Coimbatore: Four women were injured on Tuesday when the police escort vehicle of Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram hit an autorickshaw in which they were travelling near Koilpalayam, 25 km from Coimbatore, police said. Chidambaram was proceeding to Coimbatore airport after attending a function at Udumalpet in Tirupur District, when the incident occurred, police said. The escort vehicle hit the autorickshaw with five passengers as it was turning into the...
06:47 PM, Apr 09, 2013
In 'Accidental India: A History of the Nation's Passage through Crisis and Change', noted journalist-analyst, Shankkar Aiyar, examines India's ascent through the paradigm of seven game changers: the economic liberalization of 1991, the Green Revolution of the sixties, the nationalization of banks in 1969, Operation Flood in the seventies, the mid-day meal scheme of 1982, the software revolution of the nineties, and the passing of the Right to Information Act...
03:27 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Two constables have been injured after a BMW car ran over them late on Sunday night. The incident took place around 1:45 am near a check-point at Peddar Road in Mumbai. The police claim that the car refused to stop and ran over the cops and also hit another car. A male driver and a woman were inside the car. The 28-year-old driver has been arrested and booked for...
08:09 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Kozhikode: Three NIT-Kozhikode students hailing from Andhra Pradesh were killed and four others injured when their car collided with a lorry near Vadakara in the district on Sunday, police said. The students of the National Institute of Technology here were proceeding to a nearby place on a weekend trip when the mishap occurred at Kainatti Punchirimillil. The deceased were identified as Harish (21), Raju (19) and Hitesh (21) police said....
04:10 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: The police on Saturday finally made a breakthrough in the Thane building collapse with the arrest of two of the building's builders. However, survivors are losing hope as the Municipal Corporation goes into a demolition overdrive. "I am threatening the Chief Minister. If he doesn't respond, I will go on a strike outside his office. I am 70-year-old and my father has also died as a freedom fighter. I...
09:57 PM, Apr 06, 2013
24 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the full extent of the tragedy is still unfolding. 48 people are killed and over 60 are injured and entire families are wiped out. Even the few who escaped have lost their loved ones. ...
10:02 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Thane: A woman, stuck under the debris of the illegal building in Thane that collapsed on Thursday evening, was rescued alive after 24 hours. The woman was talking to her rescuers after she was pulled out of the debris. She was taken to Thane Civil Hospital in an ambulance after her rescue. However, many children are still buried under the debris. Fifty eight people have reportedly died and over 60...
06:29 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Forty eight people have reportedly died and over 60 have been injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse in a decade, after a seven-storied under-construction illegal building collapsed in Thane on Thursday. According to the Thane Deputy Collector, the dead included 12 children and five women and over 36 people have sustained serious injuries in the incident. The National Disaster Response Force, which is leading the rescue efforts, said many...
05:24 PM, Apr 05, 2013
An eyewitness to the tragic Thane building collapse says the administration and the builders are hand in glove. He adds that illegal building was constructed in just two months. ...
12:34 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Forty two people have reportedly died and over 60 have been injured after a seven-storied under-construction illegal building collapsed in Thane on Thursday. According to the Thane Deputy Collector, the dead included nine children and five women and over 30 people have sustained serious injuries in the incident. Reportedly many children are buried under the debris as tuition classes were being held in the building. Thane Police Commissioner KP...
08:11 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Srinagar: Nine students were killed and twelve others injured when a school bus skidded off a mountain road and fell into a 500-feet gorge in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Thursday, official sources said. The mishap took place at Kandiwara near Kokernag, 70 kms from Srinagar, when the driver of the bus lost control while negotiating a blind curve, the sources said. They said the bus was on its...
08:57 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Puri-Durg Express rammed into a stationary goods train near Mancheswar on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on Wednesday night but there was no casualty or injury, railway sources said. There was no injury to anyone and all the passengers were safe after 18425 Puri-Durg Express hit the stationary goods train from behind at Kalajhari near Mancheswar, an East Coast Railway (ECoR) spokesman said. The Talcher-bound goods train from Visakhapatnam had...
11:46 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Two sub-inspectors were killed in an accident in Park Street in Kolkata. Four others are critically injured. ...
09:45 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Five engineering students died on Monday after a bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge. The accident took place in the hilly Idukki district of Kerala. ...
03:44 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Ten persons were feared drowned and many others missing when a country boat capsized in the Ganga in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Saturday morning. ...
02:00 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A goods train rammed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing near Saraigarh in Bihar's Supaul district on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and six others injured. ...
10:53 AM, Mar 20, 2013
At least 37 people were killed when a bus on its way from Goa to Mumbai fell into a river near the Khed junction in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra on Tuesday morning. ...
08:17 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Six police personnel, including a woman, were on Monday killed and eleven others sustained injuries in a road accident near village Lohari, 10 km from Fatehgarh Sahib, police said. ...
01:44 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Five people have gone missing after a mechanised country boat capsized in West Bengal's Howrah district on Sunday. The search was on for the missing five even as 32 people were rescued. ...
09:30 PM, Mar 17, 2013
A tyre of the Thai Airways International aircraft from India exploded while landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok early on Saturday morning. All 287 passengers and crew members were evacuated from the twin-engine Airbus 330-300 aircraft that had left Kolkata at 2.48 am, the Bangkok Post online reported. ...
09:59 AM, Mar 16, 2013
