Crime and crash

Kolkata, Jan 18: Two persons were killed in the Bhangor area of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday as clashes broke out between the police and villagers opposing construction of a Power Grid sub- station in the area. Villagers, who blocked roads and damaged several police vehicles, claimed that police had opened fire on the protesters while police said the firing took place

Hyderabad, Jan 18: Police have arrested an American citizen in Hyderabad for downloading and uploading child pornography. The cybercrime wing of Telangana’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested 42-year-old James Kirk Jones. Jones, who was working with an MNC law firm in Hyderabad, was arrested after the cybercrime received a tip-off about an IP address from which the child pornography

Bihar, Jan 17: A 12-year-old student of a government school was allegedly gangraped by the principal and three teachers in Bihar's Jehanabad, police said on Monday. Principal of Kako Secondary School Aju Ahmed and three teachers - Atul Rahman, Abdul Bari and Md Shakaut - gangraped the girl on Sunday when she was alone in the building, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) P K Srivastava said. The

New Delhi, Jan 16: In a shocking confession, a 38-year-old tailor arrested for attempting to molest two minor girls in the city has told police that he had sexually abused around 500 kids almost unchecked over a 12-year period. Police said the paedophile, Sunil Rastogi, claimed to have attempted assault on more than 2,500 minors during this period and was jailed for six months in Rudrapur, Uttarak

New Delhi Jan 14: The youth, who had posted a prank video in which he was seen randomly kissing girls and running away, and his associate have been apprehended by police. Sumit Kumar Singh (20) and Satyajeet Kadian (25) have been apprehended and two laptops, one video camera, wireless mikes have been seized, said Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner of police (Crime). They are students of BCA at

Bengaluru, Jan 13: A?19-year-old ITI student committed suicide by shooting himself with a single barrel gun at his house in Raghavendra Nagar here on Thursday morning. The police said Bhuvan, a student of National Institute of Engineering in the city, shot himself in his chest with his father’s gun. He shot himself at the kitchen of his house after dropping his sister for tuitions in Kalyanagiri

Patna, Jan 12: During a recent visit to Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alcohol ban policy in Bihar. He said: “I greet Nitish Kumar from the core of my heart for launching a campaign against liquor. But, this work (prohibition) would not be a grand success only by efforts of Nitish Kumar or one party. All the political parties, social organisations

Patna/Hajipur, Jan 11: Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) MLA Lallan Paswan has stirred a controversy by purportedly asking objectionable questions to girls of a residential Dalit school in Bihar's Vaishali district where he had gone in connection with death of a Class X girl allegedly after being raped. The MLA from Chenari (reserved seat) in Rohtas district, was captured on camera asking the

Kolar, Jan 11: A married woman was gangraped by three men near Dodavallabbi village of Kolar taluk on January 8. The prime suspect in the case is known to the victim. The woman had come to stay with her uncle following a quarrel with her husband. On January 8, three men, one of them identified as Amar, came to the house of the victim and told her that her brother had collapsed after consuming

Bengaluru, Jan 10: A junior artiste was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a construction site where shooting was underway for a Kannada film in north Bengaluru on Monday evening. In November, two actors had died while shooting a stunt scene in Bengaluru. Padma alias Padmavathi, 44, was among the 120 artistes taking part in the shooting of the film, VIP, directed by Nandakishore and