Crime and crash

Bangalore, December 23: An engineering student was found murdered at his house at Hunasamaranahalli in Yelahanka police limits on Thursday evening. The body of Piyush Sinha (24), who hailed from Jharkhand, was found packed in a suitcase. According to the police, he was pursuing seventh semester engineering at Sir M?Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology on International Airport Road. He was staying

Sharjah, December 22: An Indian worker who stripped naked and turned violent had to be tied up and shackled by his colleagues in Sharjah. The 34-year-old Bhushan T, who is from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, has been working with Systems Engineering since last four years. The owner of the company fled earlier this month, leaving almost 500 employees with unpaid dues for six months. “He was so

Melbourne, December 22: An Australian court on Thursday sentenced a Melbourne teenager to 13 years in jail for murdering Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress. Nitin Garg The teenager, whose identity has not been revealed as he is a minor, had pleaded guilty in April to one count of murder and one count of attempted

Bangalore, December 22: Apparently wilting under pressure to perform, a fifth semester engineering student committed suicide by drinking a soft drink laced with unidentified poison, in his hostel room in Anekal on Tuesday night. Akash, a native of Shimoga and student of electronic and computer sciences stream in Sirsi Sai Engineering College in Anekal, was found unconscious in his hostel room by

Mangalore, December 22: In yet another serial theft, thieves broke into two houses and made away with gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 5.75 lakh at Dwarkanagar in Urwa police station in the city. According to Ram Aithal, owner of the one of the burgled houses, gold and silver articles estimated at Rs. 3.75 lakh were taken away from his house in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. It

Mangalore, December 21: A two-and-a-half-year-old boy, suspected to be a victim of the harmful effects of endosulfan pesticide, died on Tuesday despite continuous medical care in Kasargod district in the nearby state of Kerala. The victim is Sreehari, son of Sowmya, a resident of Muliyaru Vattanthatt in Kasaragod. It is learnt that the child had been suffering from several birth defects including

Arsikere, December 21: A van carrying passengers toppled from the tank bund injuring 23 persons near Kanthenahalli on the outskirts of Arsikere on Tuesday. Out of them five are said to be in a serious condition and have been shifted to government hospital in Hassan. All the passengers are said to be residents of Arsikere and were proceeding to Om Shakti temple in Melmaruvathur in Tamil Nadu after

Sharjah, December 21: A gas cylinder exploded at a house in Al Khazamia, resulting in first and second-degree burns to a 36-year-old Iraqi woman and her 12-year-old daughter, as well as head wounds to her seven-year-old son, police said yesterday. A senior official at Sharjah Police confirmed the accident took place at a traditional Arabic villa and was caused by a gas leak from the pipe, which

Mangalore, December 20: A youth was arrested by sleuths attached to Karntaka Coastal Security Police on Monday on for illegal possession of 1.1 kg of ganja worth Rs 30,000. The police arrested Alwyn Pinto alias Anil Bengera (33) during routine patrolling near Ganesh Katte on Thannirbhavi beach, when he was allegedly attempting to peddle ganja. A case was registered and the accused was produced

Mangalore, December 20: Dakshina Kannada Mobile Forest Special Police Squad have seized nine star tortoises found in the possession of Rajesh Kumar (38) at Adipila near Narikombu village in Bantwal taluk. Acting on a trip-off, the squad, under the direction of IGP Nissar Ahmed, detained the suspect and found nine star tortoises in his possession. After registering a case under the Wildlife