CRIME AND CRASH

New Delhi, April 4: Noting that " sexual violence, apart from being a dehumanizing act, is an unlawful intrusion on the right of privacy and sanctity of a female", the Delhi high court has granted seven years' rigorous imprisonment to a priest for repeatedly raping a 16-year-old girl in a temple in the capital. HC slammed the priest saying he disregarded morality and consequence of his act and

Washington, April 3: An Indian American student was “lucky enough” to survive after one of her classmates ordered students to stand against a wall and opened an indiscriminate fire, killing seven and injuring three at a religious college in southern California. Dawinder Kaur, 19, was shot in her right arm near elbow and was nursing her injuries at a local hospital in Oakland, where the shooting

Belgaum, April 3: Six people, including two women and a child, were killed on the spot in two separate road accidents in Savadatti taluk on Monday. Four persons were killed on the spot and two were injured after a speeding car rammed into a roadside tree near Halki Cross on the Belgaum-Bagalkot road. Police said the driver of the speeding car, on its way to Belgaum, lost control of the vehicle and

Bangalore, April 3: First, the II PU?students endured it. On Monday, it was the turn of SSLC students as rumours of question paper leak flew thick and fast. Anxious students arrived at the examination centres for the First Language paper with doubts in their minds about the fate of their examination. Fearing that the rumours of paper leak may be confirmed just the way it happened in the II?PU

Bangalore, April 3: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said on Monday that its investigation into the series of II?Pre-university question paper leaks has revealed the involvement of several government lecturers and employees. The CID, which arrested 10 people in this connection so far, eight of them on Monday, has traced the leak to a sub-treasury in Kadur taluk in Chikmagalur district

Mangalore, April 3: A youth who was on job hunt committed suicide by hanging from the roof of his house in Barebail near Bejai in Mangalore East police station limits on Monday 23-year-old Vivian Martis (23) left the house in the morning in search of job. He returned in the evening when all his relatives in the house had gone out and took the tragic step. The police have registered a case.

Bankura, April 3: A police constable was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl at Rabindra Sarani area in Bankura town, the police said today. "Constable Chandan Mudi was arrested from his home at Rabindra Sarani area last night. The nine-year-old girl's father Tara Shankar Singha complained to me. They are neighbours of Mudi," Superintendent of Police Pranab Kumar said. The police said Mudi

Polba (Hooghly), April 3: Police have dug up a fact more bizarre than fiction in the gangrape of a 39-year-old woman in Hooghly's Polba, 60km from Kolkata. Investigators say she was raped by the killers she had hired with the help of her lover to murder her husband. The lover, Zico Pal alias Potla, is a rich, married farmer 14 years younger to the woman. He wept inconsolably in the police station

Geneva, April 3: The number of journalists killed while doing their job in the first three months of the year reached 31, up 50 percent from 21 deaths a year ago, media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign said Monday. In strife-torn Syria, nine journalists lost their lives during the period, including famed American war correspondent Marie Colvin. Brazil was also turning out to be dangerous for media

Karwar, April 2: The Haliyal police on Saturday arrested five persons regarding a murder case. Maruthi Torlekar of Kawalwada village in Haliyal was murdered on April 18, 2011. The police arrested Arun Hanumanth Torlekar (35), Basavaraj Devendra Chipti (35), Mudukappa Appayya Khandekar (33), Santappa Yallappa Bawkar (35), and Narayan Lakshman Uppar (45). According to a pres release issued by the