Tuticorin: A 70-year old was injured when a country bomb was hurled at him allegedly by six persons, including four of his nephews, over a property dispute at Sathankulam in this district on Tuesday, police said.
Victim Chellappa was owning 15 acres of land. His sister's son Ponpandi had been demanding that the land be given to him. He was riding a bicycle on Tuesday morning when Ponpandi, his three brothers and two others attacked him with a country bomb, injuring him in his legs.
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12:26 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Prague: Is it a bike? Is it a plane? Three Czech companies have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that successfully took off Wednesday inside an exhibition hall in Prague and landed safely after a remote-controlled, five-minute flight. Looking like a heavy mountain bike, it weighs 95 kilograms (209 pounds). It has two battery-power propellers in the front, two in the back and one each on...
01:28 PM, Jun 13, 2013
On this episode of Overdrive, we bring to you all, the motoring news, first look of Royal Enfield Bullet 500 and much more. ...
04:25 PM, May 25, 2013
Karachi/Lahore: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will lead protests in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi against the killing of a senior leader of his party for which he has directly blamed MQM chief Altaf Hussain. In a video message released on Sunday, Khan, who is under treatment at the Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore after an accident during the election campaign, said as soon as he was well he would himself lead...
01:43 AM, May 20, 2013
Karachi: Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has held the chief of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) directly responsible for the killing of a senior leader of his party in the city. "I hold Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the murder as he had openly threatened Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf workers and leaders through public broadcasts," Imran said in a statement from his hospital bed late Saturday night. The statement came hours after the...
08:55 AM, May 19, 2013
Karachi: A senior leader of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party was shot dead in Karachi on Saturday, police said. Zahra Shahid Hussain, the vice-president of the party's chapter in Sindh, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday night. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Hussain was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the...
12:51 AM, May 19, 2013
Kabul: An Afghan official says a bomb hidden in a parked motorcycle has ripped through a crowded bazaar in a remote region of the southern Helmand province on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding seven. Omer Zawak, the spokesman for the provincial governor, says the explosion occurred today at the market in the village of Safar. Safar is located 70 kilometers (42 miles) from the district centre of...
03:07 PM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: Shares in Hero MotCorp Ltd, India's largest motorcycle manufacturer, gained as much as 4.8 percent in early morning trade after the company's January-March profit beat street estimates for the first quarter in six. Hero reported a net profit of 5.74 billion rupees for the three months to end-March on Friday compared to analysts expectations of 4.98 billion rupees. ...
10:43 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A traffic constable escaped unhurt after he was fired upon when he tried to stop three people who were riding a motorcycle without wearing helmets on Wednesday evening, police said. "The incident happened at Preet Vihar in east Delhi. Traffic constable Monu was manning a traffic signal when he saw the motorcyclists, with no helmets and riding three to a motorcycle. He tried to stop them, but they...
05:55 AM, Apr 25, 2013
India has the worst record of road safety in the world. The numbers are truly horrific. India accounts for 10 per cent of global road ...
03:17 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: In a strange sort of way they're are strong reminders of the 200 but this is a very different motorcycle. The riding position is exactly the same and the 10mm lower seat makes no difference. At low revs, there are clearly more vibes and all the test ride bikes had vibration dampers at the bar-ends. But it smoothes out after 3500rpm or so and from then on, is always...
01:59 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Bangalore: Special teams of Tamil Nadu Police are looking for a suspect near Chennai in the Bangalore blast that injured 16 people on Wednesday. Investigators are reportedly tracking the man who bought the motorcycle in which the bomb was kept. The accused is said to have fled to Kancheepuram and is believed to be a resident of Vellore. Initial reports from the forensic sciences laboratory (FSL) indicated that amonium nitrate...
02:36 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Chennai: In a swift action, the city police has traced the registered owner of the motorbike which was used for bomb blast in Bangalore, in which 16 people were injured. The number plate of the bike has been traced to a retired telecom employee in Chennai, who said that he had sold the bike about four years ago, a police source said. The motorcycle with a Tamil Nadu license plate...
09:32 AM, Apr 18, 2013
A medium-intensity blast took place near the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Malleshwaram in Bangalore. Sixteen people have been injured in the blast in the area that is close to two major temples. ...
02:47 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Jaipur: Jaipur Police on Tuesday arrested the driver of the truck which hit a motorcycle in a tunnel in Jaipur and killed a mother and her infant daughter. The accident displayed public apathy when a CCTV footage showed the victim's injured husband and son crying for help for around 40 minutes but were ignored by passerbys. The truck driver identified as Heeralal was arrested from Madhya Pradesh. Additional Superintendent of...
09:10 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Car sales in India are forecast to grow between 3 per cent and 5 per cent in the current financial year, an industry body said on Wednesday, following the first drop in sales in a decade in 2012/13. Sales of trucks and buses are seen growing 7-9 per cent in 2013/14 which began on April 1, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said. Motorcycle sales are seen growing...
12:30 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Car sales in India fell an annual 6.7 per cent in the financial year that ended in March, their first fall in a decade, and sales during March fell an annual 22.5 per cent, the fifth consecutive monthly slide, an industry body said on Wednesday. Automakers sold 180,675 cars in India in March, according to data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), as sluggish economic growth...
11:04 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Pratapgarh: The CBI team, probing murder of Kunda DSP Zia-ul Haq, on Tuesday recovered the motorcycle which was allegedly used in the murder of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav. The recovery was made after intense grilling of two brothers--Ajay Pal and Vijay Pal, both sons of Kamta Pal who is also a suspect in Yadav's killing, CBI sources said. The trio had allegedly shot dead Balipur village head over a...
02:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Chennai: Two and three-wheeler maker TVS Motor Company has signed a "cooperation agreement" with German auto-maker BMW Motorcycles' division BMW Motorrad to develop and produce a new series of motorcycles in the below 500 cc segment. "TVS Motor Company and BMW Motorrad have signed a long term cooperation agreement. The aim of the cooperation is to join forces to develop and produce a new series of motorcycles that will cater...
09:19 AM, Apr 09, 2013
