Crime and crash

New York, Feb 27: An Indian student has been arrested after being charged with intentionally causing damage to over 50 protected computers owned by a college in New York state capital Albany, officials said on Wednesday. Vishwanath Akuthota, 26 was arrested on February 22 in North Carolina after being charged with intentionally causing damage to protected computers owned by The College of Saint

Belagavi, Feb 25: Three persons died on the spot while six others sustained injuries when a loaded Canter mini lorry overturned under Aigali police station limits in the district, police said on Monday. The driver of the mini lorry, loaded with grape cartons, lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a bend and the vehicle overturned. The mini truck was coming from Bellanki Village in

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 25: Young filmmaker Nayana Sooryan was found dead in her rented apartment at Althara in the capital on Saturday night. She was 28. Hailing from Alappad, she was a familiar face in the city’s film circles along with her mentor Lenin Rajendran. After her graduation in 2010, she began working as an assistant director with Lenin for the film ‘Makaramanju’. She also assisted him

Satna, Feb 24: The six-year-old twin sons of a businessman kidnapped at gunpoint in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district have been found dead in the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday. Sporadic protests erupted in Chitrakoot town of Satna soon after the news of their death reached the place, prompting police to step up security. The children, both in kindergarten and sons of oil

Guwahati, Feb 23: Country liquor laced with toxic chemicals has killed at least 29 people, including 16 women, in villages inhabited by tea plantation workers across eastern Assam’s Golaghat and Jorhat districts. Officials in these two districts said more than 45 people had been admitted to hospitals, with the condition of four being critical. The hooch tragedy first struck Salmara Tea Estate in

Feb 20: Income tax sleuths seized over Rs one crore in cash and jewellery worth Rs 70 lakh after raiding the properties of a road contractor on Tuesday in Bhopal. The IT sleuths made the recovery after raiding four locations of road contractor Nilay Jain. The IT raid is still underway in the city's Arera colony area. Jain's house and offices were raided during the operation. During the raid, Rs 1

Jaipur, Feb 19: A speeding truck ran into a marriage procession in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district fatally hitting 13 people, four of them children, while leaving 18 others injured, said reports on Tuesday. The accident happened near Ramdev temple on State Highway-113 late on Monday when the truck, going to Banswara from Nimbahera, rammed into the marriage party moving on the roadside, Choti Sadri

Chikkamagaluru, Feb 18: An elderly woman was killed, allegedly by her son, at Hokali village in Sringeri taluk on Sunday. Sakamma, 65, wife of Shankare Gowda, died after her son Nandish hit her in the head with a cane, said the police. The accused picked up argument with his mother as she refused to offer him money to buy alcohol. The Sringeri police have taken Nandish into custody.

Riyadh, Feb 15: A mother was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murder, Spa reported on Monday. The Saudi new agency reported that the Saudi woman, identified as Aida bint Shaman Al Rashidy, was sentenced to death after she was convicted of murdering her husband's daughter. SPA added that the perpetrator killed the 6-year-old girl, identified as Reem bint Farag Abdullah Al Rashidy, after she

Kannur, Feb 14: Thalassery Additional District Sessions Court on Thursday found nine Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) workers including its district president 'guilty' in connection with the murder of CPI(M) local leader Naroth Dilip. SDPI district president V Muhammed Basheer, Peravoor mandalam secretary Muhammed Farooq, P K Latheef, U K Sidhik, U K Faizal, U K Younus, P K Faizal, T Yakoop