Crime and crash

California, Oct 23: A Fresno man was sentenced to 1,503 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter over a four-year period. The 41-year-old was sentenced Friday to the longest-known prison sentence in Fresno Superior Court history, the Fresno Bee reported. The Associated Press is not naming the man because it could identify his daughter. The AP does not name victims of sexual abuse. In

Bhubaneswar, Oct 22: The death toll in Odisha's SUM Hospital fire has mounted to 26, as a person undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospital here succumbed to injuries on Saturday, a health official said. The deceased has been identified as Kartikeswar Das of GGP colony in Rasulgarh area of Bhubaneswar. Following the Monday's blaze, the patient was shifted to Apollo Hospital on the same evening. Two

Madurai, Oct 20: Eight people at a scan centre in Sivakasi, including patients, died of suffocation after a fire broke out at a nearby fireworks shop on Thursday afternoon. Around 1.30pm, workers at Raghavendra Agency on the Sivakasi - Virudhunagar road were unloading fireworks from a minivan. According to police sources at the Sivakasi East Police station, the fireworks exploded when a bundle

New Delhi, Oct 20: Rocky Yadav, arrested in May for shooting a college student in Bihar in a case of road rage, has been released from prison after getting bail from the Patna High Court. Rocky, whose real name is Rakesh Ranjan Yadav, was driving his SUV in Gaya, 110 km from the capital of Patna, when it was overtaken by 19-year-old Aditya Sachdeva, who was with his friends in a Maruti Swift. Mr

Ghaziabad, Oct 19: Two minors, who were injected with petrol in their anus by a Ghaziabad politician’s brother over suspicions that they stole a mobile phone, will need surgery doctors said on Wednesday. Rizwan Qureshi, the brother of Samajwadi Party politician Haji Ehsan Qureshi, tortured the minors , who are 16 and 17 years old, and a 24-year-old man at Loni on October 12. Rizwan and his aides

Ludhiana, Oct 18: Two armed men robbed an elderly money exchanger of Rs 70-lakh cash at gunpoint in Mohalla Guru Teg Bahadur of Jagraon on Sunday. The miscreants also took along victim’s scooter, leaving him and his 5-year-old grandson on roadside. The incident has been captured in the CCTV cameras installed in houses along the street. Vijay Kumar Chinna, 65, along with his 5-year-old grandson

Vijayawada, Oct 18: A two-and-a-half-year-old boy, Rahul, was allegedly beaten to death by his mother and her boyfriend in the AP Capital region, as the child was reportedly crying and disturbing them during nights. The child had been suffering from high fever for the last few days and was missing since Sunday. Neighbours found the decomposed body in bushes on Monday. The mother, Rekha Nishad and

Bhubaneswar, Oct 17: At least 22 patients died and around 12 others injured in a fire that broke out at the Sum Hospital here this evening, in one of the worst such incidents involving a medical facility. The blaze was suspected to have been triggered by an electric short circuit in the dialysis ward on the first floor of the private hospital which spread to the nearby Intensive Care Unit. "So far

Mumbai, Oct 17: Two persons, including a former corporator, were arrested this morning by Mumbai Police in connection with the murder of a 72-year-old RTI activist. "Amjad Khan (53) and his father Razzaq Khan (78) were arrested today morning on charges of murder of Bhupendra Vira. Razzak was earlier a corporator in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. It looks like a land dispute led to the Khans

Mumbai, Oct 17: A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot dead at his house in Kalina on Saturday night. Bhupendra Vira (72), who was known for taking on illegal constructions in his area, was shot by an assailant on his temple between 9.30 p.m. and 10 p.m. “His wife was present in the house, but was in another room, while he was watching television. We have launched a manhunt for the accused