Crime and crash

New Delhi, Jan 25: In a horrific incident, a man was hit by a train when he was trying to take a selfie on the tracks despite being warned by the local railway staff. He escaped miraculously with a minor head injury. A resident of Hyderabad, 25-year-old T Siva was trying to take a selfie with a train in the background by standing next to the tracks near the Borabanda station between Begumpet and

Jan 24: Kolar A 70-year-old woman has been killed in a bee attack at Gennerahalli near Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) under Betamangala police limits. The police gave the name of the deceased as Ashwathamma, a resident of Gennerahalli. A swarm of bees reportedly attacked her while she was working in the field on Tuesday morning. Though she was rushed to the hospital for treatment, Ashwathamma died.

Gurgaon, Jan 23: A 22-year-old woman was forcibly dragged out of the car and raped in front of her family at gunpoint. The incident took place at Sector-56 in Gurgaon on late Sunday night. Four persons have been arrested for the crime, said the police. The woman was returning home after attending a family function in her brother-in-law's car. Both the husband and brother-in-law were travelling

Pune, Jan 22: An IT engineer on Saturday died after he was allegedly beaten with an iron rod and stones over a parking space dispute here. 39-year-old Neville Battiwala was beaten by three men. He had objected to parking of vehicles in front of his bungalow located in Kondhwa. Battiwala was partying on his rooftop when an argument broke out with the drivers of a tourist company which escalated

Gurugram, Jan 21: In a shocking incident, a woman principal of a private school was shot dead by a Class XII student inside her office in Haryana’s Yamuna Nagar on Saturday. The boy was caught by the public as he tried to escape and was handed over to the police. The student of Swami Vivekanand Public School walked into the office of principal Ritu Chhabra around 11.30 a.m. and fired four shots

Five years after the deaths of three Dalit youths in a case of ‘honour’ killing in Ahmednagar’s Sonai village, the Nashik sessions court on Saturday sentenced six people to death. The court had last week convicted six of the seven accused for the murder of Sachin Gharu (24), Sandeep Thanvar (25) and Rahul Kandare (20) on January 1, 2013. Their mutilated body parts were found in a septic tank. The

Pune, Jan 20: An 80-year-old woman was raped at her home in Pune's Talawade village. The incident took place late night on January 13 and an FIR was registered yesterday. According to reports, the woman informed her son about the incident after he came home and accordingly the FIR was registered. The policial officials confirmed that the accused is absconding. An investigation is underway. Further

New Delhi, Jan 20: In an appalling incident from Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, cops on night patrol were caught on camera refusing to help two accident victims lying in pool of blood to 'avoid blood stains in car'. The police officials can be heard asking the people to 'hold on', when they were trying to lift the boys off the road. Reportedly, the two youths were riding a motorbike when

Chandigarh, Jan 19: The body of a Haryanvi folk singer Mamata who went missing on Monday was found in Rohtak district with her throat slit, police said today. DSP (Rohtak) Rohtash Singh said a complaint was registered by the 40-year-old singers family on January 16, alleging that she went missing the previous day. He said the family told them that Mamta had left home with her associate to attend

Mathura, Jan 18: In an unfortunate turn of events, an eight-year-old boy was killed in an encounter between the police and a robbery accused here in Mohanpura. The victim, identified as Madhav, a nursery student. The police came to know of whereabouts of a robbery accused, who was hiding in a field in Mohanpura, following which they proceeded to nab them. However, they were unable to do so, since