Crime and crash

Dubai, Sep 1: Bogus companies are into the art of persuasion to cheat social media users who are keen to invest money in trading projects. Gullible people fall into the net of those swindlers who lure them into trading projects that could generate plentiful returns. In a startling case of online cheating, a woman lost over Dh500,000 she invested after receiving a message from a man through social

Sangareddy, Sep 1: Tourists visiting a colonial-era jail here in Medak district of Telangana can now get a first-hand experience of prison life by paying a fee of Rs 500 for a day's stay. The 220-year-old district central jail at Sangareddy, which has now been converted into a museum, offers a 24-hour confinement under an innovative initiative called "Feel the Jail" launched by the prisons

Kolkata, Aug 31: Two drivers of a popular online cab aggregator service were arrested today for their alleged involvement in raping and killing a 12-year-old pavement dweller in the city. The duo — Shankar Shaw and Guddu Singh — allegedly kidnapped the girl last night by forcing her into an Ola taxi and drove her to the Park Circus flyover where they took turns to rape the minor inside the vehicle

Hyderabad, Aug 31: A 24-year-old air hostess was allegedly molested, robbed and later abandoned at an isolated spot on the outskirts of Hyderabad early Tuesday morning. The driver, identified as Imran, has been booked for attempt to rape and robbery. He had not been arrested till the time of going to press. The police have formed six special teams to hunt down Imran. The incident occurred around 2

New Delhi, Aug 30: In another tragic incident, an ailing boy died on his father's shoulder in Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh on Monday after the government-run Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital(LLR) allegedly denied admitting him. The emergency section of the hospital refused to admit 12-year-old Ansh and asked his father, Sunil Kumar, to take him to a children's hospital. Further, Kumar was not even

Vellore, Aug 30: A 40-year-old head constable attached to the highway patrol of Vellore district police was fatally knocked down by a truck near Vaniyambadi when he was engaged in vehicle check on the Chennai-Bangalore National Highway in the early hours of Monday. The head constable, T Raj Mohan, stopped a granite stone laden trailer truck heading towards Bangalore near the new bus stand on the

Jalandhar, Aug 30: Two employees of a private finance company here claimed that 10kg gold worth Rs 3 crore along with Rs 36,000 cash was taken away by armed robbers at gunpoint from their office on Monday afternoon. However, senior police officials revealed that till late evening, the company could not produce any document which could substantiate its claims about the quantum of gold. Around five

Bengaluru, Aug 29: Sheila, 37, from northwest Bengaluru, was arrested in connection with the alleged kidnap and murder of another woman whose charred body was found in Mandya district. Her accomplice, Arun, is at large. The body of Thimmamma, 56, a chit fund operator, was found on August 25. Police said she was kidnapped by Sheila, who had invested in her chit fund. Sheila would visit Thimmamma to

Bengaluru, Aug 28: A division bench of the High Court has recalled an earlier order sentencing a dead man to undergo rigorous imprisonment of three months. The recall order came on August 16, 2016, six years after the court had passed the earlier judgement on July 28, 2010. The information that the accused was dead was not presented to the court when it passed the order in 2010. In its latest

Bhubaneswar, Aug 27: A Government Railway Police's (GRP) Assistant Sub-Inspector was today suspended for "not performing his duty properly" leading to undignified treatment of an old woman's body in Odisha's Balasore district. "We have suspended ASI P R Mishra for not performing his duty properly while transporting the body of an old woman. The ASI was suspended after preliminary inquiry into the