Crime and crash

Karwar, May 9: Shankar Krishna Naik (55) drowned in the Kali river in Karwar on Tuesday. He accidentally fell into the river. The police have registered a case.

New York,May 9: The daughter of an Indian diplomat who was wrongly accused of sending threatening e-mails to a teacher last year is suing the city for $1.5 million. Krittika Biswas, 19, is seeking damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution, according to a lawsuit brought Monday in Manhattan Federal Court. The lawsuit says that Biswas was so traumatized by the incident that she left the

New Delhi, May 9: The death of RTI activist Ravinder Balwani after a mysterious hit-and-run incident in the capital last month has sparked allegations of murder, with his family saying the 61-year-old was killed after repeated threats and that police were writing it off as an accident. Balwani, an aide of RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and a member of his NGO, Parivartan, was hit by a car on April

Kasargod, May 8: The Ichilangod Mahavishnu temple near Kumbla was found burgled on Sunday. Burglars escaped with 18 grams of gold ornaments put on the idols of the presiding deity and Lord Ganesh. They looted Rs.3,000 from an offering box, the police said. The burglary came to the notice of the temple priest when he reached the temple for the morning pujas. The thieves entered the temple breaking

Bangalore, May 8: The Karnataka Cabinet on Monday rejected serial killer Umesh Reddy's mercy plea. Reddy was convicted and sentenced to death by a Fast Track Court in 2006 for the rape and murder of Jayshree Maradi Subbaiah. Reddy's death sentence was upheld in 2007 by a Bangalore High Court division bench for the 1998 case of rape and murder of Jayshree, a widow. The Supreme Court had on February

Kolkata, May 7: Four women passengers died after a Sishu tree that was being felled by some youths fell on an autoricksaw at Chandpara near Gaighata in North 24-Parganas on Sunday. Police have arrested one person involved in cutting the tree and raids are on to nab the rest of the gang. Around 2pm, the autoricksaw carrying five women was plying to Chandpara from Bongaon through Jessore Road. Some

Bangalore, May 7: A total of nine students were debarred from the Comed-K?examination conducted across the State on Sunday. Two students held for malpractice in Tumkur have been handed over to the police. A ?S?Srikanth, Chief Executive Officer, Comed-K, said suitable action would be initiated against the candidates caught for malpractice during the test. The Consortium had earlier announced that

Alwar, May 7: A 20-year-old girl was kidnapped from Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district two months ago and gangraped by three men for over two months in Dholpur. When the girl developed ilness, she was handed over to a quack who also allegedly raped her for several days. On Saturday, the girl somehow managed to escape from the house of the quack and approached police. After she narrated her horror

Jaipur, May 6: In a dare devil act, a 48-year-old woman jumped off a moving train to catch the robbers who snatched her gold chain in Udaipur district on Saturday. Though she sustained fractures after falling from the train, she managed to grab the men with the help of passengers and GRP personnel. The accused were handed over to the police and the gold chain was also recovered. The incident took

New Delhi, May 6: ' Nazar Teri Buri Aur Parda Mein Karoon?' 'Don't tell me how to dress, tell them not to rape,' read the placards held by citizens, activists and NGOs gathered together outside Mandi House Station on Saturday morning in protest against the relenteless stream of rape cases that have rocked the National Capital Region in recent times. With 465 rape cases registered in the city in