Crime and crash

Bangalore, June 29: The highly decomposed body of a three-year-old girl, who went missing from her house on Monday, was found in Chikkajala on Thursday morning. Harshitha , was the daughter of Thammanna and Anita, residents of Cheekatageri, Gauribidanur. She had come to her grandmother’s house in Hunisemaranahalli with her mother, who was pregnant with her second child. Her grandfather Ashwath

Kolkata, June 29: A teacher of a co-ed government school in Gaighata in North 24-Parganas took off the leggings of a 13-year-old girl in the classroom on Wednesday because she was not in proper uniform. The girl wept and pleaded but the teacher allegedly did not return it even after school was over, forcing her to walk home in a semi-clad state. Headmaster Swapan Bala dismissed it as a "minor

Hyderabad, June 28: A schoolgirl, accused of being talkative in the class, was forced to stand for over five hours outside the classroom after her lips were sealed with an adhesive tape, in a private school in the Noorkhan Bazar locality of Old City here on Wednesday. Syeda Sadar Fatima, studying in Class 9 at Sam British School, rushed home weeping and reported the matter to her parents. Her

Erode, June 28: A major fire broke out in the luggage-cum-second class coach of the Chennai-Alappuzha Express at Perundurai in Erode district on Thursday early morning, destroying a part of the coach. No passengers were injured in the accident. The Station Master at the Thottipalayam railway station noticed smoke billowing from the luggage area at the rear of the train when it passed through the

Bangalore, Jun 28: Murthy, 20, a resident of Kurubarahalli, has been arrested for causing a serial accident in Rajajinagar on Tuesday night. A Ist year BA student, Murthy had taken his father’s car for a ride. He had no driving licence and had taken the car out ignoring his parents’ objections. He lost control and hit a 10-year-old boy, Vikram, walking on the footpath. But Murthy continued driving

Srinagar, June 28: Five pilgrims, including two women, died enroute the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the toll during the ongoing yatra to six, police said today. Chander Kanta (63), a resident of Haryana, died at Domail along the shorter Baltal Cave route in Ganderbal district this morning, a police spokesman said. He said another woman pilgrim

New Delhi, June 28: A woman and her mother have been ticked off by a Delhi court for their ''habit'' of lodging false rape cases with ulterior motives, including those for grabbing property.The court, while acquitting a man accused of raping the woman, observed that she and her mother had earlier too lodged several cases of rape, some of which have already been found to be false. The judgement

Chennai, June 27: Around 50 bus passengers had a miraculous escape after the vehicle plunged down a flyover in the Tamil Nadu capital city Wednesday afternoon, police said. Around 40 passengers were injured in the incident. The state-owned Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus was plying between Broadway and Vadapalani in the city. On the Anna flyover, the bus was taking a left turn when it

Chennai, June 27: About 30 passengers have been injured after a bus, number 17-M, fell off the Anna Gemini flyover in the heart of Chennai. Police are trying to ascertain whether the driver was over speeding and lost control of the bus as he negotiated a bend on the flyover this afternoon. There were about 60 passengers in the bus. No casualty has been reported. All passengers have been taken out

Bangalore, June 27: The mysterious death of Pawan Kumar Anjaiah, a software engineer from Bangalore, in Delaware, US, on June 19, has left his parents here completely shaken, even as the Delaware police claimed it was a suicide triggered by his alleged murder of an American woman. The mystery only deepened with the police attributing the 26-year-old’s death to drug abuse and excess consumption of