Hm Chaithanya Swamy Dna

• Man attempts to loot firm with toy gun

  The employees of Manappuram Gold Finance were a shocked lot when a robber held them at gun point in Jnanaganganagar on Wednesday afternoon. However, the amateur bank robber's plan backfired when his victims realised he was holding a toy gun.Manu alias Mohan (25) has been roaming in the finance company premises for the past three days. During this h...

• Driver killed by friends in Bangalore

  A 27-year-old school van driver was killed in Rameshnagar near HAL early on Wednesday.  The police have identified the deceased as Shivu, a resident of Vibhutipura. Shivu died on the spot after being attacked by a gang who had asked him to come to Rameshnagar. The gang members attacked Shivu with machetes. He sustained injuries on his nec...

• Kidnappers held while planning dacoity in city

  A gang of kidnappers targeted teenagers from affluent families and released them after getting the ransom.  On Tuesday, the gang was preparing to commit a dacoity when the DJ Halli police arrested them. Police said two of the gang members were wanted in cases of murder and attempt to murder in cases registered at Siddapur and BTM Layout police...

• City boy dies in Andhra, family blames residential school

  The parents of a 17-year-old city boy, who died in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, under mysterious circumstances on December 19, held a protest on Monday by keeping their son's body in front of Karunya Trust in RBI Colony near Hebbal. The deceased, identified as Chandru, was a first year PUC student of Karunya Trust in Chittoor district in Andhra Prades...

• Mob sets school bus on fire

  The accident occurred around 4.45 pm. After the children were all evacuated and taken for treatment to different hospitals, an irate mob set the bus on fire, around 6.30 pm. Even fire tenders which arrived at the spot were unable to start work, as the gathered mob obstructed them. By the time the tempers were dealt with, the bus had been completely...

• 13-year-old killed as parapet collapses

  It was to drink water that 13-year-old Shaila, alias Ammu, went to a tap at a construction site in Subbannapalya on Tuesday evening. A fourth-floor parapet collapsed on her, even before the seventh standard student could take a sip, witnesses said.An autorickshaw driver, who was passing by, rushed the girl to Sathya Sai Baba Hospital in Whitefield,...

• Hoax bomb threat spreads panic at hospital

  Panic gripped the Vydehi Hospital in Whitefield on Monday morning after it received two hoax bomb letters.The police said the letters, in English, were placed at two different places in the wee hours of Monday, but came to light only around 9.20 am. While one of them was displayed on the notice board near the entrance of the Vydehi Medical College,...

• Drunken brawl led to double murder

  The late night double murder at JP Nagar on Sunday was the fallout of a fight in a Jayanagar bar, police said on Monday.Madhu alias Deva and Srinivasa alias Kalla Bheema, both residents of Ragigudda slum, were hacked to death around 11.35 pm by a gang at 9th Cross, 3rd Phase in JP Nagar. No arrests have been made.The deceased men had picked up a fi...

• Housemaid files harassment case against TTD chief's wife

  A 22-year-old domestic maid has booked a case against Satya Prabha, the wife of Bangalore-based businessman and chairman of Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam DK Audikeshavulu Naidu for allegedly abusing and harassing her. Geetha Menon, an activist of Stree Jagruti Samiti, filed a complaint on behalf of the maid, Aruna with Sadashivanagar police. The c...

• Mother in asylum after losing her baby

  Lalithamma, who delivered a baby boy in Vani Vilas Hospital on September 6, found her child missing on September 7. The inconsolable mother now seems to have become unstable and is currently being treated in Shimoga mental hospital. "Now I pray to God not to give this kind of tragedy to anyone else," said her grieving husband, Nagaraj.The couple, r...

• Fear of examination drives MBA student to suicide in Bangalore

  A 22-year-old MBA student allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday night by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his rented room on Ramanjineya Street, Hanumantnagar.The deceased has been identified as Avinash, a student of Bangalore Institute of Technology and native of Tiptur.Police said that the reason for the suicide was yet to be established....

• Midnight ride to Nandi Hills ends in Bangalore student's death

  A jolly ride to Nandi Hills turned fatal for an 18-year-old student as he met with an accident near Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) in the wee hours of Wednesday. Vignesha, a student of Agragami VSM Institute of Aerospace Engineering and Technology College, died after his motorcycle hit a kerbstone near the airport.The police suspect that Vig...

• Cash award for nabbing chainsnatcher in Bangalore

  The police on Friday presented a cash award of `10,000 to a 38-year-old man, who chased and caught a chainsnatcher near Sankey Tank.The man, Mathikere resident Ravindra, was hurt while detaining the miscreant, Venkatesh, who had snatched the mangalsutra, worth `38,000, of a Malleswaram resident, Aliyamma, on November 5.Ravindra had undergone a surg...

• Two persons arrested while trying to sell antique idols in city

  Two persons were arrested in separate incidents while selling antique idols, the police said adding that five kg of gold ornaments worth `1 crore were recovered from them. Ashwathnarayanan, alias Gouda, 38, a resident of Bairanahalli, Ramanagaram's Magadi taluk, was arrested on Thursday while Yogendra, 32, a resident of Bhairaweshwaranagar, was hel...

• Rooftop rider missing as car plunges into lake

  A man was missing after his pre-dawn fun car ride with friends ended in the Bellandur Lake on Wednesday, the police said.The man, Aditya Bhograj, was sitting on the roof of the speeding car which plunged into the lake around 4 am, the police said quoting those who accompanied him in the ride. He was reportedly among a group of five friends, who had...