Crime and crash

Chandigarh, Oct 26: Seven months after a Haryana rape survivor was made to marry her rapist on the intervention of a panchayat, unending torment at her inlaws' hands drove the 19year-old girl to hang herself on Tuesday. A case was registered atJagadhri City police station. The rape took place at Jagadhri inYamunanagar district in October 2015, and the rapist, Anuj, was booked and arrested. However

New Delhi, Oct 25: One person was killed and two others were injured in an explosion in north Delhi's Naya Bazar area today. A senior police officer said the cause of the explosion was yet to be ascertained. Forensic teams and officers from the Special Cell are on the spot and collecting samples. Delhi Police personnel have been maintaining a tight vigil in view of the festive season.

Gurugram, Oct 25: A 32-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed 30 times by a stalker at the busy M.G. Road metro station here during rush hour on Monday morning. She received wounds on her face, neck, chest and abdomen and died before she reached the hospital, according to the post-mortem report. Pinki, who worked at a beauty parlour in Rohini, was on her way to the metro station to catch a train to

New Delhi, Oct 24: A woman flyer fromUnited States of America was apprehended at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) for allegedly carrying a live bullet in her baggage. Officials said the incident was reported on October 21 when on-duty Central Industrial Security Force officials detected the live bullet of 9mm caliber gun in the woman's bag, when she was undergoing se curity check before

New Delhi, Oct 23: A 20-year-oldwoman fell unconscious in a crowded swimming pool atDelhi Rides water park on Saturday afternoon and died later in a hospital. Savita had gone there with some NGO volunteers. She didn't know how to swim and suffered from epilepsy. Apparently, nobody noticed that she was in trouble until her unconscious form started to float. She was pulled out and rushed to a

California, Oct 23: A Fresno man was sentenced to 1,503 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter over a four-year period. The 41-year-old was sentenced Friday to the longest-known prison sentence in Fresno Superior Court history, the Fresno Bee reported. The Associated Press is not naming the man because it could identify his daughter. The AP does not name victims of sexual abuse. In

Bhubaneswar, Oct 22: The death toll in Odisha's SUM Hospital fire has mounted to 26, as a person undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospital here succumbed to injuries on Saturday, a health official said. The deceased has been identified as Kartikeswar Das of GGP colony in Rasulgarh area of Bhubaneswar. Following the Monday's blaze, the patient was shifted to Apollo Hospital on the same evening. Two

Madurai, Oct 20: Eight people at a scan centre in Sivakasi, including patients, died of suffocation after a fire broke out at a nearby fireworks shop on Thursday afternoon. Around 1.30pm, workers at Raghavendra Agency on the Sivakasi - Virudhunagar road were unloading fireworks from a minivan. According to police sources at the Sivakasi East Police station, the fireworks exploded when a bundle

New Delhi, Oct 20: Rocky Yadav, arrested in May for shooting a college student in Bihar in a case of road rage, has been released from prison after getting bail from the Patna High Court. Rocky, whose real name is Rakesh Ranjan Yadav, was driving his SUV in Gaya, 110 km from the capital of Patna, when it was overtaken by 19-year-old Aditya Sachdeva, who was with his friends in a Maruti Swift. Mr

Ghaziabad, Oct 19: Two minors, who were injected with petrol in their anus by a Ghaziabad politician’s brother over suspicions that they stole a mobile phone, will need surgery doctors said on Wednesday. Rizwan Qureshi, the brother of Samajwadi Party politician Haji Ehsan Qureshi, tortured the minors , who are 16 and 17 years old, and a 24-year-old man at Loni on October 12. Rizwan and his aides