Crime and crash

Bangalore, April 1: Two boys were killed and another seriously injured when the scooter they were riding rammed into a BMTC bus near Ullala lake near Tavarekere in the City on Saturday. Suhas, 16, and Subhashaiah, 13, are the dead. Kusheshaiah, 16, who sustained head injury, is being treated at a hospital. Suhas and Kusheshaiah, classmates at the Vani School, Machohalli, had gone to pick up

New Delhi, March 31: A deputy director in the defence ministry and his wife, a classical dancer, were found dead in mysterious circumstances at their home in Hudco Place, south Delhi, on Friday afternoon. The body of Kumar Yashkar, 42, who had studied at the London School of Economics, was found charred near the kitchen while his wife, Archana Sharma, 34, had been strangled with a chunni in the

Agra, March 30: In a tragic incident of patricide in an Uttar Pradesh village, a youth shot dead his father for refusing to let him marry the girl he loved. The incident took place on Thursday night in Firozabad district's Karaura village, about 30 km from here, police said. Anni fled after killing his father, Man Singh, who had castigated him for going around with a girl from the village. After a

Patiala (Punjab), March 30: Punjab minister Jagir Kaur was today convicted for conspiring in forcible abduction, kidnapping and wrongful confinement in connection with the killing of her daughter Harpreet Kaur 12 years back but was acquitted of the murder charge. Kaur, a former President of Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC), was awarded five years imprisonment and also fined Rs 5,000

Chennai, March 30: A software engineer couple were arrested at Kamaraj domestic air terminal here on Friday when they tried to smuggle Rs 75 lakh worth gold biscuits on board a Madurai bound flight, police said. Kannan and Valli, both software engineers had arrived from USA via Dubai early this morning and were about to board a Madurai-bound flight at 8.40 AM when CISF personnel found 2.360 kg of

Kanpur, March 30: A sub-inspector and a constable of Uttar Pradesh police were shot at and critically wounded inside a police station by a drunken youth here early Friday, police said. Sub-inspector Devendra Singh was shot at twice in the head by a youth at the Naubasta police station where he is the station officer. He was rushed to the Regency Hospital where he is battling for life, police

Mumbai, March 30: An 18-year-old girl committed suicide in a hotel room near the airport at Andheri (E). Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan on Thursday morning. The deceased, Rajanala Kusuma Sri Shambhavi, ran away from her Hyderabad home on March 3. She had stayed in around dozen hotels in Mumbai before checking into the Andheri hotel on Tuesday. She had left a suicide note stating

Chennai, March 29: He was a child of poverty who was adopted by bright future. But just when he was a step away from realising his dream of becoming an engineer and a poet, the 23-year-old chose to go into the arms of death. Until a few years ago, life for S. Manivannan was moving around the villages of Salem, Dharmapuri and nearby districts — looking for brick kilns that would hire him and his

Bangalore, March 29: Nitish Bera, a 36-year-old City-based jeweller, was found murdered a day after he was allegedly kidnapped from near his shop on Avenue Road. An unclaimed body dumped near the Dobbespet flyover was on Wednesday identified to be that of Bera, the police said. Bera, from Kolkata, was living with his family at Richmond Town. He owned a shop, BRN Jewellers, at Avenue road. On

Pune, March 29: The Khadak police on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old man for killing his wife on Wednesday morning. The man, Vikram alias Vicki Malhari Rasale, a resident of Excel Apartments in Guruwar Peth, allegedly throttled his wife Swati alias Rani (27) to death. The police also found several bite marks on Swati's body. Assistant commissioner of police Ranjit Dhure told TOI, "We suspect