Crime and crash

Chennai, December 21: Popular Carnatic vocalist Nithyashree’s husband Mahadevan allegedly committed suicide on Thursday by jumping into a river here. The suicide comes amid the Margazhi music festival in the city in which his wife is one of the star performers. The police quoted eyewitnesses as saying that Mahadevan came in a car and jumped into the Adyar river from the Kotturpuram Bridge. The

Bangalore, December 20: As the nation showed its outrage over the recent gang-rape of a girl in New Delhi, Bangalore also witnessed yet another brutal rape of a minor girl on Tuesday night. The incident came to light only on Wednesday as the family formally lodged a complaint with the Kadugodi police. The police have arrested the main accused, Ashwath, a kirana shop owner. Raziya, 15, (name

Bangalore, December 20: Telugu actor Bharath alias Yasho Sagar, whose debut film 'Ullasanga Utsahanga' was a blockbuster, died in a road accident near Tumkur in Karnataka on Wednesday. Besides Sagar, in his mid 20s, his assistant Vishvanath Reddy was also killed and another person injured when their car rammed into a bridge near Tumkur, about 100 km from here, District SP T R Suresh said. The

Bidar/Hyderabad, December 20: A five-year-old girl was whisked away in her sleep and allegedly raped in Bidar district of Karnataka, barely a day after a 23-year-old paramedical student was gangraped, stripped and thrown out of a moving bus in New Delhi triggering outrage across the country. Police said the incident, the latest in a series of rape incidents across India lately, occurred at Saigaon

New Delhi, December 19: While The 23-year-old medical student who was gangraped, beaten and thrown out of a moving bus along with a male friend in Delhi is fighting for her life, one of the two absconding suspects has been detained for questioning in Aurangabad, Bihar. Three of the accused were produced in a Delhi court on Wednesday and confessed. One of the accused, Vinay Sharma, went on to plead

Bangalore, December 19: Frustrated over a family dispute, a 24-year-old homemaker allegedly hanged herself in front of her oneyear-old daughter in their Ramamurthynagar residence on Monday. Manjula Dilip Kumar, wife of Dilip Kumar, a carpenter from Bihar, often fought with her husband . Neighbours told police: "Dilip wanted to buy some carpentry material He had no money and pledged Manjula's

New Delhi, December 17: In yet another incident of violence against women, a medical student was allegedly gangraped in a private bus in the Vasant Vihar area of southwest Delhi. The incident happened on Sunday night. The victim's male friend registered a complaint with the Vasant Vihar police station at around 1.15 am. According to the police, the duo boarded a bus to Dwarka from Munirka and the

Bangalore, December 15: Mamata, 22, a homemaker, hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her residence at Pragati Nagar, under Electronic City police limits, on Thursday night. Mamata was married to Ajay, a software engineer working with an IT major. Police said the couple, from Orissa, was married for two years. On Thursday night, police suspect the couple had an argument, after which the woman

Bangalore, December 14: A six-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually abused by her caretaker has slipped into severe depression. The girl, who was brought to a Banashankari hospital on Monday by her alleged abuser, was shifted to Nimhans on Thursday. "The girl is in deep shock. Her mother, who met her on Thursday morning, cried on seeing the bite marks on her child's body. This further depressed

Dubai, December 11: A tragic accident on Sunday evening claimed two lives and injured six others in Al Warqa area of Dubai. The accident that occurred in a sandy area killed two Emirati youths – a male and a female –who were sticking their heads over the roof hatch of their car when it flipped over. Major-General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen said the car carrying eight people turned turtle at about 7