Crime and crash

New Delhi, Jun 10: A helicopter engineer in Badrinath, Uttarakhand died on Saturday while two pilots suffered injuries after the chopper met with an accident. According to news agency, the Agusta 119 helicopter, belonging to Mumbai-based private operator Krestal Aviation, was on its way to Haridwar, carrying five pilgrims, along with the two pilots and one engineer. As per the police officials

Vijayawada, Jun 9: A minor girl was allegedly raped by three minors on the premises of a government school in Gannavaram near the city on Wednesday. The accused were produced before the Juvenile Justice Court on Thursday. The seven-year-old victim who recently passed Class II was playing in the Dasari colony of her village B.B. Gudem in the mandal, according to Gannavaram police. The three accused

Bengaluru, Jun 8: The father of a 14-year-old girl was arrested under the provisions of the POCSO Act on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting her over the past one year. Three others, who allegedly assaulted her as part of “rituals”, were also arrested. The family lives on the city's outskirts. When the girl told her mother, she consulted a friend in Bengaluru, who asked her to bring the

Salem (Tamil Nadu), Jun 7: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two drivers and a conductor in a bus near in Salem, the police said on Tuesday. The three men, who allegedly committed the crime on Monday night after halting the private bus at a village, were arrested on Tuesday, they said. The incident brought back memories of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape in which a 23-year-old woman

Lucknow, Jun 6: Twenty-four passengers were charred to death and 14 injured, some seriously, after an Uttar Pradesh roadways bus caught fire after it collided with a truck on the Delhi-Lucknow National Highway in Bareilly district. The accident occurred late on Sunday night when the bus was en route to Gonda from Delhi, a source said, adding that the bus was on the wrong side of the road. The fire

Gurgaon, Jun 6: Three persons allegedly raped a woman after throwing her nine-month-old daughter off an autorickshaw leading to the child's death here, police said on Monday. According to the 23-year-old woman, she was going to her parents' house in Khandsa village here around midnight on May 29 with her daughter after an argument with her husband. She took a lift in an autorickshaw in which three

Bareilly, Jun 5: At least 22 passengers were charred to death and 15 injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck and burst into flames on National Highway 24 here early today. The bus of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) carrying 41 passengers from Delhi was on its way to Gonda in eastern Uttar Pradesh when the accident took place near Bada bypass. Senior

Vishakhpatnam, Jun 5: A 10-year-old girl died after she was trapped in between the lift and its door at an apartment complex at Tarakarama Nagar, Madhurawada here, on Sunday. P. Pandu of Pusapatirega in Viziangaram district came to the city to eke out a living and is employed as a watchman at the apartment complex. His daughter Swathi (10) was studying in Std. III at a school in Madhurawada. She

Lucknow Jun 4: A seven-year-old gang rape victim was allegedly discharged from a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad town, about 200 kilometres from here, barely a day before chief minister Yogi Adityanath's visit to the city on Sunday. The mother of the victim alleged that the doctors at the Women's Hospital forced her to take the victim home on Saturday saying that she was all right

Noida , Jun 4: The boyfriend of the girl techie murdered at her home here was arrested on Saturday for the crime, police said. Police said Ashwani Yadav, 25, had been absconding from his rented accommodation in Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi but was traced and arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri. "A manhunt to arrest Yadav was launched soon after Anjali Rathour's family members suspected on him to