Crime and crash

Bhagalpur, Mar 11: A bride-to-be in dry Bihar declined to tie the knot when she learnt that her would-be husband had arrived in an inebriated condition, after which the groom a police constable was arrested. According to Sub Divisional Police Officer, Kahalgaon, Dilnawaz Ahmed, Uday Rajak a resident of Tilakpur village here who is posted in Nalanda district had reached the house of Yogendra Rajak

Lucknow, BJP MP Sharad Tripathi and party's Uttar Pradesh MLA Rakesh Singh Baghel on Wednesday came to blows during a meeting to discuss developmental projects here. Initially, both of them had a verbal argument over the placement of names on a foundation stone of some development project. However, the argument soon turned ugly as the two leaders got into jostling, pushing each other and

Malda, Mar 6: A 35-year-old man was burnt to death in West Bengal's Malda district after a woman he allegedly raped and set on fire, grabbed him while still ablaze, police said Tuesday. The woman is now under treatment at the Malda Medical College and Hospital with burn injuries in her face and hands, officials said. She claimed that the accused used to disturb her and entered her house on Monday

Houston, Mar 3: Sini Mathews, the Indian-American foster mother of three-year-old special needs girl Sherin Mathews who was found dead in a culvert in suburban Dallas in 2017, was freed from jail after 15 months as the child endangerment charges against her have been dropped in the US due to lack of evidence. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said on Friday that there was not enough

Palghar, Mar 2: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly repeatedly raped by a boy at a village in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The boy, 12, was booked following a complaint lodged by the girl's parents, police said. "Both the minors are neighbours. As per the complaint, the boy had been raping the girl since the last four months," an official of Mokhada police station said. A

Bengaluru, Mar 1: Police have nabbed a notorious cheater and recovered from him Rs 33 lakhs worth 9 Cannon cameras and 14 costly lens. Police said on Friday that the arrested Asaf Khan, posing as a professional photographer, used to take on hire for 4 to 5 days costly cameras and putting them on sale through OLX and selling to lead a luxury life. High Grounds police, posing as customer, nabbed him

Kollam, Mar 1: An 18-year-old boy, who was beaten up by his neighbour for allegedly teasing a girl, died at a hospital, police said Friday. The teenager had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in the state capital, where he died Thursday night, they said. Vineeth, a warden of a district jail here was taken into custody in connection with the death. The warden had slapped the boy alleging that

New York, Feb 27: An Indian student has been arrested after being charged with intentionally causing damage to over 50 protected computers owned by a college in New York state capital Albany, officials said on Wednesday. Vishwanath Akuthota, 26 was arrested on February 22 in North Carolina after being charged with intentionally causing damage to protected computers owned by The College of Saint

Belagavi, Feb 25: Three persons died on the spot while six others sustained injuries when a loaded Canter mini lorry overturned under Aigali police station limits in the district, police said on Monday. The driver of the mini lorry, loaded with grape cartons, lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a bend and the vehicle overturned. The mini truck was coming from Bellanki Village in

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 25: Young filmmaker Nayana Sooryan was found dead in her rented apartment at Althara in the capital on Saturday night. She was 28. Hailing from Alappad, she was a familiar face in the city’s film circles along with her mentor Lenin Rajendran. After her graduation in 2010, she began working as an assistant director with Lenin for the film ‘Makaramanju’. She also assisted him