Crime and crash

Mumbai, Apr 6: A woman was molested and assaulted by a man in a suburban train bound for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus late on Thursday night, police said on Friday. The accused — identified as a cabbie from Byculla, 32-year-old Rafiq Khan — and the victim were known to each other and he owed her money over which they had an alteration in the train, police added. The incident occurred

New Delhi, Apr 5: Actor Salman Khan, convicted and sentenced to five years in prison in a blackbuck poaching case, will not receive any special treatment during his stay in jail, Jodhpur DIG (Prisons) Vikram Singh said today. Singh added that Khan had made no demands or special requests - including for drinking water. "Salman Khan has been given number 106 and is lodged in ward number two. He was

Barwani (MP), Apr 5: A 24-year-old woman was today allegedly killed here by her family members, who were apparently unhappy with her for marrying a man from another community, police said. The woman's father was arrested in connection with the incident, while her mother and brother are at large. The victim, Sarla Mali, had married Pankaj Mali, who belongs to a different community, about a year

Dehradun, Apr 3: An Mi 17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force, crash-landed near Kedarnath on Tuesday morning while trying to land far from the Kedarnath shrine. ANI reported that the helicopter caught fire following the collision with the iron girder while trying to land at a helipad. The fire was later brought under control. There were eight people — six passengers, pilot and co-pilot — onboard

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack, Apr 2: A newborn, who had been snatched away by a monkey from its mother's side at Talabasta village of Banki in Cuttack district on Saturday, was found dead today inside a well near the house, the police said. The police and forest department officials could not trace the 16-day-old boy during their day-long searches. The family members of the new born first spotted the body

Hyderabad, Apr 2: An anchor working with a Telugu news channel V6, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the fifth floor of her house at Hyderabad's Moosapet on Sunday late night. The victim has been identified as Radhika Reddy. The incident happened after Rahika Reddy got back from work and straight walked up to the terrace of her residence and jumped off. However, she died on the spot from

New Delhi, Apr 1: If you're a parent, it's the kind of story that will give you nightmares. On Saturday, in a village in Odisha's Cuttack district, a woman watched horrified as a monkey fled with her baby boy, who was all of 16 days old. Now, the Times of India reports, police said the infant was found floating in a well. He was dead. "It is suspected that the newborn might have slipped from the

Bhubaneswar, Mar 31: A 16-day-old boy was today snatched by a monkey from his home in Odisha's Cuttack district, prompting authorities to launch a massive search operation. The baby was sleeping next to his mother at their home in Talabasta village when the monkey snatched him, sources in the forest department, which is involved in the rescue mission, said. The mother saw the monkey fleeing with

New Delhi, Mar 30: A 21-year old boy, who was missing since March 22, was found dead on Thursday. The body of the deceased Delhi University student, identified as Ayush, was found in a drain here in Dwarka area. On March 22, the Palam Village police station was informed that a message was sent to Ayush’s father asking for a sum of Rs. 50 lakh against his release by the accused. Immediately, a case

Authorities at the Government Medical College Hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram were forced to suspend a nursing assistant after a video clip that showed him physically harming an elderly patient went viral on social media. The video, shot on a cell phone by an unidentified person in the orthopaedic ward at the hospital, shows nursing assistant R Sunilkumar clasping an aged man's left palm