Crime and crash

Unnao, Dec 19: At least a dozen people were injured after dense fog led to the collision of several vehicles on the busy Lucknow-Agra Expressway in Unnao this morning, police said today. Around ten cars collided due to reduced visibility in Uttar Pradesh, which has also affected railway services in the state. Over 18 trains were cancelled, 28 were delayed and three were rescheduled due to fog in

Mumbai, Dec 18: At least 12 people were killed when a fire broke out at a shop in Mumbai's Saki Naka-Kurla area in the early hours today, an official said. The blaze erupted in the shop at Makaria Compound on Khairani Road around 4.25 am following which the structure collapsed, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell said. The persons who were working

Patna, Dec 17: A Class XII boy in Bihar's Rohtas district was killed apparently for exposing a love affair of one of his classmates. The body of 17-year-old Sahil Kumar was recovered by police from Jagdeo Chowk under Tilhauti police station, around 180 km from the state capital. Sahil was the only son of Saraswati Devi and Shambhu Singh, who works for a textile company in Ahmedabad. The matter

Vijayawada, Dec 18: Vigilance officials on Sunday seized explosive material in a bag found near the Tiruvenkata Padham Ring Road. The bag contained 28 gelatine sticks and 34 detonators. This, despite tight security at the Alipiri inspection centre. Following information, the vigilance personnel inspected the area and unearthed the explosive stuff. TTD Vigilance Officer Ravi Krishna said they were

New Delhi, Dec 16: Suhaib Ilyasi, best remembered as the host of the once popular television crime series 'India's Most Wanted', has been convicted in connection with the death of his wife 17 years ago, news agency reported on Saturday. His wife, Anju Ilyasi, was rushed to a hospital with stab wounds on 11 January 2000. She didn't make it. Ilyasi was initially arrested for harassing his wife for

New Delhi, Dec 16: In a distressing case of hospital apathy reported from Odisha's Koraput district, a woman today delivered in a drain next to the hospital that denied her admission over lack of documents. The doctors allegedly refused to admit the woman in labour after they discovered that she did not have the right documents with her needed for the same. Reports say that the woman did go the

Srinagar, Dec 14: A teacher couple working in a private school in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir were sacked on their wedding day with the school management claiming their "romance could adversely affect the students". Tariq Bhat and Sumaya Bashir, residents of Tral town in Pulwama, were working in Boys' and Girls' wings, respectively, of Pampore Muslim Educational Institute for the past

Chennai, Dec 13: Periya Pandi, a 48-year-old police inspector from Chennai, was gunned down by burglars in a village in Palidistrict of Rajasthan in the early hours of Wednesday when he and a team of police personnel went there to nab the prime suspect in a burglary case reported in Kolathur here this year. The Chennai police had recently nabbed four suspects in the burglary case. Pandi, who was

Bhubaneshwar, Dec 13: Another case of sexual assault of a minor student at a school has emerged and the prime accused in the case is the school headmaster who reportedly raped one of his students at the campus. The Odisha Police arrested the accused on charges of sexually assaulting a minor student over a period of a month in Mayurbhanj district of the state. The victim is a class 6 student and

Tirupur, Dec 12: A court here on Tuesday handed death sentence to six people for killing a dalit youth, Shankar in Udumalpet in 2016, in a suspected case of ‘honor’ killing. The court found 11 of the accused guilty but acquitted the victim's mother-in-law and two others. Shankar and his wife, Kausalya, were brutally attacked by a gang in Udumalpet in 2016. The crime was allegedly committed at the