Crime and crash

Mangalore, March 23: A body of an unidentified person has been found on the shores of Arabian Sea near Pre University?College at Navunda in Baindoor on Thursday. The man, said to be aged about 35 years, believed to have committed suicide by jumping into the sea on Wednesday. Baindoor police have registered a case.

Los Angeles, March 23: Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said Thursday. Houston, who died at age 48 in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel room last month, likely had some kind of heart attack which caused her to slip under the water, said the Los Angeles County

Bangalore, March 23: The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) has registered a case of cheating against the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) officers for carving out 112 sites out of 38 acres of land which was not notified by the State government. Sources in the BMTF said the Task Force registered the case under section 420, 306 and 192 of the IPC read with 33 of the BDA Act against the

Toulouse (France), March 22: A 23-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwestern France in the name of al-Qaida, jumped from a window to his death in a hail of bullets after police stormed his apartment on Thursday. "At the moment when a video probe was sent into the bathroom, the killer came out of the bathroom, firing with extreme violence," interior minister Claude Gueant

Mangalore, March 22: Three boats were gutted in a fire accident neat Bilt Circle on Tuesday night. The loss was estimated at Rs. 5 lakh. According to the Fire and Emergency Services, a storeroom used to keep fishing equipment and boats caught fire. As the fire spread, three boats were destroyed. Fire and Emergency Services personnel stopped the fire from reaching other huts on the beach. The boats

Bangalore, March 22: There is some more bad news for Nithyananda alias A?Rajasekhara. The Karnataka CID?on Wednesday filed an additional charge sheet in the Ramanagaram court, claiming that besides several women, Nithyananda forced a man to have sex with him on a number of occasions both at his Bidadi ashram near here as well as in some cities in the US. Director General, CID, R?K?Dutta told

Mangalore, March 21: Sleuths of Mangalore sub-division of department of excise on a tip off nabbed three persons who were trying to smuggle Goan liquor illegally to Kasargod in a car at Alape village at Padil on the outskirts of the city in the early hours of Wednesday. The sleuths recovered 432 litres of liquor which the accused Vishwanath, Anil Kumar and Major of Kasargod were attempting to

Nagpur, March 21: A 50-year-old labourer has been arrested for raping his teenage daughter repeatedly over the last five years. The girl is now two months pregnant, which brought the sordid deed to light. The accused, Kishore Agrawal, was sexually exploiting his 19-year-old daughter for the last five years, after his wife left him. The girl was then 14-year-old. The incident came to light on

Gandhinagar, March 21: After Karnataka, it's now the turn of MLAs in Gujarat Assembly to do the unthinkable. Following in the footsteps of their Karnataka counterparts, two BJP MLAs were found watching pornographic clips in the Gujarat Assembly on Tuesday. Ironically, when this was brought to the notice of the Speaker, he hushed up the issue instead of taking action against them. Luckily, this

Hyderabad, March 21: In a heart-rending tragedy, eight children between the ages of five and ten years, were killed and 20 seriously injured when the school bus in which they were returning home plunged into a stream in Khammam district on Tuesday afternoon. Around 40 students of L.V. Reddy Memorial School were packed into the bus after the driver picked them up from Vepalagadda village in