Mumbai: The NDRF said that rescue operation in the tragic Thane building collapse is over and the death toll has gone up to 72 in one of Maharashtra's worst ever building tragedy. More than 60 people have been injured after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Mumbra area on Thursday evening. The builder, the contractor and the supervisor have been charged with culpable homicide. Municipal authorities...
12:54 PM, Apr 06, 2013
More than 24 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still rising. 71 people are reported dead so far. This toll includes 9 boys and 13 girls. ...
12:37 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: In a tragic incident, a family of four including two children was charred to death in Uttam Nagar. Police sources said that prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide. Meanwhile, the neighbours claimed that the family had a financial debt of over Rs 40 lakh. The neighbours informed the police and the fire station after noticing the blaze. The police are now investigating the case....
11:00 AM, Apr 06, 2013
More than 40 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still climbing. Seventy one people are reported dead so far and the toll includes nine boys and 13 girls. More than sixty people have been injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the authorities are assessing the full extent of the tragedy. ...
10:27 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Mathura: The wife of slain soldier Lance Naik Hemraj was duped of Rs 10 lakh on Friday in the presence of her brother-in-law and a relative near a petrol pump in the outskirts of Kosi town area. In her complaint, Dharmvati, the widow of Hemraj said that one Amit Kumar, who claimed that he was an Army officer and sent by the Army Headquarters, approached her at her native Shernagar...
07:50 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: More than 40 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still climbing. Seventy one people are reported dead so far and the toll includes nine boys and 13 girls. More than sixty people have been injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the authorities are assessing the full extent of the tragedy. Thane Municipal authorities have said that the...
07:29 AM, Apr 06, 2013
New York: Boeing Co said it plans to make a test flight later on Friday with its 787 Dreamliner jet, aimed at returning the grounded plane to service after more than two months on the ground. Boeing said the flight is scheduled to depart around 11 am PDT (11:30 pm IST) and last about two hours. The time is subject to change, it said. The flight would gather data for...
11:34 PM, Apr 05, 2013
In one of Maharashtra's worst building collapses in a decade, over 40 people have died and 60 have been injured after a seven-storeyed building in Laxmi Compound in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane, crashed down like a pack of cards into a heap of rubble on Thursday evening. ...
10:08 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New York: Facebook Home, the new application that takes over the front screen of a smartphone, is a bit of a corporate home invasion. Facebook is essentially moving into Google's turf, taking advantage of software the search giant and competitor created. Facebook Home will operate on phones running Google Inc.'s Android software and present Facebook status updates, messages and other content on the home screen, rather than making the user...
04:33 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Munger/Patna: Over 450 houses and shops were gutted and four persons injured in separate incident of fire in Bihar's Munger and Patna districts today, officials said. A major fire broke out in Bahadur Nagar and Kutlupur villages in Munger district gutting 350 houses, while four perons, including a woman and two minor girls, sustained burn injuries, the District Magistrate Kuldeep Narayan said. The cause of the fire was not known...
03:40 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Among those injured in the Thane building collapse is a four-year-old girl, whose parents are yet to be traced. She was rescued by a person who is now taking care of her in the hospital. The man claims she was found with several injuries including on her head and needs a CT scan. The girl is around four to five years of age. Efforts are on to try and...
03:08 PM, Apr 05, 2013
The death toll in the Thane building collapse climbed to 36 - 11 of them children. More people are still trapped in the rubble and lack of equipment is hampering rescue work. ...
12:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Forty one people have died in the Thane building collapse and over 60 were injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. The seven-storied, under-construction illegal building collapsed on Thursday evening. The rescue operations are being hampered due to severe shortage of fire stations in the area, sources said. Sources also added that the fire department is ill-equipped to deal with such a massive a building...
11:41 AM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Are you wondering what is this new term 'Facebook Home'? Here, we simplify it for you. Facebook Home is a new app for Android. It is a new way to turn your Android phone into a social phone. Facebook on Thursday unveiled "Facebook Home" software to place the world's social network front and centre on Android users' smartphones. Home isn't a phone or operating system, and it's also...
10:14 AM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: HTC and Facebook teamed up and launched the HTC First - the first phone with the new Facebook Home app, which was unveiled on Thursday. The idea behind Facebook Home app for Android is to bring content right to you, rather than require people to check apps on the device. The new app gives users latest updates right on their homescreen and messages that reach them no matter...
09:20 AM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Facebook has announced the Facebook Home app for Android, with an idea to bring content right to you, rather than require people to check apps on the device. Android users can download the app from the Google Play store starting April 12. But only six devices - HTC One, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Note II and HTC First will initially support the new...
11:34 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Internet is abuzz with reports that Facebook will unveil a modified version of Google's Android OS, which embeds Facebook deeply into the operating system, on a phone made by HTC, at its "new home on Android" event on April 4. With less than 12 hours to go, and leaked images of the Facebook phone have started hitting the web. Now, 9to5Google has posted images of what it...
11:44 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A fire broke out on Wednesday in a residential complex at Marol in suburban Andheri, fire officials said. The blaze erupted on the 10th floor of the multi-storeyed Raj Paradise building at around 12:20 pm, they said. ...
01:42 PM, Apr 03, 2013
