Crime and crash

Dehradun, Apr 3: An Mi 17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force, crash-landed near Kedarnath on Tuesday morning while trying to land far from the Kedarnath shrine. ANI reported that the helicopter caught fire following the collision with the iron girder while trying to land at a helipad. The fire was later brought under control. There were eight people — six passengers, pilot and co-pilot — onboard

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack, Apr 2: A newborn, who had been snatched away by a monkey from its mother's side at Talabasta village of Banki in Cuttack district on Saturday, was found dead today inside a well near the house, the police said. The police and forest department officials could not trace the 16-day-old boy during their day-long searches. The family members of the new born first spotted the body

Hyderabad, Apr 2: An anchor working with a Telugu news channel V6, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the fifth floor of her house at Hyderabad's Moosapet on Sunday late night. The victim has been identified as Radhika Reddy. The incident happened after Rahika Reddy got back from work and straight walked up to the terrace of her residence and jumped off. However, she died on the spot from

New Delhi, Apr 1: If you're a parent, it's the kind of story that will give you nightmares. On Saturday, in a village in Odisha's Cuttack district, a woman watched horrified as a monkey fled with her baby boy, who was all of 16 days old. Now, the Times of India reports, police said the infant was found floating in a well. He was dead. "It is suspected that the newborn might have slipped from the

Bhubaneswar, Mar 31: A 16-day-old boy was today snatched by a monkey from his home in Odisha's Cuttack district, prompting authorities to launch a massive search operation. The baby was sleeping next to his mother at their home in Talabasta village when the monkey snatched him, sources in the forest department, which is involved in the rescue mission, said. The mother saw the monkey fleeing with

New Delhi, Mar 30: A 21-year old boy, who was missing since March 22, was found dead on Thursday. The body of the deceased Delhi University student, identified as Ayush, was found in a drain here in Dwarka area. On March 22, the Palam Village police station was informed that a message was sent to Ayush’s father asking for a sum of Rs. 50 lakh against his release by the accused. Immediately, a case

Authorities at the Government Medical College Hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram were forced to suspend a nursing assistant after a video clip that showed him physically harming an elderly patient went viral on social media. The video, shot on a cell phone by an unidentified person in the orthopaedic ward at the hospital, shows nursing assistant R Sunilkumar clasping an aged man's left palm

Bengaluru, Mar 29: A 36-year-old man, who posed as a client relationship manager of an international airline and blackmailed aspiring flight attendants, was arrested by cybercrime police here on Tuesday. During video interviews, he would force women to indulge in sex chats with him. Deepuraj, who has several aliases like Dr Harikrishnan, Dr Rajesh Panikar, Rakesh Sharma and Rakesh Nayar, is a

Itanagar, Mar 28: Two men were paraded naked by a mob in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh for reportedly raping a high school student, a top police officer said. The two accused were thrashed and paraded naked by the mob, including women, in Yingkiong market area on March 26 before being handed over to the police. Two others are absconding, the police officer said. The 17-year-old girl

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 27: A popular radio jockey was hacked to death on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday while he was sitting with his friend at his studio in Thiruvananthapuram. Rajesh alias Rasikan Rajesh, 36, was also a mimicry artist as well as a folk singer. According to the rural district police, the crime took place around 2am at the sound recording studio - Metro Studio -