Crime and crash

Bareilly, Aug 12: In a tragic incident, two sisters were set ablaze but few unknown miscreants late last night while they were sleeping in their home in Nawabganj area of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district. The culprits broke into the house, poured petrol on the bed on which both the sisters were sleeping and set them on fire. As soon as the family came to know about the ordeal, both the sisters

New Delhi, Aug 11: In yet another shocking incident, a class VII student from Indore attempted suicide by jumping off the third floor of his school building, allegedly after taking up the infamous Blue Whale Challenge. The 14-year-old boy, a student from Chameli Devi School was saved by his classmates. Reportedly, the incident took place when the students were heading towards their class after the

New Delhi, Aug 11: At least 25 people fell sick, with two in critical condition, after consuming popular street-food momos in Delhi's Rajpur Khurd village, reported news agency. The children have been admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A family has lodged a case against the shop owner in Mehrauli Police station. Further investigations are underway.

Krishnagar, Aug 8: A bus today overturned and fell into a ditch in Nadia district, killing eight persons and injuring 36, officials said. The bus was on its way from Krishnagar to Palassey para when the driver lost control over the vehicle at Galakata and it overturned and fell into a ditch, the police said. Eight persons were killed in the accident, Nadia District Magistrate Sumit Gupta said. The

Mangaluru, Aug 7: The arrest of two persons allegedly attempting dacoity has revealed their reported involvement in duping foreign nationals by sending them pictures of women. A team of policemen from Mangaluru South Police, headed by the Sub-Inspector of Police, arrested Keerthan (26) of Farangipet and Kuldeep (32) of Yekkur for allegedly attempting dacoity. The police have launched a search for

Lucknow, Aug 7: Forty-five-year-old Motilal Pal, a constable with Uttar Pradesh police, wanted his only son to study Mathematics as a subject in the next class perhaps because he wished to see him become an engineer. The son Raja Pal alias Prince, however, detested Maths and he had also been scolded and sometimes beaten by his father for scoring poorly in the subject. Motilal, however, had never

Mumbai, Aug 7: A software engineer who works in United States of America finally decided to visit his mother, who was staying alone at a flat in Mumbai. On Sunday morning Rituraj Sahani reached his mother’s Oshiwara flat, but no one answered the door. He managed to enter the house at around 4 p.m. with the help of a key-maker. On reaching the bedroom, he found his 63-year-old mother’s skeletal

New Delhi, Aug 7: The Centre has sacked two IPS officers, including one for entering into a second marriage without having annulled the first, under a rule that allows it to compulsorily retire civil servants "in public interest". Both the DIG-level officers belong to Chhattisgarh cadre. The two officers removed under the All India Services Rules-1958 are AM Juri from the 2000 batch and K C

Agra, Aug 6: A Grade-I student's head was stuck for nearly two hours between the doors of her classroom as she tried to escape after been allegedly locked inside by her teacher as a 'punishment'. The incident took place at the government primary school in Dhobai village of Bah police jurisdiction, 80 km away from Agra city on Saturday afternoon. Identified as Sakshi (8), the traumatised victim was

Kalaburgi, Aug 5: Close on the heels of the unnatural death of a Class 10 girl in the hostel room of Alva’s High School in Moodbidri, a 16-year-old girl studying at Morarji Desai Residential School on the outskirts of Jewargi town in Kalaburagi district, ended her life by hanging from a double-stack metal bed in her hostel room in the early hours of Saturday. She has been identified as Priyanka