Crime and crash

Bangalore, December 4: Karnataka Women’s Commission (KWC) has revealed that around 50 per cent of girls in the age group of12 to 30, who go missing from north Karnataka districts, remain untraced. However, nearly 85 per cent of girls missing from south Karnataka districts are traced. Many of the missing girls from north Karnataka are later found in red light areas of Mumbai and other bigger cities

Bangalore, December 1: Three people were killed and two sustained grievous injuries after their car rammed a road median, hit the overbridge pillar and fell in the path of a speeding goods vehicle near Kengeri Thursday midnight. The dead have been identified as Sachin Shetty, 27, Devaraj, 27, and Amaan, 21.?The injured, Syed Saleem, 18, and Syed Habeeb, 21, are battling for their life at a private

Koppal, November 30: Brothers of the alleged rape victim, Rashmi (name changed), who committed suicide at Hyathi village in Koppal taluk, have asserted that their sister was not subjected to gang rape. Speaking with mediapersons here on Thursday, Manjunath Doli and Maruthi Doli clarified that their sister was not gang-raped, as reported. And her decision to end life was not due to the alleged

Bangalore, November 29: A case of sexual harassment has been reported in the premier Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore whose chief administrative officer is being alleged to have sexually exploited a woman doctor over the past two years. A group of women rights activist held a protest against the same. Women rights activists say that the IIM administrative should have taken action

Jodhpur, November 28: A woman Air Force officer, Squadron Leader Anandita Dasgupta, has allegedly committed suicide in Jodhpur. She was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home. The 29-year-old officer was commissioned into the Air Force six years ago. Her husband is a pilot in the Air Force. "She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the wee hours today. The body has been shifted to

Koppal, November 28: In a tragedy that shook the taluk, Hanumavva Doli, a 19-year-old girl of Hyathi near here, committed suicide on Monday, after allegedly being raped by four youths. A clip of the multiple rape, filmed by the suspects on their mobile phones, started circulating in cellphones across the village over the last two days, forcing the girl, an orphan, to end her life. Three of the

New Delhi, November 27: Five months after a young couple appeared on Aamir Khan's television show, Satyamev Jayate, and talked about the threat to their lives because they had married without their parents' consent, the man was shot dead near his village in western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening, allegedly by his wife's brothers. Abdul Hakim, 28, and his 26-year-old wife Mehwish, both Muslims

Mumbai, November 27: Nearly a week after two Palghar girls were unnecessarily summoned to the police station and arrested for an innocuous Facebook post, the government is suspending the superintendent of police (Thane rural) Ravindra Sengaonkar. In a separate development, the Bombay high court on Monday transferred Ramchandra Bagade, the first-class judicial magistrate at Palghar who had given

Mumbai, November 26: Millions once bought sex in the narrow alleys of Kamathipura, a vast red-light district in Mumbai. But prostitutes with inexpensive mobile phones are luring customers elsewhere, and that is endangering the astonishing progress India has made against AIDS. Indeed, the recent closings of hundreds of ancient brothels, while something of an economic victory for prostitutes, may

Madikeri, November 23: Investigation has proved that Virajpet Block Congress President and Zilla Panchayat Former Member Abudl Lathif was shot with his own gun, said Kodagu Superintendent of Police Manjunath Annigeri. Addressing a press meet in his office on Wednesday, he said that Lathif along with accused Preetham, Harish, Rabin and Punnachha had gone hunting in Bramhagiri Wildlife Forest near