Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Apr 10: The BJP on Sunday demanded that the Office of Chief Electoral Officer (OCEO), Karnataka, should disqualify Kalale Keshavamurthy as Congress candidate in the Nanjangud Assembly bypoll for violating election laws. In a memorandum submitted to the OCEO, the BJP charged Kalale with wearing a scarf bearing the Congress symbol at the time of casting his vote in Nanjangud. The Congress

Raipur, Apr 9: Over 200 two-wheelers were today gutted after a fire broke out at an authorised parking area of Raipur Railway Station in Chhattisgarh's capital here, police said. No one was injured in the incident, police said. The fire was noticed in the vehicles stationed in a corner of the parking lot in the railway station premises at around 12 noon, SHO Government Railway Police (GRP) Raipur

Chennai, Apr 9: An MTC bus and a car plunged into a huge crater that was formed in the middle of the Anna Salai, near Anna Flyover, around 2pm on Sunday. No one was injured. According to Chennai Metro Rail Limited sources, the incident happened due to the impact of a tunnel boring machine which was drilling beneath Anna Salai, a few metres besides the spot where the road caved in. The accident

Thane, Apr 8: Sagar Thakkar alias 'Shaggy', the alleged mastermind of the Internal Revenue Service call centre scam in which thousands of Americans were defrauded to the tune of USD 300 million, has been arrested by Thane Police. According to Thane Police officials, Sagar, who was on the run since the unearthing of the scam last year, was placed under arrest late last night after he arrived at the

Udaipur, Apr 6: A 38-year-old businessman died and his brother-in-law sustained severe injuries after their luxury SUV crashed into the Fatah Sagar lake in Rajasthan’s Udaipur on Wednesday, police said on Thursday. The mishap occurred on Wednesday night when Vikas Modi and Sarveshwar Maheshwari were heading towards Rani Road surrounding the Fatah Sagar. As they reached Rajiv Gandhi Park, Modi lost

Lahore, Apr 5: At least four people have been killed in a blast which appeared to have been an attack targeting a census team in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, officials said. "It appears to have been an act of terrorism," Punjab provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah said in televised comments, adding that two soldiers and two civilians had been killed. Rescue officials and police

Mumbai, Apr 4: In a most chilling scene of suicide, 24-year-old Arjun Bharadwaj took his life by jumping from his 19th floor room of a posh Bandra hotel, but not before posting videos of his activity prior to the act. Bharadwaj went live on Facebook, informing the world that he was about to end his life. The police have asked TV channels not to telecast the video. Cool and composed, the

Kottayam, Apr 3: A 21-year-old girl was arrested under the Prevention of Children against Sexual Offence act (POCSO) for staying with her minor lover at his house in Kottayam district of Kerala. The arrest was made on a complaint lodged by the 17-year-old boy's mother, that her son was sexually assaulted by the girl. Acting on the complaint, Ramapuram Police went to the location and hauled out the

Bengaluru, Apr 2: A gang of seven armed men broke into the house of a chartered accountant, beat up the family members and tied their hands and legs before fleeing with valuables worth Rs. 2.6 lakh at Seegehalli in K.R. Puram early on Saturday. Partiban, a mobile company employee, woke up when the gang broke open the front door of his house. They beat him up and threatened him at gunpoint before

New York, Apr 1: A judge in North Carolina has ordered a woman to pay $500,000 (Rs. 3.2 crore) for writing a Facebook post falsely accusing her former friend of killing her son. According to a report in Telegraph.co.uk, Jacquelyn Hammond from Asheville wrote on Facebook, in 2015, of Davyne Dial, "I didn't get drunk and kill my kid." But Ms Dial who claimed to have nothing to do with her son's