Crime and crash

Dibrugarh, May 11(TNN): The ward boy accused of murdering Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) post-graduate student Sarita Toshniwal was appointed by the hospital authorities without police verification, revealed an investigation. Police officers investigating the case said Kiru Mech, the murder accused, was appointed about eight months ago without even a minimum background check that led to

Navi Mumbai, May 9: Three members of a family were killed along with a relative in two separate road accidents on Thursday in a span of four hours in Ratnagiri district. Seventeen-year-old HSC student, Dhanasree Kadam, was travelling in her father's autorickshaw from Khed to Ratnagiri to appear for her CET (common entrance test) in the morning when it toppled over at Sangameshwar on the Mumbai-Goa

Bangalore, May 4: A fashion designer on Friday night committed suicide in her apartment on Indiranagar 100 Feet Road, reportedly over a love affair that went sour. In her suicide note, U Abhijat, 32, blamed a restaurant owner for her death. Her mother, who reported the suicide, said Abhijat had a heated argument with a person till late on Friday night. Abhijat, employed with a Chennai company

Vadodara, Apr 26: It was a tug of war between the fire brigade team and a fully grown crocodile that continued for about an hour right in the heart of the city. People waited with baited breath as the firemen tried to pull out body of a 60-year-old man that was killed by a crocodile near river Vishwamitri near Navinagri slums on Friday afternoon. This is the third crocodile attack in Vadodara in

Jabalpur, Apr 20: A 22-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar shot dead his virtual girlfriend here who he met on Facebook after finding out she was actually a married middle-aged woman and attempted to commit suicide. He later died in hospital. Vineet Singh shot dead Jyoti Kori next to a picturesque setting of a waterfall on Friday after he found out that his virtual 21-year-old

Hyderabad, Apr 10: Customs sleuths on Wednesday nabbed two women, including an Emirates airline crew member, for trying to smuggle in a total of 15.7 kg gold worth Rs.4.53 crore at the RGI Airport. In the first incident, sleuths nabbed Fatima Shaheen at 3.30 am when she landed at the airport via Qatar Airlines flight (QR 500) from Doha. The woman, hailing from the city, had hidden 2.7 kg of gold

Bangalore, Apr 6: In two separate incidents that occurred in one hour, two schoolboys were electrocuted on Saturday morning. Incidentally, both were playing cricket when the mishaps occurred. It was a regular Saturday morning for class 3 student Bharath Narasimhappa. He was playing cricket with his friends at his school in Seegehalli, Kadugodi, near Whitefield. Around 8.30am, he went to the

Jaipur, Mar 22: A pall of gloom descended over a village near Deoli in Tonk district on Friday when 10 women labourers drowned when their boat capsized in Banas river. Five other women and a sailor managed to swim to the river bank. It has come up during preliminary investigation that the boat may have capsized after getting stuck in fishing net. The incident exposed illegal boating in Banas river

Mumbai, Mar 19: A 17-year-old girl, trying to jump from her building to an adjacent one to meet her boyfriend, slipped and fell to her death in Thane on Tuesday. According to the police, the girl is a resident of a housing complex at Kasarwadavali and had recently appeared for her Class XII exams. The police said she was in a relationship with a boy living in the next building. But in order to

Bangalore, Mar 19: Two tenth-standard girl students of a private high school allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Sankey Tank on Tuesday after they were reportedly punished by their teacher. The 15-year-old girls were studying at the Mary Immaculate High School in Lakkasandra Extension near Wilson Garden. The police gave their names as Sonali, a resident of Tavarekere and Priyanka, a