Crime and crash

Koppal, November 28: In a tragedy that shook the taluk, Hanumavva Doli, a 19-year-old girl of Hyathi near here, committed suicide on Monday, after allegedly being raped by four youths. A clip of the multiple rape, filmed by the suspects on their mobile phones, started circulating in cellphones across the village over the last two days, forcing the girl, an orphan, to end her life. Three of the

New Delhi, November 27: Five months after a young couple appeared on Aamir Khan's television show, Satyamev Jayate, and talked about the threat to their lives because they had married without their parents' consent, the man was shot dead near his village in western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening, allegedly by his wife's brothers. Abdul Hakim, 28, and his 26-year-old wife Mehwish, both Muslims

Mumbai, November 27: Nearly a week after two Palghar girls were unnecessarily summoned to the police station and arrested for an innocuous Facebook post, the government is suspending the superintendent of police (Thane rural) Ravindra Sengaonkar. In a separate development, the Bombay high court on Monday transferred Ramchandra Bagade, the first-class judicial magistrate at Palghar who had given

Mumbai, November 26: Millions once bought sex in the narrow alleys of Kamathipura, a vast red-light district in Mumbai. But prostitutes with inexpensive mobile phones are luring customers elsewhere, and that is endangering the astonishing progress India has made against AIDS. Indeed, the recent closings of hundreds of ancient brothels, while something of an economic victory for prostitutes, may

Madikeri, November 23: Investigation has proved that Virajpet Block Congress President and Zilla Panchayat Former Member Abudl Lathif was shot with his own gun, said Kodagu Superintendent of Police Manjunath Annigeri. Addressing a press meet in his office on Wednesday, he said that Lathif along with accused Preetham, Harish, Rabin and Punnachha had gone hunting in Bramhagiri Wildlife Forest near

Vijayawada, November 21: An NRI techie from Krishna district was killed and three others injured in a road accident in California in the United States on Sunday afternoon. The incident came to light on Tuesday when the family of the victims received information from their kin in US. According to information, Gorla Lalitha, 50, died on the spot when the car in which they were travelling was hit by

Bangalore, November 21: A 55-year-old realtor and RTI activist who once ran a Kannada weekly tabloid was hacked to death in front of his house in Vittalnagar, Chamarajpet, South Bangalore early on Tuesday morning. Lingaraju Madaiah, former editor of the now-closed 'Maha Prachanda', was standing near the public water tap outside his house when a three-member gang attacked him with machetes and

Chennai, November 20: They loved each other and lived together for long. And when they died, it was also almost together. Bagyalakshmi, 82, collapsed and died within minutes of hearing of the death of her husband Palayam, 91. The couple had married nearly seven decades ago when Bagyalakshmi was 12 and Palayam 21. Palayam, who lived in Punnapakkam, a village near Poondi in Tiruvallur district

Mumbai, November 20: One of the girls held for posting comments on 'Facebook' questioning the shutdown in the city for Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray's funeral today said she will never again visit the social networking site while police arrested 9 Shiv Sainiks for vandalising her uncle's clinic. Shaheen Dhada and Renu were arrested for posting comments opposing the Mumbai shutdown. However, they

Bangalore, November 20: An unidentified youth barged into a Corporation Bank branch on Hesaraghatta Main Road here on Monday evening, shot one of the customers and decamped with Rs 15 lakh. While the miscreant fled from the scene unharmed, the customer, Muralidhar, 45, a civil contractor and manager of a nearby petrol bunk, who was shot in his right shoulder, succumbed to the injury at a nearby