Crime and crash

Shimla, Jul 20: As many as 30 persons were killed and several others injured when a private bus proceeding towards Solan from Reckong Peo in Kinnaur district skidded off the road and rolled down into a 300 metre gorge at Khaneri near Rampur in Shimla district on Thursday morning. According to sources, around 40 people were on board the private bus when the accident took place and it's feared that

New Delhi, Jul 20: A doctor who was abducted from east Delhi's Preet Vihar area was rescued from Meerut by the police after a shootout with the kidnappers. Four men have been nabbed in this connection, the police said. One of the accused also suffered bullet injuries in the shootout, said SSP (Meerut) Manzil Saini. Shrikant Gaur, who practises at a hospital in east Delhi, was kidnapped on July 6

Bengaluru: Jul 19: The Commercial Street police on Monday arrested a dismissed constable of the Bahrain police on the charge of stealing a set of six gold bangles from a jewellery shop on June 25. The police gave the name of the arrested as Pilakal Nazir (55), a native of Kerala and resident of New Gurappanapalya here. He is a habitual offender and has cases against him in 11 police stations. The

Dubai, Jul 19: The woman, whose name was not given, was detained by police in the capital, Riyadh, for wearing "immodest clothes" that contradicted the country's conservative Islamic dress code, state media reported Tuesday. Police referred her case to the public prosecutor, according to the official Twitter account of state-run TV channel al-Ekhbariya. In the video, which has gone viral since

Vijayapura, Jul 19: The investigation by the CID into the cheating scam in the ICICI Bank branch here has held former mayor Sajjade Peera Mushrif guilty of receiving a kickback from branch manager Vijayasarathi. The manager is charged with cheating customers of crores of rupees. Sleuths of the economic offences wing of CID, Bengaluru, have submitted the charge sheet in the additional district and

Visakhapatnam, Jul 17: A B. Pharmacy student died on the spot after he fell off a moving train while allegedly hanging out of it and trying to take a selfie. The incident took place near the Borra Caves Junction in Vizag Agency on Sunday when the Vizag-Kirandul passenger train was passing through the tunnels on the KK line. The deceased was identified as D. Gopi Reddy (22), a native of Guntur and

New Delhi, Jul 16: A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced 30-year-old Utsav Bhasin, to two years in prison for the 2008 BMW hit-and-run case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh for the family of the deceased and Rs 2 lakh for the injured. The victim, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the sentence. Mrigank Shrivastava, who was at the court proceedings said, “I am very unhappy. Initially

Dhaka, Jul 15: A 25-year-old medical student from India was allegedly stabbed to death by his compatriot who then tried to commit suicide at their flat in Bangladesh's northeastern port city of Chittagong, police said today. Ateef Sheikh died after being stabbed by Winson Maisnam Singh, 23, on their fourth floor flat of the six-storey building in Akbar Shah area last night, the police said. Sheikh

Mumbai, Jul 15: The Mumbai Police Cyber Cell on Friday filed an FIR against All India Bakchod (AIB) co-founder Tanmay Bhat for 'making fun of' nation's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It began with AIB official Twitter account posting a meme on Prime Minister Modi, using Snapchat's dog filter. The tweet had a 'dog-filter'ed photo of the Prime Minister with the caption #Wanderlust, adding "Dog filter

Mumbai, Jul 13: The incident, that shook the entire nation, the Mumbai railway police on Thursday arrested the man, accused of masturbating at a 22-year-old woman on a local train. The incident took place on June 15 when the woman was travelling from Bengaluru on a Mumbai local train. As per news agency, the accused has been taken to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway court. The incident