Crime and crash

Guwahati, Jun 26: The police in Nagaon district of Assam have arrested eight persons for assaulting and confining a Muslim man and a Hindu woman for their alleged relationship. This was the third case of immoral policing in Assam since April 8 when a Garo tribal woman was “taught a lesson” for riding pillion on a Muslim man’s motorcycle at Paikan in western Assam’s Goalpara district bordering

Hyderabad, Jun 24: Fourteen women and a child were killed while seven others injured when a tractor-trolley fell into a canal in neighbouring Yadadri district on Sunday, police said. The tractor driver apparently lost control while avoiding a two-wheeler coming from the opposite direction. The tractor-trolley fell into the Musi river canal near Laxmapuram village at around 10 AM, they said. Over

New Delhi, Jun 24: An Indian Army Major has been detained from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh for his alleged involvement in the killing of another Army Major's wife in west Delhi yesterday, a senior officer said. An officer, privy to the probe, said that the accused has been detained and is being questioned. The woman's body was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment

Muzaffarnagar, Jun 24: A private hospital at New Mandi area here has been sealed after a doctor there was booked for allegedly stealing a kidney of a patient during surgery to remove stones from the organ, an official said. According to a complaint lodged by the family members of 60-year-old patient Iqbal, the victim was admitted in the hospital yesterday for removal of kidney stones. But Dr Vibhu

Ranchi, Jun 23: Five women working with a NGO were allegedly raped at gunpoint by a group of at least five men when they had gone to Chochang village in Jharkhand to create awareness on migration and human trafficking, the police said today. Initial investigation has found that the people behind 'Pathalgarhi' (a practice in which villagers inscribe various tenets on huge stone slabs and ban

Kottayam, Jun 22: Upset over Argentina's poor showing in the ongoing football world cup, a 30-year-old ardent fan of the South American team has left his home here, saying in a note he was going to end his life, police said on Friday. A search was on for Dinu Alex, missing since he left his home at nearby Arumanoor village last night after Argentina suffered a 0-3 rout against Croatia. In a

Morena, Jun 21: Twelve members of a family on their way to a condolence meet were killed and eight others injured when a tractor-trolley hit their jeep in the district on Thursday morning, a police official said. The death toll has now risen to 15. The sand-laden tractor-trolley hit the overloaded jeep carrying nearly 20 people of a family around 6 am at a cross road near Ganjrampur village

Guwahati, Jun 20: A sum of Rs 12.38 lakh at an ATM in Assam's Tinsukia district, has been found in tatters and the culprits are reportedly a colony of rats which nibbled away the currency notes. The bizarre incident came to light at a State Bank of India (SBI) ATM in Laipuli area of the Tinsukia town last week. The ATM had developed some technical problems and was lying unused for three weeks

Morena, Jun 20: A court in Ambah town in Madhya Pradesh awarded life imprisonment to a man for raping a 62-year-old woman in 2016. Additional sessions judge Dr Dharmendra Tada on Tuesday pronounced the punishment to the accused, Chandrapal, 35, and also imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on him. The accused had raped the woman on August 15, 2016, at her house in Khajuri road area of the town, additional

Lucknow, Jun 19: At least two persons were killed, while around four people were critically injured in a fire at two hotels in Charbagh area here, police said. The fire broke out at the two hotels in Charbagh's Doodh Mandi area around 6 am, they said. "Two persons have died, while four to five others were admitted to a hospital with severe burn injuries," Superintendent of Police (Lucknow West)