Crime and crash

Mangalore, January 28: A missing woman was found dead at Allanki in Honnavar taluk on Friday. The body was identified as Sushma Mahabaleshwar Hegde (21). According to her family members, Sushma had gone to Honnavar with her aunt on January 24. After returning to Allanki, she asked her aunt to go home and she went missing. But her body was found on Friday in a well of the farm of Shrikant Hegde

Honnavar, January 28: An 18-year-old girl died after she was bitten by snake bite at Gunakeri in Honnavar taluk on Thursday night. Although Mamata Nagu Gowda was on Thursday afternoon, bitten by a snake, she did not realise it. It was only after some delay that she started feeling pain on her right leg. While shifting to Manipal Hospital, she died on her way. The Honnavar police have registered a

Dubai, January 27: A worker has been sentenced to two years in prison for ripping off a housemaid's clothes and attempting to rape her in the kitchen of her sponsor's house. The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 22-year-old Indian worker, H.K., of attempted rape. Prosecution records said the suspect failed to rape the housemaid after he got scared and ran away when the kitchen’s intercom

Hyderabad, January 27: A 14-year-old boy was killed by a gang of people who believed a human sacrifice would yield them a secret treasure in Andhra Pradesh's Nirmal town, police said yesterday. The police yesterday recovered the body of Ganesh at Shyamgarh Fort on the outskirts of the town. One man, Raju, who reportedly sold the boy for Rs20,000 (Dh1,466) to the treasure seekers, has been arrested

Mangalore, January 26: Five persons were killed in three gruesome road accidents on Wednesday. Three persons including a woman were killed in a collusion between a sports utility vehicle and a private bus near Mattur church in Beluvai near Belthangady on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as John Menezes (79), Sunil Clady Menezes (37) and his wife Veena Priya Menezes (27). The couple's

Mangalore, January 25: A married woman, who sustained severe burns in a gas stove fire last week, succumbed to here injuries on Tuesday night. Zainaba, wife of Aslam, a resident of Yemmekere, who had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city, following the fire mishap occurred at the kitchen room due to LGP cylinder leakage at her house near Yemmekere grounds in the city last

Pune, January 25: It was a nightmare in the Swargate area in the heart of the city, as the bus driven by a Maharashtra State Corporation bus driver came from wrong side of the busy Pune--Solapur Road and went past smashing all types of vehicles in the way and injuring pedestrians, who ran for their lives. The driver 30-year-old Santosh Mane was arrested after an hour-long chase near Neelayam

Kollegal, January 25: Five members of a family committed suicide by consuming poison and hanging themselves from a beam at the farmhouse of Shivamallegowda at Bollegowdanadoddi near Tellanur in the taluk in Chamarajnagar district on Tuesday. Javed Pasha, 48, his wife Shakeela Banu, 35, daughters Yasmin Taj, 22, Tasmin Taj alias Minna, and son Mujaid Pasha alias Shaibu, 20, are the dead. Sultan

Sindhagi, January 25: Noorandeshwara Shivacharya, seer of Hiremutt at Kakkalameli village in the taluk, was killed by miscreants with an axe on Monday night. The 35-year-old priest was hit on the head and one of the shoulders. He was rushed to the Sindhagi government hospital. But he died on the way to Solapur where he was being taken for advanced treatment. Police said a property dispute was

Mysore, January: After dillydallying for six months, the Syndicate of the University of Mysore has initiated action against Prof Shivabasavaiah accused of sexually harassing a research scholar. Addressing the media on Tuesday, vice-chancellor Prof V?G?Talawar said the syndicate that met recently had decided to cut nine increments of the professor, besides transferring the accused to the PG centre