Crime and crash

Bhopal, March 12: Cracking down on the mining mafia behind a slew of attacks on police and civic officials, Madhya Pradesh police on Sunday arrested Kuber Singh, a former dacoit who is the lynchpin of the sand mafia, and Morena district's ex-BJP chief Hamir Singh Patel, who assaulted officials for impounding tractor-trolleys used in quarrying stone. Kuber and his gang had fired on a team of civil

New Delhi/Faridabad, March 11: A woman and her daughter were allegedly paraded naked inside their village by neighbours on Holi. Their fault: the neighbours believed that her family had "conspired" and moved court, forcing them to cancel their daughter's wedding. The incident occurred at the Raipur Kala village near Ballabhgarh on March 8. On the complaint of the victim, the police have registered

Jhajjar/Gurgaon, March 11: Three criminals were killed and four others, including two policemen, were injured when a police van transporting under-trials was attacked on the Gurgaon-Jhajjar Road on Saturday. The van was returning to Gurgaon after producing the party at a Rohtak court. The attackers were from a rival gang. Police said the van was rammed by a truck around 3.45pm, forcing it to a

Sharjah, March 11: The bodies of the two Bangladeshi teenage cousins who drowned on Thursday off the beach near Coral Beach Hotel in Sharjah were recovered on Saturday. The duo went along with four friends to swim in an area where swimming is prohibited. The police said that the bodies were found on Saturday after great efforts made by the marine rescue units, coast guards and rescue missions

Arsikere (Hassan dist), March 10: Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda’s wife Datty escaped with minor injuries in an accident that occurred near Mududi village in Gandasi hobli in Arsikere on Friday afternoon. Sources said Datty was on her way to Narasimharajapura via Chikmagalur from Bangalore in a car to see her husband campaigning for the bypoll in the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha?Constituency. At

Kozhikode, March 10: Veteran Malayalam actor Jagathy Sreekumar was seriously injured in a road mishap at nearby Thenjippalam in the wee hours of Saturday. Mr. Sreekumar, who sustained injuries on his chest and abdomen, was admitted to a private hospital here and put on ventilator, police said. The accident occurred when his car overturned after hitting a median. The driver of the car, who also

Udupi, March 10: The district police have cracked the case of a daring robbery, which took place at a house near the Dr. A.V. Baliga Memorial Hospital at Doddanagudde here on the night of March 4, where four robbers had made good with valuables, including ornaments and a car, whose value was estimated at Rs. 14.5 lakh. The district police said on Friday that they had arrested the accused Shringesh

Gwalior, March 9: The father of the young IPS officer mowed down by a suspected member of the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh today alleged there was a well-planned conspiracy against his son who did not receive cooperation of local police and authorities. Indian Police Service officer Narendra Kumar was crushed to death in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar, sub-divisional

Mumbai, March 9: A 13-year-old boy died and around 200 people, mostly children, continued to be in hospital following an allergic reaction from toxic colours on Holi, police here said Friday. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered a high-level probe into the incident. Vikas Valmiki from Ghatkopar died late Thursday. He was rushed to hospital with severe symptoms of colour allergy

Hyderabad, March 9: Holi revelry claimed three lives in the city on Thursday. Two youth drowned in different water bodies, while another young man died in a road mishap. At around noon, after playing Holi, P Ravi, 21, along with his friends Yadagiri and Ramesh went to bathe in Suryanarayana cheruvu in Godumakunta near Keesara, police said. "The trio entered the lake and Ravi was walking behind his