Crime and crash

Surat, January 23: Three workers were found to have died of suffocation caused by gas in a jewellery making unit, functioning since years on Ambaji Road in the walled city area here on Sunday. Subopal, 22, Rahul Hamaru, 18 and Surbho Kartama, 25, were found dead in the basement of Dhanlakshmi Chamber. The trio had come to Surat from West Bengal and was living alone in the city, having found job in

Karwar, January 23: A Nepali youth who had come to Gokarna in Uttara Kannada district to work in a resort committed suicide by hanging himself in the bathroom of the resort on Sunday. He has been identified as Sung Tamang (25) from Goddang in Nepal. He was married just two months ago and his wife is working in New Delhi. It is suspected that a family dispute is the reason for the suicide

Ranchi, January 22: Maoist guerrillas killed the 13 policemen in Jharkhand by shooting most of the wounded men in their head and also threw two of them into a burning vehicle, officials said Sunday. Police officials based on inputs from the attack site in a forested part of Garwah district provided graphic details of the deadly ambush by the guerrillas Saturday. Thirteen policemen, including sub

Karwar, January 22: R H Naik, senior health inspector, Karwar City Municipal Council, was caught red-handed receiving bribe by the Lokayukta officials on Saturday. He was working on contract for six months, it is said. According to the Lokayukta officials, Naik had asked Lokesh Sawant of Nadanagadda to pay him Rs. 1,500 to secure permission to building a toilet. Mr. Sawant complained this to the

Garhwa (Jharkhand), January 21: Thirteen policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station, were today killed and two others injured when Maoists triggered a landmine blast near the jungles of Bariganwa in this district. "The Maoists triggered the blast, killing 12 policemen and the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station R B Choudhary around 11 am," SP Michael S Raj

Bangalore, January 20: A 25 year-old woman employed in a software firm allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in R T Nagar police station limits, police said. Savitha, the deceased, was working as a Human Resource (HR) professional and allegedly killed herself yesterday, police said. Savitha had got engaged to another software professional last year but the pair had

Bhatkal, January 20: A motorcyclist was killed on spot and three others sustained injuries in a head-on collision between the two-wheeler and a Maruti Omni on National Highway-17 near Murdeshwar, near here. The deceased has been identified as Saniyara Jatappa Naik (30), a resident of Murdeshwar. The accident occurred at around 11 am, half an hour after the deceased left his home. The injured have

New Delhi, January 20: A 20-year-old woman from the Northeast was allegedly raped by a man who offered her a lift from Gurgaon to her home in Mahipalpur on Thursday night. Instead, he took her to a secluded place in Dwarka and raped her. Police sources said the incident took place when the woman, who works with a hospitality group in Gurgaon, was waiting for a public transport at IFFCO Chowk to

New Delhi, January 20: She was young, suave with dreams of a life in bliss with her boyfriend. But love failed to blur caste barriers at home. Her uncle stood in the way of marriage. So she decided to get even. However, law finally caught up with the couple, Shruti and Rohit. Shruti Khosla, who is pursuing second-year BCom through correspondence from Delhi University and working with a multi

Bhubaneswar, January 19: Odisha Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy Thursday submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after the opposition accused him of protecting the culprits in a gangrape case. “I submitted the resignation on moral grounds,” Maharathy told IANS after putting in his papers. A 19-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped Nov 28 last year by some people near her