CRIME AND CRASH

Batala, Sept 5: Sahib Singh of Jangla village who suffered injuries in the Batala firecracker factory blast in Punjab's Gurdaspur district said he was fortunate enough to survive the tragedy, which claimed 23 lives and left 27 injured on Wednesday evening. "It (blast) was so powerful that I fell unconscious for a long time," said Singh, who had gone to the factory to buy firecrackers for the 532nd

New Delhi, Sept 3: A Delhi man has been fined a whopping ₹23,000 here for riding a motorcycle without wearing a helmet and also for not carrying important documents. Gurugram Police issued the man, identified as Dinesh Madan, a challan on Monday for not carrying the documents including his driving licence, registration certificate of the motorcycle and the pollution certificate. According to the

Shamli, Aug 30: A case has been registered against 40 unidentified people for allegedly thrashing a school teacher on the suspicion of child-lifting in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Friday. The incident occurred on Tuesday when Sachin came from Delhi in a train. The school teacher was rescued by the police, an officer said. A case has been registered on Thursday and a search is

Lucknow, AUg 29: A video purportedly showing Dalit students eating mid-day meals separately from other students at a primary school has gone viral following which an inquiry has been ordered into the incident. The video also shows that general and backward caste students bring their own utensils and do not have their meals in plates provided by the school as Dalit students use them. Taking note of

New Delhi, Aug 28: A madrasa teacher was allegedly killed after an altercation over the price of a pair of headphones with two hawkers turned violent in north Delhi, police said on Tuesday. The man, identified as 27-year-old Mohammad Owais, was thrashed by some shopkeepers on Monday night in the market area near Old Delhi Railway Station. After an argument broke out between them regarding the

Hyderabad, Aug 25: A Chennai-based software engineer has been arrested for allegedly luring several women with a front-office job at a five-star hotel in return for their nude photos, police said on Saturday. Pradeep, an employee of reputed IT company in Chennai, was arrested on August 22 on the complaint of a city-based woman. Over 60 nude photos of several women were found on his mobile phone

Kishanganj, Aug 24: In a scandalous fraud case, a man, Suresh Ram was allegedly found to have held down and drawn salaries from three different government jobs, simultaneously, for 30 years. This scam came into light after Ram's job details were revealed through the new Centralised Funds Management System (CFMS) which has recently been adopted by the Finance Department in Bihar. The accused has

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has acquitted a man in a murder case after he spent 21 years and nine months behind the bars. The high court has ordered immediate release of Sadhu Pradhan from jail. Pradhan, a resident of Kantapada village in Ganjam district, was arrested in November 1997 in connection with the killing of a woman. A district court sentenced him to life imprisonment in August 1999

New Delhi, Aug 23: Five Indian Air Force officers have been found guilty by a court of inquiry for the shooting down of a Mi-17VF chopper over Srinagar on February 27 in which six personnel were killed. Former Western Air Commander Air Marshal Hari Kumar was the in-charge of entire operations when the crash took place due to friendly fire from the Spyder air defence missile system. "Five officers

Hyderabad, Aug 23: In a gruesome incident, a man was brutally killed by his wife and children over a financial dispute and his body was later chopped into pieces and stored in plastic buckets at his residence here in Malkajgiri. The deceased was identified as Kishan Maruti Suthar, a 70-year-old retired railway employee. Three persons including deceased's wife Ganga Bai, son Kishan Suthar and