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DNA test establishes paternity of minor rape victim's son; cops arrest her brother

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Published on Apr 07, 2025 09:23 PM IST

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Chinese man finds he was adopted 34 years ago, sister lived just 500 metres away

A Chinese man discovered he was adopted 34 years ago and was shocked to find his biological sister had been living just 500 metres away all along.

A man in China learned he was adopted 34 years ago.(Representational image/Unsplash)

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Published on Mar 10, 2025 07:18 AM IST

ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

Jharkhand family finds lost member after 27 years, now an Aghori monk at Kumbh

The lost family member, Gangasagar Yadav, is now a 65-year-old ‘Aghori’ monk named Baba Rajkumar

Representative image: Monks at Kumbh Mela(PTI)

india news

Published on Jan 30, 2025 06:55 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

No right to DNA test, paternity determined by legitimacy: SC

“Forcefully undergoing a DNA test would subject an individual’s private life to scrutiny from the outside world," the Supreme Court bench observed.

Highlighting that probe into personal matters such as paternity must be handled with the utmost care and circumspection, a bench led by justice Surya Kant held that the right to dignity and privacy, enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution, must guide courts when evaluating such requests. (ANI PHOTO)

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Updated on Jan 29, 2025 04:34 AM IST

ByUtkarsh Anand, New Delhi

Georgian woman finds her Facebook friend of three years is her biological father

A Georgian woman found her birth father after discovering they had been Facebook friends for years, reconnecting with him and her biological family.

Adopted woman in Georgia discovered her birth father was a Facebook friend for years.
(Instagram/tamuna_museridze)

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Published on Dec 03, 2024 06:11 PM IST

ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

Man suspects wife of cheating over 'too pretty' daughter; DNA test reveals truth

A man in Vietnam discovered his daughter wasn’t biologically his after a DNA test, revealing a hospital mix-up at birth.

A man discovered his daughter was switched at birth after a DNA test and family connection.
(Pixabay)

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Published on Nov 11, 2024 04:18 PM IST

ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

Chinese woman's DNA test uncovers true identity after colleagues' jokes

A woman in northern China discovers she's not biologically related to her parents after a DNA test.

Chinese woman discovers through DNA test she is not related to her parents.(Unsplash)

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Published on Nov 04, 2024 02:22 PM IST

ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

King Charles and Camilla’s security on alert after ‘secret son' sends warning

As King Charles and Queen Camilla prepare for their Australian tour, Simon Charles Dorante-Day, who claims to be their secret son, has raised security concerns.

Britain King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive at the Royal Square in St Helier.(AP)

world news

Published on Oct 19, 2024 02:37 AM IST

ByAditi Srivastava

Kannauj rape: Samples collected for DNA test of accused

Yadav appeared before special POCSO court through video conferencing and agreed for the sampling for DNA test. “ The court asked him for his consent to the application filed by the Kannauj police and he gave his consent,” said Shiv Kumar, Yadav’s lawyer. In the evening, a team of doctors went to the district jail and collected the sample, said the Kannauj police.

Samajwadi Party leader Nawab Singh was arrested on Monday on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl in his degree college. (Pic for representation)

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Updated on Aug 17, 2024 07:42 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Kannauj rape: Police seek court’s permission for DNA test on SP leader

The parents of the victim have also levelled grave allegations against her. The father said that the aunt took his daughter from Noida without their consent and brought her to Kannauj.

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Updated on Aug 15, 2024 06:06 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

A primer on RNA, perhaps the most consequential molecule of all

“The Catalyst” looks at RNA’s role in life’s origins as well as its medical uses

RNA can also work to silence disease-causing genetic mutations. (ANI)

science

Published on Aug 08, 2024 08:00 AM IST

The Economist

Agreement halts Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' countersuit trial against woman who says he's her father

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Updated on Jul 24, 2024 04:26 AM IST

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Chandigarh Police nail serial killer behind 12 years apart twin rape-murders

DNA from the accused’s semen matched with semen collected from the two victims’ bodies, say Chandigarh Police; profiling of 800 suspects over the past year led police to accused

Identified as Monu Kumar, 38, the accused is a taxi driver by profession. He lives in Shahpur Colony in Sector 38 West, Chandigarh. (Keshav Singh/HT)

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Updated on May 03, 2024 09:00 AM IST

ByRajanbir Singh, Chandigarh

Impact of aldehydes on DNA damage, ageing: Study

The study shows that aldehydes are metabolic waste which can cause premature ageing.

Prospective techniques for combating ageing in healthy people are limiting exposure to aldehyde-inducing chemicals including alcohol, pollution, and tobacco.(Unsplash)

lifestyle

Published on Apr 12, 2024 03:34 PM IST

ANI | | Posted by Tapatrisha Das, Nagoya

Body parts in polythene bags, and mystery of a missing Russian in Delhi

Police claim that the suspect is suspected to have suffocated the victim with a pillow, and then chopped off his body with a meat chopper

Police said that the accused had committed a “similar” murder in 2008. (File)

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Updated on Apr 05, 2024 07:19 AM IST

ByHemani Bhandari

Mother fights procedural wrangles for 40 months to perform daughter’s last rites

The young woman had gone missing in 2020 and shortly afterwards, when a burnt and headless body was found, they identified it and claimed it as that of their missing kin but their claim got mired in procedural wrangles, including technicalities and ambiguous DNA reports.

Now, the mother is gearing up for another fight: that of making sure that those behind her daughter’s death are duly punished. (Pic for representation)

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Updated on Feb 04, 2024 05:04 PM IST

ByHaidar Naqvi

Bengaluru CEO Suchana Seth's son murder in Goa: Postmortem report reveals gruesome details

CEO of AI start-up Suchana Seth was arrested for allegedly smothering her 4-year-old son to death in Goa.

Suchana Seth, the 39-year-old chief executive officer of artificial intelligence company Mindful AI Lab, with her son.

india news

Updated on Jan 10, 2024 09:03 AM IST

ByAniruddha Dhar

Wadia hospital doctors, nurses booked after Dadar woman alleges child swap

The complainant, Sunita Gangadhar Ganjeji, 41, is a resident of Kamgar Nagar in Dadar. She said that her husband works in a garment manufacturing unit, and they have a 16-year-old daughter. They had been trying for a second child, but she could not conceive naturally, she said, adding therefore she opted for an IVF treatment at a fertility clinic in Parel

Meanwhile, the hospital claimed that they put tags on infants when they were born and the tags remain till the discharge of the mother and the newborns, police officers said. (ht photo)

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Updated on Nov 17, 2023 07:26 AM IST

ByVinay Dalvi

Unclaimed Skeleton in Etawah Mortuary: DNA test failed to confirm woman’s identity, state govt tells HC

The identity of the body is disputed, with a family claiming that the deceased person is their missing daughter, Rita.

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Published on Oct 31, 2023 09:05 PM IST

ByJItendra Sarin

Tirupati: 2 of 4 leopards nabbed not maneaters, say officials

The two leopards, that were suspected to be the one that mauled the girl to death, were captured by the forest officials on August 14 and 17

The forest officials released one of them in Gundla Brahmeswaram Wildlife Sanctuary and shifted another leopard to Indira Gandhi Zoo in Visakhapatnam (HT Archives)

india news

Published on Sep 19, 2023 12:50 AM IST

BySrinivasa Rao Apparasu, Hyderabad

In MP, parents seek IVF-born boy’s body, but DNA mismatch prevents last rites

Police officials said they are now taking the help of forensic facial reconstruction experts to recreate the 14 year old boy’s face to help in identification

The couple identified the body as their son because of the clothes he was wearing, but the police insisted on a DNA test. (Representational image)

india news

Updated on Jul 22, 2023 09:45 AM IST

ByShruti Tomar

Chandigarh Police collected semen samples of 15 prime suspects to track serial killer

After a DNA test, CFSL had last year conveyed to Chandigarh Police that semen collected from bodies of two women murdered in 2010 and 2022 belonged to same man

The doctor who had conducted the autopsy of the MBA student in 2010 had visited the crime spot in 2022 and found similar circumstantial evidence, prompting Chandigarh Police to seek DNA tests. (Stock image)

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Updated on Jun 21, 2023 02:46 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Days after Odisha train crash, many wait for DNA tests to get bodies of kin

Officials said of the 289 people killed in India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades, bodies of 208 of them have been identified since June 2

Around a dozen kin have been awaiting DNA test results in Bhubaneswar. (Sourced)

india news

Updated on Jun 14, 2023 11:34 AM IST

ByDebabrata Mohanty

Odisha train tragedy: A week on, identifying bodies still a task

Odisha state government officials said that 206 of 288 bodies have been identified.

Railway maintenance teams clearing the tracks after the debris of the trains were scattered all around due to the accident. (HT Photo/Arabinda Mahapatra)

india news

Updated on Jun 09, 2023 04:58 AM IST

ByDebabrata Mohanty, Bhubaneswar

Court declares education baron Shivajirao Jondhale as Varsha Khare’s biological father

City civil court in Mumbai confirms Varsha Khare's biological parents, education baron Shivajirao Jondhale and Geeta Khare, after DNA tests.

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Updated on Apr 16, 2023 12:41 AM IST

ByCharul Shah

Sonepat farmhouse skeleton recovery: Accused secretly married victim in hopes of securing Canada PR

On what led to the murder, police stated that the victim wanted to stay with the accused but the latter wanted to send her back to Canada to secure the PR. This led to tensions between the two and Sunil started suspecting that Monika may only create hurdles in his Canada plans and thus decided to kill her.

Bhiwani police, probing the killing of a 22-year-old woman from Rohtak whose skeletal remains were recovered from a farmhouse in Garhi Jhanjhara village of Sonepat on Tuesday, revealed that the accused had secretly married her even though he had not legally separated from his first wife. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Updated on Apr 07, 2023 04:10 AM IST

BySunil Rahar, Rohtak

Missing woman’s skeleton found from Sonepat farmhouse, one held

“After marriage, both stayed together in Panipat without informing anyone. He had buried the body at his farmhouse in Sonepat,” the SP added.

Five months after the aunt of a 22-year-old woman, Monika, from Rohtak’s Baland village lodged a missing complaint in Sonepat’s Ganaur police station, the police reportedly recovered the skeleton of the woman from a pit from the farmhouse of her male friend Sunil, alias Shilu, at Garkhi Janjhara village in Sonepat. (Representational image)

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Updated on Apr 06, 2023 01:08 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Inferno in Kanpur market engulfs nearby structure, building evacuated

To douse the flames in the city’s biggest hosiery market, fire tenders have sprayed 2,000 rounds of water from different points.

To prevent any loss of life, police have evacuated all the people living in proximity. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 01, 2023 07:39 PM IST

ByHaidar Naqvi

Delhi murder: Bones found in forest were Shraddha Walkar’s, confirms DNA report

Accused Aaftab Poonawala had taken police to the places where he claimed he threw Shraddha Walkar’s body parts. At least 13 decomposed bones were recovered from wooded area near Mehrauli, Chhattarpur and Gurugram.

Police had taken blood samples of Shraddha Walkar’s father and her brother to match it with the DNA from the bones recovered in Mehrauli. (ANI Photo)

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Updated on Dec 15, 2022 03:47 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Mundka fire: Three more bodies identified, 16 to go

The remains of eight of the total 27 victims were identified by their relatives last month, while the rest of the bodies were charred beyond recognition. However, the police had insisted on getting DNA samples from relatives of all victims to ensure the correct identification.

On May 13, a massive fire broke out at the assembling unit where over 100 employees were attending a session by a motivational speaker around 4pm. While many managed to escape the building, either by jumping through the windows or with the help of a crane that locals had arranged, 27 bodies or their charred remains were recovered. (ANI)

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Published on Jun 07, 2022 11:30 PM IST

ByHemani Bhandari, New Delhi

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DNA test establishes paternity of minor rape victim's son; cops arrest her brother

A Chinese man discovered he was adopted 34 years ago and was shocked to find his biological sister had been living just 500 metres away all along.

The lost family member, Gangasagar Yadav, is now a 65-year-old ‘Aghori’ monk named Baba Rajkumar

“Forcefully undergoing a DNA test would subject an individual’s private life to scrutiny from the outside world," the Supreme Court bench observed.

A Georgian woman found her birth father after discovering they had been Facebook friends for years, reconnecting with him and her biological family.

A man in Vietnam discovered his daughter wasn’t biologically his after a DNA test, revealing a hospital mix-up at birth.

A woman in northern China discovers she's not biologically related to her parents after a DNA test.

As King Charles and Queen Camilla prepare for their Australian tour, Simon Charles Dorante-Day, who claims to be their secret son, has raised security concerns.

The parents of the victim have also levelled grave allegations against her. The father said that the aunt took his daughter from Noida without their consent and brought her to Kannauj.

“The Catalyst” looks at RNA’s role in life’s origins as well as its medical uses

Agreement halts Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' countersuit trial against woman who says he's her father

DNA from the accused’s semen matched with semen collected from the two victims’ bodies, say Chandigarh Police; profiling of 800 suspects over the past year led police to accused

The study shows that aldehydes are metabolic waste which can cause premature ageing.

Police claim that the suspect is suspected to have suffocated the victim with a pillow, and then chopped off his body with a meat chopper

The young woman had gone missing in 2020 and shortly afterwards, when a burnt and headless body was found, they identified it and claimed it as that of their missing kin but their claim got mired in procedural wrangles, including technicalities and ambiguous DNA reports.

CEO of AI start-up Suchana Seth was arrested for allegedly smothering her 4-year-old son to death in Goa.

The identity of the body is disputed, with a family claiming that the deceased person is their missing daughter, Rita.

The two leopards, that were suspected to be the one that mauled the girl to death, were captured by the forest officials on August 14 and 17

Police officials said they are now taking the help of forensic facial reconstruction experts to recreate the 14 year old boy’s face to help in identification

After a DNA test, CFSL had last year conveyed to Chandigarh Police that semen collected from bodies of two women murdered in 2010 and 2022 belonged to same man

Officials said of the 289 people killed in India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades, bodies of 208 of them have been identified since June 2

Odisha state government officials said that 206 of 288 bodies have been identified.

City civil court in Mumbai confirms Varsha Khare's biological parents, education baron Shivajirao Jondhale and Geeta Khare, after DNA tests.

“After marriage, both stayed together in Panipat without informing anyone. He had buried the body at his farmhouse in Sonepat,” the SP added.

To douse the flames in the city’s biggest hosiery market, fire tenders have sprayed 2,000 rounds of water from different points.

Accused Aaftab Poonawala had taken police to the places where he claimed he threw Shraddha Walkar’s body parts. At least 13 decomposed bones were recovered from wooded area near Mehrauli, Chhattarpur and Gurugram.

The remains of eight of the total 27 victims were identified by their relatives last month, while the rest of the bodies were charred beyond recognition. However, the police had insisted on getting DNA samples from relatives of all victims to ensure the correct identification.

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