In what can be termed as an honor killing, a young woman was stabbed to death by her father and brothers in Sanjeevreddy Nagar on Monday evening.

Police said 26-year-old Bhagya Lakshmi, married to Ravi few years ago, was living separately from her husband after filing a c

In violation of norms, the Prohibition and Excise Department gives permit to set up liquor shops near educational institutions, clinics and temples in the city... putting the public to inconvenience, Gudigunta Srinivas reports.

The Prohibition and Excise D

In a role reversal of sorts, recovery agents are engaging female hooligans to call up and threaten credit card defaulters, much to the embarrassment of customers and the police as well

Shiva Kumar, manager of Tirumala Music Centre (TMC) at Panjagutta had t

Twenty-five-year-old Shakira Khatoon who was carrying a six months old baby, was allegedly murdered by her husband at her house in Aditya Nagar, New Hafeezpet under Miyapur police station limits on June 29 night. The victim\'s parents were in Muzaffar Nagar district in Uttar Pra

Meerpet: Meerpet Sub Inspector Ganesh Patel has been suspended from service as a vehicle thief managed to give him a slip. Cyberabad Commissioner S Prabhakar Reddy said an accused in a vehicle theft case escaped from the police while he was taken for recovery of stolen ve

Kushaiguda: A couple was stabbed to death in Ashonagar Colony of Kushaiguda area. The incident came to light when the victims\' grandson visited them while on his way to school on Wednesday. Police suspect the crime could have taken place in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Malakpet: At a time when plastic usage is being discouraged, the Malakpet police have found it convenient to use plastic, though for a different purpose. They have used blue colored plastic bags to cover the faces of alleged murderers arrested by the Malakpet police.
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AS Raonagar: A sub-inspector working at the Cyberabad Commissionerate attempted suicide by consuming acid in the bathroom at Malkajgiri CPS office on Friday.

According to the Kushaiguda police, B Rohit Reddy (48) has been in poor health for sometime now. A resident

On the ill-fated July 6 evening, the victim came home as usual at around 9 and went to bed, unmindful of the tragedy lying in wait for her the next morning

The fate could not have been worst for a young woman who left her home for serving another country.

Chairman of the Tirumala Music Center (TMC) Nangunuri Amarnath and his employees have allegedly been threatened with dire consequences by a Mumbai based finance company.

The TMC representatives have filed a case with Punjagutta police in this connection. According to the

Charminar: A police constable was hospitalized after he was stabbed on his neck. The incident occurred in Parthiwada locality near Puranapul on Wednesday.

Police said the stab victim, identified as Teja Naik had been working working as police constable at Lalapet p

Most wanted criminal and ISI agent Viqaruddin has been arrested by the police in Secunderabad. Police teams have been searching for him for more than two years.

Initially trained in Hyderabad based fundamentalist outfit Darsgah Jihad-O-Shahadat (DJS), Viqar and his assoc

BN Reddy Nagar: In what is suspected to be a ghastly act of sorcery, a woman aged around 35 was found murdered in an irrigation tank near Yamjal village located on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Tuesday.

The incident throws light on the appalling rituals being perf

New Nallakunta: A wacky tradition has claimed the life of a newlywed woman on Sunday in New Nallakunta. According to the tradition, the bride and her husband have to stay separately during Ashadam month.

The victim, 25-year-old Ganga Silpa was a resident of New Nal

Neredmet: A 27-year-old man committed suicide on Sunday afternoon allegedly due to pressure from a private bank for not repaying a loan. The victim, Mahender Prasad, was a private security guard and a resident of Neredmet.

The police said Prasad took a loan of Rs4

Amberpet: Rajya Sabha member and senior Congress  leader V Hanumantha Rao\'s wife on Sunday received a phone call from an unidentified person who her to tell her husband to \'be careful\' on Sunday.

Sources told Hyderabad Journal that an unidentified man phon

Dire need of money to meet expenses on wine, women, drugs and lavish lifestyle is making many well-educated students take to crime

Once used to be the domain of habitual offenders, petty thefts like chain snatching and pocket pickings are now increasingly

Several questions still remain unanswered in the bizarre rape case of a US national at city\'s posh Banjara Hills, while the investigating cops are groping in the dark

An American woman in her late twenties staying at Banjara Hills was allegedly raped in h

City police have arrested three persons for selling fake cosmetics branded as the products of reputed cosmetics makers Hindustan Unilever Limited and Procter & Gamble India.

Police said the accused - Govardhan Prajapat, Mohan and Ganapataraj have been picked up from d

A handbag containing Rs 6 lakh was stolen from a woman at the Passport office in Secunderabad on Thursday. The woman has filed a complaint with the police saying she had come to the office on some work when some unidentified persons stole her handbag containing the money. Police

The Sanjeevareddy Nagar police have arrested three engineering students, while a B Pharmacy student is absconding after they tried to extort money from a resident of the same locality.

Police said the accused - A Anilkumar, M Pradeep, Ramakrishna and Bhaskar have got prep

Banjara Hills: In a shameful incident, a foreign women was raped at gunpoint early Wednesday morning in the posh Banjara Hills. The victim, an American national, is working with Clinton Foundation at Begumpet. She has been living in a pent house of an apartment on Road No

Though different versions appeared in the media about the love-hate relations of ‘wounded\' TV actress Dimple and her lover, her links with a thriving sex racket seem the actual reason of the recent acid attack on her fiance

The case of small screen actr

Thanks to apparently improved efficiency of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the recent past and increased corruption practices by some officials within the agency, fake anti-corruption agents are on the prowl everywhere in the city to make a fast buck.

White collar fr

Despite tall claims by the city Police Commissioner, A K Khan, the police investigators seem to have made no headway in connection with the killing of a police constable by suspected terrorists in Old city last month, except for suspecting the hand of fugitive Vicar Ahmed behind

Suppose you are going on a two-wheeler, don\'t be compassionate if an innocentlooking girl asks you for a lift. If you do so, you may end up in a trap where you will be asked to cough up huge amounts by pseudo cops.

This new style robbery is rampant in the city and severa

Professional rivalry in the city police force turns to be blessing in disguise for antisocial elements as they get enough time to escape after committing offences

It\'s nothing new for cops of different wings to sabotage each other\'s operations in their b

Not all is so glittering in glamour villa. While a very few catapult to fame, many aspiring actors, actresses and directors fall into disgrace. While many a struggling starlets take to flesh trade, careworn technicians and directors resort to theft.

In the latest of such

Tinsel Town Biggies Take to Drug Peddling

Underneath all the shimmer and sheen of the sophisticated city life, there are things that, if ever come out, will sure take the wind out of the common man. Stories of sex, sleaze and cold-blooded crimes have often been rep

City cops busted human trafficking racket and arrested two persons including a musician. The arrested had sent more than 100 women from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Mumbai to West Asia. Police seized seven passports, a laptop and copies of passports from the accused.

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They look official. They wear uniforms and wield weapons. They flank leaders and appear to be highly vigilant. They are not government appointed security personnel; they are just thugs hired by high-profile criminals like Suri alias Gangula Suryanarayan Reddy to take on,

Koti: \"I hate my father. He is an educated fool,\" 19-year-old Monica wrote in the last page of her diary before she tightened the noose around her neck.

She ended her life in the orthopaedic ward at the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) late on Sunday. A na

Greedy cops are permitting heavy vehicles to ply on the city roads, endangering lives of many an innocent people

At any given time of the day, one can notice traffic going haywire even in the busiest parts of the metro, giving dreadful moments to vehicle u

Recent reports indicate that GHMC\'s town planning wing has the most number of corrupt officials. In less than four years, 34 corporation officers have been nabbed by ACB sleuths for massive corruption

It resembles the climax scene of a Tollywood potboile

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested a senior divisional engineer while demanding and accepting a huge amount of bribe from the complainant.

CBI anti-corruption zone DIG, V V Lakshmi Narayana said the accused, V Gopal Reddy, senior divisional engin

A Tahsildar walked into the trap laid by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday. Officials said Satyanarayana Raju, the revenue official of the Keesara mandal in Rangareddy district had been harassing the complainant for a bribe of Rs 30,000 for doing an official favour.

The accused in the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examination paper leak case have been ordered into three day police custody.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials produced the eight accused before the court on Wednesday and sought their custody for furthe

Yet another official of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has come under the firing line of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).

ACB sleuths on Tuesday raided the residence of GHMC town planning officer Nageshwar Rao. Initial reports suggested that the raid

Uppal: In a bizarre role reversal of sorts, a lecturer ended his life unable to bear the harassment meted out by none other than his wife.

The victim was working with a corporate college. He was a resident of Uppal. He was found hanging on Sunday. The dece

Uppal: It was a blood-spattered beginning of a new academic year for the Kendriya Vidyalaya as lives of two of its girl students were crushed under the wheels of a rogue DCM driven by a drunken man.

The van, with a drunk man behind the wheel, ran over the

The Ministry of Railways has permitted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct investigations into the role of Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) chairman S M Sharma in the leakage of the question papers of the recently held RRB examinations.

Deputy Inspector Ge

Chikadpally: The inability of the city police to teach its own cops discipline and honesty has come out in the open once again with two constables being arrested for intimidating and extracting money from the public.

In a curious case, the city task force

Kukatpally: In a gruesome incident, a woman smothered her 45-day-old daughter on Sunday. The incident took place at Kukatpally. The woman, S Sujata, is allegedly mentally unstable. After killing the baby girl, she tried to pass it as a murder by some unidentifie

Within a couple of days after a man in coastal Andhra was held for marrying a minor girl, in the State capital, the Panjagutta police booked a case against a DRDL employee for allegedly marrying a minor girl.

The arreted was identified as Easwar of RBI Quarters in Yousufg

The Saroornagar excise cops have seized huge quantity of ganja on Friday. Officials said a raid on a mechanic shed in Chintalakunta locality near Vanasthalipuram resulted in seizure of 600 kgs of ganja.

The excise cops have arrested seven persons and seized three vehicles

Two kilograms of gold was stolen by unidentified thieves from two passengers travelling in a bus from Kurnool to Hyderabad on Friday.

The passengers, businessmen from Mumbai, were coming from Kurnool to Hyderabad when the theft occurred. The passengers lodged a complaint

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the son of Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) chairman and seven others in connection with the leakage of question paper related to the RRB exam held on June 6 and 13.

The CBI sleuths conducted simultaneous raids at Hyde

Fellow inmates at Chanchalguda jail have allegedly assaulted Mangalhat corporator Raja Singh on Friday. He has been lodged in the jail since Thursday following high-handed behavior with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials recently.

Telugu Desam Party co

Huge assets disproportionate to the known sources of income, amassed by the zonal manager of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) were discovered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Friday.

The ACB conducted a raid on Gopal Reddy’s house in Kothapet

Hyderabad city police on Friday detained a man near Mecca mosque in Old city while he was moving suspiciously.

The detained man was identified as Ayaz. Police recovered as many as 15 SIM cards from his possession. All the SIM cards were purchased in Karnataka. He is bein

Cherlapally: June 16:Even high-end communication devices come handy for inmates of Cherlapally prison. Confirming the rumors that the jail staff is supplying cell-phones to criminals lodged in the jail, the officials stumbled upon three mobile phones in jail barrack.

The immigration officials at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) nabbed a Chennai based drug peddler on Wednesday and seized Rs 1 crore worth Narcotics from his possession.  Airport sources said the case is being investigated by the custom officials.

Hyderabad

Nampally, June 15: In yet another twist to the Satyam farce, doctors of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday told a special court dealing with the Satyam scam case that the multi-million scamster Ramalinga Raju had to undergo treatment for Hepatitis C for another si

In a bizarre incident, over 20 people, including children, have been admitted to various government and private hospitals, thanks to the contaminated drinking water in Alugadda Bavi.

Local residents told Hyderabad Journal that they have been getting foul smell from th

A person was arrested in Secunderabad on Saturday for selling pirated CDs of different software and games. Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of Task Force raided a shop - Shad Enterprises _ located at Chenoy Trade Centre in Parklane. They arrested a person, B Srikanth and seized 43

Cyberabad Police on Sunday arrested television artist Dimple for the recent attack on her fiance Sridhar Verma after he allegedly refused to marry her.

Police said 23-year-old Dimple was behind the attack on Sridhar and she also stage-managed an attack on herself to m

Unidentified persons killed an Andhra Pradesh student in Texas. According to reports, Adarsh John, a native of Tandur in Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh was a student of MSc in Texas University. Reasons behind the killing were not immediately known. Local police have lau

Underneath all the shimmer and sheen of the sophisticated city life, there are things that, if ever come out, will sure take the wind out of the common man. Stories of sex, sleaze and cold-blooded crimes have often been reported from the neighborhood of the rich and the famous.