Crime and crash

Al Fujairah, Mar 26: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a 10-year-old girl was strangled to death after her shila (head scarf) was accidentally wrapped and pulled hard around her neck when she was her quad bike in the city of Dibba Al Fujairah in United Arab Emirates. Police sources said that the Emirati girl, a grade-5 student, was riding her quad bike in front of her house at Al Tawain area when her

Lucknow, Mar 25: Two men have been killed in an encounter blitz in western Uttar Pradesh in a span of 24 hours. The police shot dead the two men in Noida and Saharanpur. Five others who are alleged to be involved in several criminal cases in UP were injured during gunfights with the police. In Noida, about 15 kilometres from Delhi, police said they shot dead Shravan Chaudhary, who was wanted in

Guwahati, Mar 24: A five-year-old girl died after she was allegedly gang-raped and then set ablaze by five persons at her home. The incident took place on Friday in Nagaon's Bordua in Assam. The girl was reportedly raped in her house when she was alone in the home after returning from school. Then the accused poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze. The victim was found by one of the family

Bulandshahr, Mar 23: A woman was publicly beaten up by her husband on a village panchayat's orders for allegedly eloping with another man in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr city. She was subject to the assault after her husband forcibly brought her back from another village. The woman was tied to a tree and thrashed in front of the villagers. The incident occurred on March 10 at Launga village, but

A 22-year-old woman has been stabbed to death just hours before her wedding by her casteist father, who had grudgingly agreed to let her marry the man she loved. The incident took place at about 5 pm on Thursday, March 22, in Malappuram district of Kerala. Jurisdictional Areekode police have detained the killer father, Rajan. Athira, a resident of Poovathikandi in the district, was scheduled to

Bihar, Mar 23: At least five people were dead and 25 injured in a blast at an illegal firecracker factory in Nalanda district of Bihar on Friday. Five houses near the factory were severely damaged due to the blasts. The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment. Seventeen people are in a critical condition. The incident took place on Friday morning, around 5 am. A team of police and fire

Kolar, Mar 23: Two students and a motorbike rider were killed and another student was injured in an accident at Vadagur Gate off NH 75 on the outskirts of Kolar on Thursday evening. According to the police, Narayanaswamy, 13, Sudarshan, 14, and Vijaykumar, 14, were walking home from Janata High School in Kembodi when they were knocked down by a biker who had allegedly been hit by a car around 5 p

Mau, Mar 23: At least four persons were arrested in Mau region of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly harassing a woman inside a moving bus, police said. According to the victim, she took a bus for her home in Ghaziapur from Varanasi when two men, the conductor and the driver, teased her and then raped her in the moving vehicle near Madhuvan area. They harassed and molested her in the name of dropping her

Chitradurga, Mar 22: The mutilated dead body of a four-year-old boy, who had gone missing since March 16, was found at Chikkajajur in Chitradurga district of Karnataka on Wednesday. The victim, C Abhilash, son of U M Chandrashekharappa and Shilpa of Kadur village near Chikkaraju, is suspected to be murdered for black magic. The child did not return home from the anganwadi on March 16. Abhilash's

New Delhi, Mar 21: A class 9 student of a school in Delhi was found hanging in her house in Noida. The 15-year-old committed suicide after she failed in her class 9 exams. The family has alleged that the teachers harassed and molested her. The girl was taken to Kailash Hospital, Noida, where the doctors declared her dead. The teenager's parents have accused the teachers of deliberately failing her