Crime and crash

Amritsar, Sep 20: Seven children were killed and 17 others injured when a school bus fell into a canal at Mahawa border out post near Attari border today. The incident occurred while the school bus, carrying 37 students, was crossing a narrow bridge on its way to drop the children home after school, Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harkamalpreet Singh said. "The bus got stuck on the bridge and the

New Delhi, Sep 20: Delhi has done it again. In a shocking and brutal case, a 21-year-old woman was stabbed 30 times by a stalker in Burari on Tuesday morning. The woman succumbed to her injuries. The heinous crime was caught on camera as news channels showed footage of a man repeatedly stabbing the woman. We are not embedding the video because of the disturbing visuals. "The woman was stabbed

New Delhi, Sep 20: An 18-month-old girl died of starvation and her older sister is in a critical condition after they got “accidentally” locked up for almost three days in a farmhouse garage in West Delhi’s Nihal Vihar. The deceased’s sister, a three-year-old child, is badly starved and in a critical condition but is expected to survive, said Dependra Pathak, Joint CP (South-Western Range). The

Chennai, Sep 19: Ramkumar, the prime accused in the Swathi murder case, reportedly committed suicide in the Puzhal prison here. Police sources at the headquarters here said on Sunday evening that Ramkumar bit a power cable near a kitchen inside the prison. Though he was immediately taken to a hospital, doctors declared him brought dead. This was Ramkumar's second attempt to commit suicide. He had

Tirupati, Sep 18: Nearly 60 SpiceJet passengers had a miraculous escape when the aircraft overshot the runway, before coming to a halt in a sand pit, at Tirupati airport, here on Saturday evening. According to information reaching here, a SpiceJet carrier, coming to Tirupati from Hyderabad, suffered a technical glitch causing it to overshoot the runway after landing, and come to a halt in the sand

Hyderabad, Sep 17: A first-year student of MFA course at University of Hyderabad (UoH) here allegedly committed suicide today, police said. Praveen Kumar allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room, Joint Commissioner of Police (Cyberabad West) M Stephen Ravindra said. "Reasons are not known...no suicide note was found," he said adding some students took him to hospital where

New Delhi, Sep 16: Two girls, 18 and 17, were gang-raped allegedly in front of their friends in Delhi last night, an incident that once again calls into question women's safety in the capital four years after the fatal gang-rape of a young medical student. The girls were out on a walk with two boys around 8.30 pm, in an isolated patch near a metro station, when they were attacked allegedly by five

New Delhi, Sep 15: The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside death sentence given to convict Govindachamy in Soumya murder case. The apex court, however, held him guilty of rape. Soumya, an employee of a shopping mall in Kochi, was raped and pushed out of a running train in February 1, 2011. Sowmya, who was 23 then, was pushed down from the Ernakulam-Shoranur passenger train while she was returning

Coimbatore, Sep 15: A 23-year-old woman was brutally hacked to death inside her house at Annur in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. Dhanya was working in a private company and was also helping her father with in his tailoring business. On Wednesday, Dhanya's parents Somasundaram and Sharadha left their house to attend a program in a nearby town. When they returned, they saw Dhanya lying dead in a

Hyderabad, Sep 13: Unable to digest her husband’s inhuman treatment before his family members, a home-maker and mother of two allegedly committed suicide here on Sunday morning. The case that came to light on Monday has shocked the Pusalabasti colony of Saidabad area. Sushrutha, a 31-year-old post graduate in education, alleged that her husband,Mohan, dragged her out naked from the bathroom and