A young girl was set on fire by a jilted lover in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. The police say that the accused lured the girl into his house where he tried to coerce her to marry him. ...
02:58 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Irked at an MLA for not taking his phone calls, a drunken man today "fired" with a toy pistol outside the Delhi legislator's office here today triggering panic in the area. ...
04:34 PM, Mar 19, 2013
A youth was quizzed by police on Sunday after he asked a minister why Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did not visit a slum in West Bengal where 700 shanties were destroyed in fire on Saturday. The incident happened during Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim's visit to Sholo Bigha slum in the Maheshtala Santoshpur area of South 24-Parganas where a blaze had rendered 1,500 people homeless on Saturday morning. ...
11:28 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Around 700 shanties were gutted in a fire in Santoshpur-Maheshtala area on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, leaving more than a thousand people homeless. ...
10:32 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Public comments have been invited on making 100 or 108 as the single number for the entire country for various emergencies like fire or medical or accidents. At present, there are different numbers for different types of emergencies, like 100 for police and 101 for fire. ...
12:20 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A class 9 girl student set herself on fire in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh after she was repeatedly sexually harassed. She was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition in Moradabad from where she was referred to Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. ...
03:46 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A man died after he was allegedly set on fire by some policemen on Monday night in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. The victim's family has filed a case and police are investigating the incident. ...
10:50 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Flight operations were affected after a minor fire broke out in the air traffic control room at Chennai airport in the wee hours on Tuesday. The flames were noticed by the staff at around 2.45 am, official sources said, adding five five tenders were pressed into service and the blaze was doused within 20 minutes. ...
07:20 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Sony is already developing applications and tweaking the operating system to suit Indian market. ...
02:48 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Sending out a strong message to Pakistan, Army Chief Bikram Singh said that Indian soldiers won't remain quiet if the neighbouring country violated the ceasefire. However, Bikram Singh said that he didn't want to comment on Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf's Ajmer visit. ...
01:47 PM, Mar 09, 2013
A minor fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Mantralaya in Mumbai on Saturday. A chemical container kept for renovation caught fire. ...
01:21 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Seventeen people sustained burns and around 150 huts were gutted in a major fire that engulfed a slum near Bandra station, officials said on Thursday. ...
04:17 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The UN Security Council, ignoring threats from North Korea, is set to impose a fourth round of even tougher sanctions against Pyongyang in a fresh attempt to rein in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current council president, said the council will vote on the draft sanctions resolution on Thursday morning. The resolution was drafted by and the United States and China, North Korea's...
01:40 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A massive fire was reported from Mumbai's Goregaon area on Monday night. The fire spread to over 15 kilometres in the forest area behind Film City. ...
10:28 AM, Mar 05, 2013
The Dreamliner planes of Air India may fly again by mid-April 2013, with the airline expressing hope that a permanent solution to the battery-fire that led to the grounding of all the 50 Boeing 787s flying worldwide will be achieved by the month-end, official sources said on Monday. ...
09:34 PM, Mar 04, 2013
There have been 188 instances of ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir between 2010 to 2012, and three Indian Army personnel were killed in these, Defence Minister A K Antony told the Lok Sabha on Monday. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the government on a public interest litigation (PIL) over killing of two Indian soldiers at the LoC by Pakistan army. The PIL raised questions over what steps the government was taking to prevent such incidents in future. ...
11:47 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Indian Army sources have confirmed that there have been at least 24 cases of ceasefire violations from Pakistan in 2013 alone. ...
09:38 AM, Mar 04, 2013
One person died and 13 were injured in early hours of Monday after a fire broke out in Mumbai's Mankhurd area. The fire started after an explosion in a gas tanker. ...
08:32 AM, Mar 04, 2013
A man was arrested for allegedly setting his wife on fire in Punjab's Jakopur village over a petty matter, leading to her death, police said on Sunday. ...
02:47 PM, Mar 03, 2013
