Crime and crash

London, May 10: London Nine men in northwest England were sentenced to jail terms Wednesday for luring girls as young as 13 years old into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs — a case that has stirred racial tensions and sparked claims that authorities are failing to protect vulnerable children in state care. Judge Gerald Clifton said the men, aged between 22 and 59 and all of Pakistani or

Gurgaon, May 10: A teenaged girl was abducted from her house and allegedly gang raped. No one has been arrested, police said on Wednesday. A 16-year-old girl was abducted from her house in village Sikanderpur (Badha), near sector 84 in Gurgaon on Tuesday midnight. She was on a visit to her elder sister's in-laws house. Rupesh, 26, a resident of Sikanderpur was known to the victim's brother-in-law

New Delhi, May 10: As incidents of alleged persecution and intimidation of Hindus in Pakistan rise, India on Wednesday appealed to Islamabad to take all possible steps to protect the constitutional rights of its minorities by ensuring their safety and security. Recently, in separate incidents, three Hindu girls in Sindh province have reportedly been abducted and married against their wishes to

Mangalore, May 9: A pedestrian was killed on spot when an earth excavator machine hit him at Panambur, here. The victim has been identified as killed Allah Baksh Sheikh (35), a resident of Andhra Pradesh Allah Baksh was working as a cleaner on a lorry. A case of fatal road accident has been registered in Panambur police station.

Lucknow, May 9: A top police official of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday openly advocated honour killing. The incident took place in Prabudh Nagar district where the deputy inspector general (DIG) of Saharanpur range, Satish Kumar Mathur, had gone for a routine inspection of police stations and review law and order situation. One Shaukeen Mohammad, a resident of Kaserwa village of Prabudh Nagar district

Karwar, May 9: Shankar Krishna Naik (55) drowned in the Kali river in Karwar on Tuesday. He accidentally fell into the river. The police have registered a case.

New York,May 9: The daughter of an Indian diplomat who was wrongly accused of sending threatening e-mails to a teacher last year is suing the city for $1.5 million. Krittika Biswas, 19, is seeking damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution, according to a lawsuit brought Monday in Manhattan Federal Court. The lawsuit says that Biswas was so traumatized by the incident that she left the

New Delhi, May 9: The death of RTI activist Ravinder Balwani after a mysterious hit-and-run incident in the capital last month has sparked allegations of murder, with his family saying the 61-year-old was killed after repeated threats and that police were writing it off as an accident. Balwani, an aide of RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and a member of his NGO, Parivartan, was hit by a car on April

Kasargod, May 8: The Ichilangod Mahavishnu temple near Kumbla was found burgled on Sunday. Burglars escaped with 18 grams of gold ornaments put on the idols of the presiding deity and Lord Ganesh. They looted Rs.3,000 from an offering box, the police said. The burglary came to the notice of the temple priest when he reached the temple for the morning pujas. The thieves entered the temple breaking

Bangalore, May 8: The Karnataka Cabinet on Monday rejected serial killer Umesh Reddy's mercy plea. Reddy was convicted and sentenced to death by a Fast Track Court in 2006 for the rape and murder of Jayshree Maradi Subbaiah. Reddy's death sentence was upheld in 2007 by a Bangalore High Court division bench for the 1998 case of rape and murder of Jayshree, a widow. The Supreme Court had on February