Crime and crash

Mathura, Mar 18: Three AIIMS doctors, two of them women, died early today and four others of the same institute were injured in an accident on the Yamuna Expressway near here, police said. The seven doctors were travelling to Agra from Delhi in an SUV which rammed into a canter around 2.30 AM, they said. While three doctors died on the spot, the four others were rushed to a private hospital here

Etah, Mar 16: More than 40 students of Kasturba Gandhi School in Uttar Pradesh's Etah were admitted to a hospital due to food poisoning after consuming mid-day meal. Meanwhile, Etah District Magistrate Amit Kishore has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident. Students falling ill after consuming mid-day meal has been making headlines for quite some time now. In December last year, 28

Chandigarh, Mar 15: Principal of a Sonipat school allegedly raped a 16-year-old class 10th girl on the pretext of helping her with her board exams. The principal made a dummy sit for her physical education boards exams while he raped the girl in a nearby house in Gohana town in Sonipat, Haryana, with the help of two other women. The police officials booked the two women for criminal conspiracy as

New Delhi, Mar 13: A Mumbai-resident allegedly spent $1.41 million (Rs 9.1 crore) on British e-commerce websites using a foreign travel card issued by the State Bank of India (SBI) with a meagre spending limit of $200 (Rs 13,000) prompting the CBI to register an FIR today, officials said. The SBI had filed a complaint with the CBI in this regard alleging that its NRI Seawoods branch in Navi Mumbai

New Delhi, Mar 12: Two men were killed and three women injured when their car crashed into a traffic signal pole in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area, police said today. The incident occurred at around 2.45 am today when the driver of the car lost control over the vehicle and ended up hitting the central verge at T-Point, Hudson Lines, they said. The deceased have been identified as Ritesh

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 11: Three undertrial prisoners, lodged in the district jail here, have been booked for clicking a selfie and uploading it on a social networking site from within the jail premises, the police said today. The smartphone used for taking the photograph and uploading it on Facebook yesterday has been seized, the district magistrate said, adding a case into this incident has been

Jhansi, Mar 11: In a shocking incident of medical negligence, a road accident victim's severed leg was allegedly used as a pillow to prop him up in the emergency ward of a government-run hospital in Jhansi. The incident is of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, where the victim claimed that the hospital staff put his amputated leg under his head in order to help him. After the case came to light

Bagalkot, Mar 10: At least nine people, including four of a family, were killed on the spot when a lorry transporting tur dal hit the bullock cart they were travelling in, on the Belagavi-Raichur State Highway, on Friday night. The deceased are Chandraiah Veeraiah Hiremath (52), his wife Rathnavva (48), their daughters Kashavva (26) and Vijayalakshmi (28), and daily wage labourers Basavva Goravara

New Delhi, Mar 10: A 23-year-old man was killed after his cousin accidentally fired from a pistol while they were attempting to click a selfie posing with the firearm in southeast Delhi, the police said. The incident took place on Thursday when Prashant Chauhan, native of Pali village in Uttar Pradesh and was working as a teacher on a contract basis in Shahdara, had gone to his uncle's house in

New Delhi, Jan 9: In a gruesome incident of violence against women, a young girl was stabbed to death outside her college today Chennai. The deceased has been identified as Ashwini, a B. Com student at Meenakshi College. Following the incident the girl was rushed to the nearest hospital. However, she succumbed to grievous injuries. Sources said that the hospital had declared her brought dead. The