Crime and crash

Karwar, January 28: Three persons travelling by a car were injured on National Highway at Rangikatte in Bhatkal on Thursday night when a motorcycle rider threw a soft drink bottle at the moving car.Injured. The injured persons were identified as Sultana (20), Nouphil Khalil Damoudi (23), and Naveed Iftikar Musba (32). Of them, Ms. Sultana who was sitting in the rear seat, has suffered serious

Kuwait City, January 28: Renowned Indian singer Deepali Joshi was killed in a tragic road accident in Kuwait on Friday night. Deepali Joshi was in Kuwait to perform for a show to be held on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The event in Kuwait was organized by Al Mulla Exchange Company to commemorate India's 63rd Republic Day celebration. Deepali was on her way to the hotel from the Kuwait International

Karwar, January 28: In a shocking incident, as many as 18 dogs attacked a four-year-old boy at Maaladevinagar in Karwar on Friday. The boy Dhanush Madiwal was seriously injured in the incident. According to his mother Bharati, she and Dhanush were going to temple and 18 dogs of Marina Fernadis attacked them. Both of them were bitten. Dhanush suffered injuries on chest, face, and hips. The people

Mangalore, January 28: A missing woman was found dead at Allanki in Honnavar taluk on Friday. The body was identified as Sushma Mahabaleshwar Hegde (21). According to her family members, Sushma had gone to Honnavar with her aunt on January 24. After returning to Allanki, she asked her aunt to go home and she went missing. But her body was found on Friday in a well of the farm of Shrikant Hegde

Honnavar, January 28: An 18-year-old girl died after she was bitten by snake bite at Gunakeri in Honnavar taluk on Thursday night. Although Mamata Nagu Gowda was on Thursday afternoon, bitten by a snake, she did not realise it. It was only after some delay that she started feeling pain on her right leg. While shifting to Manipal Hospital, she died on her way. The Honnavar police have registered a

Dubai, January 27: A worker has been sentenced to two years in prison for ripping off a housemaid's clothes and attempting to rape her in the kitchen of her sponsor's house. The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 22-year-old Indian worker, H.K., of attempted rape. Prosecution records said the suspect failed to rape the housemaid after he got scared and ran away when the kitchen’s intercom

Hyderabad, January 27: A 14-year-old boy was killed by a gang of people who believed a human sacrifice would yield them a secret treasure in Andhra Pradesh's Nirmal town, police said yesterday. The police yesterday recovered the body of Ganesh at Shyamgarh Fort on the outskirts of the town. One man, Raju, who reportedly sold the boy for Rs20,000 (Dh1,466) to the treasure seekers, has been arrested

Mangalore, January 26: Five persons were killed in three gruesome road accidents on Wednesday. Three persons including a woman were killed in a collusion between a sports utility vehicle and a private bus near Mattur church in Beluvai near Belthangady on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as John Menezes (79), Sunil Clady Menezes (37) and his wife Veena Priya Menezes (27). The couple's

Mangalore, January 25: A married woman, who sustained severe burns in a gas stove fire last week, succumbed to here injuries on Tuesday night. Zainaba, wife of Aslam, a resident of Yemmekere, who had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city, following the fire mishap occurred at the kitchen room due to LGP cylinder leakage at her house near Yemmekere grounds in the city last

Pune, January 25: It was a nightmare in the Swargate area in the heart of the city, as the bus driven by a Maharashtra State Corporation bus driver came from wrong side of the busy Pune--Solapur Road and went past smashing all types of vehicles in the way and injuring pedestrians, who ran for their lives. The driver 30-year-old Santosh Mane was arrested after an hour-long chase near Neelayam