Crime and crash

Bhubaneswar, Feb 24: A newly-married man in Odisha was killed and his wife critically injured when a gift that they had received for their wedding reception exploded. The man's grandmother also died in the blast. The incident took place in Odisha's Bolangir district on Friday, just five days after their wedding, the police said. The police are trying to identify who gave the package to the couple

Unnao, Feb 23: A woman was allegedly burnt to death by unidentified miscreants in Bara Sagwar area of Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district. The hapless incident took place when the victim was going to a nearby market on her bicycle. The body has been sent for postmortem, while police are investigating the matter. Lucknow IG Sujit Pandey and Unnao SP Pushpanjali Devi also reached the spot and took stock

New Delhi, Feb 22: The CBI today claimed to have busted an international child abuse pornography racket operating on a WhatsApp group and arrested its alleged administrator -- an unemployed youth from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh. After registering a case of alleged violation of Information Technology Act, the CBI carried out searches at five locations in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida and Kannauj in Uttar

Jalandhar, Feb 21: Angry over husband's extramarital affair, a woman chopped off her husband's reproductive organs and flushed them in a toilet. The shocking incident took place in Punjab's Jalandhar. The woman, Sukhwant Kaur, a resident of Joginder Nagar in Jalandhar suspected that her husband Azad Singh was cheating on her. While the husband was asleep in his bed at night, the wife quitely

A Class 7 student from a reputed school in Haryana’s Gurugram has threatened to rape his class teacher and her daughter, who studies with him in the same class. Ever since the boy sent the threat on social media, both the teacher and her daughter are too traumatised. Although the teacher, reluctantly, has returned to her school routine, the daughter is still too scared to come back. Another

Lucknow, Feb 21: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Lokendra Singh died on Wednesday in a car accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district. His car rammed into a truck on a highway. Lokendra Singh was an MLA from Bijnor’s Noorpur constituency. He was travelling on his personal vehicle, a Toyota Fortuner, when the accident occurred. The head-on collision with the truck also killed his two gunners

Balrampur, Feb 20: Angry over the birth of a girl, a man and his family members allegedly killed his one-month-old daughter and later beat up his wife for protesting here, police said today. Additional Superintendent of Police Shailendra Kumar Singh said the incident took place yesterday. Rajesh Chauhan had married Sangita almost three years ago. A month back they had a daughter, but Rajesh and

Bhopal, Feb 19: Police in Madhya Pradesh have registered a case against a BJP leader, who enjoyed the status of minister of state as the vice-chairman of a government body, for allegedly molesting an acid attack survivor. Taking serious view of the matter, the state government today removed Rajendra Namdeo, the accused, from his post as the the vice-chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Rajya Silai Kala

Hyderabad, Feb 19: A 24-year-old management student allegedly committed suicide at the college hostel in Kompally, even as her alleged boyfriend purportedly remained a helpless spectator to her extreme step during live video chat with him. The woman was identified as Haneesha Chowdary, a second year MBA student of Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Kompally, and a native of Anantapur

Dindori, Feb 18: A class 8 student of a government school in Madhya Pradesh's Dindori district was allegedly sexually assaulted by the school peon. The hapless incident took place on Friday in Harra Tola village of the district. "The accused has been arrested and a case under Section 354 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and POCSO act has been registered against him," the police said. The investigation