Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Apr 12: Angry and anguished, the family of Madhukar Reddy Guduru who committed suicide in the US, beat up his wife Swathi, in Bhongir on Tuesday. The body of Madhukar Reddy was brought to his home town for last rites. When Swathi arrived at the house, her in-laws and relatives beat her up in full public view alleging that she was responsible for Madhukar's death. Both Madhukar Reddy, an

Bengaluru, Apr 11: Police have solved the “abduction” of a 21-year-old man from the busy Jalahalli Cross in northern Bengaluru. They say the abduction was faked by the man himself to avoid going to work. Around 8.20 pm on Friday, Maruthi, a native of Sandur, Ballari district, telephoned his uncle, B L Gowda, saying a four-member gang had abducted him and bundled him into a car as he came out of an

Patna, Apr 10: In a daring robbery, a gang on Sunday morning at a gunpoint looted passengers of cash and valuables and assaulted some of them aboard the prestigious New Delhi-Patna Rajdhani Express in Bihar's Buxar district. A dozen men barged into three coaches of the train near the Buxar railway station, about 125 km from here, and threatened to shoot the passengers if they tried to resist the

Bengaluru, Apr 10: The BJP on Sunday demanded that the Office of Chief Electoral Officer (OCEO), Karnataka, should disqualify Kalale Keshavamurthy as Congress candidate in the Nanjangud Assembly bypoll for violating election laws. In a memorandum submitted to the OCEO, the BJP charged Kalale with wearing a scarf bearing the Congress symbol at the time of casting his vote in Nanjangud. The Congress

Raipur, Apr 9: Over 200 two-wheelers were today gutted after a fire broke out at an authorised parking area of Raipur Railway Station in Chhattisgarh's capital here, police said. No one was injured in the incident, police said. The fire was noticed in the vehicles stationed in a corner of the parking lot in the railway station premises at around 12 noon, SHO Government Railway Police (GRP) Raipur

Chennai, Apr 9: An MTC bus and a car plunged into a huge crater that was formed in the middle of the Anna Salai, near Anna Flyover, around 2pm on Sunday. No one was injured. According to Chennai Metro Rail Limited sources, the incident happened due to the impact of a tunnel boring machine which was drilling beneath Anna Salai, a few metres besides the spot where the road caved in. The accident

Thane, Apr 8: Sagar Thakkar alias 'Shaggy', the alleged mastermind of the Internal Revenue Service call centre scam in which thousands of Americans were defrauded to the tune of USD 300 million, has been arrested by Thane Police. According to Thane Police officials, Sagar, who was on the run since the unearthing of the scam last year, was placed under arrest late last night after he arrived at the

Udaipur, Apr 6: A 38-year-old businessman died and his brother-in-law sustained severe injuries after their luxury SUV crashed into the Fatah Sagar lake in Rajasthan’s Udaipur on Wednesday, police said on Thursday. The mishap occurred on Wednesday night when Vikas Modi and Sarveshwar Maheshwari were heading towards Rani Road surrounding the Fatah Sagar. As they reached Rajiv Gandhi Park, Modi lost

Lahore, Apr 5: At least four people have been killed in a blast which appeared to have been an attack targeting a census team in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, officials said. "It appears to have been an act of terrorism," Punjab provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah said in televised comments, adding that two soldiers and two civilians had been killed. Rescue officials and police

Mumbai, Apr 4: In a most chilling scene of suicide, 24-year-old Arjun Bharadwaj took his life by jumping from his 19th floor room of a posh Bandra hotel, but not before posting videos of his activity prior to the act. Bharadwaj went live on Facebook, informing the world that he was about to end his life. The police have asked TV channels not to telecast the video. Cool and composed, the