Crime and crash

Udupi, May 1: Thieves broke into a house at Salmar in Karkala and took away gold ornaments estimated at Rs. 1.45 lakh and Rs. 10,000 in cash. The house belonged to one Srinivasa Acharya According to the police, the theft took place between 7.45 a.m. on April 28 and 6.15 p.m. on April 29. A case has been registered.

Bangalore, May 1: A 20-year-old student died on Sunday night when a cab he was taking a joyride in hit a motorcycle before ramming a hoarding near a marriagehallon Infantry Road. The biker escaped with minor bruises, while the pillion rider suffered grievous injuries. The deceased is Ishaq Sharif, 20, a resident of Lingarajpuram. He was awaiting II PU results . Ishaq was taking a joyridein

Visakhapatnam, April 30: Two women were allegedly gangraped by a computer training institute owner and three of his friends in the late hours of Saturday at knife point. The heinous crime came to light on Sunday night following a complaint by the victims. The victims were raped after allegedly intoxicating them with drugs mixed in cool drinks. The accused allegedly filmed their heinous act through

Mumbai, April 30: As many as 148 people took ill on Saturday night after consuming food at a wedding reception. Many of the people who attended the wedding at Bharat Nagar in Bandra-Kurla Complex, started vomiting and suffered from diarrhoea in the wee hours of Sunday. The patients had to be rushed to Bhabha Hospital in Bandra. The caterer, Yusuf Ahmed Ali, has been arrested. "As many as 148

Bangalore, April 30: A senior citizen was killed when he was knocked down by a speeding SUV carrying Tumkur Rural MLA Suresh Gowda, near Nelamangala Main Road on Sunday. The accident occurred at around 10.30 am, when the victim, Thimma Hanumaiah, 69, was crossing the road. Hanumaiah sustained severe injuries. He was rushed to a nearby hospital on Nelamangala Main Road. Dr Manjappa, the orthopaedic

Lucknow, April 30: In a shocking incident, a teenager has alleged that she was raped at gunpoint by the employee of BSP MP Jugal Kishore in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh. The girl alleges she was gagged and dragged by a man into the house of the MP while returning from a marriage ceremony. "Someone came up behind me. He put a cloth on my mouth and took me to the house of Jugul Kishor. He locked

Lucknow: , April 30: A collision of two buses in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, about 275 km from here, on Sunday killed as many as 18 people, including women and children, and left over a dozen others injured, according to the police. The toll may go up and several persons, who have been admitted to hospital, were stated to be critical and battling for life. According to police sources here

Tiruvannamalai, April 29: A 30-year old man murdered his father, a forest department employee, with the help of his friend, eyeing a government job on compassionate grounds. Police said E Murugan, a resident of Keezhkuppam village in Tiruvannamalai district in TN, along with his friend P Vaikundavasan, 30, strangled his father G Ezhumalai (58), a forest guard posted at Paruvathamalai forest

Ahmedabad, April 29: This intriguing tale of friendship which involved the staged abduction of the best pal's girlfriend may not have been explored yet by Bollywood. But it has happened in real life. Not only did a man help his friend elope, but he ran away with the girl and put her up in a hotel to shield the real boyfriend from suspicion! The dramatic bluff - spurred by love and friendship - was

Chennai, April 29: Asking a noisy neighbour to turn down the volume of his television set cost a 27-year-old man in Pallikaranai his life. Tarun, a van driver from Kamakshi Nagar, requested his neighbour Marimuthu, an autorickshaw driver, to turn down the volume since his four-month-old son was unable to sleep with the television next door blaring. Marimuthu not only refused to lower the volume