The 2011 British Open champion will be one of 24 players taking part in next week's tournament. ...
06:25 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Vikas Swarup, the author of Q&A, the novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire', has come up with another page turner - 'The Accidental Apprentice'. As character-driven narrations go, 'The Accidental Apprentice' has the hallmarks of a successful screenplay and might just hit pay dirt as 'Slumdog' did in 2009. ...
03:41 PM, Jan 29, 2013
An overloaded sport utility vehicle (SUV) fell into Teesta river in West Bengal's Darjeeling district on Saturday. Six bodies have been recovered while 10 people are reported to be still missing. ...
06:10 PM, Jan 19, 2013
An Indian-origin coach driver has pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two men in a horrific motorway crash in 2012 after he parked his vehicle on a carriageway and a lorry ploughed into it. Jasminder Singh Dhesi, 50, who will be sentenced in February, 2013, was arrested in March last year after a coach carrying fruit-pickers was struck by a lorry on the M5 near Birmingham. ...
04:28 PM, Jan 16, 2013
A military train carrying young recruits to army camp derailed in a Cairo suburb on January 14, killing 17 people and injuring 103, Egypt's health ministry spokesman said. The train was travelling from Upper Egypt to Cairo when it derailed in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin, a security source said, adding the train was a military vehicle carrying conscripted youth on their way to an army camp. ...
10:25 AM, Jan 15, 2013
A police official says a bus veered off a mountain road in west Nepal leaving at least 30 people dead and several more injured. Police official Ramesh Bahadur Dhanuk said the bus drove off the gravel road Saturday in a remote mountainous area near Chatiwan village. ...
12:07 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Seven persons were killed and 40 others injured after a commuter-van from a mine company exploded in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The mishap occurred on Friday in Shuangyashan City of the district of Lingdong, officials said. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 12, 2013
Eight people were killed and 30 injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck at Heria late Thursday, police said. According to police, five people died on the spot when the Digha-bound bus, which was coming from Howrah, collided with the truck. ...
12:07 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Twenty-five people, including 11 children, were killed and 10 others injured when a speeding truck overturned and fell into a roadside ditch near Titai Bigha in Aurangabad district in the wee hours on Thursday. Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Praveen Kumar Parai said from the accident spot that the injured had told him the truck driver was drunk and that he along with his assistant fled from the spot. ...
02:16 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on January 10 ordered an inquiry into the Aurangabad road accident which claimed 25 lives. Condoling the loss of lives, Kumar ordered the district magistrate and superintendent of police to inquire under what circumstances people were being carried in a truck meant for freight, an official statement said here. ...
01:18 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A high-speed ferry loaded with hundreds of commuters from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, seriously injuring 11 people, including one who suffered a severe head wound falling down a stairwell. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 10, 2013
A commuter ferry from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring at least 50 people, at least two critically, officials and witnesses said. ...
10:13 PM, Jan 09, 2013
A GPS traffic application like Waze can help minimise road accidents with better deployment of police at the most accident prone sites, shows a study. ...
12:52 PM, Jan 06, 2013
An allegedly drunk policeman ran over a 22-year-old woman in Mumbai, who later succumbed to her injuries suffered during the accident on Monday. Family and friends of the woman have alleged that the policeman driving the van was drunk while the police have said the officer was not responsible. ...
09:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
An allegedly drunk policeman ran over a 22-year-old woman in Mumbai, who later succumbed to her injuries suffered during the accident on Monday. Family and friends of the woman have alleged that the policeman driving the van was drunk while the police have said the officer was not responsible. ...
09:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
CCTV footage shows an overspeeding car ramming into killing three people on the spot. ...
09:46 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Well-known Marathi actors Anand Abhyankar and Akshay Pendse were among three people killed in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway early Monday, police said. ...
12:50 PM, Dec 24, 2012
In an early morning tragedy in Chennai, four students died in a road accident at one of the busy roads near Perungudi. The four students were travelling on the footboard of a bus reportedly. ...
10:32 AM, Dec 10, 2012
It estimated that the technology saved more than 2,200 lives from 2008 through 2010 in the US. ...
01:11 PM, Dec 01, 2012
At least 16 people were killed and 44 others injured when a bus carrying a marriage party rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district on Saturday evening, police said. ...
11:54 PM, Nov 24, 2012
