Five people were injured in a hit-and-run incident at Mumbai's upmarket Versova neighbourhood. The incident occurred around one am Sunday night when a Mercedes car mowed down people on a pavement. ...
08:46 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Bangalore: The High Court on Thursday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to demolish illegal toilets constructed on the footpath of 3rd Cross, Sudhamanagar (ward 118) near Lalbagh saying footpaths were meant for pedestrians and not for toilets and transformers. During the hearing of a petition filed by resident Sunita Devi, in front of whose house the toilets have come up, Justice Ram Mohan Reddy said, How many toilets have...
05:03 PM, Aug 31, 2012
"Want to review some queer fiction?" "Sure", I said, and that's how I got reading Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor. But the book defeats easy stereo-typing and it's as much about queers as Hum Aapke Ke Hain Kaun! is about Hindus. Yes, there are plenty of them in the film but that's not the point is it? To my mind, what Six Metres of Pavement is mostly about,...
12:34 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Kolkata: A woman died in Kolkata soon after giving birth to twins on a pavement after she was allegedly denied admission by, not one, but two government-run hospitals. The incident occurred on Thursday night. The first infant was born outside the Chittaranjan Sevasadan nursing home in Haazra. The 40-year-old victim then made her way to Sambhunath Pandit Hospital where she was allegedly turned away again. It was on the way...
08:10 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Melbourne: Veteran Australia pacer Brett Lee believes India have lost the mental edge this summer and his team can take full advantage of the tourists' slump by preventing them from getting on board in any format. India were blanked 0-4 in Tests and also lost the first of the two Twenty20s on Wednesday. Lee said given the seemingly low morale of the visitors, the Aussies will continue to come hard...
03:21 PM, Apr 18, 2008
Pavement dwellers continue to be at the mercy of night-time drivers in Mumbai. ...
02:54 PM, Sep 14, 2007
Allister Pereira who was charged with running his car over seven people sleeping on a Mumbai pavement in suburban Bandra last year, was held guilty of causing the death by rash and negligent driving. ...
02:35 PM, Apr 13, 2007
Ravindra Kontrale, the dreaded killer who would leave behind a beer can at every murder spot is being interrogated by police. ...
12:27 PM, Feb 22, 2007
Pavement dwellers in Mumbai fear for their lives and can't sleep anymore because of the beer can killer. ...
09:12 AM, Jan 14, 2007
Just a week after the hit and run incident at Carter Road, Mumbai witnessed two more road tragedies on Sunday night. ...
01:20 AM, Nov 20, 2006
