New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday stepped into controversy after saying that good-looking girls and mobile phones were primary reasons for road accidents. "If you have a good motorcycle, good mobile and a beautiful girlfriend, accidents are bound to happen," he told media. The BJP leader is not the first one to make such a controversial remark. In India, it is the order of the day, especially...
10:31 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Ludhiana: Sixteen students were injured after a school bus lost control, ran over a divider and turned upside down near Focal Point in Ludhiana on Thursday. The injured students were taken to a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, the driver's condition remains critical. "The bus hit the divider resulting in serious injuries to three students. All the students were rushed to a hospital, from where three have been discharged and ten were...
01:49 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Bangalore: A major fire has broken out in a paints godown on Hosur Road in Bangalore. As the godown was stacked with chemical substances, the fire spread quickly. The fire control department said the blaze is likely to be brought under control in 30 minutes. There was no one present inside the godown when the fire broke out at 9 am on Thursday. Around 22 fire engines are at the...
01:06 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Jersey: A four-year-old Indian-American boy was mowed down by a speeding car driven by a woman at a traffic intersection here, police said. The victim, Dhyanesh, son of Balaji Jeyakannan, was struck by the car and killed on the spot at the junction of Jefferson Avenue and Central Avenue yesterday. The mishap occurred when the child, holding his mother Nagarani Nagarajan's hand, was crossing the road after the stop...
11:48 AM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader K Yerran Naidu died in a car accident on Thursday night. Naidu was returning after an event in Vizag when his car hit a petrol tanker near Ranasthalam in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. Naidu was immediately taken to a local hospital, where the doctors declared him dead at 3.30 am on Friday morning. Naidu was 55. The mishap took place about...
06:38 AM, Nov 02, 2012
This driver had a a miraculous escape while driving on the Kaluga to Kiev road in Russia on October 21. He smashed into a truck before spinning into a car, but walked away with only minor injuries according to news reports. ...
06:26 PM, Oct 31, 2012
1. A Northbound Hurricane Hurricane Sandy is moving slowly toward the north-northeast but is expected to turn to the north and west later Sunday and Monday, forecasters say. At some point, it's expected to become what's known as an extratropical storm. Unlike a tropical system like a hurricane, which gets its power from warm ocean waters, extratropical systems are driven by temperature contrasts in the atmosphere. Although Sandy is currently...
10:56 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Bloomsburg: The National Weather Service has downgraded Sandy from a hurricane to a tropical storm but warns that "widespread impacts" are still expected into next week for the US East Coast. The storm was expected to increase in speed and move away from the Bahamas and parallel to the southeast coast of the United States later this weekend. Maximum sustained winds dropped to near 70 mph early Saturday, pushing it...
02:56 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Noted comedian Jaspal Bhatti died in a road accident near Jalandhar on October 25. He was going to Nakodar from Bhatinda to promote his forthcoming film 'Power Cut'. The accident happened near the Shahkot area of Jalandhar. Bhatti's car rammed into a roadside tree. Here is a photograph of the car that met with the accident. ...
05:45 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Hyderabad: A child died and another got critically injured after being run over by a car which was being driven by a Telugu television actress while driving for a shoot in Hyderabad. The actress lost control and hit the children who were playing nearby. The incident happened in Cyberabad. The five-year-old boy died right away. A case has been registered against the actress. The police said that the film crew...
03:03 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Hyderabad, Oct 26: A six-year-old boy was killed today in a car accident during a television serial shoot here at the city outskirts. The mishap occurred when a Telugu television actor lost control over the vehicle while shooting and hit Satvik Reddy, killing the minor on the spot, Chandanagar Police said. "Some people had gathered to watch the shoot. The actor lost control over the car and hit a road...
01:14 PM, Oct 26, 2012
London: A 48-year-old NRI IT consultant was crushed to death by his own car after his seven-year-old son accidentally released the handbrake while looking for sweets, an inquest into the six month old incident has heard. According to a report in the Daily Mail, Pratik Pandya tried to stop the car containing his boy rolling away when he was killed on his driveway. He suffered abdominal injuries and a deep...
10:26 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Chandigarh: Popular satirist and filmmaker Jaspal Bhatti, the man behind hit comedy shows like 'Ulta Pulta' and 'Flop Show', died in a road accident in the wee hours today after his car rammed into a tree. Bhatti's son Jasraj, who was driving the car and actress Surilie Gautam, the heroine of his upcoming film 'Power Cut' and film promoter Navneet Joshi were injured in the mishap, police said. The 57-year-old...
04:36 PM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: Famous comedian Jaspal Bhatti has died in a road accident near Jalandhar. Bhatti was going to Nakodar from Bhatinda for the promotion of his upcoming film 'Power Cut'. The accident happened on Shahkot area of Jalandhar. Bhatti's car rammed into a roadside tree. Bhatti's son and actress Surilie Gautam of his upcoming film got injured in the mishap. Both the injured have been admitted to the hospital. Jaspal...
06:19 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Moradabad: A woman was burnt to death after a fire broke out due to an LGP cylinder leak in her house on Monday. Officials said that she was alone at the time of the incident. Eyewitnesses said that they saw smoke emanating from the house and then heard cries for help. But by the time they could get to the woman, she had succumbed to her injuries. Police are further...
08:16 AM, Oct 23, 2012
A couple set themselves on fire and the bogie that they were travelling in, in Gulbarga in Karnataka. The police claim they were facing opposition from their families, which forced them to take this step. Railway sources say that Shankarappa, a rickshaw driver and Varsha, a student, set themselves on fire as their families were opposed to their affair. "They set themselves on fire inside the bathroom, but came out ...
09:26 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Simdega (Jharkhand): A boy was critically injured tonight after a vehicle of a JMM legislator ran over him in the district, a police officer said. Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar said the three-and-half-year-old boy suddenly came in front of the vehicle of JMM MLA from Torpa constituency, Paulus Surin, near Parenga village and was critically injured. The MLA's driver was driving the vehicle in which Surin was travelling. The boy...
12:12 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Railways have ordered an inquiry into the Gulbarga train fire incident on Tuesday which claimed two lives and announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 1 lakh to the next of the kin of the dead. Two passengers were charred to death and about nine suffered severe burns when a general coach of Solapur-bound Falaknuma passenger train from Hyderabad caught fire during its halt at Gulbarga station. "An inquiry...
07:38 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Bangalore: The Hyderabad-Solapur Falaknuma passenger express caught fire in Karnataka on Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and seven others injured. The train caught fire at the Gulbarga railway station in North Karnataka. Two coaches of the train were gutted in the fire. The fire was brought under control as the train was stationary when it caught fire. Some passengers were stuck inside the coaches that caught fire. The...
03:49 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Burdwan: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old higher secondary school girl died after being pushed from a train compartment, allegedly by a stalker, at Kalna in Burdwan district on Saturday. Sujaya Basak, student of Samudragarh High School, was returning from private tuition to her Purbasthali home from Nabadwip in Katwa-bandel local along with four other girls when she confronted a youth, who had been stalking her for past several days,...
08:14 AM, Oct 14, 2012
