Crime and crash

Aug 16: Two Kolhapur women, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, may become the first women ever to be hanged in India. President Pranab Mukherjee late last month rejected Renuka Kiran Shinde and her sister Seema Mohan Gavit's mercy petitions. The buffer period before their hanging - time taken by the state home department to inform all concerned

San Francisco, Aug 12: Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay Area home Monday, according to the sheriff's office in Marin County

Kolkata, Aug 10: A tiger snatched a woman off her boat in the Sunderbans on Friday as her husband looked on helplessly. The deceased has been identified as Bhagawati Mondal (42), a resident of Dayapur. Bhagawati, along with her husband Sunil Mondal and neighbour Parimal Mridha, had ventured into the forests of Dhulo Bauli under Pirkhali VI compartment to catch crabs. Sources said they had left

Indore, Aug 8: At a time when instant messaging services like WhatsApp and others contribute in rapid change in the level of communication, sometime they also become reasons for spoiling relationships. The craze of WhatsApp was so high in Indore that a husband decided to take his wife to a police station, just because for not heeding him. The man, in a written complaint, alleged that his wife is

Howrah, Aug 5: A 24-year-old woman died mysteriously during a poolside Friendship Day party at a posh club in Howrah on Sunday night, triggering suspicion of a drug overdose. Suvanjeeta Saren died in front of 500-odd guests and staff but no one could say for sure how it happened. The party was on in full swing when Suvanjeeta was suddenly seen struggling in a shallow pool. A bouncer dived in to

Kanpur, Aug 4: Ravi Chaurasia of Chakeri area was arrested on Saturday night for killing his wife Ruby over infidelity. The body was recovered from Ganga near the barrage late on Saturday. The arrest was made on the complaint lodged by the woman's parents. The SHO Kohna said that Ravi confessed of having killed his wife by pushing her into the river. He suspected his wife of infidelity. On

Bellary (Karnataka), Jul 20: An 86-year-old man has allegedly raped his daughter-in-law at Mallapura village in the district and is reported absconding, police said. The incident took place three months ago, but the woman was threatened by her father-in-law not to disclose it, police said, quoting her complaint. The woman has also named in the complaint her mother-in-law and brother-in-law for

Bilaspur, Jul 15: A 25-year-old woman and her male friend were arrested for allegedly killing her minor daughter in order to falsely implicate her paramour in the crime in Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday. The six-year-old girl was strangled allegedly by her mother Anis with the help of her friend Sonu Khan in Bilaspur town, Superintendent of Police BN Meena said. During interrogation, the

New Delhi, Jul 9: One of the first woman journalists, Rekha Duggal, was allegedly murdered by her domestic help at her Greater Kailash-II residence here on Monday night. She was 81. According to the police, Duggal was allegedly strangulated by the help, Neeraj, who later set her body on fire to prevent it from being identified. The 81-year-old widow of a former journalist with a reputed news

Mumbai, Jul 7: Dawood Ibrahim's younger sister, Hasina Ibrahim Parkar, passed away in a hospital in the wanted underworld don's bastion of Dongri in South Mumbai yesterday. The police said that 51-year-old Hasina, also known as Hasina Aapa (elder sister) and the underworld queen, died of a massive heart attack. Hasina used to stay with her son Alishah and a 21-year-old-daughter in Nagpada's