Crime and crash

New Delhi, Sept 19: Days, after seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur was brutally murdered inside the school in Gurugram, another student of a private school in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, was found dead inside the premises. The deceased identified as Neetu Chauhan was found lying on the ground of the Modern City Montessori School in a critical condition. The 16-year-old girl had gone to toilet

Hyderabad, Sept 18: Six members of a family, including two children, were found dead at their house in Suryapet town of Telangana on Monday morning, police said. Four adult members among the deceased allegedly administered a pesticide to the two children, aged four and two years, on Sunday night and consumed it themselves, the preliminary probe suggested. The family was reportedly facing a serious

New Delhi, Sept 18: A 29-year-old man was stabbed to death by unidentified men outside a 'dhaba' in east Delhi following an argument over parking his scooter, the police said. Nishant Arora, employed with an insurance firm, and his friend Gaurav Sharma, had gone for dinner at a 'dhaba' at Jheel Chowk in Geeta Colony when the incident took place. Arora and Sharma were parking their two-wheeler when

Gorakhpur, Sep 17: The proprietor of Pushpa Sales, which supplied oxygen to the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College where dozens of children died last month, was today arrested in connection with the case. More than 60 children, mostly infants, had died at the hospital within a week last month.There were allegations that the deaths occurred due to a disruption in oxygen supply over unpaid

New Delhi, Sept 15: Sri Lankan police on Friday found the body of a British journalist, Paul McClean, who is suspected to have been killed by a crocodile. McClean, who worked for the Financial Times, was presumed dead after reports said a crocodile pulled him into a lagoon in southeast Sri Lanka on Thursday. Divers found McClean’s corpse in the mud of a lagoon in the coastal village of Panama, 360

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 14: In a suspected case of gross medical negligence, the family of a nine-year-old girl, who was undergoing treatment at the Regional Cancer Centre here, has alleged that the girl was infected with HIV after undergoing blood transfusion at the hospital. The Medical College police have registered case and launched a probe after receiving a complaint from the girl's parents

Baghpat, Sept 14: At least 22 people drowned and many others were missing after an overloaded boat capsized in the Yamuna river on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district. The boat carrying 60 people capsized and 22 persons drowned, District Magistrate Bhawani Singh said Police and PAC personnel have fished out 22 bodies so far while 10 others have been rescued. A search is on to trace others

Panaji, Sept 13: Goa minister Vinod Palyekar has claimed that there is a threat to his life from the drug mafia in the state. The Water Resources Minister recently told a local news channel that he was being constantly stalked by someone. Taking cognisance of the threat perception, the state security committee (SSC) has sought a report from police's Intelligence Branch (IB). Palyekar, a Goa

Thane, Sep 12: The police have arrested a 44-year-old woman for allegedly kidnapping a newborn girl around 16 years ago and later pushing her into flesh trade. The anti-human trafficking cell of the district's rural police on Sunday evening carried out a raid at a house in the district's Mira Road area where they found the girl along with two men in a room, Kashimira police station's senior

New Delhi, Sept 12: In yet another shocking incident, a 22-year-old man was allegedly thrashed by five men for speaking in fluent English with his friend. The incident took place when the man was dropping off his friend at a five-star hotel in Lutyens' Delhi, police said. Three persons have been arrested in this connection, they said. According to the police, Varun Gulati, a resident of Noida, had