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  • One held for Ballia boat tragedy
    Lucknow, June 18: A man has been arrested for illegally operating the boat that capsized in the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, drowning 61 people, police said today.

    Contractor Ba....
  • Three die in landslide
    Siliguri, June 17: At least three people were killed today when a landslide destroyed a house in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, police said.

    The incident occurred on the Tripi....
  • Twelve die in Bihar accident
    Patna, June 17: Twelve people returning home from a marriage were killed when their jeep collided with another vehicle in Bihar's Begusarai district today, police said.

    Ten people....
  • Six pilgrims killed in Himachal accident
    Shimla, June 16: Six pilgrims were killed and eight seriously injured when an overcrowded vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, police said to....
  • 11 killed as truck, jeep collide in Haryana
    Karnal (Haryana), June 16: Eleven people were killed when a jeep packed with people collided with a truck in a Haryana village, police said today.

    Seven women and four men travelling ....
  • Over 20 shops gutted in Uttar Pradesh fire
    Lucknow, June 16: There was panic in a market area of Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district early today when a major fire broke out in a commercial building, gutting over 20 shops. There were n....
  • Four girls drown while immersing idol
    Lucknow, June 15: Four teenaged girls drowned during while immersing an idol in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district today, police said.

    A group of five girls, in the age group of 12-....
  • Four policemen die in road accident
    Lucknow, June 14: Five people, including four policemen, were killed early today when a speeding truck hit their vehicle in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district, an official said.

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  • Over Rs.7 crore paid to Mangalore crash victims' kin
    Mumbai, June 4: Air India has, till today, disbursed Rs.7.56 crore to 84 families as part of the interim relief to survivors and relatives of victims of the Air India Express IX-812 crash in Ma....
  • Four pilgrims killed, 31 injured in bus accident
    Lucknow, June 2: At least four pilgrims were killed and 31 injured when a bus carrying them fell into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district today, police said.

    The bus, car....
  • Buddhadeb, Chidambaram have agreed on no CBI probe: Yechury
    New Delhi, June 1: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Home Minister P. Chidambaram have agreed on not involving the CBI in the Gyaneshwari Express train accident as the stat....
  • West Bengal blast: did police agents sabotage by assisting Maoists?
    Kolkata, June 1: Officers entrusted with counter insurgency operations in West Bengal have now come under serious attention in the aftermath of the Jhargram train blast that claimed 148 lives. ....
  • West Bengal rules out CBI probe into train tragedy
    Kolkata, May 31: Rejecting Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, the West Bengal government today said there was no need for an invest....
  • 95 dead train passengers identified, DNA tests for 53
    Kolkata, May 31: With 95 of the 148 victims of the ill-fated Gyaneshwari Express identified, the authorities in West Bengal today decided to conduct DNA tests for identifying the remaining 53 c....
  • Mangalore air crash victims should get $145,000: Chandy
    Thiruvananthapuram, May 31: Victims of the Mangalore air tragedy should get at least $145,000 in compensation apart from the amount sanctioned by the state and central governments, Kerala's....
  • 30 killed as bus falls in culvert, catches fire
    Bangalore, May 30: Thirty people, including 10 children and 15 women, were burnt to death early today when a state-run bus they were travelling in fell off a bridge into a dry culvert and caugh....
  • 30 killed in Karnataka bus accident
    Bangalore, May 30: At least 30 people, including 10 children, were charred to death when the bus they were travelling in fell into a roadside pit and caught fire in the early hours today in Kar....
  • Relief train reaches Mumbai with accident survivors
    Mumbai, May 29: A relief train carrying the survivors of the Gyaneshwari Express accident that killed 131 people reached Mumbai at 9 p.m. today.

    Special barricaded sections were made ....
  • Railways, police chief spar over cause of derailment
    Kolkata, May 29: Contesting the West Bengal administration's claim that fishplates were found removed at the site of the Gyaneshwari Express disaster, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today....
  • No pilot, but express ran ahead of Gyaneshwari: Mamata
    Kolkata, May 29: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today admitted that no pilot engine was run ahead of the Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal's troubled West Midnapore district but another ....
  • This is my second birth: Crash survivor
    Kasargode (Kerala), May 27: With one hand in a sling from a dislocated shoulder caused by his "great escape", K. Krishnan, 47, one of the eight who survived the Mangalore air crash, ret....
  • What has happened to my beloved Mangalore?
    New Delhi, May 26: Is it a curse that's hit Mangalore? Why is it so much in the news in just the last two years for all the wrong reasons?...for vandalism, desecration of religious places, ....
  • Mangalore air crash reveals laxities in Indian judiciary
    New Delhi, May 26: The fateful plane crash at Mangalore on 22nd May has brought forth some serious issues with the judicial system in India. This tragedy has revealed the apathetic attitude of ....
  • Rajdhani Express derails in Bihar
    Patna, May 25: At least 14 wagons of the New Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express derailed in Bihar, police said today.

    The incident occurred today morning and no injuries were reported. ....
  • Kasargod MP lost 49 from his constituency in crash
    Kasargod (Kerala), May 24: For last two days Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP P. Karunakaran has been going from house to house in his constituency Kasargod in Kerala, consoling the ....
  • Mangalore air crash: Burnt bodies being fought over by families
    Mangalore, May 24: The day was one of deep mourning, escalating horror and frayed tempers. To top it all the day was dotted with searches. Investigators have been on the lookout for the black b....
  • DGCA begins crash probe, finds voice recorder, data unit
    Mangalore, May 24: The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) late on Sunday began investigating the crash of the Air India Express Boeing 737-800 (VT-AXV) after the cockpit voice recorder (....
  • Families mourn death of co-pilot, air hostess
    Mumbai, May 23: The bodies of co-pilot H.S. Ahluwalia and air hostess Tejal Kamulkar of the Air India Express aircraft, which crashed at Mangalore airport on Saturday, were brought here late to....
  • AI defends pilots, kin bid tearful adieu to dear ones
    Mangalore/Mumbai/Kasargod, May 23: A day after the Mangalore air crash claimed 158 lives, the Air India today defended its pilots, asserting they were experienced and well rested, as the shocke....
  • Air India to give Rs.10 lakh interim relief to crash victims
    Mangalore, May 23: Air India today said it would give Rs.10 lakh each to the families of those aged 12 years and above killed in the Mangalore crash and Rs.5 lakh to those below 12.

    T....
  • 12 of 158 dead in Mangalore plane crash yet to be identified
    Mangalore, May 23: Twelve of the 158 victims of the Mangalore air crash are yet to be identified while the bodies of 128 deceased have been given to their relatives, Air India chairman-cum-mana....
  • Around 130 crash victims identified, 20 may need DNA tests
    Mangalore/Mumbai, May 23: The bodies of around 130 victims of Saturday's plane crash in Mangalore have been identified and were being handed over to their relatives after autopsies, while a....
  • Crashed plane's black box found
    Mangalore (Karnataka), May 23: The black box of the crashed Air India Express plane has been found, police and airport sources said today.

    The black box - the digital cockpit voice re....
  • Mangalore airport not the only 'tricky' one in India: Pilots
    Chennai, May 23: The Mangalore Airport, with its table-top runway located on top of a hill, is not the only one in India where pilots find it difficult to land and passengers often get scared. ....
  • 'Art of Living counsellors to counsel Air India staff'
    Mangalore, May 23: The "young" cabin crew of Air India is so traumatised after Saturday's plane crash, in which 158 people were killed, that volunteers from Art of Living have been ....
  • Nepal mourns plane crash in India
    Kathmandu, May 23: Despite facing a constitutional crisis and chaos less than a week away, Nepal's top political leadership took cognizance of the air crash in India on Saturday that killed....
  • Web abuzz with condolences, prayers for crash victims
    New Delhi, May 23: From tweeting prayers and creating communities on social networking sites to expressing condolences -- the web world is abuzz with messages from relatives and friends of vict....
  • Crashed aircraft's black box yet to be found: Air India
    Mumbai, May 23: Nearly 30 hours after the Mangalore air accident, investigators have yet to recover the ill-fated Boeing 737-800 aircraft's black box from the debris, an Air India official ....
  • In Mangalore crash, tragedy revisits Chandigarh family
    Chandigarh, May 23: The Air India Express plane crash in Mangalore on Saturday morning saw tragedy revisiting the family of an elderly woman in Chandigarh as she lost her Dubai-based daughter i....
  • Forensic team from Hyderabad to help identify crash victims
    Mangalore (Karnataka), May 23: Forensic experts from Hyderabad arrived here today morning to conduct DNA tests to help identify several bodies charred beyond recognition in Saturday's Air I....
  • Search still on for Air India aircraft's black box
    Mangalore (Karnataka), May 23: The search for the digital cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of the ill-fated Air India aircraft that crashed here today was still on, more than....
  • UAE president condoles deaths in Mangalore air crash
    Abu Dhabi, May 23: United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has offered his condolences to the families of the 158 people killed in the plane crash in India's....
  • Praful Patel owns moral responsibility for Mangalore crash
    New Delhi, May 23: Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and owned moral responsibility for the Air India Boeing 737 crash in Mangalore in which at ....
  • 'It was Kamulkar's dream to soar the skies'
    Mumbai, May 22: It had been only four months since 25-year-old Tejal Kamulkar, one of the six crew aboard the ill-fated Air India Boeing 737-800 that crashed at Mangalore airport today, had sta....
  • Kerala making arrangements to bring bodies home: Minister
    Mangalore (Karnataka), May 22: The Kerala government is making arrangements to bring back the bodies of nearly 50 Malayalis killed in the Air India Express plane crash here, state Home Minister....
  • Scary, thrilling.. the Mangalore airport experience
    Mangalore, May 22: Scary, thrilling, makes one pray to the almighty for a safe landing - are some of the expressions that come to people who fly into or out of Mangalore's airport whose ....
  • Tamil Nadu governor, leaders condole crash deaths
    Chennai, May 22: Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and former chief minister J. Jayalalithaa today condoled the death of 159 people in the Mangalore air cr....
  • Fiery crash turned gorge into valley of death
    Mangalore (Karnataka), May 22: The fiery crash of Air India Express flight 812 from Dubai early today in a gorge at the end of a "hill top" runway here turned the wreckage site into a v....
  • Help Mangalore crash victims' kin, Tharoor urges Gulf NRIs
    Thiruvananthapuram, May 22: Former junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor today urged affluent NRIs in the Gulf to raise a fund to help the families of those killed in the Mangalore air disaste....
  • Gilani condoles deaths in Mangalore crash
    Islamabad, May 22: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today expressed his deep shock at the crash of an Air India Express aircraft in Mangalore and conveyed his "deepest condolences....
  • Boeing, US aviation officials to assist Air India crash probe
    New Delhi, May 22: Officials from Boeing and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will visit India to provide technical assistance to investigators after an Air India Express Boei....
  • Expat commanders on Indian flights matter of concern: BJP
    New Delhi, May 22: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said it would wait for the probe report into the Mangalore air crash before making a comment but added that expatriate commanders opera....
  • Plane barely 30 months old, pilots highly experienced: Air India
    Mumbai, May 22: The ill-fated Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed at Mangalore airport today morning was barely two-and-a-half years old and was "airworthy", Air India officials said. ....
  • List of passengers on crashed Air India Express plane
    Mumbai, May 22: Following is the list of passengers who travelled on the Air India Express plane that crashed today in Mangalore city.

    1. Harshini Poonja

    2. Aaron Joel Ferna....
  • Crashed plane was in good shape, visibility not poor: AAI
    New Delhi, May 22: Runway visibility was good for landing and there was no problem with the Air India Express Boeing 737 that crashed in Mangalore, killing 158 people today, the Airports Author....
  • Mangalore crash is 11th major air accident of India
    New Delhi, May 22: The plane crash at the Mangalore airport that killed over 160 people today is the 11th major air accident involving Indian carriers or in the country’s air space since 1962. ....
  • Helpline numbers for Mangalore airplane crash
    New Delhi, May 22: Air India has set up the following helpline numbers for queries on its IX-812 Flight that crashed today morning killing at least 158 people.

    "To assist us in co....
  • Mangalore has one of India's most turbulent airspaces
    Mangalore (Karnataka): The Mangalore International Airport, where an Air India Express flight crashed today killing nearly 170 people, opened in 1951 as the Bajpe Aerodrome when then prime mini....
  • Survivor jumped out of gap in broken aircraft: relative
    Mangalore (Karnataka), May 22: One of the survivors of the air crash, Umar Farooq, said he escaped by jumping out of from a gap when the plane broke immediately after shooting off the runway at....
  • Five killed in accident, driver commits suicide
    Lucknow, May 20: Five people were killed when a tractor-trolley overturned early today in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district, police said. The traumatised driver allegedly committed suicide....
  • Malaysian Indian girl dies rehearsing movie suicide scene
    George Town (Malaysia), May 14: An ethnic Indian schoolgirl died after she accidentally hanged herself while re-enacting a movie suicide scene.

    Kuhesri Nadarajah, 10, was found hangin....
  • Indian origin worker dies after being dragged into machine
    London, May 13: An Indian origin worker was killed in a British factory after he was dragged into a machine that he was operating alone.

    Mitesh Prashar, 24, who was working at Duco In....
  • Crack down on dangerously overloaded trucks, say experts
    New Delhi, April 21: As an Ivory Coast national battles for life after iron rods jutting out of a truck pierced his body in the capital, dangerously overloaded vehicles are back under the scann....
  • Goods train derails, Delhi-Howrah traffic disrupted
    Lucknow, April 21: Rail traffic on the busy Delhi-Howrah route was disrupted today when three wagons of a goods train derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district early Wednesday. No one was....
  • BSP MLA's car mows down seven-year-old
    Kanpur: A Scorpio, registered in the name of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator, spun out of control and mowed down a seven-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh's Barra area here, police said ....
  • Three killed in West Bengal road accident
    Kolkata: At least three people were killed and two severely injured in a road accident in West Bengal's Murshidabad district today morning, police said.

    The accident took place wh....
  • Chhattisgarh police officer accidentally shoots two colleagues
    Raipur: A Chhattisgarh Police officer today accidentally shot two of his colleagues when he pressed the trigger of his service revolver while cleaning the weapon, an official said. The victims ....
  • Three killed as bus hit by train
    Ranchi: Three people were killed and 13 injured when a bus was hit by a goods train in Jharkhand's Godda district today, police said.

    "A bus carrying around 20 passengers was ....
  • Speeding truck crushes five to death in Chhattisgarh
    Raipur: A speeding truck crushed to death five men returning on foot from a religious function in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district early today, police said.

    Eight people were injur....
  • Three Punjab cops killed in road accident
    Nawanshahar (Punjab): Three Punjab policemen were killed while two others sustained serious injuries in a road accident on the Nawanshahar-Jalandhar highway today, police said.

    Accord....
  • Three killed in West Bengal accident
    Kolkata: Three people were killed when a bus overturned on Grand Trunk Road in West Bengal's Hooghly district early today, police said.

    Fifteen others were injured when the bus, b....
  • Kabaddi-lover boy dies in New Zealand accident
    Auckland: An Indian origin family in New Zealand was in mourning after losing its six-year-old son who died in a road accident while going to see a kabaddi match, a media report said today.
  • 11-year-old run over by Blueline bus
    New Delhi: An 11-year-old boy was mowed down by a speeding Blueline bus in the the heart of the capital today, police said.

    Akash was riding pillion with his friend on a cycle when th....
  • Speeding Scorpio runs down two pilgrims
    Agra: Two pilgrims from Agra on their way to an annual fair in Rajasthan's Karauli district were crushed to death by a speeding Scorpio on the highway, police said today. In another inciden....
  • Ashram doles out damages to kin of stampede victims
    Mangarh(Pratapgarh): Spiritual guru Kripaluji Maharaj's Bhakti Dham Ashram, where 63 people lost their lives and 64 were injured on Thursday in one of the worst stampedes, today doled out a....
  • Three policemen killed in West Bengal road accident
    Kolkata: Three policemen were killed and one critically injured in a road accident in West Bengal's Hooghly district late on Monday night, police said today.

    The accident took pla....
  • Four killed, one injured in Kolkata road accident
    Kolkata: Four people were killed and one person was critically injured in a road accident in southern Kolkata, police said today.

    The accident took place late on Saturday as a speedin....
  • SUV driven by teenager hits girl, four injured
    Greater Noida: A schoolgirl was critically injured when the cycle she was riding was hit by an SUV driven by a 14-year-old boy here on Friday. While the boy fractured his thumb, two other stude....
  • Indian among three tourists killed in Egypt accident
    Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt: Three foreign tourists, including an Indian, were killed and five badly injured today when a cruise ship crashed into a pier in the Egypt Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Shei....
  • 11 injured in Noida road accident
    Noida: Eleven employees of a private firm here were severely injured today when the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a heavy-duty dumper, police said.

    The accident occurred ....
  • 12 killed in Maharashtra road accident
    Raigad (Maharashtra): At least 12 people, who were on their way to attend a wedding, were killed and two injured when their vehicle crashed headlong into a truck near Nagothane early today, pol....
  • Two killed in Noida accident
    Noida: Two people were crushed to death when the autorickshaw they were travelling in was hit by a speeding dumper near Sector-37 of Noida, police said today.

    Ramesh Chaudhury, who wa....
  • Sleepy adolescents prone to accidents
    London: Sleepiness while driving significantly increases the risk of motor vehicle accidents in adolescents, a new study has confirmed.

    The study suggests adolescent drivers were twic....
  • Mob blocks traffic after girl run over
    New Delhi: A speeding water tanker on Saturday ran over a three-and-a-half-year-old girl in south Delhi leading to protests by her parents and relatives. Police had to baton charge the proteste....
  • Case against Delhi Metro in Noida after student's death
    Noida: A criminal case was registered against Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) after a management student died after hitting a pole it had put up in Sector 37, police said.

    Gaur....
  • Four killed as bus skids off hill road
    Bhubaneswar: At least four people were killed and more than 20 injured when a bus carrying them plunged down a hilly road in Orissa's Ganjam district today, police said.

    The misha....
  • Three Indians killed in Philippines road accident
    Manila: Three Indian nationals were killed in a road accident in the northern Philippine province of Isabela, police said today.

    The accident took place on Thursday night when a pick ....
  • Vayalar Ravi hospitalised in Liberia after accident
    New Delhi: Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, now on an African tour, has been hospitalized in Liberia after a "small car accident".

    According to a personal aid....
  • Siblings run over by DTC bus in Delhi
    New Delhi: Two school-going siblings died after being run over by a DTC school bus in the national capital today, police said.

    Karal Pal Singh, 17, and his sister Ishu Narang, 13, wer....
  • Drunk driver kills one, injures five cops in Mumbai
    Mumbai: One man was killed and five policemen were injured when a 27-year-old drunk woman driver rammed into their vehicles early today, police said.

    The accident occurred just before....
  • Speeding truck kills Mumbai schoolgirl, injures two
    Mumbai: In a gruesome early morning tragedy, an 11-year-old schoolgirl was killed and two students injured when a speeding truck knocked them down at a busy junction while they were going to sc....
  • Despite accidents, Railways dithers over anti-collision device
    New Delhi: Even as there was yet another train collision resulting in three deaths, the railway ministry drags its feet over the commissioning of an indigenously developed anti-collision device....
  • Three killed, 14 hurt as trains collide in Uttar Pradesh
    Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh): At least three people were killed and 14 injured when two trains collided in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district on a foggy today morning, an official said. The Ka....
  • At least seven Delhi tourists killed in a Himachal road accident
    Shimla: At least seven tourists of Delhi were killed in a road accident today in Ghumarwin area of Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh .

    "They belong to Delhi and were killed ....
  • Six killed, six hurt in Orissa road accident
    Bhubaneswar: At least six people, including four women, were killed today and six others critically injured after a wagon carrying them hit an iron ore- laden truck in Orissa's Keonjhar dis....
  • Road accident fund: Apex court to examine state view
    New Delhi: The Supreme Court is to examine on Thursday the responses of various states and the union government to its suggestion last month to create a road accident fund to ensure that all vi....
  • 16 labourers killed in Maharashtra tempo tragedy
    Mumbai: In a gruesome tragedy, 16 people, mainly farm labourers from Karnataka, were killed and another 28 injured when the tempo in which they were travelling overturned near Sholapur early to....
  • Fatal accidents, drunken driving on rise in Delhi
    New Delhi: Even though Delhi witnessed a drop in the total number of accidents in 2009 as compared to 2008, cases of fatal accidents and drunken driving increased during the same period, Police....
  • Trains collide in dense fog in Uttar Pradesh
    Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh saw two train collisions early Saturday as dense fog enveloped most parts of north India. While five people were injured when two trains collided in Kanpur district, no c....
  • 11 killed in New Year road accident in Maharashtra
    Mumbai: Eleven people, including three children, were killed and seven injured when their Tavera jeep collided with a stationary truck in Maharashtra's Beed district early today.

    ....
  • Two killed in Kerala gas tanker fire, highway cordoned off
    Karunagapally (Kerala): Two people were killed and at least 20 injured early today when a gas tanker lost control after it hit a car and turned over in a blaze of fire on a national highway in ....
  • Major accident leads to blockade at Kerala highway
    Thiruvananthapuram: A major accident occurred at the National Highway 47 at Kerala today at 5 am. The accident occurred as a result of the collision of a car and a gas tanker. As of now there h....
  • Family cries foul as BARC scientists body are handed over
    Mumbai: As investigators struggled to find the cause of a fire in the country's premier Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) that killed two scientists, the family members of one of the vic....
  • Three killed in road accidents in Greater Noida
    Noida: Three people were killed in two road accidents in Greater Noida today, police said.

    One accident took place on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway while others occurred in Kasna....
  • Photojournalist run over by train
    Ghaziabad: A freelance photojournalist was run over by a train while taking pictures of early morning fog in Ghaziabad today, police said.

    Aman Kashyap, a resident of Vasundhara, was ....
  • Nine women killed in Gujarat temple stampede
    Gandhinagar: Nine women were trampled to death and at least six other women were injured in a stampede at a religious function in Dhoraji town in Gujarat's Rajkot district tonight, police s....
  • 15 killed, 34 injured in Meghalaya bus accident
    Guwahati/Agartala: At least 15 people were killed and 34 others injured when a bus veered off the road and fell into a river in Meghalaya today, officials said.

    A police spokesperson ....
  • 12 killed, 24 injured in Uttar Pradesh accident
    Lucknow: At least 12 members of a marriage party were killed and 24 others critically injured when their vehicle collided with a bus in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, police said today. ....
  • Drunk Mercedes driver injures two sleeping pavement dwellers
    New Delhi: A drunk 24-year-old speeding home in his Mercedes after a late night party ran over two destitute people sleeping on the footpath near AIIMS, injuring them seriously, police said tod....
  • Car hits oil-tanker in Punjab, two men burnt alive
    Zirakpur (Punjab): Two businessmen in their mid-thirties were burnt alive after their car caught fire when it hit an oil-tanker, near the sales tax barrier here, police said today.

    Th....
  • India still chases man accused of Bhopal disaster
    New Delhi: A quarter century after the world's worst industrial disaster killed thousands in Bhopal, India is yet to extradite the main accused, American Warren Anderson.

    In a cas....
  • Over 100 die in Bangladesh as crowded boat sinks, buses crash
    Dhaka: Overcrowding has been cited as the main reason for the boat capsize in Bhola in southern Bangladesh last week where the death toll has touched 76, with more bodies suspected to be still ....
  • Three-year-old run over by water tanker
    New Delhi: A three-year-old girl was killed today after she was run over by a water tanker in the national capital, police said.

    Roshini was playing outside her house in east Delhi....
  • Gas leakage in Samsung's Noida plant affects 50 workers
    Noida: Over 50 employees of leading multinational Samsung's washing machine assembly plant here were taken to hospital after being affected by a gas leakage in the plant today evening, offi....
  • Eight killed in explosion in Andhra house
    Hyderabad: Eight people were killed and 20 injured as explosives stored illegally in a house went off in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district today, police said.

    The accident occurred....
  • Train derails near Jaipur, six killed, 19 injured
    Jaipur:Six people were killed and 19 injured when 11 coaches of a train derailed in Rajasthan early today, a railway official said. The Jodhpur-Delhi Mandore Express derailed near Bassi, more t....
  • Truck, car hit by superfast train, no casualty
    Lucknow: It was a lucky escape for 10 people sitting inside a truck and a car when their vehicles were hit by a superfast train today at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh's Jaun....
  • Blueline bus crushes 15-year-old
    New Delhi: A 15-year-old school student was crushed to death by a Blueline bus in the capital early today. The bus driver fled the spot, even as angry pedestrians pelted stones at the bus, poli....
  • Jan Shatabdi runs over four in Ghaziabad
    Ghaziabad: Four railway workers working on tracks were killed after being run over by the Dehradun-Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express in Ghaziabad today, an official said.

    The accident occurr....
  • Seven DPS students injured in accident
    New Delhi: Seven students of Delhi Public School on Mathura Road were injured today when a speeding truck jumped traffic signal and rammed into a school van in north Delhi, police said.

  • Railways orders probe into Haryana accidents
    Faridabad: The Indian Railways have ordered a high-level probe into two accidents involving trains in Haryana in which 12 people lost their lives on Tuesday, an official said today.

    &....
  • 12 killed in road mishap in Jammu
    Jammu: At least 12 people were killed when a bus hit a tempo travelling on the Jammu-Pathankot highway near Kathua, about 80 km south-west of Jammu today morning, officials said.

    Init....
  • Shatabdi kills four in Haryana, passengers stranded
    Gurgaon: At least four people were crushed by a speeding train near this suburban city early today leading to angry protests and stone pelting that saw hundreds of passengers aboard the New D....
  • Five killed in Punjab road accident
    Balachaur (Punjab): Five people including four of a family were killed when their car collided with a truck, near this town in Punjab's Nawanshahar district today, police said.

    ....
  • 11 dead in train-truck collision in Uttar Pradesh
    Lucknow: At least 11 people were killed and over 20 injured today when a train smashed into a truck at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district, police said.

  • Goods train derails in Uttar Pradesh
    Lucknow: A goods train today derailed near the Mau railway station in Uttar Pradesh, disrupting rail traffic on the busy Varanasi-Gorakhpur route. No one was injured, an official said.

  • Three killed in Thane building collapse
    Thane: At least three people were killed and 20 others feared trapped when a portion of a five-storey building collapsed in Maharashtra's Ulhasnagar township here today, police said.

  • 17 killed in Bihar bus accidents
    Patna: At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured in two separate bus accidents in Bihar today morning, police said.

    Nine people, including women and children, died in Banka ....
  • Two run over by speeding Blueline bus in Delhi
    New Delhi: A speeding Blueline bus today evening mowed down two men on a motorcycle in south Delhi, police said.

    The accident occurred near Maharani Bagh flyover when the recklessly....
  • Shutdown in Orissa following death of student
    Bhubaneswar: The students' wing of the Congress party today called for a shutdown in western Orissa after a student was killed in a collision with a police vehicle, officials said.

    ....
  • 11 Gujarati tourists killed in Kashmir road accident
    Srinagar: Eleven tourists, including women and children of three Gujarati families, were killed in a tragic road accident on the mountainous Zojila pass in north Kashmir Ganderbal district to....
  • Student's accidental death triggers violence in Orissa town
    Bhubaneswar: The death of an engineering student in an accident involving a police vehicle triggered violent protests in Orissa's Bolangir town today, police said.

    Rampaging stude....
  • Two people killed, 20 students injured in school bus collision
    Ghaziabad: Two men were killed and over 20 students of the Delhi Public School, Indirapuram, including nine Germans, suffered minor injuries in a head-on collision between a jeep and a bus on a....
  • Policemen beaten up after car hits minor
    Lucknow: Tension gripped a town in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjanpur district after a mob, angry after a 7-year-old boy was hit and injured by a speeding car, beat up some policemen, an official s....
  • Five killed in Chhattisgarh road accident
    Raipur: At least five people were killed and two others injured when a speeding truck collided head-on with a jeep in Chhattisgarh today, police said.

    The accident took place on Rai....
  • Bridge carrying water pipe collapses on train, five hurt
    Mumbai: A bridge carrying a huge water pipe came crashing down on a train between Mulund and Thane in north-east Mumbai today morning, injuring at least five passengers and trapping others. ....
  • Three officials transferred following Mathura train collision
    Agra: A divisional railway manager of the North Central Zone, along with two other senior officials were transferred following to Wednesday's train collision near Mathura, in which 23 pa....
  • One killed, 12 injured as pipe crashes on Mumbai train
    Mumbai: A huge water pipe came crashing down on a running train in northeast Mumbai today morning, killing one person, injuring at least 12 commuters and trapping the driver.

    The pi....
  • 10-year-old dies in Kashmir mine explosion
    Srinagar: A 10-year-old boy was killed and a girl injured when a mine exploded in Gurez sector of north kashmir's Bandipura district today, a senior police official said.

    The boy ....
  • Six pilgrims killed in Madhya Pradesh accident
    Bhopal: Six pilgrims were killed and eight others critically injured when the Bolero sports utility vehicle they were travelling in collided with a tanker coming from the opposite side in Madhy....
  • 15-year-old killed by minister's car in Uttar Pradesh
    Lucknow: A 15-year-old boy was killed and two others were injured when the speeding car of a Uttar Pradesh minister ran over them today on the Rae Bareli-Allahabad highway, officials said her....
  • 13 killed, 20 injured in deadly Mathura train collision
    Agra/New Delhi: At least 13 people were killed when two Delhi-bound passenger trains collided early today in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura city. Hours after the Goa Express rammed into the statio....
  • Scientist arrested for causing death of boy
    Lucknow: An Uttarakhand scientist has been arrested and charged with rash and negligent driving causing the death of a six-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district, the police sai....
  • Global meet to discuss means to reduce fatal accidents
    New Delhi: With India accounting for 10 percent of the global road accident deaths annually, experts from across the world will meet in the national capital to discuss means to reduce fatalitie....
  • Seven suspended for Tamil Nadu firecracker blaze accident
    Chennai: Seven officials, including three policemen, have been suspended in connection with a fire accident that claimed 32 lives in a cracker godown in Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu.

    ....

  • Six firemen choke to death after battling blaze
    Thane: In a gruesome Diwali tragedy, six firemen suffocated to death after they battled a blaze in a multi-storied building here early today, a senior officer said.

    The victims suffoc....
  • 32 die in Tamil Nadu firecracker tragedy
    Chennai: Thirty two people were charred to death when a fire suddenly enveloped a firecracker shop located in a godown in a Tamil Nadu village, trapping a large number of customers who could no....
  • Four killed as mini-bus falls into drain near Amritsar
    Amritsar: At least four people were killed and several others injured today afternoon when a private mini-bus fell into a drain near Punjab's Attari town.

    District and police offi....
  • Three killed as train hits motorcycle in Orissa
    Bhubaneswar: At least three people were killed when a passenger train hit their motorcycle in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district today afternoon, police said.

    District Superintendent of....
  • Eight killed in lorry-trekker collision in West Bengal
    Kolkata: Eight people were killed and 12 others injured in a collision between a trekker vehicle and a lorry in West Bengal's Murshidabad district today.

    Police said the mishap oc....
  • 8 soldiers killed in Himachal accident
    Shimla: Eight Indian Army personnel were killed in a road accident in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district today evening, police said.

    "Eight Army personnel were killed this (Su....
  • Kerala boat tragedy toll touches 37
    Thekkady (Kerala): The toll in the Thekkady boat tragedy touched 37 as five more bodies were recovered today morning, officials said.

    The tragedy occurred on Wednesday at 5.15 p.m. wh....
  • Indian among 23 killed in Nepal church collapse
    Kathmandu: A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned to stark tragedy early today when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted by an Indi....
  • Nine children injured as Delhi school bus overturns
    New Delhi: Two teachers and nine students of G.D. Goenka School suffered minor injuries when their bus turned turtle after being hit by a privately operated chartered bus in south Delhi early t....
  • Nine dead in yet another boat mishap in Bihar
    Patna: In another boat mishap in Bihar, nine people returning from Durga Puja festivities were killed after their boat capsized in the Kosi river, an official said today.

    The accident....
  • Five dead, 16 injured in Jharkhand bus accident
    Ranchi: Five people died and 16 were injured when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a wide ditch today morning in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand, police said.....
  • 20 school children injured in Delhi bus accident
    New Delhi: At least 20 children were injured today when their school bus toppled after a collision with a private chartered bus in south Delhi, police said.

    The accident took place ar....
  • Accidental gunshot kills RSS activist in Madhya Pradesh
    Bhopal: A 50-year-old activist of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) died here today after a gun went off accidentally, police said.

    Naresh Motwani was cleaning the gun when it wen....
  • Four students killed in Uttar Pradesh accident
    Lucknow: Five people, including four Class 9 students were killed and seven other students injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpu....
  • Six killed in Haryana road accident
    Chandigarh: Six people, including a woman, were killed today when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a truck in Panipat district of Haryana, police said.

    The car, bein....
  • 35 Orissa basketballers have narrow escape as bus overturns
    Bhubaneswar: As many as 35 basketball players of Orissa had a narrow escape when the bus in which they were travelling overturned while they were on their way to Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, po....
  • Nine killed in West Bengal road accident
    Kolkata: At least nine people were killed and several others injured today when a speeding truck collided with a stationery mini-van in West Bengal's South 24-Parganas district, police said....
  • Blueline buses kill two in Delhi
    New Delhi: Two people were killed and another severely injured in the national capital in two separate accidents involving privately-operated Blueline buses, police said on Sep 24.

    A ....
  • Two killed, 18 injured in accident near Fatehpur Sikri
    Agra: Two people were killed and 18 injured when a tanker carrying liquified petroleum gas (LPG) hit a tractor-trailer carrying more than 30 passengers close to Fatehpur Sikri, police said toda....
  • Technician injured in accident while shooting 'Hide & Seek'
    Mumbai: The unit members of horror film "Hide & Seek" had a terrifying experience beyond the camera during shooting in Ahmedabad, which nearly caused the death of a technician.

    ....

  • Students damage bus after it mows down 23-year-old
    Panchkula (Haryana): Scores of engineering students damaged a Haryana Roadways bus and tried to set it on fire after it mowed down their 23-year-old classmate here today, police said.

    ....
  • Six killed in road accident in Orissa
    Bhubaneswar: Six people were killed when a newsprint-laden truck rammed into a tourist bus in Balasore district of Orissa, an official said today.

    The truck ran over the six passenger....
  • Indian couple killed in fire in the US
    Chicago: An Indian couple, hailing from Kerala, were killed on Monday in a fire that broke out in their home here.

    Sixty-nine year old P.Y. Philipose, a pastor, and his wife Aleykutty....
  • 10 killed in bus accident in Arunachal
    Itanagar: At least 10 people were killed and more than 30 injured when a passenger bus fell into a gorge today in Arunachal Pradesh.

    A police spokesperson said the accident took place....
  • Amity student killed in Noida road accident
    Noida: A student of Amity University was killed today when the car he was travelling in was hit by a heavy vehicle on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, police said.

    According to pol....
  • Building collapses in Faridabad, five trapped
    Faridabad: Several people were injured and trapped when a three-storey building housing a shopping centre collapsed here today.

    Police were frantically trying to take out people belie....
  • Woman shot accidentally as Rahul starts Tamil Nadu tour
    Chennai: As Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today began a three-day tour of Tamil Nadu aimed at revitalising the party, the gun of a security personnel went off accidentally, killing a ....
  • Four children among 10 killed in Mumbai landslide
    Mumbai: At least 10 people, including four children, were killed when they they were buried in a landslide following heavy rains in this Maharashtra capital, officials said today.

    At ....
  • Engine of Riyadh-bound Air India plane on fire, all safe
    Mumbai: Over 215 passengers and crew of a Riyadh-bound Air India flight had a narrow escape here today morning when they were evacuated quickly after one of the aircraft's engines caught fi....
  • 10 workers killed in Chhattisgarh road accident
    Raipur: At least 10 labourers were killed when a tractor trolley in which they were travelling turned turtle in Chhattisgarh's Korba district late on Thursday night, police said.

    ....
  • Two killed in Delhi building collapse
    New Delhi: Bodies of two workers were recovered today from the debris of an under-construction building that collapsed on Tuesday injuring 18 people, a fire department official said.

    ....
  • 23 killed in Himachal road accident
    Shimla: At least 23 people were killed and eight injured when a private bus rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district late today, officials said.

    Deputy Commissione....
  • Metro taking action against engineers in Jamrudpur mishap
    New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today told the Delhi High Court, hearing a plea of residents welfare associations, that it has initiated action against its engineers involved in ....
  • 18 workers injured in building collapse in Delhi
    New Delhi: At least 18 workers were injured today evening when a building under construction collapsed in east Delhi, police said.

    "We received a call around 4:40 p.m. today (Tues....
  • Five dead in Orissa truck accident
    Bhubaneswar: At least five people were killed and 11 sustained injuries after the truck they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a canal in Orissa's Dhenkanal district,....
  • Six of a family run over by train in UP
    Allahabad: Six members of a family, including four children, were run over by a train in Sarai Inayat locality of Allahabad early today, police said.

    "Raj Bahadur Upadhyay, his wi....
  • One killed in police firing in West Bengal
    Kolkata: Two people were killed, one of them in police firing, after trouble broke out over a road accident in West Bengal today, officials said.

    A speeding truck, trying to overtake ....
  • Nine killed as vehicle falls into gorge in Himachal
    Shimla: At least nine people were killed and six injured when a private vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Chamba, 475 km from here, police said today.

    Additional S....
  • Road accident kills six in Orissa
    Bhubaneswar: At least six people, including a child, were killed today when the jeep in which they were travelling skidded off the road and dashed against roadside trees in a dense forest in Or....
  • Five of family die in Punjab road accident
    Mandi Gobindgarh (Punjab): Five members of a family were killed in a road accident in this Punjab town today, police said.

    "Three men, their sister and mother were travelling in a....
  • 7-yr-old girl crushed to death by truck in Delhi
    New Delhi: A seven-year-old girl was crushed to death under the wheels of a speeding truck here, police said on Sunday.

    Isran was returning home with her brother on a bicycle on Satur....
  • Close shave for 141 passengers of Air India flight
    Chennai: It was a close shave for 141 passengers and crew of a Chennai-bound Air India flight as the pilot managed to safely land the aircraft here today despite a tyre burst while taking off f....
  • 100-year-old building collapses in Srinagar, all rescued
    Srinagar: A five-storeyed building, about a 100 years old, collapsed here today afternoon, trapping many people in the debris. However, police and fire service personnel managed to rescue all t....
  • Two workers die in hit and run accidents
    Noida: Two labourers were killed in separate hit and run road accidents in Noida, police said today.

    Ramdev, a worker in a private company, was crushed to death when an unidentified v....
  • Delhi-bound Jet flight skids at Dhaka runway
    New Delhi: A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight skidded on the runway while taking off from Dhaka's Zia International Airport at about 11 a.m. today, a senior airport official here said.

  • 24 killed in Himachal road accident
    Shimla: Twenty-four people were killed and 39 others injured when a privately-owned bus rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district today, officials said.

    Deputy Com....
  • Delhi Metro coach derailed, passengers escape unhurt
    New Delhi: A coach of a Delhi Metro train was derailed near Dwarka station on Wednesday. All the 34 passengers aboard the coach escaped unhurt in the accident caused after the train driver jump....
  • Delhi Metro coach derails, passengers escape safe
    New Delhi: A coach of a Delhi Metro train derailed near Dwarka station on the Yamuna Bank-Dwarka line today, metro officials said. All the 39 passengers in the coach escaped unhurt.

    T....
  • Afghan student dies in Chandigarh road accident
    Chandigarh: A 21-year-old Afghan who was studying in a college here was killed when a speeding car hit him while he was crossing the road, police said today.

    Ahmed Jawid had come to I....
  • Local train rams into another in Mumbai, one injured
    Mumbai: A local train rammed into a stationary train at Mahim station in south-central Mumbai, injuring a commuter, a railway official said today.

    A Western Railway spokesman told med....
  • 2 dead, three missing in Gujarat bridge collapse
    Bhavnagar (Gujarat): Two people died and three others were reported missing when a heavy duty truck carrying 17 labourers fell into a river after a bridge over which the vehicle was passing col....
  • 4 dead in Greater Noida accident
    Greater Noida: Four people died and six others were critically injured when the van they were travelling in rammed into a stationary truck here today, police said.

    The accident occurr....
  • Fifteen injured in acid attack in Orissa
    Bhubaneswar: A love affair is suspected to be behind an acid attack that left 15 people injured in an Orissa village, police said today.

    The incident occurred in Dangapal village of D....
  • Six Indians killed in road accident in Kathmandu
    Kathmandu: Six Indian were mowed down by a speeding car in the heart of capital city Kathmandu early today, the day Nepal celebrated the Rakshabandhan festival for longevity.

    Police s....
  • Three merchant navy personnel killed in road accident
    Bhopal: Three merchant navy personnel, who had come to Madhya Pradesh's Indore town to attend a marriage ceremony, died in a road accident in Bhanwarkuan area of the district, police said o....
  • Two injured after road caves in on BRT corridor
    New Delhi: Two men were injured in the capital early today morning after their motor-bike fell into a big pothole in the middle of the road near Moolchand flyover on the Bus Rapid Transport (BR....
  • IAF trainer crashes, both pilots killed
    Hyderabad: An Indian Air Force (IAF) trainer aircraft crashed in Andhra Pradesh today, killing both its pilots, police said.

    A piston-engine HPT-32 aircraft crashed into a farm at Ann....
  • Uphaar case: CBI seeks more time to file reply
    New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today sought more time from a city court to file its reply on a plea of the families of the Uphaar cinema fire victims, challenging its clea....
  • Three children killed in Delhi house fire
    New Delhi: Three children of a family, including a one-and-half-month-old girl, were burnt to death and their two siblings and mother suffered critical burns when their one-room house in northw....
  • Man loses life in freak accident
    Chandigarh: A freak accident here on Sunday claimed the life of a middle-aged man, police said.

    "Narinder Singh, 43, was coming out of a beauty parlour when this accident happened....
  • Crime Branch to probe Delhi Metro accidents
    New Delhi: Delhi Police today transferred to its Crime Branch investigations of two Metro accidents at an under-construction bridge in south Delhi on July 12 and 13.

    "We have tran....
  • Metro accident inquiry report submitted to Sreedharan
    New Delhi: A report by a four-member expert committee probing Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) worst accident on July 12, which killed six people, has been submitted to DMRC Managing D....
  • Two officials killed in fire at ministry building
    New Delhi: A section officer and a peon of the science and technology ministry suffocated to death today in a major fire that broke out in the third floor of Anusandhan Bhawan, that houses the ....
  • Truck rams into house, killing three in Tripura
    Agartala: A sleeping woman and her two daughters were killed when a loaded truck rammed into their road-side house in Tripura, police said today.

    "Soma Saha, 35, and her two young....
  • Four workers killed in Delhi footwear factory fire
    New Delhi: Four labourers were burnt to death today when the footwear factory they worked in was gutted in west Delhi, police said.

    Two men were working and five were sleeping in the ....
  • One killed at metro site, DMRC says nothing major
    New Delhi: A 22-year-old labourer was crushed to death when a steel beam fell on him at a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) site in west Delhi today, just 10 days after six people were killed....
  • Scientific probe would have nailed BMW case: court
    New Delhi: Delhi High Court has stressed the need for investigating agencies to conduct "scientific" probes using "state-of-the-art equipment" to ensure that the prosecution'....
  • BMW case: Court says bad probe led to bad prosecution
    New Delhi: Even as it reduced the sentence of Sanjeev Nanda, convicted for running over and killing six people with his BMW in 1999, the Delhi High Court expressed displeasure over the weakenin....
  • Chronology of the BMW case
    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today reduced the jail term of Sanjeev Nanda from five years to two, more than 10 years after his speeding BMW car mowed down six people in the capital's Lod....
  • Nanda's family satisfied with Delhi HC judgment
    New Delhi: The family of Sanjeev Nanda, whose sentence for mowing down six people by his BMW car was reduced from five years to two years by the Delhi High Court today, said they were satisfied....
  • Compensate Delhi Metro workers' kin: Bihar MP
    New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) MP from Bihar Shahnawaz Hussain has written to the urban development ministry to pay compensation and give jobs in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation....
  • Bus accident: Rescue work resumes in Orissa
    Bhubaneswar: Rescue operations resumed early today to fish out a bus that fell into a rivulet in Orissa's Nayagarh district on Monday evening, killing seven people. Many are still missing a....
  • Delhi Metro accident: Road opened for one-way traffic
    New Delhi: The road near the Delhi Metro accident site in South Delhi was today opened for one-way traffic from Moolchand to Nehru Place. Water and power supply to the area are yet to be restor....
  • 'Three of my family were killed, I survived because of god'
    New Delhi: Stitches on his left cheek, fractures in one leg and one hand, Om Prakash Yadav seems unusually calm for a man who almost died. When a section of the Delhi Metro track collapsed, he ....
  • Gammon India denies negligence, govt promises action
    New Delhi: Gammon India, the company carrying out the construction work at the Delhi Metro site where six people were killed as a section of a elevated viaduct collapsed, denied negligence on i....
  • Metro accident snaps water supply in south Delhi
    New Delhi: The Delhi Metro accident that killed six people in south Delhi on Sunday has brought life to a standstill in the neighbourhood. Areas near the accident site remained without water an....
  • Six more injured at Metro accident site
    New Delhi: Six workers were injured today during relief operations at the Delhi Metro construction site in south Delhi where a section of the elevated track had collapsed on Sunday, killing six....
  • DMRC chief inspects site of accident that killed six
    New Delhi: Delhi Metro chief E. Sreedharan today inspected the site in south Delhi where six people were killed after an elevated section of the Metro track under construction collapsed on Sund....
  • Metro chief Sreedharan withdraws resignation
    New Delhi: Bowing to the request of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and other senior officials, 'Metro Man' E. Sreedharan today withdrew his resignation letter as managing director ....
  • Shock and disbelief over Sreedharan resignation
    New Delhi: Delhi Metro officials could not believe what they had heard.

    Camera persons, photographers and reporters had swamped the eighth floor of the Metro Bhavan at Barakhamba Roa....
  • Delhi Metro bridge collapses, 5 dead
    New Delhi: Five people were killed and 14 injured when an underconstruction bridge of the Delhi Metro collapsed in south Delhi early today, officials said. The accident took place at around 5 a....
  • Maharashtra boat accident toll rises to 19, eleven missing
    Nagpur: The death toll in Saturday's accident in Maharashtra's eastern Bhandara district where two boats carrying women farm labourers overturned in the Wainganga river has risen to 19,....
  • Three killed in house collapse in Madhya Pradesh
    Bhopal: At least three members of a family were killed and five injured when the house in which they were living collapsed in Dhaman village of Madhya Pradesh's Narsimhapur district today m....
  • Crack in Delhi Metro's pillar caused accident
    New Delhi: A large crack in a pillar of the underconstruction bridge of the Delhi Metro in south Delhi could have caused its collapse early today, killing five people, say workers engaged at th....
  • A chronology of Delhi Metro accidents
    New Delhi: The collapse of an under-construction Delhi Metro bridge in south Delhi that killed five people today is the worst accident so far involving the mass transport system in the national....
  • Delhi Metro bridge collapses, 5 dead
    New Delhi: Five people were killed and 14 injured when an underconstruction bridge of the Delhi Metro collapsed in south Delhi early today, officials said.

    The accident took place at ....
  • Delhi Metro bridge collapses, 20 injured
    New Delhi: An underconstruction bridge of the Delhi Metro collapsed in south Delhi early today, injuring at least 20 people, many of them critically, an official said.

    The accident to....
  • One dead, five wounded in chopper crash near Amarnath cave
    Srinagar: A helicopter crashed near the Amarnath cave shrine today morning killing one woman pilgrim on the spot and wounding five occupants, police said.

    The helicopter took off from....
  • Two killed in LPG cylinder blast
    New Delhi: Two people were charred to death when the cooking gas cylinder in their home exploded, fire officials here said today.

    Gauri Shankar, 33, and Kallu, 30, were killed when th....
  • Five killed in Uttar Pradesh road accident
    Lucknow: At least five pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh were killed and 12 seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur ....
  • Teenage girl killed in accident, residents torch buses
    Kolkata: At least five buses were torched and several others damaged by a mob in West Bengal's Howrah district after a 14-year-old girl was killed when she came under the wheels of a speedi....
  • Five killed, 100 injured in Madhya Pradesh factory blasts
    Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh): At least five people were feared dead and over 100 injured late on Sunday when multiple blasts triggered a massive fire in two explosive factories in an industrial a....
  • Jeddah-Mumbai flight tyres burst on landing, passengers safe
    Mumbai: Passengers aboard a Saudia airliner on a Jeddah-Mumbai flight had a scare when its tyres burst during landing at Mumbai airport today evening, an official said.

    The Saudia fli....
  • Nine dead as speeding bus falls on Howrah rail tracks
    Kolkata: Nine people were killed today when a speeding mini bus skidded off a bridge turned slippery by rain water and fell about 50 feet between two platforms of the Howrah railway station nea....
  • 12 injured in train collision in Ghaziabad
    Ghaziabad: Barely 12 hours after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee stressed safety measures in her rail budget, a passenger train collided with a static goods train in Ghaziabad late on Friday. ....
  • 26 soldiers killed in Pakistan chopper crash
    Islamabad: Twenty-six Pakistani soldiers were killed when a helicopter in which they were travelling crashed in the Orakzai tribal agency close to the Afghan border, a media report said today. ....
  • Ghaziabad youth killed by cops in Dehradun
    Dehradun: The death of a youth from Ghaziabad at the hands of police here led to demonstrations on the streets of Dehradun today, with his family alleging he was killed in a staged shootout. <....
  • 1 killed, 6 CISF personnel injured in Jharkhand steel plant
    Ranchi: One man was killed and six Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel were injured in a clash inside the Bokaro Steel Plant in Jharkhand, police said today.

    "Aroun....
  • Three die as wall collapses in Delhi
    New Delhi: Three people, including a 12-year-old, died early today after a wall of a mill collapsed here, police said.

    The wall of a pulse mill in Narela, northwest Delhi, collapsed a....
  • Fire breaks out at Haldia Petrochemicals unit
    Kolkata: The furnace of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. naphtha cracker unit caught fire today in the early hours, according to a company spokesperson.

    Nobody was injured in the fire, the ....
  • IAF pilots blamed for near-collision
    New Delhi: The three Indian Air Force (IAF) choppers carrying President Pratibha Patil and her entourage had landed without clearance even as an Air India aircraft was readying for take off, an....
  • Coal mine fire threatens Jharkhand highway
    Ranchi: The National Highway 33 of Jharkhand may be damaged if an ongoing underground fire further engulfs an abandoned mine of Central Coal Field Ltd (CCL) in Ramgarh district.

    "....
  • Youth dies after being booked for road accident
    Chandigarh: Police here are battling allegations of protecting one of their officials following the death of a 23-year-old man who was booked for negligent and rash driving after his bike colli....
  • 13 dead in Jharkhand lightning
    Ranchi: At least 13 people, including three women and two children, were killed after they were struck by lightning in various parts of Jharkhand, an official said today.

    In the last ....
  • Minor fire in Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel
    Mumbai: A minor fire engulfed the upper floors of the heritage building of the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel here today afternoon, fire brigade officials said. No casualties were reported. ....
  • Three found dead in a boat off Gujarat coast
    Porbander (Gujarat): The Gujarat Marine Police recovered three unidentified bodies on a boat off this Gujarat port today, an official said. The boat also bore no markings. According t....
  • 15 killed in Jammu road accident
    Jammu: At least 15 people were killed and 20 others injured when two buses collided in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police said.

    According to initial reports received....
  • Two troopers die in Kashmir road accident
    Srinagar: Two paramilitary troopers died and four others received injuries today when the vehicle in which they were travelling collided with a bus carrying Amarnath pilgrims in Kashmir today. ....
  • Family of drowned Jet Airways pilot cries foul
    New Delhi: The family of a pilot with Jet Airways, who drowned in the swimming pool at an African diplomat's residence here in the national capital during a party, has questioned the sequen....
  • 150 shanties gutted in fire, two burnt to death
    New Delhi: Two people, including a three-year-old girl, were burnt to death in a fire that gutted at least 150 shanties in east Delhi today, an official said.

    The victims were identif....
  • Six pilgrims killed in Himachal road accident
    Shimla: Six people including three women were killed when a truck carrying a group of pilgrims rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district today, police said.

    "S....
  • Six killed in Agra accident
    Agra: Six employees of a shoe factory here were killed and at least 12 others injured early today when the stationary bus they were in was hit by a speeding car transport carrier, police said. ....
  • Youth killed in freak accident in Himachal
    Shimla: In a freak accident, a 20-year-old man, who was travelling on the Shimla-Kalka holiday special train, was crushed between the tunnel wall and the rail bogie in Himachal Pradesh's Sh....
  • Jaipur Girl rescued from borewell, in stable condition
    Jaipur: A four-year-old girl who accidentally fell into a 200-feet borewell in Dausa district of Rajasthan on Saturday evening, has been rescued and is in stable condition, officials said.

    ....

  • Two students killed in Noida accident
    Noida: Two students in their early 20s were killed when a water tanker hit their motorcycle here on Friday afternoon, police said.

    Ravindra Yadav and Pankaj Yadav were coming from Sec....
  • 11 of family killed in UP road accident
    Lucknow: Eleven members of a family died and two others were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district today, poli....
  • Pilgrim, porter die on Amarnath pilgrimage route
    Srinagar: One porter was killed and another injured in a landslide on the Amarnath pilgrimage route in Jammu and Kashmir, while the body of an unidentified pilgrim was recovered near Manigam tr....
  • Two bikers crushed by speeding truck in Delhi
    New Delhi: Two motorcycle riders were crushed to death and another injured when a speeding truck hit them in the national capital on Monday night, police said today.

    Madan (29) and L....
  • Body recovered, may be of missing scientist
    Bangalore: A decomposed body, believed to be that of the missing senior scientific officer of the state-run Kaiga Atomic Power Plant, was recovered from the Kali river near the plant in Karnata....
  • Five killed in gas cylinder blast in Delhi
    New Delhi: Five people were killed and nine others were injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a welding shop here today evening, police said.

    Ved Pal, the owner of the welding shop,....
  • Bodies of IAF plane crash victims brought to Delhi
    New Delhi: The bodies of two Indian Air Force (IAF) officers, who were among the 13 killed in the AN-32 transport aircraft crash in Arunachal Pradesh, were brought to the capital and accorded f....
  • Delhi tops in road accidents in metros
    New Delhi: The national capital tops in road accidents in the metros, with pedestrians accounting for almost half the fatalities in Delhi as road conditions are most unsafe for them, a new repo....
  • Another Indian pilgrim dies on Kailash yatra
    Kathmandu: Another Indian pilgrim on the yatra to the holy Mt Kailash in Tibet died today, travellers returning to Kathmandu from the gruelling overland journey said.

    A man, said to b....
  • Wing commander among IAF plane crash victims
    Chandigarh: Wing Commander G.S. Butalia, the 36-year-old son of a fighter pilot, from Chandigarh was among the 13 defence personnel who were killed in the crash of an Indian Air Force (IAF) tra....
  • 13 bodies, IAF aircraft's wreakage located
    Guwahati/New Delhi: Indian Army and paramilitary rescue teams on Wednesday recovered the wreckage of an Indian Air Force (IAF) cargo plane that went missing since Tuesday and the mangled remain....
  • Six killed in Kashmir bus accident
    Srinagar: Six passengers, including four women, were killed and 29 were injured when the bus they were travelling in rolled down into a river near south Kashmir's Pahalgam tourist resort to....
  • Four school students drown in Punjab
    Chandigarh: Four children on a school trip drowned on Tuesday when a girl fell into the the Beas river in Punjab and three of her classmates tried to save her, police said.

    Nidhi, a C....
  • 11 injured in gas cylinder blast in Delhi
    New Delhi: At least 11 people including a 75-year-old woman were injured when a gas cylinder in a car blew off in east Delhi today, police said.

    The cylinder blew off when Robin Ahuja....
  • Four kids drown in Punjab in trip turned sour
    Chandigarh: Four children, who were on a one-day school trip to river Beas in Punjab, drowned today, police said.

    The incident took place when Nidhi, a Class 10 student of Star Public....
  • Nine killed in Orissa road accident
    Bhubaneswar: At least nine people were killed and several others injured when a truck rammed into a passenger-loaded trekker wagon in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district today, police said.

  • Youth crushed to death by Blueline bus
    New Delhi: A teenager was killed and his colleague injured when a Blueline bus hit their scooter here, police said today.

    Sagar, 19 and working as a waiter in a restaurant, was riding....
  • 26 missing in Jammu and Kashmir bus accident
    Jammu: At least 26 people were missing after a mini bus with 30 people on board swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a swollen river in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district today. Two ....
  • One killed, 12 injured in Delhi factory fire
    New Delhi: One person was killed and 12 others were injured when a fire broke out in a paint factory here today, police said.

    The fire broke out after a boiler exploded in the paint ....
  • Bus mishap in Doda, many could be killed: police
    Jammu: A mini-bus with more than 25 people swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a river in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district today. Four passengers, including a child, fell out of t....
  • Nine killed in Himachal accident
    Shimla: Nine people who were going to attend a funeral were killed today when the vehicle they were travelling in rolled down a deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, police said.....
  • Wrongly parked car claims cop's life
    Chandigarh: A police constable was seriously injured and later succumbed to his injuries in hospital on Thursday after his motorcycle collided with a car parked on the wrong side of the road in....
  • Nine killed in Himachal factory fire, rescue operation over
    Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh: The death toll in Wednesday's fire in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town rose to nine as the body of an employee was recovered today, police said. "Thi....
  • Goa police dump beggar on garbage heap
    Panaji: In a shocking incident, a handicapped beggar has alleged that a Goa Police patrol car had dumped him on a garbage heap, leaving him to die.

    Between gasps of pain, the beggar, ....
  • Eight killed in Himachal factory fire
    Nalagarh (Himachal Pradesh): Eight people, including three fire brigade personnel, died in a fire that broke out in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town today, police said.

    One wor....
  • Five killed in Himachal factory fire
    Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh: Five people, including two fire brigade personnel, were killed in a fire that broke out in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town today, police said.

    At l....
  • 29 killed in Madhya Pradesh bus accident
    Bhopal: At least 29 people were killed and seven injured when a bus careened off a bridge and crashed into a dry river bed in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, police said today.

    Pol....
  • Five of family killed in accident in Punjab
    Hoshiarpur (Punjab): Five members of a family were killed and three others injured in a road accident here today, police said.

    The family was returning to Panchkula after paying obeis....
  • Three killed in south Delhi accident
    New Delhi: Three people were killed and three more injured when a speeding car lost control and rammed into two auto rickshaws in the capital early today, police said.

    "The accide....
  • Seven people including 3 policemen run over by truck
    Noida: Seven people including three policemen were killed and 11 others critically injured when a small truck ran over them on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, police said today.

    T....
  • Delhi Police officer dies in road accident
    New Delhi: A Delhi Police officer of the VIP security wing died and four constables got injured when the SUV he was driving rammed into a tree near Ashoka hotel in the capital, an official said....
  • Two children killed in Agra building collapse
    Agra: Two children were killed and over a dozen people injured when the roof of a builder's office collapsed at a construction site in Agra, police said today.

    More than 40 labou....
  • Nine killed in Madhya Pradesh accident
    Bhopal: At least nine people, including seven children, were killed and 20 injured when the tractor trolley they were travelling in overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district, police....
  • Dead Russian's friends say she didn't mention Mumbai trip plan
    Panaji: Five friends of Elena Sukhonova who were with the Russian teenager till a few hours before her death have told the police that she had made no mention of travelling to Mumbai.

    ....
  • 16 die in Tamil Nadu road accident
    Chennai: At least 16 people were killed and 10 injured when an overloaded goods carrier collided head-on with a public transport vehicle in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu today, police sai....
  • IAF aircraft crashes in Rajasthan, pilot safe
    New Delhi: An Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircraft crashed near Jodhpur in Rajasthan today but the pilot ejected safely, an official here said.

    The MiG 27 combat jet on a routine s....
  • Five injured in mine blast in Jharkhand
    Ranchi: Five people were injured in a mine blast in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district today, an official said.

    The incident took place in a colliery of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL....
  • Two women burn to death in autorickshaw
    New Delhi: Two women travelling in an autorickshaw in the capital were charred to death when the vehicle caught fire due to leaking compressed natural gas (CNG) early this morning, police said.....
  • 1 dead, 34 injured in bus-truck collision in Delhi
    New Delhi: One person was killed and 34 injured when a speeding container truck jumped the road divider and collided with a bus in south Delhi early today, police said.

    A container tr....
  • Fire at Ram Vilas Paswan's home in Delhi
    New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) President Ram Vilas Paswan today escaped a fire that broke out in one of the rooms of his official residence here.

    Paswan was watching television ....
  • 350 tourists evacuated in north Sikkim after landslide
    Mangan (Sikkim): Around 350 tourists who were stranded on Saturday night along the North Sikkim Highway after a massive landslide blocked the road have been evacuated, officials said on Sunday.....
  • Fire in Andhra Pradesh secretariat, employees rescued
    Hyderabad: A massive fire broke out today in one of the office blocks at Andhra Pradesh state secretariat, the seat of governance, here. No loss of life was reported but office records and fur....
  • 13 die in Tamil Nadu oil mill fire
    Chennai: At least 13 people died and eight were injured when fire broke out in an oil mill in Tamil Nadu's Salem district, an official said.

    The fire broke out around 10 p.m. on W....
  • Doctors remove three-foot rod from man's chest
    Lucknow: A team of doctors performed a marathon 12-hour surgery to remove a three-foot-long rod from a 60-year-old truck driver's chest, officials said today.

    The iron rod pierced....
  • Fire breaks out in Gurgaon factory
    Gurgaon: A thick layer of smoke engulfed Haryana's Gurgaon town on the outskirts of the capital today following a fire that broke out in a factory.

    Fire brigade officials said no ....
  • Aerobridge slams into Air India aircraft in Mumbai
    Mumbai: In a major breach of safety, an Air India aircraft was hit and its door damaged by an aerobridge at the airport here after 172 passengers had boarded the plane for Mangalore.

    ....
  • Class 10 student dies of burn injuries in Delhi
    New Delhi: A Class 10 student in the national capital succumbed to her injuries on Monday, hours after she was caught in a fire at her home the previous night.

    Police said they were a....
  • 30 dead in Jammu and Kashmir bus accident
    Jammu: At least 30 people, including 12 women, were killed when the bus they were travelling in fell into the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir's hilly Kishtwar district today morning, pol....
  • Lucknow accident kills driver, injures over 50 security personnel
    Lucknow: The driver of a bus carrying over 50 security personnel was killed and all the passengers injured, four of them critically, in an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district today....
  • 20 killed as bus falls into gorge in Jammu
    Jammu: At least 20 people were killed and 10 injured when the mini bus they were travelling in fell into the Chenab river in Kishtwar district, ,230 kms from here today morning, police said. ....
  • Ten workers killed in Faridabad factory fire
    Faridabad: Ten workers were killed and at least five were still missing after a fire broke out at a factory in Faridabad near New Delhi, authorities said on Sunday, adding that an inquiry was orde....
  • Six of family killed in Uttar Pradesh road accident
    Lucknow: Six members of a family, including three children and two women, were killed when the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh ....
  • Cop dies, four wounded in Kashmir road accident
    Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir): One policeman was killed and four others injured in a road accident in Kulgam district today even as polling continued peacefully throughout this south Kashmir Lo....
  • Indian Air Force jet crashes, one killed
    New Delhi: One person was killed when a frontline Su-30MKI combat jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed while on a routine training mission in Rajasthan, an official said.

    The cr....
  • Eight Kolkata tourists killed in Himachal accident
    Shimla/Kolkata: Eight tourists from Kolkata, including five women, were killed when a privately-owned mini-bus rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district on Wednesday, an off....
  • Expert police team to probe Chennai train collision
    Chennai: The elite Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) of the Tamil Nadu police will probe on Wednesday's train collision in a Chennai suburb that claimed four lives, o....
  • Eight killed in Chhattisgarh road accident
    Raipur: At least eight people, including two women and a four-year-old boy, were killed and 18 seriously injured in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district today when the bus they were travelling ....
  • Eight tourists killed in Himachal accident
    Shimla: Eight tourists, including five women, were killed when a privately-owned mini-bus rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district today, an official said. Most of the victi....
  • Eight die in Jharkhand road accident
    Ranchi: At least eight people were killed and 20 injured when a bus carrying a marriage party drove off a precipice in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand on Wednesday, police said.

    The....
  • Lalu orders probe for Chennai train accident
    Chennai/Patna: At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a local passenger train collided with a goods train in a Chennai suburb today, an official said. In Patna, Railway Minister....
  • Seven killed in train accident in Tamil Nadu
    Chennai: At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a local passenger train collided with a goods train in Chennai's northern Vyasarpadi suburb on Wednesday, an official said. <....
  • Anil Ambani's chopper sabotage detector found dead
    Mumbai: The technician who discovered the plot to sabotage industrialist Anil Ambani's chopper last Thursday has been found dead, a company spokesman said here today evening.

    ....
  • Jharkhand accident kills 11
    Ranchi: Eleven people, all of whom were either going for or coming back from a wedding, died in three separate road accidents in Jharkhand, police said today.

    Five members of a marri....
  • Four killed as shell explodes in Patiala
    Patiala (Punjab): Four people, including a woman, were killed and three others injured in this Punjab town today evening, as an unexploded shell in a heap of scrap exploded, police said.

    <....

  • Maoist violence rocks eastern India
    Ranchi/Patna/Kolkata: Maoist insurgents went on the rampage in the eastern states of Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal Wednesday, hijacking a train, blowing up buildings, setting trucks on f....
  • Delhi fire destroys 150 shanties and kills 1
    New Delhi: A 50-year-old man was burnt to death and at least 150 shanties were gutted when a fire broke out in a slum area of southwest Delhi today in the afternoon, officials said.

    ....
  • Father, 4-year-old son killed in road accident
    New Delhi: A father-son duo died after being hit by a mini truck when they were going towards Ghitorni village from their house in the capital's Mehrauli area Sunday morning, police sai....
  • Madhya Pradesh road accident kills 11
    Bhopal: Eleven people including six women and three children were killed and five were injured after a jeep carrying them collided with a truck in Madhya Pradesh today, police said.

    T....
  • Pleasure cruise ends in tragedy for couple
    George Town (Penang): An Indian couple's pleasure cruise ended in tragedy when the man fell off the ship and his wife dived into the choppy sea in a failed rescue attempt. Kasturi Shetty, 47....
  • One killed, 21 injured in Delhi accident
    New Delhi: One man was killed and 21 others were injured on Sunday when a Blueline bus collided with a dumper truck, the police said. The accident took place on Tilak Marg 5.15 a.m. on Sun....
  • Stray dogs kill child in Uttar Pradesh village
    Lucknow: In the second such incident in the last 10 days, a five-year-old girl died after a pack of stray dogs bit her in an Uttar Pradesh village on Saturday, police said. The incident to....
  • Two schoolchildren injured in Noida accident
    Noida: Two schoolchildren were injured on Friday when the car they were riding in was hit by a private bus here, the police said. According to police sources, Kshitij and Satyam ? both s....
  • Schoolgirl crushed to death, mob torches truck
    New Delhi: An 11-year-old schoolgirl was crushed to death and three students were injured on Thursday when a speeding mini truck hit them in northeast Delhi, the police said. Meena, a Cl....
  • Seven killed in Punjab accident
    Chandigarh: At least seven people were killed on Wednesday when their vehicle rammed into a stationary truck loaded with iron bars in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib district, police said. The ac....
  • Nine killed in road accident in Jharkhand
    Ranchi: At least nine people were killed and 15 injured when a tractor carrying a marriage party hit a bus here, police said today. The tractor carrying around 25 people to Irba village ....
  • One killed in Punjab train-tractor collision
    Amritsar (Punjab): One person was killed when the Amritsar bound Paschim Express late on Sunday evening rammed into a tractor-trolley that was loaded with green chillies near here, the police....
  • Delhi call centre staffer hit by truck, dies
    New Delhi: A 22-year-old man was killed after a truck hit his motorcycle in the capital, but his family alleged that he died because of delay in trauma care as the police were debating the ju....
  • Three Indians killed in chemical leak at Singapore plant
    Singapore: Three Indian workers were killed and two others badly injured in a toxic spill at a chemical plant in Singapore, officials said on Sunday. The workers suffered severe burns Fr....
  • One killed, four injured in Delhi accident
    New Delhi:
    One person was killed and four others were injured here on Wednesday when an autorickshaw collided head-on with a speeding car, the police said.

    According to police, Vinod, ....
  • Bride, 14 of marriage party killed in Orissa train-SUV crash
    Bhubhaneshwar: A bride and 14 other people were killed when a train rammed an SUV at an unmanned level crossing near Bargarh town in Orissa Sunday, officials said. A Mahindra Bolero vehi....
  • 16 on way to marriage die in road accident in Karnataka
    Bangalore: Sixteen people on way to attending a marriage were killed when a tempo in which they were travelling hit a tree in the early hours on Thursday in the north Karnataka district of ....
  • Three killed as bridge under construction collapses in Bihar
    Patna: Three people were killed and four injured on Monday when a bridge under construction over a rail line collapsed in Bihar, an official said. The incident took place at Amgola in Mu....
  • Lalu announces damages for Coromandel Express crash victims
    New Delhi: Railways Minister Lalu Prasad on Monday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs.500,000 to the next of kin of those killed in the Orissa train derailment and employment to one of their ....
  • Orissa rail tragedy toll revised to nine
    Jajpur Road (Orissa): About 150 people who were injured when a superfast train was derailed in Orissa on Friday evening were in hospital on Saturday, while officials revised the death to....
  • 12 injured in Bihar train collision
    Patna: At least 12 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Bihar's Motihari district early today morning, the second accident within 24 hours. The Gorak....
  • 15 killed, 150 injured in Orissa train tragedy
    Bhubaneswar: At least 15 passengers were killed and around 150 injured when the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express was derailed on Friday evening near the Jajpur-Keonjhar Road railway station in....
  • Eight die in two West Bengal road accidents
    Kolkata: Eight people, including five returning from a crematorium, were killed in two road accidents in West Bengal on Wednesday, police said. Five people were killed on the spot when the....
  • Four children killed in train engine-bus collision
    Talwandi (Punjab): Four children were killed and 20 seriously injured when a train engine rammed into a school bus at an unmanned railway crossing near Talwandi on Ferozeopur-Ludhiana track in ....
  • Madhya Pradesh minister's car hits women, one dies
    Bhopal: A woman was killed and another injured when a Madhya Pradesh minister's car hit them on a roadside here, police said on Friday. The incident took place late Thursday night when S....
  • Four sons of Malaysian Indian widow drown at sea
    Kuala Lumpur: All four sons of a Malaysian Indian widow have drowned at sea where they had gone for a swim during the school holidays, a media report said today. V. Letchumy, 52, who los....
  • Indian rescued six hours after air crash in Malaysia
    Kuala Lumpur: An Indian national, who is a permanent resident of Singapore, was rescued from the wreckage of his plane six hours after it crashed in the Gunung Pulai forest reserve in Malay....
  • Speeding car kills schoolgirl
    Chandigarh: A 12-year-old girl was killed and her sister and a friend were seriously injured when a speeding car hit them here on Monday in dense fog, police said. The three girls were wal....
  • Speeding truck mows down five in Agra
    Agra: Five people sipping tea and watching TV at a roadside tea stall were crushed to death when a speeding truck rammed into the shop here early on Sunday, the police said. The accident o....
  • Senior police official accidentally shoots himself
    Ghaziabad: The senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district sustained a bullet injury after he accidentally shot himself here on Thursday while cleaning his ser....
  • Five pilgrims die after Makar Sankranti dip
    Kolkata: Five pilgrims died of cerebral stroke or cardiac arrest on Wednesday, as nearly half a million devotees took the holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal on the ....
  • DTC bus rams into Blueline in fog-bound Noida
    Noida: A Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus rammed into a Blueline bus early on Tuesday here, as dense fog continues wreaking havoc in the National Capital Region. No passenger was hurt. ....
  • Eleven bus passengers electrocuted in MP

    Bhopal: At least 11 people were electrocuted and another 20 injured on Tuesday when a passenger bus in which they were travelling came in contact with a high voltage line in Madhya Pradesh....

  • Three injured in Rohtak explosion

    Rohtak: Three members of a family were injured when a low-intensity explosion took place in a residential locality in this Haryana town on Monday evening, police said, adding that investig....

  • Bus crushes boy, mob torches bus in Punjab town

    Bathinda (Punjab): An angry mob on Sunday set a private bus on fire after a 10-year-old boy was crushed under it near this southwest Punjab town.

    The victim, Sourabh, was ret....

  • 40 killed as bus catches fire in Uttar Pradesh

    Lucknow: At least 40 people were burnt to death on Tuesday when the bus they were travelling in went up in flames in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, the police said. The accident ....

  • Traffic policeman's car mows down two children

    Mohali: Two children were crushed to death under a car being driven by a traffic policeman here Saturday evening, an official said. Ishu, 7, and Simran, 5, were going to the market with the....

  • Over 5,000 killed in 20,000 Himachal accidents in 8 yrs
    Shimla: Over 5,000 people have died in nearly 20,000 accidents during the past eight years on the mountain roads of Himachal Pradesh, police records show. According to the police records, 379 p....
  • BMW case: Charges filed against Utsav Bhasin
    New Delhi: Delhi Police filed charges today against Utsav Bhasin, the son of a Haryana industrialist, for allegedly mowing down a motorcyclist while driving his BMW car in the capital in Septem....
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