Crime and crash

New Delhi, Mar 6: A 17-year-old boy died after he was ran over by a Mercedes-Benz near Miawali Nagar in West Delhi on Monday. According to the police, the incident happened early morning on Monday when the boy was driving a scooter. The speeding Mercedes lost control near G Block and rammed into the scooter. Sources said that the impact of the collision was such that the boy was flung into the air

Kozhikode, Mar 6: A 24-year-old air hostess allegedly committed suicide at her flat in Karipur, about 27km from here, police said. They said Monisha Mohan, an air hostess with Air India Express, was found hanging in her flat by a male colleague, who went there on a request by her mother after she failed to get any response to repeated calls. Monisha had returned to her flat on Saturday after work

Rajkot, Mar 4: Fake currency notes with a face value of Rs 3.92 crore have been seized from a car belonging to a city-based financier lodged in jail, police said today. The currency notes were suspected to be printed by Ketan Dave, a city-based financier, who is presently in judicial custody on charges of cheating a scrap dealer Nitin Patel, they said. The Rajkot Police found the car parked at one

New Delhi, Mar 3: Amidst protests against "anti-national activities" in the Delhi University, a poster calling for azadi for Kashmir sprang up on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Thursday. Some students noticed the poster on the wall of the School of Social Sciences' new block and apprised the university's administration of the same. The poster, which appeared in the name of Left-leaning

London, Mar 3: A British man admitted on Thursday raping a woman in a violent two-hour attack just hours before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend. Derry McCann, 28, who newspapers reported had only recently been freed from prison after carrying out a similar rape in 2006, attacked the woman as she returned home from a night out with friends shortly after midnight on Jan. 13. He dragged his

New Delhi, Mar 2: Akbar Durani from Okhri in Hyderabad province of Pakistan has been arrested and will be deported for overstaying in India in violation of visa norms. Earlier in 2011, the 31-year old fell in love with an Indian girl Sofia, who stays in Madhya Pradesh's, Dewas, through social media. Durani along with his mother got visa and came to Dewas to meet Sofia's family, who agreed for

Mumbai, Mar 1: A petty quarrel between neighbours ended in a tragedy at Motilal Nagar slums in Goregaon (west) on Monday night as a 17-year-old college girl was killed after her father fell on her during the scuffle and the kitchen knife he was holding pierced her chest. Goregaon police said Meghna Agavane's father Rajesh (41), a driver, lost his balance and fell on her when their neighbours

New Delhi, Feb 28: At least 10 people were killed and several injured after a bus fell into a canal in an Andhra Pradesh village. The Hyderabad-bound private bus fell in between two flyovers near Mullupadu village in Krishna district on Tuesday morning. There were 38 passengers in the Diwakar Travels agency bus that was coming from Bhubaneswar after a halt at Visakhapatnam when the incident

New Delhi, Feb 27: A seven-year-old girl studying in a government school in Moti Nagar has alleged that she was being sexually assaulted by two of her seniors over the past four months. The girl alleged her seniors, who are in classes VIII and IX, took her into empty classrooms during lunch breaks or when her classes ended and made her perform obscene acts. Both accused girls have been apprehended

New Delhi, Feb 26: In a freak incident, a pair of three-year-old twins drowned in a washing machine at their home after their mother left them playing as she stepped out briefly to purchase washing powder from a nearby shop on Saturday, police said. Police said the tragedy was reported at 12.30 p.m at upscale Avantika Apartment in sector-1 Rohini. Rakhi, alone at home, was making preparations to