Crime and crash

Shimla, Aug 31: Five years after the death of medical student Aman Kachroo due to ragging in Himachal Pradesh, police Saturday registered a suicide case after the death of a student of a private polytechnic college allegedly due to harassment by seniors. The victim was a first year civil engineering diploma student of Gautam Polytechnic College in Hamirpur town, who allegedly committed suicide

Alappuzha, Aug 31: The district administration has initiated steps for monitoring the houseboat industry following reports of sex tourism and possibility of extremist elements using the facilities. The move follows an alert from additional director general of police (intelligence) A Hemachandran. District collector N Padmakumar has sought reports from the district police chief and the port officer

Mumbai, Aug 29: A 33-year-old Kandivali resident jumped off the Bandra-Worli sea link on Thursday evening, said police. The police have identified him as Chitan Shah, an employee at a finance firm in the city. “Shah’s car was north bound on the sea link, when he stopped his white colour Hyundi i-20 car and the leap at around 4.30 pm on Thursday evening,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, public

Nagpur, Aug 27: In 1978, 24-year-old Sharda (name changed) from Madhya Pradesh had a pregnancy in which the baby was growing outside the uterus. Thirty six years later, the bones of the unborn child were removed from her body through surgery by a team of doctors at Nagpur's NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences (NKPSIMS). This could be the longest that the remains of an ectopic pregnancy were

Riyadh, Aug 27: A 23-year-old Saudi girl, apparently influenced by action movies, succeeded in aborting an attempt by two men to kidnap her and her handicapped sister when she abruptly pulled the hand brake, causing the captors’ car to overturn. The girl and her 20-year-old sister were walking to their home in the southern Jazan province when they were intercepted by the two men, who forced them

Gwalior (MP), Aug 26: Police today registered FIRs against three students and two staffers of the prestigious Scindia School at Fort here in connection with the suicide attempt made by Adarsh Singh, son of Bihar Cooperatives Minister Jai Kumar Singh after alleged ragging. The FIRs were registered against the minor boys, resident tutor, Arpan Soni and House master Parampreet Grewal, Additional

Kanpur, Aug 24: A 12-year-old girl on Saturday committed suicide after she was allegedly made to remove some of her clothes by a teacher as punishment for bringing a mobile phone to school, police said. The incident took place at a college for girls in the Nazibabad police station area. According to a police spokesperson, during a checking at the school, a mobile phone was found in the bag of the

Bangalore: Aug 20: Venkatesh, a rowdy-sheeter at the Subramanyanagar police station, was fired at and injured in his leg, when he tried to give the police the slip after attacking a constable in the early hours of Tuesday. An accused in a case of attempt to molestation and kidnap of a woman near Shivananda Circle on August 13, Venkatesh, on noticing the police, tried to speed away on his bike, but

Aug 16: Two Kolhapur women, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, may become the first women ever to be hanged in India. President Pranab Mukherjee late last month rejected Renuka Kiran Shinde and her sister Seema Mohan Gavit's mercy petitions. The buffer period before their hanging - time taken by the state home department to inform all concerned

San Francisco, Aug 12: Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay Area home Monday, according to the sheriff's office in Marin County