Crime and crash

Rohtas, Nov 12: Dharmendra Singh, a journalist with the Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Rohtas in wee hours on Saturday. Singh was standing at a tea stall near his house early in morning when three bike-borne assailants opened fire on him, peppering his chest with bullets. The incident took place near Amra Lake in the Mufassil police station area

Hyderabad, Nov 11: A middle-aged homemaker in Telangana committed suicide on learning that bank notes of Rs 54.40 lakh she had stored in denominations of 1,000 and 500 rupees were “as good as waste paper”. Kandukuri Vinoda, 55, of east-central Mahbubabad district hanged herself at her residence in Sanagapuram village early on Thursday apparently unaware of how to convert her money. According to

Jaipur, Nov 9: A 19-year-old girl was raped by her former classmate on the pretext of giving her lift to home near Jhalana Dungari area in the city late on Monday evening. Police said that the accused was a class fellow of the girl in 2013 while both were in schools. Police have registered a case of illegal confinement and rape against the accused and have started investigating the case. According

Tirupati, Nov 8: It was a narrow escape for the 140 passengers of a Hyderabad-bound Air India flight, which failed to take off at the Renigunta airport here on Monday afternoon. When AI 541 Tirupati-Hyderabad-New Delhi aircraft taxied down the runway and was all set for take-off, one of its tyres burst, rendering it unfit for flying. The flight was taken off the runway after the panicked

New Delhi, Nov 6: A 21-year-old student of Amity in Noida allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his room, police said. G Sai Krishna, a native of Telangana, was a first year student of post graduate diploma in facilities management and had joined the course recently, a senior police officer said. He allegedly hanged himself last evening. He has left a note written in Telugu, addressed

Mumbai, Nov 6: The Naupada police in Thane on Saturday arrested a 42-year-old ex-serviceman for allegedly raping his daughter and subjecting her to other forms of physical abuse for the last one month. The police said the accused, who stays in Hans Nagar, had forcibly confined his 17-year-old daughter in his house since October 1, and had been forcing himself on her almost every night, as well as

Ahmedabad, Nov 5: Fourteen people were killed and three others grievously injured when a truck hit a mini bus carrying 17 pilgrims near Valthera Patiya village of Ahmedabad district, police said on Saturday. The accident took place late on Friday night when the bus, carrying pilgrims from Sokhda village in Rajkot district, collided head-on with a speeding truck, they said. “The victims were all

Kollam, Nov 5: The Cherupulassery police have launched an investigation after an 18-year-old lodged a complaint on Wednesday, saying she was gang-raped by her lover and his friends at an isolated place here on October 26. The teenager narrated the alleged trauma she had undergone after police picked her up based on her parents' complaint that their daughter had gone missing. The girl, hailing from

Hyderabad, Nov 4: In a bizarre case of sexual assault, two minor identical twin girls were raped for months by their neighbours with support from girls' mother. The assaults in Mailardevpallyon the southern fringes of the city has sent shock waves through the locality after police said that Jaffar, 40, and his minor son allegedly raped the two sisters with support from the twins' mother over the

Vadodara, Nov 3: Four workers were killed and 13 sustained injuries in a gas leakage at the TDI unit of Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd (GNFC) in Dahej in neighbouring Bharuch district, police said today. Four workers were killed and as many as 13 others were injured due to leakage of phosgene gas at the TDI unit last night, Bharuch Superintendent of Police, Sandeep Singh said