Crime and crash

Bangalore, Jul 1: A 45-year-old man allegedly attacked his three daughters with a machete at home in Tunganagar, off Magadi Road on Monday evening, killing the two younger girls and critically injuring the eldest. Ramesh, an autorickshaw driver whose vehicle had been seized by those who had lent him money, allegedly tried to kill himself with the same machete. Jurisdictional Ramanagaram district

Bangalore, Jun 29: Mallikarjun Swamy, 52, principal of Kittur Rani Chennamma Residential School in Yellammana Palya, Anekal taluk, Bangalore Urban district, allegedly suffers from a perversity. He can't sleep till he rests his head on a pillow borrowed from a girl student. The principal has other outrageous traits too. After a few pegs, Swamy and his aide Karthik would break into dance in the

New Delhi, Jun 29: Police in southern India detained two construction company directors Sunday as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains. It was one of two weekend building collapses that killed at least 20 people. The 12-story apartment structure the workers were building collapsed late Saturday

Kolkata, Jun 27: The danger of venturing into the prohibited areas of Sunderbans was revealed again on Thursday morning when a tiger jumped from the bank of a creek and leapt back with a man in its jaws. This is the fourth time that a human was killed by a tiger in the Sunderbans this year. The victim, 62-year-old Sushil Majhi, lived in Lahiripur near Datta river, less than kilometre from a creek

Lucknow, Jun 26: The arrest of three youths, who along with four others had allegedly gang-raped a girl, shot a video and circulated it on a social networking site, led to tension in Shahpur of Muzaffarnagar district. Though the alleged gang-rape occurred around 10 months ago, the victim lodged a report with the police on Tuesday after the video clipwent viral. She named seven youths, all

Bangalore, Jun 24: A 21-year-old aspiring police constable died while participating in a 1,600-metre run during a recruitment drive here on Monday morning. He is suspected to have suffered a heart attack Chandrashekar Anandappa, a resident of Attibele and B.Com final student, was among the 140 short-listed applicants participating in physical tests for recruitment of constables by Bangalore Rural

Lucknow, Jun 23: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three men in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday when the girl went to a field to relieve herself. A boy took her to nearby thickets and raped her along with two of his friends, police said. One of the accused has been arrested and being interrogated while the two others

New Delhi, Jun 12: A blind date proved costly for a 20-year-old Delhi University student after the man offered her spiked drinks and assaulted her sexually. The case was reported from Dwarka, southwest Delhi, on Wednesday. A senior cop confirmed that the survivor didn't know the man. Use of date rape drugs is on the rise. Police are concerned about the easy availability of such sedatives and are

Lucknow, Jun 12: The UP Police on Wednesday arrested Pappu Yadav, one of the main accused in the horrific Budaun gang-rape and murder case. Yadav was produced before a court and remanded in police custody. He was interrogated in connection with the gang-rape and murder of the two teenaged cousins in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh last month, reports said. The police had earlier arrested five

Saharanpur, Jun 8: A priest has been taken into custody here after a complaint by the mother of two teenage girls that he allegedly raped them while they were working as domestic helps. According to Superintendent of Police (rural) Dharamvir Singh, the FIR was registered in Roorkee area of Haridwar and was later transferred to Sadar Bazar police station here. The son of the priest and his three