Mumbai: Habitual rooftop passengers on suburban local trains, get ready for the shock of your lives, quite literally. Western Railway (WR) is in the process of completing the long-pending project of switching over to a 25,000-volt alternating current (AC) from the present 1,500-volt direct current (DC) by February 5. This means that power of extremely high-voltage will be flowing through the overhead cables that supply electricity to the trains. If...
01:04 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Mumbai: It can only be described as bizarre. A man in his early forties became the latest victim of rooftop train travel after he sustained severe burns due to electrocution on Thursday around 5.40 pm at Dahisar. Train services got delayed and the unidentified man was admitted to Bhagwati Hospital at MHB Colony, Borivli (West) at about 6.10 pm. A few hours later, things took an extraordinary turn. At around...
05:50 PM, Jan 13, 2012
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12:40 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Bangalore: In two separate horrific incidents in Karnataka, nine travellers from India's tech capital of Bangalore were lynched to death by villagers who were suspicious of their movements. In the first case, eight people were thrashed by villagers on their visit to Errakote, which is 10 kms from Chintamani taluk in Chikaballapur. The villagers apparently grew suspicious of the visitors' movements and beat them up. Six of the eight travellers...
07:21 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New York: Sick of coming back from those short business trips exhausted and rundown? Men's website AskMen.com (www.askmen.com) offers 10 easy tips to help you get through those difficult one to three days away for work looking and feeling good. Reuters has not endorsed this list: 1. Never check luggage: Unless we're talking about a two-week gambling retreat in Monte Carlo, this rule is never to be broken. Travel is...
05:27 PM, Dec 10, 2010
New Delhi: More than half his lungs don't work. His fingers ache with arthritis. But Benny Prasad Kandukuri, a guitarist by profession has overcome those pains to make a new world record. ‘I was the most useless, uncreative, unwanted child of my family. At 16, I wanted to commit suicide,” said globe trotting guitarist Benny Prasad Kandukuri. “I have been to 245 countries in six years and six months and...
09:58 AM, Dec 03, 2010
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