Jaipur, Feb 13 (IANS) Four labourers, including three women, died after consuming acid, mistaking it for alcohol in Aloli village of Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district, police said on Friday.According to initial reports, the victims were hired as labourers to clean the wedding venue. Bottles containing acid, kept for cleaning purposes, were reportedly stored at the site.The labourers allegedly mistook the liquid for alcohol and consumed it, leading to a fatal accident.The deceased have been identifie…
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Visakhapatnam, Feb 8 (IANS) At least two persons were killed, and five others were injured when a car in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary vehicle in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district on Sunday.Police said the accident occurred on the national highway near Palavalasa in Nandigam Mandal.The car, which was headed to Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) from Sonepur in Odisha, rammed into a stationary van. The accident occurred when a patient, Balaiah, was being shifted from Sonepu…
Seoul, Feb 6 (IANS) The interim chief executive of Coupang, Harold Rogers, was set to undergo police questioning on Friday over perjury allegations related to his testimony to lawmakers last year, marking his second appearance before investigators in a week.Police seek to question Rogers about allegations that he gave false testimony under oath about Coupang’s internal investigation into its massive data breach during a two-day parliamentary hearing on the leak in late December, reports Yonhap n…
Jaipur, Feb 5 (IANS) The chilling Indore honeymoon murder case of Sonam Raghuvanshi had barely faded from public memory when a strikingly similar crime surfaced in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar, this time not on a tourist trip, but on a deserted village road.At the centre of the plot was a newly married woman who allegedly conspired with her longtime lover to eliminate her husband, just three months after marriage.The wife accused of plotting her husband’s killing has been taken into police remand….
Chandigarh, Jan 28 (IANS) Taking cognisance of the death of two sanitation workers while cleaning a hotel sewer line in Hansi town, the Haryana Human Rights Commission has slammed the police investigation, terming it seriously biased, suspicious, and aimed at protecting the culprits from the rigours of law.The commission stated in unequivocal terms that the direction of the investigation and documents placed on record clearly indicated a deliberate and well-planned attempt to shield the real cul…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (IANS) A horrifying act of violence against a Hindu minority member has shocked Bangladesh, coming just weeks ahead of the national elections as a 23-year-old Hindu man, identified as Chanchal Chandra Bhowmik, was reportedly burned alive while sleeping in a garage in Narsingdi, around 50 km from Dhaka, raising renewed fears over the security of minority communities in the Muslim-majority nation.Bhowmik, son of Khokan Chandra Bhowmik and a resident of Lakshmipur village in Cumilla d…
Ahmedabad, Jan 24 (IANS) Police on Saturday launched an investigation after a private SUV was vandalised by a group of men in a late-night road rage incident in the Vasna area of Ahmedabad, causing extensive damage to the vehicle.According to police and local sources, the incident occurred around midnight near Pravin Nagar. CCTV footage shows a white vehicle pulling up behind a black Mahindra Thar and forcing it to stop on the road.Four men then emerged from the white vehicle armed with metal pi…
Mumbai, Jan 7 (IANS) Political tensions have escalated sharply in the run-up to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections as a shocking act of violence was reported from Mumbai on Wednesday. Haji Salim Qureshi, the official candidate of the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) from Ward No. 92, was stabbed while campaigning in the Bandra area.The attack occurred in the Dnyaneshwar Nagar locality of Bandra East. The assault on Qureshi comes at a time when campaigning for the high-stakes…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) A “proxy” candidate appearing in the recruitment exam for Kolkata Police Sub-Inspector was caught red-handed in the city, police said on Wednesday. According to police, Lakhai Ghosh, who was not the aspirant, appeared for the exam.The fraud came to light when the signature on the admit card and that of Ghosh mismatched.The actual aspirant was Abdul Khaleque, the police said.Ghosh, who hails from Murshidabad, was sitting for the inspector’s recruitment exam on Khaleque’s be…
Bengaluru, Dec 27 (IANS) The suicide case of a 26-year-old newly married woman, Ganavi, known as Rashi, has taken a serious twist with her husband Suraj dying by suicide and his mother Jayanti allegedly attempting to end her life in Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.Ganavi allegedly attempted suicide and later died at a hospital in Bengaluru on Thursday, alleging harassment and rejection by her husband Suraj and his family members.Following her death, Ganavi’s parents and relatives staged a p…