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PATNA: A man allegedly strangled his minor sister to death before burying her body in the riverbed in Bihar’s Madhubani district in what police describe as another case of “honour killing”. The police have arrested the accused and sent him to jail.Police said Neelam Kumari, 15, a resident of Laukaha police station area, had gone out to offer prayers to a local temple in the evening of October 21...

NOIDA: Authorities in Greater Noida in UP on Thursday arrested a 28-year-old man on charges of sexually abusing a female dog and subsequently throwing her from the third floor of his residence, according to official reports.The incident occurred late at night, approximately around midnight. The accused was on the balcony of his third-floor residence in the Alpha 2 area with the dog.However, a vigilant...

CHENNAI: A 55-year-old drunk man, who was fast asleep at his home in Chennai’s Kannagi Nagar on Wednesday night, died of asphyxiation after fire spread from a mosquito coil to his bedsheet. The deceased has been identified as Moorthy, who was employed as a security guard at Santhome. Moorthy reached home around 11pm on Wednesday. He was drunk. He lit a mosquito coil and slept.A spark from the coil...

THANE: A 24-year-old woman has been duped of Rs 5.24 lakh by an online fraudster who posed as an employee of a private bank and tricked her, the police informed on Wednesday. The complainant received a call from a man who claimed to be from the 'credit card department of the bank' and told her that the premium of health insurance she had availed would be deducted soon. The accused sent her a link and...

MUMBAI: The air intelligence unit (AIU) of customs arrested a 20-year-old man for smuggling 3.5 kg of gold worth Rs 1.67 crore in Mumbai. On specific intelligence, the officer of AIU intercepted Alsiban Majed who arrived from Bahrain and walked the green channel without disclosing that he had brought dutiable goods.Officials said that due to festival season, the huge differences of price as compared to...

MUMBAI: A woman has lodged a complaint against her husband and relatives for forcibly abducting her and her son from Kurla Pheonix mall. She has alleged that they were taken in an ambulance to a rehabilitation centre Khalapur in Pune where she was forced to undergo treatment for mental illness and was also made to sign blank papers. Based on the complaints of the 37-year-old, the Ghatkopar police have...

KALYAN: The Kalyan Government Railway Police that falls in Maharashtra's Thane district, on Monday, booked a person under abetment to suicide charges after a 67-year-old man ended his life by jumping before local train near Badlapur. The deceased, identified as Ravindra Gor, was residing at Bhandup area in Mumbai.The Kalyan GRP said, on Saturday morning, Gor committed suicide by jumping before train...

NEW DELHI: A 66-year-old Sikh man died from head injuries sustained after being assaulted following a car accident in New York. This incident marks the second attack against a Sikh individual in New York within a week.Jasmer Singh was allegedly the victim of a brutal assault by 30-year-old Gilbert Augustin after their vehicles collided in Queens the previous Thursday.After the collision between Singh...

Thane: Police have seized a pistol and four live cartridges being carried illegally by a person in Thane, an official said on Sunday. Following a tip-off, police laid a trap on Saturday and nabbed the 22-year-old man in Shahad area, senior police inspector Naresh Pawar from crime unit III at Kalyan said. They found a country-made pistol and four live cartridges worth Rs 31,000 in his possession, Pawar...

THANE: A man hailing from Chennai has been apprehended by Maharashtra police for allegedly defrauding a resident of Navi Mumbai of more than Rs 21 lakh. The suspect, identified as Lokesh Kumar, was arrested by officers from the Cyber police station in Navi Mumbai on October 9.The fraudulent activity occurred between August 6 and 11 of this year when the accused contacted the victim via phone. He falsely...