
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston drowned in a hot bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel room with cocaine in her system and white powder nearby, a final coroner's report revealed on Wednesday. Detectives found white powdery substances, a rolled-up piece of paper, a small spoon and a mirror in the bathroom shortly after Houston's naked body was found face down in the bathtub on February 11, the 40-page Los Angeles County...

03:42 PM, Apr 05, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday confirmed the post-mortem report of Ministry of Defence official Kumar Yashkar Sinha, saying that he died due to burning, while his wife, Archana was strangulated to death. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said, "The post-mortem report reveals that Archana was strangulated to death. She received other injuries while she was being strangulated. "Kumar Yashkar Sinha died due to burning..." The spokesman added, "It...

06:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012

New Delhi: The autopsy report of Defence Ministry official Kumar Yashkar Sinha says Kumar Yashkar died of suffocation due to burns. The Delhi Police have received the report. Preliminary medical investigations had suggested that no external or internal injuries other than burn injuries were found on the victim. The police are now probing if Yashkar was under any sort of financial burden other than the work pressure. The police are...

04:02 PM, Apr 03, 2012

Midnapore: Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the the fatal encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to autopsy reports. The bullets hit him in the chin, head, chest and other parts of the body, doctors, who conducted the autopsy, said. One of the shots appeared to have been fired from long-range of around 500 m, they added....

02:40 PM, Nov 27, 2011

London: Previously unseen footage of Michael Jackson's 1993 'Dangerous' tour, which had been expected to fetch 4-5 million pounds ($6.2-7.8 million) failed to sell at auction in Britain on Saturday. "At this stage it has not sold," said a spokesman for The Fame Bureau auctioneers, who specialise in pop memorabilia. "We are still talking to people, but online it did not sell." He said he was confident a buyer would...

01:32 PM, Nov 27, 2011

Benghazi: Racing to fill a power vacuum and prevent a descent into lawlessness, Libya is to proclaim its war over on Sunday and start building the ballot box democracy Muammar Gaddafi once saw as fit for "donkeys". Tens of thousands who before this year's revolt had known nothing but Gaddafi's all-powerful police state are due to pack a square in the second city Benghazi to hear interim government leader Mustafa...

08:39 PM, Oct 23, 2011

New Delhi: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi died of a gunshot wound to the head, confirmed an autopsy report on Sunday. The autopsy was carried out in Misrata and sources are now saying that the body will be returned to the commercial freezer in the city where it was put up for public display earlier. Libyan forensic doctors carried out an autopsy overnight on the body of Gaddafi, who was killed...

03:21 PM, Oct 23, 2011

New Delhi: Dr V Dekal has filed his nomination as an independent candidate from Maduravoyal constituency for the Tamil Nadu polls. Dr V Dekal, a forensic surgeon, had conducted the postmortem of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. The Tamil Nadu government had earlier rejected the resignation of the doctor who had conducted the postmortem on the body of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Union Telecom Minister A Raja....

07:06 PM, Mar 26, 2011

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has rejected the resignation of the doctor who had conducted the postmortem on the body of Sadik Batcha, a close aide of former Union Telecom Minister A Raja. Batcha, who was under the CBI scanner, was found hanging at his house here on March 16 with his wife claiming that he had committed suicide "unable to cope with the 2G probe." The Directorate of Public...

11:40 AM, Mar 25, 2011

Chennai: The doctor, who conducted autopsy on the body of former Telecom Minister A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha, has resigned but said it has nothing to with the case as he plans to contest elections. Though reports of his resignation came days after the death of Batcha on Wednesday last, Dr V Dekal said he had put in his papers in the first week of March as he had intended...

02:14 PM, Mar 21, 2011

Bhopal: A man was forced to carry the body of his 16 year old daughter on his bicycle for 14 kilometres, for an autopsy in Madhya Pradesh. Bakshu Singh's daughter committed suicide by consuming poison at her house in village Dudhmania. The Police refused to allow Bakshu Singh to perform the last rights of his daughter until the postmortem was done. But they refused to take the body to the...

11:38 PM, Jan 11, 2011

Los Angeles: Executors of Michael Jackson's estate on Wednesday asked a TV network to cancel a program reenacting the singer's autopsy, calling it "in shockingly bad taste". "Your decision to even schedule this program is in shockingly bad taste, insensitive to Michael family and appears to be motivated solely by your blind desire to exploit Michael's death," co-executors John Branca and John McClain wrote in a letter to Discovery Communications....

05:27 PM, Dec 30, 2010

The Discovery Channel's controversial programme Michael Jackson's Autopsy is said to be based on the official coroner's report and court documents taken after the Thriller hitmaker's death in 2009. It is due to air in Britain on Jan 13. The show will follow a pathologist as he performs a full autopsy on a synthetic cadaver and exposes the "medical myths that surrounded Jackson throughout his troubled life, his drug addiction,...

10:32 AM, Dec 13, 2010

Chicago-based Auctioneers last week said the tools would go on sale on August 12. ...

11:54 AM, Jul 26, 2010

Autopsy tools used to embalm and prepare Elvis Presley's body for his funeral in 1977 are set to go under the hammer at a Chicago auction house. ...

01:58 PM, Jul 21, 2010