Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Jan 13: A?19-year-old ITI student committed suicide by shooting himself with a single barrel gun at his house in Raghavendra Nagar here on Thursday morning. The police said Bhuvan, a student of National Institute of Engineering in the city, shot himself in his chest with his father’s gun. He shot himself at the kitchen of his house after dropping his sister for tuitions in Kalyanagiri

Patna, Jan 12: During a recent visit to Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alcohol ban policy in Bihar. He said: “I greet Nitish Kumar from the core of my heart for launching a campaign against liquor. But, this work (prohibition) would not be a grand success only by efforts of Nitish Kumar or one party. All the political parties, social organisations

Patna/Hajipur, Jan 11: Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) MLA Lallan Paswan has stirred a controversy by purportedly asking objectionable questions to girls of a residential Dalit school in Bihar's Vaishali district where he had gone in connection with death of a Class X girl allegedly after being raped. The MLA from Chenari (reserved seat) in Rohtas district, was captured on camera asking the

Kolar, Jan 11: A married woman was gangraped by three men near Dodavallabbi village of Kolar taluk on January 8. The prime suspect in the case is known to the victim. The woman had come to stay with her uncle following a quarrel with her husband. On January 8, three men, one of them identified as Amar, came to the house of the victim and told her that her brother had collapsed after consuming

Bengaluru, Jan 10: A junior artiste was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a construction site where shooting was underway for a Kannada film in north Bengaluru on Monday evening. In November, two actors had died while shooting a stunt scene in Bengaluru. Padma alias Padmavathi, 44, was among the 120 artistes taking part in the shooting of the film, VIP, directed by Nandakishore and

New Delhi, Jan 9: At an apartment in east Delhi, horror unraveled on Sunday afternoon as a former merchant navy sailor allegedly stabbed his father over 30 times, attacked his mother and blew up the flat, leaving several, including policemen, injured. Around 2.30 pm on Sunday, Rahul Mata allegedly stabbed his father RP Mata, a retired financial sector employee, repeatedly with a knife at their

Lucknow, Jan 8: Four labourers were killed and six others were severely injured after a car crashed into a night shelter in Lucknow early this morning. The car - a Hyundai i20 - crashed into the night shelter in central Lucknow's Dalibagh area. The car was allegedly being driven at a high speed when it crashed into the night shelter at around 2 am. 35 labourers were sleeping inside when the

Mumbai, Jan 7: Shiv Sena MLA Harshvardhan Jadhav, son-in-law of state BJP chief Raosaheb Danve, was on Friday handed a year-long rigorous imprisonment by a district court in Aurangabad for assaulting police officials at Ellora in January 2011. District and sessions judge R R Kakani fined Jadhav Rs 5,000 each for the two offences slapped in the case under sections 353 (assault or criminal force to

Bengaluru, Jan 7: A Facebook post by a man’s unofficial wife has exposed his suspected philandering ways. Police are now hot on his trail following complaints by the unofficial spouse as well as his legally wedded wife of six months. Minal (name changed), 28, filed a cheating complaint against Vazir Ahmed Shariff, whom she had met eight years ago through a common friend who introduced him as

Mumbai, Jan 6: A 29-year-old woman was stabbed by an unidentified person near Mahalakshmi Race Course in Central Mumbai, police said today. The incident occurred at around 7.30 PM yesterday near the race course. Police got information about it after Nair Hospital authorities informed the police control room. Senior police officials late last night went to the hospital to see the victim, who is