Economy grew only by 4.5 per cent in the October-December period of the current financial year, pulled down by poor performance of farm, manufacturing and mining sectors. The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 6 per cent in the same period of last fiscal. ...
06:28 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader N Chandrababu Naidu suffered minor injuries when a makeshift dais collapsed while he was garlanding a statue in Guntur district Thursday, a party leader has said. The incident took place at Kolakaluru village in Guntur district during Naidu's 'padyatra' (march). ...
03:46 PM, Feb 14, 2013
three-year-old boy from the Ukrainian city of Kharkov fell eight storeys but survived because a huge heap of snow broke his fall, the interior ministry said. ...
02:03 PM, Jan 08, 2013
A BTech student fell to his death from the third floor of a mall in Noida, the police said on Tuesday. 24-year-old Shashank, a student of Galgotia College in Greater Noida, had come to the GIP Mall last evening along with his three friends for a party. ...
11:08 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Palampur: The toll in the bus accident near Malli on the Palampur-Ashapuri road near Palampur rose to 34 on Tuesday with authorities recovering 20 more bodies, police said. Five others, including two women and a child, were seriously injured in the mishap which took place when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus rolled 1000 ft down into a deep gorge on Monday evening. Till late Monday night 14 bodies...
01:29 PM, Sep 11, 2012
London: A man, who is believed to be a stowaway, fell thousands of feet to his death from a Heathrow-bound jet liner on a car parked in a quiet residential street here. A bloodied body of the young man, who crash-landed on the car parked in the street, was found in the Heathrow flight path, police said on Monday. Horrified residents living in west London, just a few miles from...
04:02 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Gurgaon: Police have arrested the owner of the house in which the parents of four-year-old Mahi, who died after falling into an open borewell last month, were staying as tenants. Rohtash Tayal, nabbed on Saturday by the Gurgaon police, is the third person to be arrested in the case. Police had earlier arrested Himmat and Satbir who had dug out another borewell, adjacent to the one in which Mahi fell....
05:45 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Gurgaon: It has been 33 hours since the efforts to have been going on rescue four-year-old Mahi who is stuck in a borewell in Gurgaon. Mahi fell into a borewell in Kho village near Manesar while playing on Thursday night, leading to frantic efforts to rescue her from the 68-feet-deep borewell. "Mahi was celebrating her fourth birthday and was playing with children outside the home near the borewell when she...
09:12 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Gurgaon: A four-year-old girl fell into a 60-feet deep borewell in Gurgaon on Wednesday night. The National Security Guards (NSG) team is carrying out the rescue operation to transport oxygen and water to keep the girl alive and safe. A hole has been dug parallel to the pit where the girl fell and oxygen is being supplied with the help of cylinders. A CCTV has also been installed inside the...
10:44 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Gurgaon: A four-year-old girl fell into a 60-feet deep borewell in Gurgaon on Wednesday night. The incident took place at 11.00 pm and the child is still trapped in the hole. A hole has been dug parallel to the pit where the girl fell and oxygen is being supplied with the help of cylinders. The National Security Guards (NSG) team is carrying out the rescue operation to transport oxygen and...
11:24 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Niagara Falls: Nik Wallenda, a member of the famed "Flying Wallendas" family of aerialists, completed a historic tightrope crossing through the mist over Niagara Falls Gorge on Friday, stepping from a 2-inch wire (5 cm) onto safe ground in Canada to wild cheers from a crowd of thousands. Wallenda made the walk from the US side of the falls to the Canadian side, a journey of 1,800 feet (550 meters)...
11:28 AM, Jun 16, 2012
In a city such as Delhi, your air conditioners should be all-weather but not if you happen to be transferred to Cherrapunjee. You may not ...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
New York: High-wire performer Nik Wallenda announced on Wednesday that June 15 is the day his boyhood dream to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls will become a reality. Wallenda, 33, a seventh-generation member of the famed "Flying Wallendas" family of circus performers, is set to walk a 2-inch (5 cm) cable strung 1,800 feet (550 meters) across Niagara Falls gorge - the first such tight rope feat between the...
10:18 AM, May 03, 2012
The amateur video shows the chopper mysteriously disintegrating even as its blades continued spinning. ...
10:31 AM, Feb 24, 2012
![Over 25 killed as bus plunges down Kashmir gorge]( "Over 25 killed as bus plunges down Kashmir gorge")
The driver lost control of the bus carrying passengers near Ponga Marh, 220 km east of Jammu. ...
10:27 AM, Jul 24, 2010
The collapse, the fourth for a cabinet led by Balkenende in eight years. ...
05:49 PM, Feb 20, 2010
Overcrowded vehicle skidded off the road in Kangra. ...
04:18 PM, Nov 06, 2009
A heavy downpour in the last 24 hours has brought relief to the Mumbaikars. ...
02:40 AM, Jun 27, 2009
Jog Falls are one of the world's top ten UNESCO ecological hot spots. ...
05:06 PM, Aug 10, 2008
