Crime and crash

Bhopal, February 29: The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested architect Zahida Pervez for the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood on Tuesday here. Ms. Zahida Pervez, according to the CBI, hired a contract killer and had the RTI activist murdered because of some personal rivalry. “In a major breakthrough, the CBI arrested a Bhopal-based Interior Designer in an on-going investigation in

Bangalore, February 29: The complainant who has filed a case against BJP MLA C?T Ravi in the Special Lokayukta Court, has alleged that he is being harassed by the authorities in Chikmagalur. The complainant, R Devi Prasad, had alleged that Ravi had obtained civic amenity sites in his wife Pallavi Ravi’s name, through fraudulent means and had also obtained multiple housing sites. The case is being

Bagalkot, February 28: A 35-year old Congress worker was brutally murdered by some persons in a village in Bagalkot district of Karnataka today, police said. Hanumantha Chattaragi Ganagir, who was a cane supervisor in Baragandi Sugar Factory owned by Congress MLC S R Patil, was waylaid and fatally assaulted at Nayanegali by some persons with whom he was involved in a petty quarrel, Superintendent

Bhopal, February 28: According to the Income Tax department's final assessment report, the total wealth amassed by the tainted IAS couple Arvind Joshi and Tinu Joshi is pegged at Rs 240.38 crore. The report took over a year after the initial appraisal that assessed the amount at around Rs 360 crore in December 2010, ten months after IT sleuths raided the official residence of the Joshis here

Bangalore, February 28: A 12-year-old girl on a school picnic drowned in a pool of an amusement parknear here around 3pm on Monday. Shabarin Taz, a Class VI student of Matha English School, RT Nagar, was in a 140-strong contingent of students taken by her school in two buses to WonderLa, an amusement park about 28km from here. Shabarin and her friends were playing in an artificially-created sea

New Delhi, February 28: Three separate incidents of rape occurred in the capital in the last 48 hours. In the first incident , one Brijmohan, an employee ofBSES, was arrested for the alleged rape of his sister-in-law in Vivek Vihar , east Delhi. Police said he had been sexually abusing this secondyearDU student for the last one-anda-half years. ''On the basis of the victim's statement , we

Bangalore, February 27: A 23-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence here following dowry harassment, police said today. Roopa, a housewife with a one-year-old son, killed herself last night after she was allegedly harassed "physically and mentally" by her husband and his relatives, her relatives charged. Her husband Uday Raj has been taken into police

Bhopal, February 27: A 25-year-old pregnant woman and her six-year-old daughter's beheaded bodies were found in the servant quarter of a government farmhouse in Raisen district on Saturday night. Under a cot beside the beheaded bodies, police found a 'puja thali' with incense sticks, vermillion, sweets and other offerings. Vermillion was smeared on the foreheads of the victims. It is being

Noida, February 27: In yet another brutal assault on a girl in a moving car, a 17-year-old class X student of a city public school was allegedly gangrapedby five of her neighbours as they drove around Noida in their i10, police said. As shocking as the rape, which took place on Friday night, was the appalling behaviour of the city police. They not only let out personal details about the minor

Kasargod, February 26: An eight-year-old girl Ayishath Ibna, who had been suffering from diseases attributed to the spraying of endosulfan in the cashew estates of Plantation Corporation of Kerala Ltd. in the district, died on Saturday after battling for her life for two weeks. Ayishath, included in the official list of endosulfan victims, hailed from Perladka in Badiyaduka village. She died at