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
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
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
A man allegedly set his wife on fire for disagreeing with his choice of youth with whom he wanted his daughter to marry, police said on Tuesday. ...
12:59 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Sunderland: Sunderland reacted to the looming prospect of relegation from the English Premier League by firing manager Martin O'Neill on Saturday, hours after a 1-0 loss to Manchester United left the club just a point clear of the bottom three. The optimism from the early part of O'Neill's 15-month reign has disappeared with Sunderland currently on a winless run of eight games, culminating in a limp performance against United at...
09:09 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Washington: Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is sure his company is "very close" to getting its troubled 787 Dreamliner jet back flying again. "We have a high degree of confidence in the technical solution we are testing right now with the FAA," McNerney said on Thursday. "I think it will be sooner than later." Boeing started flight testing a solution to the 787's battery problems on Monday. Those problems led regulators...
07:50 PM, Mar 28, 2013
London: Almost 100 firefighters battled a blaze earlier on Tuesday that engulfed Newington Library at London's Southwark. 15 fire engines spent hours putting out the fire, while no injuries have been reported so far. A probe is still on to find the cause of the fire. More details are awaited. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Bangalore: Six people died in a fire that broke out in a timber yard on the outskirts of Bangalore in the early hours on Monday. The workers had stayed in the factory godown itself after night shift when the tragedy struck, fire brigade sources said. The bodies of five victims were recovered at the spot where they had slept and of another nearby indicating that he might have tried to...
11:57 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Sopore: One civilian is dead and one policeman was critically injured on Sunday in a terrorist shootout in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore district. The incident happened when two police vehicles were passing through Iqbal Market area. The terrorists opened fire at the police officials after they got down from their vehicle on seeing some traffic congestion. One policeman and one civilian received bullet injuries in the shootout. The civilian later...
03:07 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Sopore (Jammu and Kashmir): One policeman and one civilian were critically injured on Sunday in a terrorist shootout in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore district. The incident happened when two police vehicles were passing through Iqbal Market area. The terrorists opened fire at the police officials after they got down from their vehicle on seeing some traffic congestion. One policeman and one civilian received bullet injuries. The attack comes three days...
01:30 PM, Mar 24, 2013
