Grandmother Kills Girls

A distraught Texas grandmother of a girl killed in the massacre in Uvalde pleaded Thursday for urgent action by US authorities to prevent future school shootings, as the country plunges again into the roiling debate over guns.

The Noida Police on Tuesday arrested a 50-year-old woman for allegedly being involved in murder of her three-year-old granddaughter whom she considered a hindrance to her marriage with her lover, officials said.

The rampant practice of female infanticide continues to claim more lives even as the centre keeps on promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme. In a heartbreaking incident, a woman in Punjab's Bathinda allegedly dumped her twin granddaughters in a canal just two hours after birth.

A woman allegedly killed her four-year-old granddaughter in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh because she was irked with the girl's "stubborn and demanding nature," the police said today.

Ramy Almansoob's children have been asking every day for weeks: "Do we have a decision yet? Do we have a decision yet? Do we have a decision yet?" The girls, ages 6, 9 and 13, still live in the war-torn capital of Yemen, where the seeming randomness of airstrikes has taught them to brace for a painful end. Last year, they mourned their grandmother,...

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father and then killed by her grandmother, in a bid to cover up the crime, at Javulake-Vani village in Maharashtra's Nashik district, the police said today. The man and his mother were arrested yesterday, they said.

In a suspected case of 'dishonour killing', a 17-year-old college-going girl was allegedly killed by her parents and grandmother in Adilabad district of Telangana on Friday as they feared that she would elope with a youth from another caste, police said.

A man convicted of the 1994 rape and killing of an 11-year-old Florida girl is set to be executed on Thursday with the victim's grandmother watching from the witness chamber on behalf of the child and her deceased mother.

A four-year-old girl miraculously survived a deadly gun attack in the French Alps that left her father, mother and grandmother dead and her elder sister seriously injured, officials said Thursday.

Bhagyashree Sonawane would not have thought in her wildest dreams that a simple request to her roommate to accompany her grandmother to the bank to collect cash would cost the latter's life.

A three-year old girl and her grandmother were found dead at their Antop Hill home on Friday, police said. Certain valuables were also missing from the house, they added.According to police, Ranjana Nagalkar (65) and her granddaughter Vaishnavi used to be at home during the day. However, when Vaishnavi's mother Sheetal came home from work this afte...

A distraught Texas grandmother of a girl killed in the massacre in Uvalde pleaded Thursday for urgent action by US authorities to prevent future school shootings, as the country plunges again into the roiling debate over guns.

The Noida Police on Tuesday arrested a 50-year-old woman for allegedly being involved in murder of her three-year-old granddaughter whom she considered a hindrance to her marriage with her lover, officials said.

The rampant practice of female infanticide continues to claim more lives even as the centre keeps on promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme. In a heartbreaking incident, a woman in Punjab's Bathinda allegedly dumped her twin granddaughters in a canal just two hours after birth.

A woman allegedly killed her four-year-old granddaughter in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh because she was irked with the girl's "stubborn and demanding nature," the police said today.

Ramy Almansoob's children have been asking every day for weeks: "Do we have a decision yet? Do we have a decision yet? Do we have a decision yet?" The girls, ages 6, 9 and 13, still live in the war-torn capital of Yemen, where the seeming randomness of airstrikes has taught them to brace for a painful end. Last year, they mourned their grandmother,...

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father and then killed by her grandmother, in a bid to cover up the crime, at Javulake-Vani village in Maharashtra's Nashik district, the police said today. The man and his mother were arrested yesterday, they said.

In a suspected case of 'dishonour killing', a 17-year-old college-going girl was allegedly killed by her parents and grandmother in Adilabad district of Telangana on Friday as they feared that she would elope with a youth from another caste, police said.

A man convicted of the 1994 rape and killing of an 11-year-old Florida girl is set to be executed on Thursday with the victim's grandmother watching from the witness chamber on behalf of the child and her deceased mother.

A four-year-old girl miraculously survived a deadly gun attack in the French Alps that left her father, mother and grandmother dead and her elder sister seriously injured, officials said Thursday.

Bhagyashree Sonawane would not have thought in her wildest dreams that a simple request to her roommate to accompany her grandmother to the bank to collect cash would cost the latter's life.

A three-year old girl and her grandmother were found dead at their Antop Hill home on Friday, police said. Certain valuables were also missing from the house, they added.According to police, Ranjana Nagalkar (65) and her granddaughter Vaishnavi used to be at home during the day. However, when Vaishnavi's mother Sheetal came home from work this afte...