INDIA

Twitter was given multiple opportunities to comply with the new rules but has deliberately chosen the path of non-compliance, India's Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Wednesday.

A 60-year-old woman in India was allegedly gang-raped in front of her 6-year-old grandson and robbed by supporters of the ruling political party in the state of West Bengal in May.

Police said the man, identified as Netram, allegedly fatally stabbed a woman he was accused of raping last year.

The man, identified as 30-year-old Kadappa, was working in his agricultural field when he was bitten on his hand by the cobra.

The mahout managed to tackle the angry animal after some time.

Police said Luka Dalabehera and his son Anak Dalabehera, aged 55 and 22, respectively, were led to a nearby forest by their fellow villagers and beaten to death.

Police said the alleged murderer, identified as Vinod, slit his 3-year-old niece's throat and ran away.

The daughter of the unnamed 40-year-old victim said her mother claimed she was "gang-raped" and "assaulted" by the staff at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India.

The victim used to frequently post videos on Instagram even though her partner opposed it. This led to frequent arguments between the two.

The man told his daughter that the recruitment company had specifically requested to conduct the interview in a hotel room instead of an office.

Police in India said the two unnamed sisters, aged 16 and 19, were attending a wedding in their village when some youths from a neighboring village stalked them on their way home and dragged them away.

The victim was playing outside her home when she was taken to a nearby school and raped.

The incident came to light when a neighbor heard the woman's feeble cries for help and immediately alerted the local authorities.

A police source said a 31-year-old man offered his 21-year-old wife to his friends when he could not repay his debts to them.

Of the 449 cases caused by COVID-19 variants in Singapore, 428 were of the Delta strain.

The accused then lied to the neighbors the man's parents died of COVID.

Police said it appeared the couple had killed their children first before taking their own lives.

The incident came to light after a 4-year-old witnessed the suspects trying to hide the victim's body in bushes.

A 60-year-old man in India allegedly took a young girl away from her home on the pretext of buying her chocolates Tuesday. She was later found by her father lying on the ground without any clothes after a search, police said.

Officials in India's Uttar Pradesh state said six more bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims were recovered over the weekend after being spotted floating in the Ganges River.

According to police, the man stated in his suicide note that he was taking his life because he feared he might have contracted mucormycosis.