Crime and crash

Mumbai, Dec 16: Just when cybercriminals are busy duping people through sophisticated hacking techniques in the pandemic, some users in India have reported receiving a letter in their emails, promising $450,000 (nearly Rs 3.3 crore) from "Microsoft" for being winner of the "Microsoft Relief Grant and Support Initiative". This letter, which bears the name of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as

Lucknow, Dec 16: Eight people died, while 21 more sustained injuries on Wednesday morning when an Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus collided with a gas tanker here amid reduced visibility due to fog, police said. The crash took place in the Dhanari police station area, they added. “Eight people have died in the accident involving a bus of UP Roadways and a gas tanker. All the injured have been

Lucknow, Dec 16: In a shocking incident, a groom was stabbed to death barely hours after his marriage by some of his friends in a village near Aligarh because he refused to provide them more liquor to enjoy the celebrations. Police said the incident took place on Monday night in Palimukim Pur village when the 28-year-old Bablu went to meet his friends soon after his marriage. His friends, already

Hathras, Dec 16: The Hathras police have unearthed a manufacturing unit making spurious and counterfeit spices of local brands using donkey dung and acid. The factory is located in Navipur area and the police raided it on a tip-off. The unit owner, Anoop Varshney, who is also the office bearer of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, has been arrested. Hindu Yuva Vahini, is a Hindu Nationalist youth organistaion

Lucknow, Dec 15: A man shot dead his sister in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut town, about 450 kilometres from here, allegedly after she refused to make chapatis for his pet dogs. The man, identified as Ashish Kumar, a resident of Bhavanpur locality in the town, called the cops after killing his sister and informed them about the incident. He was later arrested. Police sources here said that Ashish, who

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 15: City-based journalist S V Pradeep was killed in a road accident nearby Karakkamandapa on Monday evening after the two wheeler he was riding was hit by a car, police said. Witnesses said the vehicle that hit Pradeep was a Swaraj Mazda truck and came from the same direction. The vehicle hit Pradeep's scooter, knocking him down and sped away after the accident. The police

Kanpur, Dec 14: An Army colonel posted here was booked on Sunday for allegedly raping a friend’s wife at an officers mess, police said. The victim’s husband, a civilian, lodged an FIR against the Army officer at the Cantonment police station, Superintendent of Police (East) Raj Kumar Agarwal said. According to the complainant, his wife is of Russian descent and has been living in India for 10

New Delhi, Dec 13: The 2013 railway bribe scam looked inspired by the Bollywood thrillers of late '70s and '80s in which the villains could be seen carrying one half of a rupee note to match it with the other half as the modus operandi to receive and deliver money. A similar tactic of matching the code numbers of Rs 10 currency notes could be seen in the bribery scam, the Enforcement Directorate

Hassan, Dec 11: A police sub inspector ended life unable to cope up with the pressure due to with the murder incidents and rising crime in Channarayapatna, Hassan district, said Arsikere DySP Nagesh. Nagesh, who led the probe into the suicide case of Kiran Kumar, submitted a report to SP R Srinivas Gowda on Thursday. Speaking to reporters, he said, the sub-inspector died by hanging on July 31, at

New Delhi, Dec 10: Expressing serious concern over the alleged rape of a woman by 17 men in Jharkhand's Dumka district, the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Thursday asked the state police to complete the probe in the case within two months. According to reports, the woman was raped and her husband held hostage by 17 men when the couple was returning from the market on Tuesday night. The