sindhu Pillai, DCP, north district. On December 20, Rahmani had robbed a Japanese woman Aya Amada. According to […]

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Diplomatic tension escalates between U.S. and India following arrest of of Indian diplomat

voanews.com reported that Diplomatic tension escalated between the United States and India Tuesday following last week’s arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York City. Indian authorities asked U.S. consular officers to return their identity cards, rescinded airport passes and removed concrete security barriers from in front of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Read […]

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India: homosexuality ruled criminal act by supreme court

India’s Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality in a landmark judgment that crushes activists’ hopes for guarantees on sexual freedom in the world’s biggest democracy. Read Article

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French tourist arrested in India for abusing children

Newindianexpress.com reports that police have registered a case against a French tourist for allegedly sexually abusing a group of children in Odisha’s beach town of Puri, an official said Thursday. Middle-aged Mathew Furic allegedly indulged in paedophilia with a group of boys on a secluded area of the beach at Puri, about 56 km from […]

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Jaipur India: French national kidnapped, rescued

NDTV.com reported – Jaipur: A 25-year-old French national was on Sunday rescued by police in Jaipur after he was allegedly kidnapped by a trio. According to tourist police station in-charge Bhagwan Sahay, following an alert from the French Embassy about the alleged kidnapping of Frenchman Anthony Leonitat, they set up check-posts in the city and […]

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India: Bus accident injures 15 pilgrims en route to religious site

According to newindianexpress.com, as many as 15 passengers were injured when a Puri-bound tourist bus from West Bengal rammed into an iron ore laden truck parked on Brahmani bridge near Gokarneswar temple on NH-5 under Dharmasala police limits on Friday. The injured were rushed to Dharmasala hospital while five out of them were shifted to […]

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India: Fight over matchbox escalates into brawl that ends in the death of a tourist

Times of India reports that a minor tussle over a matchbox between two groups snowballed into a dirty brawl eventually resulting in the death of a tourist from Tamil Nadu on Varkala beach.The incident occurred when Sooryanarayanan of Tirupur and his friends Murukesan and Sivakumar visited Blue Marine Beach Resort for a juice around 10.30pm […]

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Bridge collapses on tourist bus in India killing one and injuring ten more

According to thedailystar.net, a man was killed and 10 others were injured as a girder of an under construction bridge collapsed on a tourist bus at Hazipur ferry terminal point on Kuakata-Patuakhali road yesterday morning The dead, Faruque Akand, 45, of Lachaple village in Kalapara upazila, was going to Patuakhali in the bus. He was […]

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India: Russian tourist arrested at Thiruvananthapuram Airport

As reported by Thehindu.com, a 34-year-old woman tourist from Russia was arrested at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport on Wednesday for unruly behaviour aboard a flight and for assaulting Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel. Mariia Kontrahhova, a Russian national, was taken by the Quick Response Team of the CISF from the aircraft after the crew […]

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