Four children belonging to the same family were burnt to death in a fire that broke out in their shanty in a Delhi slum Wednesday morning, police said.
The deceased were identified as Deepa, 15, Shilpa, 10, eight-year-old Sunil, and three-year-old Lakshmi.
According to police officials, the children were sleeping with their widowed mother Anu [...]
Raipur, Jan 2 (IANS) Doctors took out a pair of scissors from a 60-year-old man’s stomach that a doctor had forgotten to remove after an operation two years ago.
The latest surgery took three long hours and was conducted late Friday at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, about 40 km from here, senior surgeon [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 31 (IANS) Five more deaths due to the influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported in this union territory (UT), taking the toll to 55, officials said Thursday.
‘Five deaths were reported in Chandigarh hospitals yesterday (Wednesday) evening. The deceased were identified as Chandigarh resident Rajan Kumar, 52, Ganga Ram, 65, from Bilaspur in Himachal [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Two youths have been arrested for raping a Class 8 student in west Delhi, police said Monday.
Ravi, 19, and Ravi Kumar, 20, were arrested for raping their neighbour Sunday.
‘The two waylaid the victim and took her to an abandoned house. They raped her there and fled after that. The [...]
Nagpur, Dec 28 (IANS) Obsessed with a woman who married another man, a youth pumped four bullets into her husband near their residence in Tahsil area here early Monday, police said.
Duty officer of Tahsil police station Rajesh Wasnik said that the accused youth, Siddheshwar M. Tandle (27) living in Beed, was in love with [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (ANI): Vijayawada MP L Rajagopal who is on fast over his demand for a united Andhra Pradesh reappeared at the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here this afternoon.
Rajgopal dramatically disappeared breaking [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) A central government employee was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping a 21-year-old domestic help in his house in south Delhi, police said.
Rajinder Yadav, who works as Hindi translator in the culture ministry, was arrested from the Inter-State Bus Terminal in Sarai Kale Khan when he was trying to flee the [...]
Raipur, Dec 9 (IANS) About 50 armed Maoists raided a Chhattisgarh village and gunned down two brothers allegedly on charges of spying, police said Wednesday.
The incident took place Tuesday night in Kanker district’s Thema village in Bastar, about 200 km south of the state capital Raipur.
‘Guerrillas raided the village and took away two brothers- Rakesh, [...]
Mohali, Dec 4 (IANS) Police chief of this Punjab district Gurpreet Singh Bhullar had a miraculous escape when he was saved from being hit by a speeding car near Zirakpur town here early Friday, officials said.
Bhullar had reached an accident spot where a car had collided with an oil-tanker, burning alive two occupants of the [...]
Kolkata, Nov 29 (IANS) Three people – a woman, a girl child and a teenaged boy – died and six others were critically ill in two incidents of suspected food poisoning in Kolkata Sunday, police said.
According to police, the woman and her niece died in a government hospital Sunday after they ate biryani at their [...]
Raipur, Nov 26 (IANS) A 70-year-old man was killed and a woman critically injured in an attack by a wild buffalo in a Chhattisgarh village, a forest official said Thursday.
Ramjet Sahu succumbed to his injuries Wednesday after the wild buffalo — the state animal of Chhattisgarh — gored him repeatedly in Kasra village of Koria [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 25 (IANS) A 45-year-old businessman was shot dead during attack on him by five people who barged into his office here late Wednesday, police said.
The victim was identified as Harjinder Singh, a resident of neighbouring Mohali town. He owned a franchise of a telecom company in Sector 20 here.
‘Five people entered his office [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) A doctor of a government hospital here was arrested Tuesday for allegedly locking up and molesting a young woman patient on the pretext of a medical check-up, police said.
The woman alleged that the doctor, identified only as Mathur, locked her up inside a room on the pretext of a medical [...]
Raipur, Nov 17 (IANS) Four girl students, on their way to a sports meet, were killed and six others were injured Tuesday in Chhattisgarh when their vehicle hit a truck, police said. The vehicle’s driver was also killed.
The accident took place in Bastar district’s Keshkal area, some 170 km south of capital Raipur.
Twelve girls from [...]
Aizawl, Nov 14 (IANS) At least eight people were killed and 34 injured when the bus they were travelling in fell into a deep gorge in Mizoram, police said Saturday.
The passenger bus was plying between Mizoram capital Aizawl and Farkawn village, bordering Myanmar. While approaching Champhai town late Friday, it rolled down into the 100-feet [...]
Raipur, Nov 13 (IANS) A 14-year-old girl gave birth to a baby boy in this Chhattisgarh capital Thursday after she met with a road accident and was brought to a government hospital here, an official said Friday.
The official said the girl was refusing to accept the baby.
The teenager met with an accident in Simga village, [...]
Abohar (Punjab), Nov 12 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 15 injured Thursday when a tractor-trolley collided with a passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing near Punjab’s Abohar town.
The accident took place near Koyal Khera village near the town, 320 km from Chandigarh.
Police officials said the injured have been admitted to the [...]
Agartala, Nov 10 (IANS) In the first major terror attack in Tripura this year, at least eight tribal villagers – among them four women – were killed and another woman was injured by insurgents, police said Tuesday.
Two more villagers were still missing following the midnight militant attack.
‘Heavily armed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants [...]
Bhopal, Nov 9 (IANS) Eight school children and a teacher were killed and 32 others injured when a bus in which they were travelling fell in the Kshipra river in Mahidpur, 250 km from this Madhya Pradesh capital, officials said Monday.
‘The children were primary level students of Saraswati School of Ratlam district and were returning [...]
Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) A man paid with his life for trying to gatecrash into a reality show here, police said Saturday. He and nearly a dozen others were seriously injured in a baton charge by police to keep the crowds at bay.
The 25-year-old, who succumbed to his injuries at a government hospital Friday night, [...]
Jaipur, Nov 3(ANI): A private company has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against the officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot in Jaipur for their alleged negligence in the outbreak of the devastating fire, which broke out on October 29 and is still not completely extinguished.
Genus Overseas Private Limited, which is about 200 [...]
Jaipur, Oct. 31 (ANI): The massive fire at the Indian Oil Corporation’s fuel depot at Sitapur near Jaipur continues, death toll has reached between eight and 11, while over 150 people have been injured.
There’s also the fear of confronting more lives lost when [...]
Jaipur, Oct. 31 (ANI): The massive fire at the Indian Oil Corporation’s fuel depot at Sitapur near Jaipur continues, death toll has reached between eight and 11, while over 150 people have been injured.
There’s also the fear of confronting more lives lost when [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 30 (IANS) The dog is called man’s best friend, and proving this once again a pet dog here dragged out two of his master’s children from inside their burning house, sustaining serious burns in the process. However, the kids died later in hospital, police said Friday evening.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) [...]
Lucknow, Oct 29 (IANS) Over 20 passengers were injured, some of them seriously, in a powerful blast in a bus in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district Thursday evening, police said.
The blast occurred because gun powder carried in a passenger’s baggage accidentally exploded in Purwa area of the district, 50 km from the state capital, around 5 [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 18 (IANS) Nearly 100 cases of burns and other injuries, sustained during Diwali celebrations Saturday evening, were reported in Chandigarh hospitals, officials said Sunday.
‘Around 35 cases were reported in the eye department here. Of these, 12 had sustained complete damage to their eyes,’ said an official of the eye department of Post Graduate [...]
Pallipat (TN), Oct 17 (ANI): The death toll in Friday’s cracker godown fire in Pallipat near Tamil Nadu rose to 32 after two more bodies were pulled out of the godown.
According to sources, 40 people were believed to be present in the godown during the time of the mishap.
The bodies have been taken [...]
Chennai, Oct 17 (IANS) A pall of gloom has descended on the Palipattu village in Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu after 32 people were killed and three others injured in a blaze at a firecracker shop Friday evening.
An official of Thiruvallur collectorate on the accident spot told IANS: ‘Thirty two charred bodies have been recovered [...]
Lucknow, Oct 16 (IANS) Agitated over the death of a 10-year-old child in a fire that broke out Friday in a busy cracker market in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, local residents went berserk and fought a pitched battle with the police.
The mob also blocked the Delhi-Badaun National Highway and targeted a number of public vehicles [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) A three-member team will probe a 74-year-old woman’s death in a government hospital here last week when her life support device stopped working during a power cut, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said Wednesday.
Sharda Gaur, who was admitted to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, died Oct 11 after her life [...]
