Coimbatore: A fire at Axis Bank in Avinashi near Coimbatore has left four people dead. All four dead were women employees of the bank. The bank was on the third floor and there was no emergency exit at the bank. The fire has been doused and the situation was brought under control. The cause of the fire is not known yet, but a short circuit is suspected. ...
12:52 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Chennai: As many as 10 Indian films, including those in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali, will be screened at the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival, starting in South Korea on Thursday. Nine films, including Tamil movies 'Neerparavai' and 'Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai', three Hindi movies, Hansal Mehta's 'Shahid', Ajay Bahl's 'B A Pass' and Ashim Ahluwalia's 'Miss Lovely', one Malayalam film 'Color of Sky', directed by Bijukuma Damodaran and one Bengali...
12:33 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday made a series of announcements to strengthen the state police. The announcements include annual recruitment of personnel for police and fire services departments, construction for their housing, creation of youth brigade, extension of closed user group telephony facility to family members, residential school for children and others measures. Jayalalithaa also announced hike in food allowances to Rs 200 from Rs 85...
05:58 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Hyderabad: The body of a Andhra Pradesh Police officer killed by Maoists in the forests of Chhattisgarh following a gunfight on Tuesday was brought to the state's Khammam district on Saturday night. The body of Vara Prasad, reserve inspector of Greyhounds, the elite anti-Maoist force of Andhra Pradesh Police was brought to Cherla police station near the border with Chhattisgarh. The officer's body, which had decomposed beyond recognition, was secured...
02:59 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Watertown: There were reports of gunfire and explosions as a manhunt was on for the killer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in the Watertown area near Boston in the United States early on Friday morning. A massive police operation was on in the area following the reports of shooting at MIT campus. The chaos in Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, occurred just hours after a...
11:34 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Mumbai: City police on Sunday booked a man alongwith his parents for allegedly setting his 24-year-old wife afire over dowry demands. A case has been registered against one Manoj Gupta, a vegetable vendor and his parents, who live in Goregaon, for allegedly setting his wife, Anju, afire after she failed to meet their dowry demands, police said. Soon after their marriage about a year ago, Manoj started demanding Rs 8...
01:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Washington: On the brink of an expected North Korean missile test, US officials focused on the limits of Pyongyang's nuclear firepower on Friday, trying to shift attention from the disclosure that the North Koreans might be able to launch a nuclear strike. They insisted that while the unpredictable government might have rudimentary nuclear capabilities, it has not proved it has a weapon that could reach the United States. A senior...
07:20 AM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Two people, including a child, died on Friday when a massive fire broke out at a slum area in Delhi's Bawana region. Angry locals targeted police officials, who had reached the spot to tender assistance. 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and have finally contained the fire. Five people have been injured in the fire, which took place near an industrial area. Police said over a...
06:09 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: One child has died in the massive fire that broke out at a slum area in Delhi's Bawana region on Friday. Angry locals targeted police officials, who had reached the spot to tender assistance. 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and have finally contained the fire. Five people have been injured in the fire, which took place near an industrial area. Police said over a hundred...
05:16 PM, Apr 12, 2013
A fire broke out at Bawana slum clusters in Delhi on Friday gutting several hutments. Twenty-fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the site immediately to douse the blaze. ...
03:52 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: A fire broke out at Bawana slum clusters in Delhi on Friday gutting several hutments. Twenty-fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the site immediately to douse the blaze. A team of police has also reached the spot. Initial reports said a loud sound was heard before the fire broke out indicating that an LPG cylinder blast could be the cause of the mishap. Officials, however, said the cause...
02:36 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: Police on Monday arrested two more people in connection with a seven-storey building collapse in Thane in which 74 people lost their lives. Police arrested Farookh Abdul Latif Chapra and Rafiq Daud Kamdar, taking the number of people arrested in the case to nine. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal...
11:06 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Khagaria: Three children were killed when a fire broke out in hutments in Bihar's Khagaria district, police said on Monday. The fire broke out Sunday night in a kitchen and soon spread to other hutments, destroying over 100 thatched huts, Circle Officer Pradeep Sinha said. The children who were killed in the blaze were identified as Anchal Kumari (3), Manisha Kumari (3) and Jitan Kumar (7). The damaged caused by...
11:47 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: Thane Commissioner of Police KP Raghuvanshi on Sunday said that nine people have been arrested in the building collapse that led to death of 74 people and injured over 60 and sent to police custody till April 20. Raghuivanshi also said that one of the builders was nabbed in UP and the other in Thane. "We have also arrested some public servants who were involved in this. The builders...
03:48 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The police have now arrested one more person including two builders, the local corporator, an Assistant Sub Inspector, a Suspended Deputy Commissioner and also an Assistant Commissioner of the Thane Municipality in the Thane building collapse. The eight people have been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act and for criminal conspiracy in the tragedy which led to death of 73 people. They eight accused were produced in court...
01:42 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: The four-year-old miracle survivor of Thursday's Daighar building crash in Thane finally opened her eyes to harsh reality on Sunday, and cried, much to the relief of surviving relatives and siblings, doctors said. The victim, Sandhya Thakur, had been unable to open her eyes, swollen with dust, watering and psychological trauma, after the seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday. She had spent several hours under the debris before rescuers dug...
12:21 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: The medium range, nuclear capable surface-to-surface Agni-II missile was on Sunday successfully test-fired with a strike range of more than 2,000 km from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. "The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher from the Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range (ITR) at around 10:20 am," defence sources said. "Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) has already been inducted into...
11:26 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: Seven people including the two builders were arrested on Saturday, three days after after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Thane. Seventy three people have died and more than 60 injured in Maharashtra's worst ever building collapse in decades. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal Commissioner,...
08:09 AM, Apr 07, 2013
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
