Crime and crash

Arsikere (Hassan dist), March 10: Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda’s wife Datty escaped with minor injuries in an accident that occurred near Mududi village in Gandasi hobli in Arsikere on Friday afternoon. Sources said Datty was on her way to Narasimharajapura via Chikmagalur from Bangalore in a car to see her husband campaigning for the bypoll in the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha?Constituency. At

Kozhikode, March 10: Veteran Malayalam actor Jagathy Sreekumar was seriously injured in a road mishap at nearby Thenjippalam in the wee hours of Saturday. Mr. Sreekumar, who sustained injuries on his chest and abdomen, was admitted to a private hospital here and put on ventilator, police said. The accident occurred when his car overturned after hitting a median. The driver of the car, who also

Udupi, March 10: The district police have cracked the case of a daring robbery, which took place at a house near the Dr. A.V. Baliga Memorial Hospital at Doddanagudde here on the night of March 4, where four robbers had made good with valuables, including ornaments and a car, whose value was estimated at Rs. 14.5 lakh. The district police said on Friday that they had arrested the accused Shringesh

Gwalior, March 9: The father of the young IPS officer mowed down by a suspected member of the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh today alleged there was a well-planned conspiracy against his son who did not receive cooperation of local police and authorities. Indian Police Service officer Narendra Kumar was crushed to death in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar, sub-divisional

Mumbai, March 9: A 13-year-old boy died and around 200 people, mostly children, continued to be in hospital following an allergic reaction from toxic colours on Holi, police here said Friday. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered a high-level probe into the incident. Vikas Valmiki from Ghatkopar died late Thursday. He was rushed to hospital with severe symptoms of colour allergy

Hyderabad, March 9: Holi revelry claimed three lives in the city on Thursday. Two youth drowned in different water bodies, while another young man died in a road mishap. At around noon, after playing Holi, P Ravi, 21, along with his friends Yadagiri and Ramesh went to bathe in Suryanarayana cheruvu in Godumakunta near Keesara, police said. "The trio entered the lake and Ravi was walking behind his

Bindol (North Dianjpur), March 9: In these arid, impoverished parts, Bindol has another name - kidney village. The wasted, skeletal men and women you would see slumped under the shade of trees are awaiting death with feeble breaths. This is the kidney sale capital of the state, perhaps of the country. Every second home here has someone who has sold his kidney to escape starvation. Many die within

Bhopal, March 8: A young Indian Police Service officer was crushed to death in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday. Indian Police Service officer Narendra Kumar was crushed to death in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar, sub-divisional police officer of Bamor, was trying to stop a tractor loaded with illegally-quarried stones. PTI File PhotoNarendra

Kasargod, March 8: Two women, part of a five-member gang indulged in luring men and later blackmailing them by looting valuables, were arrested from Chattamchal in the district on Tuesday. The police identified the accused as B K Jaseela and Zeenath Banu. They were remanded to judicial custody under Section 395 of the IPC. The police had launched a manhunt to nab three male members of the gang

Ahmedabad, March 8: On the eve of Women's day, the Shahpur police has arrested a teacher of Nelson school for sexually harassing three girls of class XI. The shameful incident came to light when the teacher Mansukh Vyas wrote letters to the parents of the girls informing them that the girls were staying away from school. According to the parents of the girls the teacher Vyas has been harassing the