Crime and crash

Karwar, April 14: Vishwanath Ramaswami of Vaddara Colony at Baleguli village in Ankola taluk drowned on Friday. The accident occurred while he got down a well to remove a rodent. The Ankola police have registered a case.

Dubai, April 13: In a freak accident, a 10-year-old UAE national boy died on the spot after he was hit on the neck by the remote-controlled door at his family villa on Tuesday. Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police said the unfortunate incident took place in the Mirdiff area in Dubai. He added that the incident has caused great shock to the family

Kolkata, April 13: A Kolkata professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, is learning the hard way that posting anti-Mamata Banerjee cartoons on social networking sites can mean big trouble in West Bengal. The professor was assaulted last night, allegedly by Trinamool Congress workers, and was arrested by the police soon after. The chemistry professor at the prestigious Jadavpur University has been arrested on

Mumbai, April 13: The Vinoba Bhave Nagar police in Kurla are yet again in the news for alleged molestation of a woman, this time, one of their colleagues, who is on probation. A police inspector and a constable have been suspended after a woman sub-inspector lodged a complaint of molestation and outraging her modesty. Last year, a sub-inspector from the same police station, Manoj Londe, was

Mandya, April 12: Seven persons were killed and about 25 injured in a collision between a van and Karnataka State Transport Corporation bus near Chinkurali in Pandavpura taluk today, police said. The deceased were travelling in the van. All the injured have been admitted to hospital and condition of three of them were serious, police said.

Udupi, April 12: The Udupi district police arrested two persons in connection with the murder of a labourer Basavantappa, which took place in an old house belonging to Shaukat Ali on Katte Acharya Road here on April 8. The district police said on Wednesday that the accused had been identified as Prabhu Shankarappa Bhangigowda of Devi Housur village in Haveri district, and Parveen Toppo of

Bangalore, April 12: A 19-year-old student was found dead with her throat slit at her house in Pai Layout, Mahadevapura, on Wednesday evening. Police have identified the dead as Monica Ravi Srivastav, a second semester BCom student of Bangalore City College, Kalyan Nagar, Banasawadi. The incident came to light when her sister returned home from office at 6:30 pm. Anjali Ravi Srivastav, her sister

Mangalore, April 11: A youth was found dead on railway track between Bantwal and Padil on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Krishna (26), an electrician by profession. It is suspected that he was hit by a moving train. Sources at the Government Railway Police Station said that Krishna had gone to see the fair in Polali on Monday. He had told his parents that he would return home, which

Guntur, April 11: 25-year-old Narasimha was paraded around town in his undergarments, wearing a garland of slippers. He attempted to take off the slipper-garland but it was put right back by the angry crowd following him on the roads of Vinukonda town in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Following him were two women and a mob of their supporters. Narasimha had reportedly married Sheikh Anita

Dhaka, April 11: A 35-year-old Saudi national was killed Tuesday in an accident in Bangladesh. Kamal Gazi, son of Md. Abdul Motaleb Gazi, went out for a stroll along the Chandpur-Comilla highway Tuesday morning, when he was hit by a pick-up. Gazi died on the spot, the Daily Star reported. He was supposed to leave for Saudi Arabia Wednesday. An angry mob from Chandpur town later staged a protest on