Crime and crash

London, February 12: Three Indians have been charged with the attempted murder of Praveen Reddy, an MBA student, who was critically stabbed on Friday night in Newham here. The Metropolitan Police today told PTI that the three are: Amareshwar Arava, 25, Sai Kishore Balguri, 25 and Nishanth Puttapaka, 23. "We are not treating the incident as racially motivated at this time, "a police spokesperson

Madurai, February 12: In a rare case, a woman who killed her husband after he attacked her in an inebriated state and also attempted to rape their daughter, walked free after she was released by the police on the grounds of private defence here on Saturday. Usha Rani had problems with her husband Jothibasu since 1995. There were complaints against Jothibasu in many police stations stating that he

London/Hyderabad, February 12 :A 26-year-old Indian student was critically stabbed in the London borough of Newham on Friday night and 11 people have been arrested in this connection, Scotland Yard said on Saturday. This is the fourth attack on Indians in the last two months. The earlier three incidents were fatal. “Police called at 8:23 am on Friday (February 10) to Newham General Hospital after

Chennai, February 12: The 15-year-old boy who killed his teacher in a classroom in the city apparently after she complained about his grades has told cops that he doesn't want to meet his parents. "I've brought dishonour to my family. I can't face them," a police officer quoted him as saying. The boy's father, a businessman, told police that he had scolded his son after the teacher made adverse

Srinagar, February 11: A magisterial inquiry was today ordered by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah into the ''accidental'' killing of a youth in Baramulla district by the army even as head of Srinagar-based 15 Corps apologised to the family of the deceased. Ashiq Hussain Rather, a resident of Lesar village near Watargam in Rafiabad area of Baramulla district, 75 km from here, died

Bangalore, February 11: The body of a six year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and then smothered to death, has been found in an under-construction building near here, police said today. The girl, daughter of daily-wagers, hailed from Siruguppa taluk in Bellary. Police said the parents had left the girl alone to look after her two-year-old brother but when they returned they found her missing

Mangalore, February 11: Lokayuktha Police trapped a tahsildar of Bantwal Taluk while accepting a bribe of Rs 2000 for transferring a gun license of one Satish Prabhu on Friday. The tahsildar Narayana Rao was caught red handed following a complaint lodged by by one Satish Prabhu, said Lokayuktha Police Inspector Udaya Nayak. The complainant wanted to transfer the ownership of gun license which was

Kolkata, February 11: A 17-year-old boy, who was among the top-rankers in class and aimed to crack the civil services exams, was found dead in Rabindra Sarovar on Friday morning. Riju Basak, a Class XI student of La Martiniere for Boys, was missing since the previous evening. At 6pm on Thursday, he made a last call to his mother but did not utter a word. Maybe he only wanted to hear his mother's

New Delhi, February 11: A 16-year-old girl was abducted by two men and raped in a moving car in Kanjhawala area of northwest Delhi on Friday. The accused pushed the girl into a Wagon R and drove around the neighbourhood even as they took turns to rape her, police said. The accused, Amit and Manoj, have been held. Shockingly, the car zoomed past scores of pickets and police barricades, but was not

Bangalore, February 10: A 23-year-old man went out in the wee hours of Thursday with his close friend for a bike ride, only to be brought home dead. David John, the only child of hearing impaired parents, was so passionate about ‘wheelies and toeing’ that he ignored the traffic police signboards reading ‘Speed thrills, but kills’. According to Ashoknagar police, John’s parents Albert John and