Crime and crash

Kasaragod, Oct 26: Three persons were killed in separate road accidents in the district on Wednesday. Ushalatha, 18, a History PG student of Cooperative College, Badiadukka, was crushed to death after the bus door abruptly opened as she boarded it on her way to college at Poyyakkandam. In the other accident, P.V. Bhaskaran, 56, was killed and his pillion rider K.T. Satheeshan, 40, suffered

New Delhi, Oct 25: A woman was shot dead in Delhi's Shalimar Bagh when she was returning from a Gurudwara with her husband Pankaj Mehra and two-year-old son. The woman has been identified as Priya Mehra. The incident took place when the family was travelling in the car and another speeding car overtook them and stopped the car. As they stopped, a man whipped out his pistol and started firing on

Hyderabad, Oct 23: A woman was raped by a drunk man in full public view in broad daylight on a busy street in Visakhapatnam, police said on Monday, but dozens of passers-by filmed the crime instead of coming to her help. The incident took place in New Railway Colony between Tadichetlapalem and the railway station at around 2.30 pm. The accused, Ganji Siva, a 23-year-old truck cleaner, was arrested

Kollam, Oct 23: A 15-year-old girl, who had jumped off the third floor of her school building in Kollam district of Kerala over alleged harassment on Friday, died at a private hospital on Monday. The girl, a class 10 student of the ICSE school Trinity Lyceum, jumped from the building after her teachers allegedly scolded her. The girl had objected to her younger sibling, studying in the same school

Kolkata, Oct 23: A woman died on Sunday after she started bleeding profusely at a guest house in south Kolkata's Chetla area where she had put up with her boyfriend, a senior police officer said. The couple, in their early 20s, rented a room at the guest house through online booking and checked in on Saturday, he said. The woman's health condition deteriorated this afternoon when she started

Dhanbad, Oct 22: In yet another case of death by starvation which came to light, a 40-year old rikshaw puller reportedly died of a severe poverty-stricken condition in Dhanbad's Jharia distict, his family claimed. The victim, identified as Baidnath Das, reportedly could not avail any of the government's schemes for the poor, and hence had no ration to fend his family, which ultimately resulted in

Mysuru, Oct 22: A minor girl, who was raped by her boyfriend and later by her best friend, filed a police complaint and accused them of colluding in the crime. Cheluvaraj and Vijaykumar are absconding after the17-year-old girl lodged a complaint. The girl, who stays in T Narasipura, was in love with neighbour Cheluvaraj. They planned to marry, according to the girl. Cheluvaraj recently had sex

Lucknow, Oct 22: A journalist with the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran and member of the RSS Rajesh Mishra was shot dead in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. His brother was also shot at and critically injured. Unidentified motorbike-borne assailants fired several rounds at Mishra while he was sitting at a building materials shop run by his family at the Brahmanpura Chauraha at Karanda in

Bengaluru, Oct 21: A 40-year-old loader died when a service lift crushed his head following a technical snag on Friday morning, police said. The accident occurred around 9 am at a Big Bazaar outlet in West Bengaluru’s GT World Mall, close to the Magadi Road police station. Srinivas was busy loading items into the lift that was to be taken to the upper floors. The lift reached the first floor and

Bengaluru, Oct 21: A woman and her paramour were arrested on Friday for allegedly killing her husband and dumping his body in a stormwater drain in Kengeri, West Bengaluru, earlier this month. Neela (30) had married 35-year-old Madhusoodhan 10 years ago. The couple were living at Chowdeshwari Nagar near Rajagopalanagar and have an eight-year-girl and a four-year-old son. Madhusoodhan was addicted