Crime and crash

Kollegal, January 25: Five members of a family committed suicide by consuming poison and hanging themselves from a beam at the farmhouse of Shivamallegowda at Bollegowdanadoddi near Tellanur in the taluk in Chamarajnagar district on Tuesday. Javed Pasha, 48, his wife Shakeela Banu, 35, daughters Yasmin Taj, 22, Tasmin Taj alias Minna, and son Mujaid Pasha alias Shaibu, 20, are the dead. Sultan

Sindhagi, January 25: Noorandeshwara Shivacharya, seer of Hiremutt at Kakkalameli village in the taluk, was killed by miscreants with an axe on Monday night. The 35-year-old priest was hit on the head and one of the shoulders. He was rushed to the Sindhagi government hospital. But he died on the way to Solapur where he was being taken for advanced treatment. Police said a property dispute was

Mysore, January: After dillydallying for six months, the Syndicate of the University of Mysore has initiated action against Prof Shivabasavaiah accused of sexually harassing a research scholar. Addressing the media on Tuesday, vice-chancellor Prof V?G?Talawar said the syndicate that met recently had decided to cut nine increments of the professor, besides transferring the accused to the PG centre

Suri, January 24: An 18-year-old girl was allegedly torturedand paraded in a semi-naked condition by family members of her second husband in a Birbhum village on Sunday night. The administration admitted the girl to Rampurhat subdivisional hospital on Monday. Her sister-in-law was detained for interrogation though the rest of the accused and the woman's husband went into hiding. The teen got

Michael Grzybowicz, 26, is accused in the sickening rape of a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando (Florida), January 24: A federal judge in Florida on Monday convicted a 27-year-old man of raping a toddler at SeaWorld while her parents were on a ride, prosecutors said. He faces up to 60 years in prison. Michael Brian Grzybowicz was arrested on February 19, 2011, after he raped a 2-year-old girl

Surat, January 23: Three workers were found to have died of suffocation caused by gas in a jewellery making unit, functioning since years on Ambaji Road in the walled city area here on Sunday. Subopal, 22, Rahul Hamaru, 18 and Surbho Kartama, 25, were found dead in the basement of Dhanlakshmi Chamber. The trio had come to Surat from West Bengal and was living alone in the city, having found job in

Karwar, January 23: A Nepali youth who had come to Gokarna in Uttara Kannada district to work in a resort committed suicide by hanging himself in the bathroom of the resort on Sunday. He has been identified as Sung Tamang (25) from Goddang in Nepal. He was married just two months ago and his wife is working in New Delhi. It is suspected that a family dispute is the reason for the suicide

Ranchi, January 22: Maoist guerrillas killed the 13 policemen in Jharkhand by shooting most of the wounded men in their head and also threw two of them into a burning vehicle, officials said Sunday. Police officials based on inputs from the attack site in a forested part of Garwah district provided graphic details of the deadly ambush by the guerrillas Saturday. Thirteen policemen, including sub

Karwar, January 22: R H Naik, senior health inspector, Karwar City Municipal Council, was caught red-handed receiving bribe by the Lokayukta officials on Saturday. He was working on contract for six months, it is said. According to the Lokayukta officials, Naik had asked Lokesh Sawant of Nadanagadda to pay him Rs. 1,500 to secure permission to building a toilet. Mr. Sawant complained this to the

Garhwa (Jharkhand), January 21: Thirteen policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station, were today killed and two others injured when Maoists triggered a landmine blast near the jungles of Bariganwa in this district. "The Maoists triggered the blast, killing 12 policemen and the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station R B Choudhary around 11 am," SP Michael S Raj