Virudhunagar (TN), June 16: Vexed over the delay in getting a birth certificate, a man here hit upon a bizarre idea of sending a demand draft for Rs 100 towards bribe to the localbody, stunning the authorities who made amends for the lapse and home delivered the document. Rattled on receiving the DD and the accompanying note which mentioned it as bribe amount, Municipality Commissioner Sermakani
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Nagpur, June 16: Lakadganj police on Wednesday evening rescued a bruised and battered 16-year-old victim of human trafficking from city's notorious red-light locality Ganga Jamuna. The girl, a native of Kota in Rajasthan, was sold to the flesh trade racket for Rs 10,000. In city's brothel, she was forced to entertain clients or else starve and face torture. Her parents, in connivance with flesh
Osmanabad, June 16: At least 32 pilgrims were killed and more than 20 injured, some of them seriously, when their bus fell off a bridge in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra in the wee hours of Saturday. The victims hailing from Hyderabad were returning after a pilgrimage to Shirdi Saibaba Temple in Ahmednagar district, when the mishap occurred at 2:40 a.m., police said. The injured have been
Bangalore, June 15: A case has been registered against a French diplomat here on a complaint by his wife that he had been sexually abusing their minor daughter, a senior police official said Friday. "We have registered a case against Pascal Mazurier under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on a complaint by his Indian housewife that he had been sexually abusing their four-year-old daughter
Bangalore, Jun 15: Police claim to have cracked the sensational heist of Rs.1.91-crore from a vehicle carrying cash to load an ATM at RT Nagar, after arresting five men, part of an all-India gang. The 13 men teamed up at the Arthur Road Prison in Mumbai, formed the gang, and hatched the plot, police said. They are on the lookout for the eight others who are said to be in possession of a big
Udupi, June 15: Unknown thieves broke into a house at Dandatirtha in Uliyargoli village in Udupi district and took away valuables estimated at Rs. 3 lakh. According to the police, thieves gained entry into the house of Shubhavati between 2 p.m. on June 13 and 6.30 a.m. on June 14 and took away gold and silver jewellery estimated at Rs. 3 lakh and Rs. 50,000 in cash. A case had been registered at
Hyderabad, June 14: At least 15 people were killed and several others injured in a major fire that broke out in Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Wednesday night, witnesses said. The fire, the worst disaster in the history of the steel plant, broke out following a huge blast in oxygen house of SMS II, a portion of public sector undertaking in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam also called as Vizag, about
Belur (Hassan dist), June 13: A woman accused of her husband’s murder attempted suicide, allegedly by consuming poison, in front of a court here on Monday. Radha, 28 years, wife of Kumar and a resident of Dyavappanahalli in the taluk is that woman. Radha’s husband is missing for the past six months. Alleging the handiwork of Radha behind her husband’s murder, relatives of Kumar had lodged a
Chennai, June 13: Police have arrested a class 8 student along with two others for murdering of a 69-year-old woman and throwing her charred body in the bushes near Thiruperumbudhu. The boy had allegedly devised a plan to kill her for money to buy video games. Mahesh (name changed) of Ambattur studying in a private school visited his aunt Saritha's house in Eakaadu village near Tiruvallur. He
Bhopal, June 12: A man riding a motorcycle in Madhya Pradesh had a part of his nose cut off by 12 people in his village. Prakash Jaatav, 31 years old, was attacked by a group of men who said a Dalit or lower caste man had no right to ride a motorbike in their presence. They first beat him up, and then pulled a knife on him. His nose was slashed. They left him lying there, bleeding. The group of