Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Jan 21: A cab driver was today arrested here on the charge of filming a lady passenger in an "indecent" manner, police said. Members of a `SHE' team of police, on duty near IT Corridor, found Md Abdul Rashid filming the woman passenger in his cab on a mobile phone while driving. The woman, a BPO employee, was sitting in the front seat and had dozed off at the time and hence unaware that

Raichur, Jan 17: Two labourers working on an underground pipe supplying water to the cooling tower of Yermaras Thermal Power Station (second unit)?near Raichur were buried alive after mud caved in on them on Friday. The deceased have been identified as Mukhilesh, 25, and Matin, 53, both from West Bengal. Two more workers—Syed Hussain Nuziulla, 58, and Syed-ul-Hassan, 25, —were injured in the

New Delhi, Jan 5: A 32-year-old software engineer allegedly committed suicide after critically injuring his wife at a high-end apartment in Dwarka this morning. Amit Bachchan and Shivani got married in November last year and neighbours told police that they had a strained relationship fraught with frequent quarrels. Last night, Amit returned home after a party and an argument broke out between the

Gaya/Kolkata, Jan 3: In another shameful incident, a Japanese girl was allegedly confined and raped by two persons in Bihar's Gaya. The accused were arrested on Friday by a joint team of Kolkata and Gaya Police. "A joint team of Kolkata and Gaya Police arrested two brothers -- Zahir and Shahid -- from their house in Taro village under Fatehpur police station of Gaya district for confining and

Indore, Dec 28: A black cobra killed a white tiger in its enclosure at Indore zoo on Saturday after a fight that left the snake paralysed. On Saturday morning, the zoo officials found the two-year-old tiger, Rajan, unconscious, bleeding from the nose and foaming at the mouth. Though doctors were rushed in, he was declared dead. Postmortem has confirmed the tiger died due to snake bite. And away

Bengaluru, Dec 24: A 20-year-old student from a noted women's college in Bengaluru started receiving calls from strangers on her mobile phone seeking sexual gratification. After initially ignoring the calls as pranks, she was shocked when an anonymous person sent her nude image on her phone through a messaging application called WhatsApp. It did not take her much time to realise that her nude

Bihar, Dec 15: A 65-year-old woman allegedly committed 'sati' by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband in a village in Bihar's Saharsa district. Saharsa Superintendent of Police Pankaj Sinha said it happened at Parminia village under Kahra block in the district, around 250 km from the state capital, and the deceased woman has been identified Dahwa Devi. "Her husband Charitra Yadav (70) had

New Delhi, Dec 10: One person was killed and two others seriously injured after a speeding Audi SUV hit a dumper truck in central Delhi's Barakhambha Road late last night. Such was the force of the impact that the front end of the car was completely crushed. There were four people inside the Audi, who were returning home after attending a wedding. It took the police a half an hour to pull the

Hosapete (Ballari dist), Dec 8: A Class 2 girl was reportedly raped by four minor boys, aged between 10 years and 14 years, at a desolate place near SC?Colony here on Saturday night. Hosapete police said that the nine-year-old girl, a resident of Myasakeri, was taken to the SC Colony by the boys, all residents of?Talavaarakeri, on the pretext of playing with her. However, they raped the girl

Hapur, Dec 1: A young man belonging to the Scheduled Castes and his Muslim wife were hacked to death in broad daylight in a village of Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday - allegedly by the woman's brother - for defying the diktat of the panchayat and staying married. Sonu, a 22-year-old craftsman, and Danishta Begum, 21, had got married four months ago. The couple was staying together at his house