Crime and crash

New Delhi, December 22: A three-year-old girl was raped in a play-school in West Delhi, prompting the Delhi government on Friday to ask the police to take stringent action against its principal. The child was allegedly raped by the husband of the owner of the school on Monday in west Delhi's Sagarpur area, and the incident came to light two days later, police said. After the incident, the victim

New Delhi, December 22: In yet another ghastly incident in the city targeting its women, a 40-year-old mother of four was allegedly gang raped by three men after she was sedated. The incident was reported on December 19 from the Welcome area in northeast Delhi. Two people have been arrested and a case registered. The accused include the father of a rape victim whom she had helped get justice. "It

Chennai, December 21: Popular Carnatic vocalist Nithyashree’s husband Mahadevan allegedly committed suicide on Thursday by jumping into a river here. The suicide comes amid the Margazhi music festival in the city in which his wife is one of the star performers. The police quoted eyewitnesses as saying that Mahadevan came in a car and jumped into the Adyar river from the Kotturpuram Bridge. The

Bangalore, December 20: As the nation showed its outrage over the recent gang-rape of a girl in New Delhi, Bangalore also witnessed yet another brutal rape of a minor girl on Tuesday night. The incident came to light only on Wednesday as the family formally lodged a complaint with the Kadugodi police. The police have arrested the main accused, Ashwath, a kirana shop owner. Raziya, 15, (name

Bangalore, December 20: Telugu actor Bharath alias Yasho Sagar, whose debut film 'Ullasanga Utsahanga' was a blockbuster, died in a road accident near Tumkur in Karnataka on Wednesday. Besides Sagar, in his mid 20s, his assistant Vishvanath Reddy was also killed and another person injured when their car rammed into a bridge near Tumkur, about 100 km from here, District SP T R Suresh said. The

Bidar/Hyderabad, December 20: A five-year-old girl was whisked away in her sleep and allegedly raped in Bidar district of Karnataka, barely a day after a 23-year-old paramedical student was gangraped, stripped and thrown out of a moving bus in New Delhi triggering outrage across the country. Police said the incident, the latest in a series of rape incidents across India lately, occurred at Saigaon

New Delhi, December 19: While The 23-year-old medical student who was gangraped, beaten and thrown out of a moving bus along with a male friend in Delhi is fighting for her life, one of the two absconding suspects has been detained for questioning in Aurangabad, Bihar. Three of the accused were produced in a Delhi court on Wednesday and confessed. One of the accused, Vinay Sharma, went on to plead

Bangalore, December 19: Frustrated over a family dispute, a 24-year-old homemaker allegedly hanged herself in front of her oneyear-old daughter in their Ramamurthynagar residence on Monday. Manjula Dilip Kumar, wife of Dilip Kumar, a carpenter from Bihar, often fought with her husband . Neighbours told police: "Dilip wanted to buy some carpentry material He had no money and pledged Manjula's

New Delhi, December 17: In yet another incident of violence against women, a medical student was allegedly gangraped in a private bus in the Vasant Vihar area of southwest Delhi. The incident happened on Sunday night. The victim's male friend registered a complaint with the Vasant Vihar police station at around 1.15 am. According to the police, the duo boarded a bus to Dwarka from Munirka and the

Bangalore, December 15: Mamata, 22, a homemaker, hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her residence at Pragati Nagar, under Electronic City police limits, on Thursday night. Mamata was married to Ajay, a software engineer working with an IT major. Police said the couple, from Orissa, was married for two years. On Thursday night, police suspect the couple had an argument, after which the woman