Crime and crash

Mandya, Aug 14: A 10-year-old boy, who ate a snack laced with rat poison, died at Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences hospital here on Friday night after battling for life for two days. According to the Kala Muddana Doddi police, the boy, identified as N. Kishan, was a native of Kannali village in Maddur taluk. He was at his grandmother Ningamma’s residence at Gurudevarahalli when he consumed the

San Francisco, Aug 13: A Silicon Valley internet mogul who sold his startup for $300 million at the age of 25 and appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as a highly eligible bachelor was sentenced on Friday to a year in jail for violating his probation in a domestic violence case. However, Gurbaksh Chahal, 34, will not immediately begin serving the sentence because San Francisco Superior Court Judge

Mumbai, Aug 13: Four teenagers, who had gone on a picnic with three others to Rajodi beach at Virar on Thursday, were feared drowned in the sea. The boys — Sunil Palav (15), Rohan Jadhav (17), Sachin Vishwakarma (16) and Chetan Kalap (19) — were swept away, said fire brigade officials. All four reside in Nalasopara and are school or college students. A few local residents said that the boys had

Chennai, Jul 5: A final year MBBS student allegedly threw a dog from the top of a building here which was videographed by his friend and soon after the footage went viral in social media, animal welfare activists today filed a complaint with police who are on the lookout for the accused. In the video, the student, said to be Gowtham Sudarshan, a final year MBBS student of a private medical college

Lucknow, Jun 27: In a bizarre case reported from a Kanpur village, a 10-year-old boy was hospitalised after a minor girl tried to force him into having sex with her. The incident took place in Kulhauli village of Bidhnu area when the 16-year-old girl sweet-talked the boy from her neighborhood into his house and tried to have sex with him. In the attempt, the boy sustained serious injuries in his

Jammu, Nov 21: Pictures of a white-bearded policeman purportedly sitting on the lap of a woman Special Police Officer (SPO) in a police station in Rajouri district has gone viral on social media, prompting authorities to suspend him. Two pictures were posted in Facebook and WhatsApp in which Head Constable Zakir Hussain was seen sitting on the lap of a woman SPO who was seated on a chair in Budhal

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 19: Six people, including a couple who led Kerala’s controversial Kiss of Love (KoL) protest against moral policing, were arrested by the police for involvement in an online sex racket in Kochi, early on Wednesday. The police said Rahul Pasupalan acted as supplier of girls, including minors, and his wife, model Rashmi Nair, was an agent who also offered sexual services to

Mexico City, Nov 13: Karla Jacinto, a 23-year-old victim of human trafficking in Mexico, was raped 43,200 times after being lured into prostitution at the tender age of 12. Narrating her ordeal to CNN, Jacinto claimed that she was sexually assaulted by around 30 men in a single day for 4 years. While recalling her childhood days, the 23-year-old said she was trafficked by a person when she was

Tiruchirappalli, Oct 21: At least nine people died and 14 were injured after a state-run bus rammed into a stationary lorry near Tiruchirappalli late on Tuesday night, police said. The bus from Chennai to Nagercoil rammed into the stationary lorry at Samayapuram, killing at least nine bus passengers on the spot, police said. Those injured have been taken to a hospital and some of them are in a

New Delhi, Oct 8: Two inmates were killed and over a dozen undertrials and Tihar jail staff suffered critical injuries in a gang war inside the high-security prison on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place around 2 pm in jail No. 1 when three prisoners of the high security ward -- Ishwar, Vijay and Shadab -- were being taken back to their ward after a routine medical check-up in the jail