Crime and crash

Mumbai, Sept 9: The car of a 39-year-old HDFC Bank executive, who has been missing since Wednesday, was found abandoned in adjoining Navi Mumbai with blood stains on its rear seat, said police Saturday. Siddharth Sanghavi, a resident of upscale Malabar Hill area in South Mumbai who is a vice president at HDFC Bank in Kamala Mills compound, is untraceable since Wednesday evening, a police official

Bagalkot, Sept 8: Four persons were killed in a collision between a truck and a Maruti Omni van in Mudhol town in Bagalkot district on Saturday. The victims are Kaseemsaab Mujawar (42), Afreena Kaseemsaab (35), Shabana Noor Ahmed (38). They hailed from Kalakeri village. The accident occurred near K R Lakkam School on Vijayapura-Belagavi highway. They were in Goa for works and were returning to

Davangere, Sep 8: Four youths from Bengaluru were killed and two others seriously injured when a car in in which they were travelling hit a road divider and capsized near Hanagawadi village on NH 2, about 20 km from here, during early hours on Saturday. Police said that the mishap occurred when the victims were on their way to Karkala from Bengaluru. The injured have been admitted to district

Bangkok, Sep 8: Fourteen female tourists have claimed that they were sexually assaulted by a guru at a yoga retreat in Thailand's picturesque Koh Phangan island, a media report said on Friday. Agama Yoga embraced ancient tantric teachings under its charismatic leader, the guru Swami Vivekananda Saraswati whose real name is Narcis Tarcau, the Guardian report said. Tarcau, who is from Romania, set

New Delhi, Sept 6: A Delhi court on Thursday imposed a fine of Rs two lakh on AAP MLA from Tughlakabad, Sahi Ram Pahalwan, for assaulting a youth in September 2016. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal did not award any jail term to the AAP politician as "an opportunity to reform" himself. Besides Pahalwan, co-convicts Subhash and Lalit were also directed to pay a fine of Rs two

Kolkata, Sept 5: A section of an over 50-year-old bridge on the arterial Diamond Harbour Road in south Kolkata collapsed Tuesday evening, killing one person, trapping several people and crushing many vehicles, police said. The Majerhat bridge in the crowded Alipore area caved in around 4.45 pm during rush hour. It runs over the Majerhat Railway Station and connects the city centre with the heavily

Gorakhpur, Sep 5: A senior officer of the North Eastern Railway (NER) and former Ranji cricketer allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at his official bungalow in the Shahpur area here, police said Wednesday. Tarun Shukla (56), who was posted as the deputy chief commercial manager, was found dead in the drawing room of his residence on Tuesday afternoon with a revolver lying near him

Bengaluru, Sept 3: Central Crime Branch (CCB) of city Police have nabbed a notorious vehicle lifter and recovered from him stolen 32 two-wheelers worth about Rs 10. 91 lakhs in the city. Police said on Monday said that the arrested was identified as Umashankar (41) and on his information the stolen vehicles were recovered. He was involved in 18 vehicle theft cases recently. JC Nagar police have

Nalanda, Sept 2: The Bihar police have arrested one person in connection with a case in which a man was thrashed and made to lick his own spit following a dispute. The case came into light on Saturday after a video went viral showing a man being thrashed by a group of men with wooden sticks. The men then made the victim touch their feet and lick his own spit. Speaking to ANI, Superintendent of

Bengaluru, Sept 2: CCB Women and Narcotic Drug squad have arrested a 47 year-old man and seized from him Rs 15 lakhs worth banned drugs. Police on Sunday said that the arrested Suresh was smuggling banned drugs from abroad through his son Mohit and selling it cladistinly in the State. The banned drugs seized from included 180 gram of Hydro Ganja, 169 LSD Bottling papers, 168 Exertion tablets, 210