Mangaluru: 21-year-old young woman commits suicide at Nelyadi
Nelyadi: In a tragic incident of suicide, a young woman poured kerosene and set herself on fire at Nelyadi in the district.
The deceased young woman has been identified as Navya Joseph (21), daughter of V.J Joseph, resident of Nelyadi and owner of Nelyadi Naveen Interlock.
It is learned that Navya had completed her BBA degree from Mangaluru’s St Aloysius College in the previous academic year and was spending her day at home. On Sunday night, around 10.30 pm, she had retired into her room to sleep and the family found that the door to her room remained closed until 8 am on Monday. Alarmed by this, her mother tried calling her mobile phone, which went unanswered. Navya’s father, V.J Joseph then broke open the door and found that she had ended her life.
It is being said that Navya had allegedly poured kerosene over her body and lit herself on fire.
Uppinangady police, who visited the site of the accident have undertaken an investigation.
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Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Capitals by seven wickets
Kolkata, Apr 29: Kolkata Knight Riders notched up a comfortable seven-wicket win over Delhi Capitals in their Indian Premier League match here on Monday.
Opting to bat first, Delhi Capitals were stopped at 153/9 by KKR's disciplined bowlers. The home team completed the chase of 154 with 21 balls to spare.
While batting, KKR raced to 79 for no loss in the power play with Phil Salt (68 off 33 balls) taking the DC bowling attack to the cleaners.
Earlier, Delhi Capitals scored 67 runs in the power play while losing three wickets. However, the visitors simply caved in after the dismissal of their skipper Rishabh Pant (27 off 20 balls).
Batting at number nine, spinner Kuldeep Yadav chipped in with an unbeaten 35 off 26 balls.
Among KKR bowlers, spinner Varun Chakaravarthy finished with excellent figures of 3/16 in four overs, while the returning Vaibhav Arora too impressed, an unplayable delivery getting him the wicket of Shai Hope.
Brief scores:
Delhi Capitals: 153/9 in 20 overs (Kuldeep Yadav 34 not out; Vaibhav Arora 3/16, Vaibhav Arora 2/29).
Kolkata Knight Riders: 157/3 in 16.3 overs (Phil Salt 68).
