Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Apr 10: Customs sleuths on Wednesday nabbed two women, including an Emirates airline crew member, for trying to smuggle in a total of 15.7 kg gold worth Rs.4.53 crore at the RGI Airport. In the first incident, sleuths nabbed Fatima Shaheen at 3.30 am when she landed at the airport via Qatar Airlines flight (QR 500) from Doha. The woman, hailing from the city, had hidden 2.7 kg of gold

Bangalore, Apr 6: In two separate incidents that occurred in one hour, two schoolboys were electrocuted on Saturday morning. Incidentally, both were playing cricket when the mishaps occurred. It was a regular Saturday morning for class 3 student Bharath Narasimhappa. He was playing cricket with his friends at his school in Seegehalli, Kadugodi, near Whitefield. Around 8.30am, he went to the

Jaipur, Mar 22: A pall of gloom descended over a village near Deoli in Tonk district on Friday when 10 women labourers drowned when their boat capsized in Banas river. Five other women and a sailor managed to swim to the river bank. It has come up during preliminary investigation that the boat may have capsized after getting stuck in fishing net. The incident exposed illegal boating in Banas river

Mumbai, Mar 19: A 17-year-old girl, trying to jump from her building to an adjacent one to meet her boyfriend, slipped and fell to her death in Thane on Tuesday. According to the police, the girl is a resident of a housing complex at Kasarwadavali and had recently appeared for her Class XII exams. The police said she was in a relationship with a boy living in the next building. But in order to

Bangalore, Mar 19: Two tenth-standard girl students of a private high school allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Sankey Tank on Tuesday after they were reportedly punished by their teacher. The 15-year-old girls were studying at the Mary Immaculate High School in Lakkasandra Extension near Wilson Garden. The police gave their names as Sonali, a resident of Tavarekere and Priyanka, a

Mumbai, Mar 12: In a shocking incident, a group of young men allegedly molested an 18-year-old girl in a broad daylight in the suburban Kandivali here, police said today. In a shocking incident, a group of young men allegedly molested an 18-year-old girl in a broad daylight in the suburban Kandivali here, police said today. Shockingly, the hapless teenager, who was trying to save herself from the

New Delhi, Mar 2: A PhD scholar at JNU was held on Saturday for raping his sister-in-law. The 16-year-old told police she was repeatedly raped by the accused, who is married to her elder sister, over two months and she became pregnant. The survivor, a Class VII student at a government school, had been living with the accused in Munirka area while her sister was with their parents in their village

New Delhi, Feb 16: An assailant plunged a knife into the heart of a 26-year-old married woman in Karol Bagh around 7.30pm on Valentine's Day, killing her almost instantly. The victim, Simranjeet Kaur, worked as human resources manager for a Noida MNC. She was about to enter her cousin's house when the killer, who was following her, waylaid and stabbed her with a new double-edged knife which he

Bangalore, Feb 10: A sixth standard student allegedly raped a three-year-old girl in Soladevanahalli police station limits on Saturday. According to police, the boy, a resident of Kere Guddadahalli and a neighbour of the victim, took the girl to his house on the “pretext” of teaching her alphabet. His parents, who work as labourers, were away from the house on their job when the incident occurred

Thane (Maha), Jan 29: Eight persons were charred to death and 14 others were injured when a luxury bus collided with a diesel tanker near Kude village on Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway in the wee hours today. The luxury bus was going to Ahmedabad from Pune when it collided with the tanker at Kude village within the Manor police station limits in Palghar taluka. The accident took place around 1.45 AM