Crime and crash

A major tragedy was averted by few seconds when a Vistara flight almost collided mid-air with an Air India aircraft. The two aircrafts were flying in the opposite direction when Vistara flight descended to an altitude at which Air India was flying. The incident took place on February 7 in the Mumbai airspace. Two Vistara pilots have been grounded after the incident. According to the Times of India

Kolkata, Feb 9: A teacher of a private English- medium school in the city was detained today after a Class 2 student alleged that he had sexually abused her, police said. The development triggered angry protests by parents, who gathered outside the school, demanding suspension and punishment for the accused. A senior police official said the parents of the alleged victim alleged that their

Meerut, Feb 8: An FIR has been lodged by a woman constable, posted at Meerut's senior superintendent of police (SSP) office, against an inspector, Lokenderpal, Singh in an alleged rape case. She accused him of sexually assaulting her repeatedly since 2010. Speaking on the same, the victim said "I met him in Bulandshah in 2009 during a family dispute in which my family was involved. He built a

New Delhi, Feb 8: In freak accident, a 21-year-old man on a motorcycle died, after his neck was stuck in a thick wire that was tied between two police barricades on the road near Netaji Subhash Place, in West Delhi. Reports suggest that the motorcyclist, who worked for private taxi service, was speeding at night on Wednesday, when the accident happened. Four police constables have been suspended

Bengaluru, Feb 8: A teenage engineering student hanged herself from a ceiling fan at her home near Rajarajeshwari Nagar in southwest Bengaluru, on Tuesday afternoon after she was allegedly bullied and harassed by the classmates. The victim is Meghana C, a first-semester civil engineering student at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Kumaraswamy Layout. She is survived by her banker-parents

Mumbai, Feb 8: A software engineer from Andheri was arrested on charges of creating a fake Twitter handle of Sara Tendulkar, daughter of Sachin Tendulkar, and uploading derogatory and defamatory comments against NCP supremo Sharad Pawar. The cyber police also seized a laptop, two mobile phones, a router and other computer accessories used by Nitin Sishode, 39, from his Military Road, Marol

Madikeri, Feb 4: A man shot dead his brother and sister-in-law before committing suicide in what is suspected to be a fallout of a simmering dispute over sharing of property, at Kiggalu close to Murnad in Kodagu district, on Saturday. The victims, P. Devaiah, 54, and his wife Prema Dechamma, 48, were shot by Uthappa, 35, who was having a running feud with the couple over sharing of property, since

Hyderabad, Feb 3: Was an infant killed in Hyderabad as part of some superstition on lunar eclipse in Hyderabad? Police are probing the angle of human sacrifice after the severed head of an infant was found dumped on the terrace of a house in Chiluka Nagar in Hyderabad on Thursday. The incident came to light after a woman resident of the rented house went to the terrace in the morning to dry

New Delhi, Feb 3: In a brazen act of "honour" killing in the national capital, a 23-year-old photographer was stabbed and his throat slit on a busy street in west Delhi's Raghuveer Nagar on Thursday evening, allegedly by the father of the 20-year-old girl he was to marry shortly. The victim, Ankit Saxena, was kicked and punched repeatedly by the girl's father and uncle before the former stabbed

New Delhi, Feb 2: Three minors have been detained in connection with the mysterious death of a Class 9 student in northeast Delhi's Karawal Nagar, police said today. Tusshar (16) was found unconscious by some students in his school bathroom and was taken to a hospital yesterday. He was later referred to the GTB Hospital where he was declared brought dead. CCTV footage revealed that he had a fight