Crime and crash

China, Jan 30: A tiger-mauling death at a Chinese zoo is under investigation by local authorities who say the victim climbed a fence into the tiger's enclosure. The attack occurred Saturday at a resort on Dongqian Lake in eastern China's Zhejiang province. A local government statement says the victim, identified only by his surname of Zhang, climbed a fence with a friend instead of buying tickets

Bengaluru, Jan 29: A police constable's wife allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday night in the police quarters at Shivajinagar after her husband refused to give her money. The victim, Afsana Mallik Mujavar, 24, was the mother of two children, and was three months pregnant. A native of Mysuru, Afasana on Monday reportedly asked her husband, Mallik Mujavar, for Rs 5,000 to lend it to her mother

Jan 28: A 45-year-old man in Bangladesh, accused of secretly marrying 28 times, was arrested and sent to jail over dowry harassment complaint filed by his 25th wife, a media report said. Yasin Byapari was arrested by the police from his 27th wife’s home at Taltali area of Barguna district. A court sent him to jail in the dowry case filed by his ‘25th wife’ Shiuli Akhter Tania, bdnews24.com

New Delhi Jan 27: A woman was booked for attempted murder after she was accused by her husband of throwing their two-and-half-year-old child from the staircase of their house in southeast Delhi's Pul Prahladpur area, police said today. On January 24, a PCR call was received around 6 PM wherein a man alleged that a child had been thrown from the staircase of house from first floor, a police

New Delhi, Jan 26: Keshavanand Giri, the aide of a BJP MP, was shot dead in Manhji, Bihar, Times Now reported on Thursday. Giri was killed after unidentified assailants opened fire on him. A police investigation is under way. More details are awaited.

Shahjahanpur, Jan 25: A 14-year-old girl died and some 27 people, most of them children, were taken ill after eating chaat sold by a vendor selling snacks on a handcart at Khanousa village near Gola city in Lakhimpur Kheri district on Monday evening. The condition of eight of the children was said to be serious. They were taken to the district hospital in Lakhimpur city. The others were admitted

Stockholm, Jan 24: Three men have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of raping a woman in an assault that was broadcast live on Facebook, police said. The apparent gang-rape on Sunday took place in Uppsala, about an hour north of the capital, Stockholm, and has shocked the Nordic country. "This rape was broadcasted live in a Facebook group," police said in a statement. Several viewers of the

New Delhi, Jan 23: A 27-year-old Uber cab driver was killed after a speeding BMW hit his vehicle near IIT Flyover on Outer Ring Road in South Delhi on Sunday night. The accused, a young man in his early twenties according to witnesses, is on the run. The victim has been identified as Nazrul, a Gurgaon resident who hails from West Bengal. He is survived by a wife and two children, aged four and two

New Delhi, Jan 23: A man accused of raping a 26-year -old woman on the pretext of marriage has been granted bail by a Delhi court, which said the complainant had consented for physicalrelationsand knewtheconsequences of her act. Additional Sessions Judge R K Tripathi released the accused on bail noting that the complaint was lodged as the accused, a Delhi resident, was neither agreeing to marry

New Delhi, Jan 21: A 21-year-old JNU student was allegedly raped by two Afghan nationals in south Delhi's Green Park area, police said today. The victim, a second year BA (Honours) student of JNU, had gone to a pub in Hauz Khas village last week with her friend where she met one Twaab Ahmad alias Saleem, 27, an Afghan national, they said. Saleem, who lives here along with his Afghan friend