Crime and crash

Mysuru, Apr 17: Three youths were electrocuted and four severely injured in Kyathamaranahalli on Thursday night when a 25-foot display board they were putting up for the Dr B R Ambedkar birth anniversary celebrations came in contact with an electric wire. Manikanta (21), a Group D worker of the Mysuru City Corporation, Shivanna aka Shivu (25) a tile worker, and Kumara (26) a painter, died on the

Bijnor, Apr 16: A 42-year-old Dalit farmer set himself ablaze inside a police station after cops reportedly did not help him regain his land which was allegedly forcibly grabbed by a local strongman. The incident was reported from Mandawar police station on Saturday afternoon. Police said the farmer sustained 55% burn injuries and was rushed to the district hospital from where he was referred to

New Delhi, Apr 15: Eight coaches of Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express derailed near Rampur in Uttar Pradesh today leaving at least 10 passengers injured, railway officials said. The accident happened between Mundapandey and Rampur railway stations, Northern railway spokesperson Neeraj Sharma said. He said while two passengers have been injured there was no casualty in the accident. Moradabad

New Delhi, Apr 14: Amidst the ongoing tension of online cheats blackmailing innocent persons after obtaining their card details and looting money from their accounts, one more member of this gang was arrested for allegedly supplying complete data of credit cards to operators of fake call centers. On the basis of this data, scam callers call innocent persons, giving an impression that they are

New Delhi, Apr 14: A lucky tip-off and the letter 'A' tattooed on the right hand of an 18-year-old girl has helped police crack a sensational murder that took place in 2008. The story begins in 2006, when 16-year-old Aarti fell for a neighbourhood boy in Sultanpuri, west Delhi. They dated for two years and when she turned 18, the two moved in together. Initially, life was good. The boy, Brijender

New Delhi, Apr 13: A 21-year-old Delhi University student allegedly hanged herself at her residence in north Delhi's Roop Nagar over repeated threats by her lover to leak their personal videos on social media. The girl, a BCom student at the School of Open Learning, left behind a suicide note blaming her lover for her death, police said. Her family alleged that she had recently lodged a rape

Bengaluru Apr 13: A 30-year-old man was arrested on charges of stabbing a 24-year-old woman to death after she rejected his marriage proposal. Girish, absconding since the murder, was tracked down in the wee hours of Wednesday. Police said Girish confessed to the crime during interrogation. He claimed he was in a relationship with the victim, Shobha, but she refused to marry him. Shobha, a

Hyderabad, Apr 12: Angry and anguished, the family of Madhukar Reddy Guduru who committed suicide in the US, beat up his wife Swathi, in Bhongir on Tuesday. The body of Madhukar Reddy was brought to his home town for last rites. When Swathi arrived at the house, her in-laws and relatives beat her up in full public view alleging that she was responsible for Madhukar's death. Both Madhukar Reddy, an

Bengaluru, Apr 11: Police have solved the “abduction” of a 21-year-old man from the busy Jalahalli Cross in northern Bengaluru. They say the abduction was faked by the man himself to avoid going to work. Around 8.20 pm on Friday, Maruthi, a native of Sandur, Ballari district, telephoned his uncle, B L Gowda, saying a four-member gang had abducted him and bundled him into a car as he came out of an

Patna, Apr 10: In a daring robbery, a gang on Sunday morning at a gunpoint looted passengers of cash and valuables and assaulted some of them aboard the prestigious New Delhi-Patna Rajdhani Express in Bihar's Buxar district. A dozen men barged into three coaches of the train near the Buxar railway station, about 125 km from here, and threatened to shoot the passengers if they tried to resist the