Crime and crash

Vijayapura, Feb 25: Seven farm workers were killed after a container truck rammed the tractor-trailer they were travelling in, at Budni Cross near Almatti on Tuesday. All the victims were being ferried to Mukartihal village for harvesting jowar. They were travelling with a thresher machine. A speeding container truck with Haryana registration rammed the trailer from behind over a bridge near Budni

New Delhi, Feb 21: A woman from Kenya has accused four men of gang-raping her in a moving car in south Delhi’s Saket in the early hours of Friday. The accused have been arrested, the police said. The woman, who came to India on a tourist visa, was found lying in an injured and unconscious state near east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar around 2:45 am. The police said the incident was reported by DND Flyway

Berhampur (Odisha), Feb 12: About 60 students of a government-run girls' school have left hostel en masse after they came to know that the school's accountant allegedly clicked their nude pictures with the help of the hostel cook at Gudiali in Ganjam district, officials said today. The accountant of the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (BGVB) clicked the photographs when the students were on a

Hyderabad, Feb 6: Women's rights activist Sunitha Krishnan shared a video on YouTube yesterday showing five rapists posing for camera while raping a woman mercilessly. The rapists posed for a picture with a smile on their face before they took turns to rape the woman. Sunitha, who runs an NGO in Hyderabad, discovered this video on WhatsApp after an acquaintance informed her about it. The video was

Raichur, Jan 28: A worker died after a huge pipe came crashing down on him from a crane at the Yermaras?Thermal Power Station (YTPS) site near Raichur on Tuesday. Hundreds of workers and local residents, enraged by the incident, went on a rampage and ransacked the office at the plant site. The deceased has been identified as Mahesh (27), a native of Uttar Pradesh. The accident occurred at 12 noon

Hyderabad, Jan 21: A cab driver was today arrested here on the charge of filming a lady passenger in an "indecent" manner, police said. Members of a `SHE' team of police, on duty near IT Corridor, found Md Abdul Rashid filming the woman passenger in his cab on a mobile phone while driving. The woman, a BPO employee, was sitting in the front seat and had dozed off at the time and hence unaware that

Raichur, Jan 17: Two labourers working on an underground pipe supplying water to the cooling tower of Yermaras Thermal Power Station (second unit)?near Raichur were buried alive after mud caved in on them on Friday. The deceased have been identified as Mukhilesh, 25, and Matin, 53, both from West Bengal. Two more workers—Syed Hussain Nuziulla, 58, and Syed-ul-Hassan, 25, —were injured in the

New Delhi, Jan 5: A 32-year-old software engineer allegedly committed suicide after critically injuring his wife at a high-end apartment in Dwarka this morning. Amit Bachchan and Shivani got married in November last year and neighbours told police that they had a strained relationship fraught with frequent quarrels. Last night, Amit returned home after a party and an argument broke out between the

Gaya/Kolkata, Jan 3: In another shameful incident, a Japanese girl was allegedly confined and raped by two persons in Bihar's Gaya. The accused were arrested on Friday by a joint team of Kolkata and Gaya Police. "A joint team of Kolkata and Gaya Police arrested two brothers -- Zahir and Shahid -- from their house in Taro village under Fatehpur police station of Gaya district for confining and

Indore, Dec 28: A black cobra killed a white tiger in its enclosure at Indore zoo on Saturday after a fight that left the snake paralysed. On Saturday morning, the zoo officials found the two-year-old tiger, Rajan, unconscious, bleeding from the nose and foaming at the mouth. Though doctors were rushed in, he was declared dead. Postmortem has confirmed the tiger died due to snake bite. And away