Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Apr 10: Telugu actress Anjali (26) went missing from a hotel in Hyderabad's Jubilee Hills. She reportedly went missing on Monday morning but her family lodged a complaint with the police on Tuesday evening. From East Godavari district, Anjali is an established actor in the Tamil film industry and has done a couple of Telugu movies. In his complaint, Anjali's brother Ravi Shanker alleged

Bangalore, Apr 5: Protests in front of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC)?office here on Thursday over party tickets for Assembly elections took an ugly turn when a protester died of suspected cardiac arrest. The deceased has been identified as Velu, 48, a resident of Halanayakanahalli, Sarjapur Road in Bangalore. The protesters had gathered in front of the KPCC office to submit a

Mumbai, Mar 26: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) officials arrested a South African schoolteacher at Mumbai airport for attempting to smuggle out 7kg of drugs concealed in school bags on Monday morning. The consignment is worth Rs 7 crore. Around 5.30am, Blantinah Makoti (35) entered the Mumbai airport to board an Ethiopian Airline flight for Mozambique. The AIU officials had got a tip-off about

Mumbai, Mar 24: A deputy commissioner of police with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, Sanjay Banerjee, shot himself at an eatery in Thane on Saturday afternoon in front of his wife and children. The motive for the suicide remains unclear. According to the Kapurbavdi police, it was Banerjee's idea to go out for lunch and the 47-year-old had taken his family to the Goa Portugesa restaurant. In

Agra, Mar 20: A British national was injured on Tuesday after she jumped from the window of a first-floor hotel room here fearing a molestation attempt. The tourist, a dentist from London, was staying at a hotel in Idgah area, about four kilometres from the Taj Mahal. According to police, the 25-year-old woman had asked for a wake-up call at 4 am. The incident came just days after the gang-rape of

Lucknow, Mar 16: The city of Agra erupted in anger with people taking to the streets over the brutal killing of a woman research scholar inside the Zoology laboratory of Dayalbagh Education Institute, a deemed university. Police suspect the victim had been raped before being killed. The body of the research scholar from Delhi, that bore scores of stab wounds inflicted by a surgical knife was

Jaipur, Mar 11: A 19-year-old girl attending coaching classes for medical entrance exams in Kota was gang-raped in front of her male friend by two former jawans of the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary. The girl had gone on a bike ride with her friend when the two accused, posing as policemen, stopped them on Friday evening and took them to an isolated place in Kota's Dadabari area. They raped the girl

Chennai, Mar 10: A stray dog dragged a four-year-old girl by the hair and ripped off a chunk of her cheek in a village near Guduvanchery on Friday evening. The dog allegedly bit four other children but neither the panchayat board nor the police have confirmed it. It was later killed by villagers. The girl, who was administered an anti-rabies vaccine at a private hospital and her blood samples sent

Kannur, Mar 9: Bitti Mohanty, the absconding son of former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a 26-year-old German national in 2006, has been taken into custody by Kerala Police here. According to police sources, Bitti was working in a public sector bank in the district impersonating as a recruit from Andhra Pradesh. Police were tipped off about the

Ajmer, Mar 6: A 16-year-old Class XI student of a government girls residential school in Pawata block in Naguar district gave birth to a baby in the hostel's bathroom early on Tuesday. Though the delivery took place in the wee hours, it came to light only in the morning when the other girls of the hostel heard the cries of the infant from a closed bathroom. The girls of the hostel reported the