Crime and crash

Bangalore, January 13: Coming to school on an empty stomach proved dangerous for 46 students of BBMP Girls’ High School, Mathikere, on Thursday morning as they took ill after having the classroom breakfast supplied by Iskcon. The girls — students of Class VIII and X — ate rice and ‘majjige huli’ (buttermilk curry) around 9.15 am, shortly after they turned up for special classes. Although many more

Bangalore, January 12: A 25-year-old woman, working as an IT professional, allegedly committed suicide today by hanging herself in her rented room, police said. Police have found a purported suicide note in the room which read 'nobody should be held responsible for my suicide', Bangalore South DCP Sonia Narang said. The body of Neelima, a resident of Pune, has been taken to a hospital for

New Delhi, January 12: Demanding money for 'kebab' cost a 22-year-old youth from Jharkhand his life in east Delhi when two youths allegedly stabbed him with the skewer used for preparing the dish. Shabir, the victim, worked at a meat shop during the day and ran the eatery in east Delhi's Kalyanpuri in the night, to earn money for his poor family back home. It all started at around 9 pm yesterday

Jaipur, January 12: Rodents with a taste for the human flesh have struck at a Jodhpur government hospital, killing a patient admitted in the intensive care unit. A 70-year-old paralytic patient, on ventilator at the ICU of a government hospital in Jodhpur died a gory death on Tuesday, with rats allegedly feasting on him. The incident reaffirms the sorry state of affairs at the government hospitals

Lucknow, January 11: When the police arrested a peon at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), a Lucknow-based super speciality hospital, in connection with kidney smuggling, they thought that he was a small fry, part of a racket that spread up to Chandigarh. They were flabbergasted when they found that the Grade 4 employee of the Radiology department at the

Udupi, January 10: Two motorcyclists were killed as an omni dashed the two-wheeler in an attempt to overtake the bike, near the Mabukala bridge, on the National Highway, at 5.45 am on Tuesday. The deceased are Saleem and Dhanush, residents of Rajiv Nagar, Kolambe, near Brahmavar. They were going to Gangolli in the wee hours of Dec 10. Kota police registered a case and investigating.

Mangalore, January 10: Laxshmi (55), resident of Tadambail, was killed when she was hit by unidentified motorcycle at Suratkal on the outskirts of the city. Laxshmi, who was admitted to Srinivas Hospital at Mukka succumbed to her injuries the same day. A case of fatal road accident has been registered in Surathkal police station. In a similar incident in Panambur police station limits, Sadashiva

Patna, January 10: How many surgeries can a well-qualified doctor perform in a single day? One, two, three… or maximum ten? But in Bihar’s Araria district, three self-proclaimed “medical practitioners” performed 61 surgeries, that too within just two hours. Incidentally, all the surgeries were related to family planning, as these quacks performed tubectomies on 61 rural women. The “feat,” which

Sindhagi, January 9: Bijapur district police arrested one more person, Arun Wagmore, who was involved in the Sindagi Pakistan flag hoist case on Sunday. He was sent to judicial custody till January 17. Six persons -- Rakesh Sidramaiah Math, Mallanagouda Vijaykumar Patil, Parashuram Ashok Waghmore, Rohit Eshwar Navi, Sunil Madiwalappa Agasar, Anilkumar Sriram Solanki -- were held in connection with

Hyderabad, January 9: A Class X student was allegedly raped by a 17-year-old youth, an auto driver, at Azad Chandrasekhar Nagar in Addagutta. According to Tukaramgate police, the youth befriended the girl, a student of a well-known school in Secunderabad, while she used to commute in his auto to reach school. He went out with her several times and reportedly exploited her sexually. Their intimate