Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Jul 23: Four minor boys, including two school dropouts, were on Saturday taken into custody in connection the alleged molestation of a 13-year-old girl on July 10. They were booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and handed over to the remand home following a complaint filed by the girl's mother. According to the complainant, the four boys, including

Mumbai, Jul 22: In an unfortunate incident, a woman died tragically while she was going for a routine walk. She was felled by a falling tree. The woman was a resident of Chembur and the incident happened on July 20. The horrific incident was caught on a nearby security camera. In the video, Kanchan Nath is seen wearing a blue t-shirt and black trousers, when without warning, the tree comes

Pune, Jul 21: A Pune-based techie bled to death on road after several passerbys chose to click pictures and shoot videos, instead of helping him reach hospital. Twenty-five-year-old Satish Prabhakar Mete, a software engineer by profession, was severely injured in a hit-and-run accident case at Indrayaninagar corner in Bhosari on Wednesday evening. Several onlookers stopped to look at him and

New Delhi, Jul 21: A disturbing video of a man being hacked to death with swords by a group of men in broad daylight went viral on Thursday. A rival gang killed a gangster in full public view in Maharashtra and the whole incident was recorded on CCTV camera. The footage of the gore-filled incident has gone viral. The unsettling footage was recorded by a camera installed in a neighboring building

Shimla, Jul 20: As many as 30 persons were killed and several others injured when a private bus proceeding towards Solan from Reckong Peo in Kinnaur district skidded off the road and rolled down into a 300 metre gorge at Khaneri near Rampur in Shimla district on Thursday morning. According to sources, around 40 people were on board the private bus when the accident took place and it's feared that

New Delhi, Jul 20: A doctor who was abducted from east Delhi's Preet Vihar area was rescued from Meerut by the police after a shootout with the kidnappers. Four men have been nabbed in this connection, the police said. One of the accused also suffered bullet injuries in the shootout, said SSP (Meerut) Manzil Saini. Shrikant Gaur, who practises at a hospital in east Delhi, was kidnapped on July 6

Bengaluru: Jul 19: The Commercial Street police on Monday arrested a dismissed constable of the Bahrain police on the charge of stealing a set of six gold bangles from a jewellery shop on June 25. The police gave the name of the arrested as Pilakal Nazir (55), a native of Kerala and resident of New Gurappanapalya here. He is a habitual offender and has cases against him in 11 police stations. The

Dubai, Jul 19: The woman, whose name was not given, was detained by police in the capital, Riyadh, for wearing "immodest clothes" that contradicted the country's conservative Islamic dress code, state media reported Tuesday. Police referred her case to the public prosecutor, according to the official Twitter account of state-run TV channel al-Ekhbariya. In the video, which has gone viral since

Vijayapura, Jul 19: The investigation by the CID into the cheating scam in the ICICI Bank branch here has held former mayor Sajjade Peera Mushrif guilty of receiving a kickback from branch manager Vijayasarathi. The manager is charged with cheating customers of crores of rupees. Sleuths of the economic offences wing of CID, Bengaluru, have submitted the charge sheet in the additional district and

Pune, Jul 18: Congress leader Rohit Tilak, who is the great-grandson of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, has been booked for allegedly raping a woman and forcing her into “unnatural” sex, the police said. The case was registered against him late last night. Rohit is the great-grandson of freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak and grandson of late Jayantrao Tilak, who was a senior Congress leader and member of