Crime and crash

Bangalore, Sep 22: The gruesome murder of a woman by her husband, who later plunged to death from a high-rise apartment building in the City on Friday night, has left the two families in deep shock. The relatives of Madhusudhan, 36, and his wife Roopa, 32, gathered at the KIMS Hospital mortuary on Saturday morning where autopsies on the two disfigured bodies were performed. Roopa’s mother was

New Delhi, Sep 21: Lakhs of devotees congregate to bid adieu to Lord Ganesha at Lalbaug and in the middle of the commotion, crimes such as molestation often don't come to the surface. These images unveil the ugly side brimming over occasions such as Ganpati visarjan when perverts take advantage of the massive throngs to molest, grab and grope women. How a group of men, who seem professional

Hyderabad, Sep 18: Around the time a Delhi court sentenced four men to death in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, the cyber city was shocked by the revelation of a 20-year-old student of a polytechnic institute who was confined and raped for 17 months by the owner of the college canteen. The girl managed to escape from captivity to reach home on Wednesday and the accused, 33-year-old Satya Prakash

Hyderabad, Sep 12: A 35-year-old manager with Infosys committed suicide by jumping from an under-construction apartment building at Moosapet on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Shailender Nemkar, a manager with Infosys, Gachibowli. Shailender had married Reena six years ago and the couple along with their two children, Ritika and Ritik, stays at Hydernagar. Recently, Shailender had booked a

Bhopal, Sep 6: A Madhya Pradesh woman took revenge on the man who raped her at knifepoint by dousing him in kerosene and setting him on fire. The deceased, who has been identified as Raju Vishvakarma, 38, died of burn injuries in a local hospital on Friday. According to his dying declaration, the woman — who he raped — asked him to visit her house for negotiating an out of court settlement in the

Bangalore, Sep 3: An 11-year-old girl committed suicide on Sunday night after her elder brother refused to let her watch a cartoon channel on TV at their residence in city's outskirts of Kadugodi. The girl, a Class VI student and the daughter of a cab driver, and her 14-year old bother were watching a sports channel. The girl wanted to switch over to a cartoon channel but her brother didn't give

Bangalore, Aug 30: For 25-year-old Sanjay Mahesh Angadi , it was just another working day. He was walking on 1st Main, Chamarajpet, around noon when he heard a strange noise and turned around. To his shock, a BMTC bus was hurtling towards him and before he knew what was happening , it crushed him to death. The bus was plying between Chamarajpet and Vijaynagar. The driver stopped at the Royan

Kolar, Aug 27: Seven people were killed and many others injured when their mini van collided head on with a truck at Lakshmisagar Gate near Narasapur under Vemagal police limits, about 20 kilometers from here on Monday. The victims were reportedly returning after attending a marriage engagement ceremony when the accident took place around 5 p.m, police sources said. Trafiic on NH 4 was affected

Bangalore, Aug 27: A nurse working at the Employees State Insurance (ESI) hospital, Rajajinagar, ended her life allegedly by injecting poison. The deceased, identified as Bindu G G, 27 was a native of Challakere in Chitradurga district and was employed as a nurse at the ESI hospital for the past four years. According to police, both of Bindu’s parents had passed away recently. Bindu was staying in

Mumbai, Aug 25: All five accused in the brutal gangrape of a young photojournalist in the city have been arrested, three days after the incident triggered outrage across the country. While the fourth accused Kasim Bangali was nabbed from Mumbai late last night, the fifth accused in the case Salim Ansari was arrested from Delhi today. Ansari, the fifth and last accused was arrested by the Mumbai