Crime and crash

Mysuru, Mar 12: A woman from the city has committed suicide holding her son-in-law and his parents responsible for her death. Rajeshwari, 52, consumed toxic liquid early on Thursday. She died at a hospital later in the day. Quoting her suicide note, police said the woman has accused her son-in-law Ravikumar and his parents -- Govindappa and Gowramma -- responsible for driving her to take the

Raipur, Mar 11: Eleven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)personnel were today killed whenNaxalsambushed aroad opening partyof the security forces in Maoist-hitSukma district ofChhattisgarh, police said. Five jawans were also injured in the attack that took place in the dense forests of Bhejji police station limits at 9:15 AM when a patrol party of CRPF's 219 battalion was out for a road opening

Agra, Mar 11: A 19-year-old German woman and her Indian husband, Abhijit Soni, 23, died in an accident on the Yamuna Expressway late on Thursday. Louisa Joan Rose, who worked as a car designer with Mercedes-Benz and had got married just six months ago, and Soni, who were on a motorcycle, collided with a potato-laden tractor-trolley on the expressway at milestone 131 near the Mathura-Agra border at

Bengaluru, Mar 9: A 31-year-old man arrested for rape in 2014 and given bail a year later, has been arrested again by the Bengaluru police, who suspect that he raped two women who live in hostels in the city last week. A 23-year-old woman has told the police that she was raped at knife-point at her paying-guest accommodation by a man in HAL police station limits, close to the IT offices district

Mar 7: An air ambulance from India has crash-landed en route to Bangkok, killing the pilot and injuring two doctors of Gurgaon’s Medanta Hospital. The plane was carrying five people and it caught fire before crash-landing near Bangkok, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Monday. Swaraj said pilot Arunaksha Nandy died in the incident on Sunday even as two doctors were seriously

New Delhi, Mar 6: A 17-year-old boy died after he was ran over by a Mercedes-Benz near Miawali Nagar in West Delhi on Monday. According to the police, the incident happened early morning on Monday when the boy was driving a scooter. The speeding Mercedes lost control near G Block and rammed into the scooter. Sources said that the impact of the collision was such that the boy was flung into the air

Kozhikode, Mar 6: A 24-year-old air hostess allegedly committed suicide at her flat in Karipur, about 27km from here, police said. They said Monisha Mohan, an air hostess with Air India Express, was found hanging in her flat by a male colleague, who went there on a request by her mother after she failed to get any response to repeated calls. Monisha had returned to her flat on Saturday after work

Rajkot, Mar 4: Fake currency notes with a face value of Rs 3.92 crore have been seized from a car belonging to a city-based financier lodged in jail, police said today. The currency notes were suspected to be printed by Ketan Dave, a city-based financier, who is presently in judicial custody on charges of cheating a scrap dealer Nitin Patel, they said. The Rajkot Police found the car parked at one

New Delhi, Mar 3: Amidst protests against "anti-national activities" in the Delhi University, a poster calling for azadi for Kashmir sprang up on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Thursday. Some students noticed the poster on the wall of the School of Social Sciences' new block and apprised the university's administration of the same. The poster, which appeared in the name of Left-leaning

London, Mar 3: A British man admitted on Thursday raping a woman in a violent two-hour attack just hours before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend. Derry McCann, 28, who newspapers reported had only recently been freed from prison after carrying out a similar rape in 2006, attacked the woman as she returned home from a night out with friends shortly after midnight on Jan. 13. He dragged his