Crime and crash

Jammu, May 31: At least four people died and over a dozen sustained serious burn injuries in a fire at a hotel in Jammu early on Saturday. Police said four people died in the fire that occurred in Hotel Neelam near the main bus stand in Jammu city, a kilometre from city centre Shaheedi Chowk, early morning. "The fire started after midnight. Immediately after smoke started billowing out of the

Etawah, May 30: In a shocking incident, the mother of a rape victim was brutally beaten by the father of the accused in Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's home town Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. The incident happened on May 26 in Civil Lines area. Reports say that the accused Sunny, son of Basant Lal Yadav, who stays in the neighbourhood, barged into the house of the woman and raped her

Bhopal, May 30: A 14-year-old girl was raped over and over again for three months by a man in Morena district. Furthermore the man was helped by his wife in the act, said police on Thursday. Her parents came to know about the incident after the girl got pregnant. When they questioned her about her rapidly bulging stomach, she narrated the whole ordeal. She was taken to a hospital where doctors

Barasat, May 22: A 20-year-old newly married woman, who went out for shopping at Swarupnagar Bazar in North 24-Parganas on Tuesday evening, was allegedly picked up from the road and gang-raped by two men. While she was on her way back home at Duttapara, the duo allegedly dragged her to an abandoned poultry farm and raped her. She was later rescued by locals and taken to hospital by police. The two

Banihal (Ramban), May 20: Seventeen people were killed and 34 others injured when a passenger bus rolled down into a 400-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district in the wee hours today. The bus, which was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu, skidded off the road and rolled down into the gorge in Digdol area around 0230 hours due to alleged negligence of the driver

Dibrugarh, May 11(TNN): The ward boy accused of murdering Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) post-graduate student Sarita Toshniwal was appointed by the hospital authorities without police verification, revealed an investigation. Police officers investigating the case said Kiru Mech, the murder accused, was appointed about eight months ago without even a minimum background check that led to

Navi Mumbai, May 9: Three members of a family were killed along with a relative in two separate road accidents on Thursday in a span of four hours in Ratnagiri district. Seventeen-year-old HSC student, Dhanasree Kadam, was travelling in her father's autorickshaw from Khed to Ratnagiri to appear for her CET (common entrance test) in the morning when it toppled over at Sangameshwar on the Mumbai-Goa

Bangalore, May 4: A fashion designer on Friday night committed suicide in her apartment on Indiranagar 100 Feet Road, reportedly over a love affair that went sour. In her suicide note, U Abhijat, 32, blamed a restaurant owner for her death. Her mother, who reported the suicide, said Abhijat had a heated argument with a person till late on Friday night. Abhijat, employed with a Chennai company

Vadodara, Apr 26: It was a tug of war between the fire brigade team and a fully grown crocodile that continued for about an hour right in the heart of the city. People waited with baited breath as the firemen tried to pull out body of a 60-year-old man that was killed by a crocodile near river Vishwamitri near Navinagri slums on Friday afternoon. This is the third crocodile attack in Vadodara in

Jabalpur, Apr 20: A 22-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar shot dead his virtual girlfriend here who he met on Facebook after finding out she was actually a married middle-aged woman and attempted to commit suicide. He later died in hospital. Vineet Singh shot dead Jyoti Kori next to a picturesque setting of a waterfall on Friday after he found out that his virtual 21-year-old