Crime and crash

Bangalore, December 17: A school principal was on Friday arrested on the charge of sexually assaulting a sixth standard girl. Mohammed Imtiaz Pasha, 52, Principal of Royal English School, Pillanna Garden, Tannery Road, is the arrested. According to the Kadugondanahalli police, around noon, Pasha called the girl into his office and promised to promote her to seventh standard in spite of several

Mysore, December 17: The six-year-old school girl, who had been admitted for burns after falling into a piping hot sambar, succumbed at a hospital here on Friday. Apoorva B was a second standard student at the Government Higher Primary School in Katte Hunsur in HD?Kote taluk in the district. She was standing in a queue for ‘bisi oota’ at her school on December 14 at 12.45 pm, when the accident

Hiriyur, December 17: Seven persons were killed and 48 injured in a road accident between a private bus and a lorry near Yaraballi village in Hiriyur taluk in Chithradurga district on Friday morning. Among the seven, five died on the spot and the other two died at the hospital. The dead are - physical education teacher of National Academy School of Hiriyur, Shridhar (33) from Jadekunte village

Dubai, December 16: The Court of Appeal recently fined an Indian man Dh2,000 for posting private photographs of his wife on the social networking site, Facebook. The court also slapped a fine of Dh1,000 on him for consuming liquor and quashed the deportation order handed down by the Court of Misdemeanours. The Court of Misdemeanours had earlier dismissed the case after the defendant submitted a

Dubai, December 16: The Dubai Police have achieved a breakthrough in the Dh3.5-million jewellery heist that took place in the Naif area of Deira in July with the arrest of three Kosovar suspects. The trio was arrested when they returned to Dubai to take away the booty they had left buried in a graveyard near Baniyas Square. The police recovered the jewellery. The robbery happened on July 20 night

Bangalore, December 15: A child begging racket has been busted in the IT hub of India. Bangalore police have rescued almost 300 children from a begging racket thriving in the city. According to a report published in CNN-IBN, the children were drugged and forced to beg by their masters What’s more shocking is that over a third of these children are infants, all under the age of three. The babies

Mysore, December 15: A six-year-old girl suffered serious burns after she fell into a container with piping hot sambar at her school in HD Kote taluk on Wednesday. Apoorva, a student of Class II in Katte Hosur, was standing in the queue for her mid-day meals when she was reportedly pushed by students vying for the food. She fell into the nearby container and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors at

Mangalore, December 14: An unidentified body of a middle aged man was found in a well located in a deserted place near Kankanady railway station. The locals noticed the decomposed body when the peeped into the well after sensing nasty smell. The matter was reported to police. The body was sent for postmortem. The police were investigating the matter.

Jeddah, December 14: A Saudi national has been murdered in mysterious circumstances at his home in Al-Nakheel in eastern Jeddah. The man was stabbed to death by an assailant whose identity remains unknown. Jeddah Police Spokesman, First Lt. Nawaf Al-Bouq, said: “An Asian expatriate made an urgent report to the security authorities about a dead body in Al-Nakheel District.” Security teams rushed to

Mangalore, December 14: A teenager impersonating as a lady doctor was caught red-handed while collecting money from female patient at Fr Muller’s Hospital and handed over to Pandeshwar Women Police on Tuesday. The accused identifying herself as Aishwarya Rai from Vittal was doing the rounds in the hospital impersonating as a doctor since a couple of days. The PU dropped revealing her modus