Crime and crash

Bangalore, March 22: There is some more bad news for Nithyananda alias A?Rajasekhara. The Karnataka CID?on Wednesday filed an additional charge sheet in the Ramanagaram court, claiming that besides several women, Nithyananda forced a man to have sex with him on a number of occasions both at his Bidadi ashram near here as well as in some cities in the US. Director General, CID, R?K?Dutta told

Mangalore, March 21: Sleuths of Mangalore sub-division of department of excise on a tip off nabbed three persons who were trying to smuggle Goan liquor illegally to Kasargod in a car at Alape village at Padil on the outskirts of the city in the early hours of Wednesday. The sleuths recovered 432 litres of liquor which the accused Vishwanath, Anil Kumar and Major of Kasargod were attempting to

Nagpur, March 21: A 50-year-old labourer has been arrested for raping his teenage daughter repeatedly over the last five years. The girl is now two months pregnant, which brought the sordid deed to light. The accused, Kishore Agrawal, was sexually exploiting his 19-year-old daughter for the last five years, after his wife left him. The girl was then 14-year-old. The incident came to light on

Gandhinagar, March 21: After Karnataka, it's now the turn of MLAs in Gujarat Assembly to do the unthinkable. Following in the footsteps of their Karnataka counterparts, two BJP MLAs were found watching pornographic clips in the Gujarat Assembly on Tuesday. Ironically, when this was brought to the notice of the Speaker, he hushed up the issue instead of taking action against them. Luckily, this

Hyderabad, March 21: In a heart-rending tragedy, eight children between the ages of five and ten years, were killed and 20 seriously injured when the school bus in which they were returning home plunged into a stream in Khammam district on Tuesday afternoon. Around 40 students of L.V. Reddy Memorial School were packed into the bus after the driver picked them up from Vepalagadda village in

Udupi, March 20: Unidentified miscreants gained entry into Pai International show room in the city and decamped with electronic goods worth Rs 3.8 lakh in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. Police inspecting burgled Pai International show roomat Udupi on Monday. Speaking to Deccan Herald, SP Dr Boralingaiah said that as many as five laptops, 15 cameras and nine mobile hand sets have been

Bangalore, March 20: In a major relief to an acid attack victim, the High Court on Monday sentenced two persons convicted of the offence to life imprisonment along with imposing a fine of Rs 10,000 each. The verdict, which came after a span of 10 years, can be seen as justice delivered to Sudesh, a resident of KGF, who was blinded in the acid attack. The Division Bench comprising Justice K

Hathras, March 20: people were killed and two others seriously injured when the Mathura-Kasganj Express rammed into a jeep at an unmanned railway crossing here this morning. The accident took place at the unmanned railway crossing near Madu Railway Station at 7:19 a.m. in the district. The jeep was carrying 17 passengers, Superintendent of Police Chandra Prakash said. While 15 people were killed

Fujairah, March 20: Hamad Al Kabi, a clinically dead Emirati boy, is the oldest patient in Dibba Fujairah Hospital, where has has been lying for the past 15 years on life support. Hamad was taken to hospital after falling into a water basin at his house when he was aged just 11 months. Despite attempts by doctors to medically aid the baby, his condition dramatically deteriorated and he was

Bangalore, March 19: A 29-year-old homemaker was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her house in Kumaraswamy Layout on Saturday night. Though police booked a case of suicide, they are now looking into murder allegations made by the victim's brother. Lalitha was married to Ramakrishna for five years and the couple had a four-yearold daughter. Ramakrishna runs a bakery in Shastrynagar. The woman