A woman allegedly in an inebriated condition rammed her car into a police jeep and a bike, killing one person and leaving five traffic policemen injured. 27-year-old Nooriya Haveliwala, a beautician by profession, lost control over her car and hit the police jeep and bike at Marine Drive in south Mumbai, police said.
Maoists on Thursday blew up a police jeep, killing a policeman and injuring four others at Jaranga village in Jharkhand's Khunti district. Inspector-General of Police V Deshmukh said the jeep overturned under the impact of the blast. He ruled out the possibility of a landmine causing the blast. All the injured victims have been admitted to a hospital in Ranchi. The Maoists also blew up a middle school, Anant Madhya Vidyala, at Pratappur in Chatra district.
Four jawans of the Central Industrial Force were killed and two others injured when their jeep was blown up in a landmine blast triggered by the Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, the police said.
'My brave JCO managed to get to the gun, sit on top of the dead man and fired away at the attacking aircraft till they melted away into the darkness.'
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In shabby backyards and dusty barns, in deserted fields and thick forests, Dieter Klein roams strange and isolated places to find once gleaming vehicles left to rust and ruin. From a dented Porsche to a faded Cadillac, a battered VW Beetle to a whole fleet of abandoned military jeeps, Klein's subjects creak with bygone glamour and might. As moss and gnarled branches transform motors into eerie artifacts, Klein's award-winning automobile photography is not only a tribute to classic cars, but also to the transformative power of nature and the enduring intrigue of people and incidents unknown. The mesmerising results appear in stunning new coffee table book Lost Wheels - The Nostalgic Beauty of Abandoned Cars, which is out next month. Scroll down to see some of the wonderful pieces.
Thomas G K shares pictures from a trip to Wayanad.
'With the Chinese behemoth having revved up into a menacing juggernaut, with the US administration indulging Pakistan with billions to buy choicest weapons, our haemorrhaging armed forces are crying to be outfitted with lethal weaponry. Antony has to find ways to bridle red tape and to fast-track acquisitions and upgrades before it is too late.'
Unidentified gunmen riding on motorcycles ambushed an army vehicle in the Pakistani capital on Thursday, unleashing a hail of bullets that killed a brigadier and his guard and injured another soldier, in the latest in a wave of deadly attacks targeting the security forces
Saurabh Pandey of fotokatha shares some stunning pics he clicked during his visit to Kenya's beautiful game reserve Maasai Mara.
Three students were killed while 36 others injured when a school bus fell into a drain after colliding with a jeep near Thatha village on Tuesday morning.
Close to half a dozen more three-row premium mid-size models are expected to hit the road over the next two years.
The compact segment where Sonet will be launched is crowded with the Maruti Vitara and Brezza, which top the sales' list, and a bevy of models from Mahindra & Mahindra apart from Hyundai's offering. But volumes in this are slightly higher than those in the mid-segment, making it attractive, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
There were conflicting reports about some CBI officers being arrested.
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The Uttar Pradesh government grappled on Monday with the aftermath of violence during a farmers protest in Lakhimpur Kheri, lodging a case against Union minister Ajay Mishra's son, promising a probe by a retired high court judge and stopping opposition leaders from reaching the trouble spot.
Among the killed are eight constables and two head constables of Mizoram police, deployed in anti-Naxal operation, the driver of the jeep and a teenager who was also in the vehicle when it was ambushed.
A youth slapped Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was riding an open jeep, in full public view in Panipat this evening and was taken into custody immediately.
When asked if his Twitter account is still active, Rawal said, "It's active, but it's blocked kind of a thing. The moment I delete the tweet it'll be active."
Abdullah, 27, was the passenger of the burning explosives-laden jeep, which was allegedly driven by Indian Kafeel Ahmed into the Glasgow Airport last Saturday.
Akhtaruzzaman Elias's The Raincoat describes the effect of the 1971 war on a college and on one of its teachers in particular.
Claiming that the BJP is "planning to change Bengal into Gujarat", she said, "I am ready to go to jail but will not allow it to happen."
'I always feel that to shake up human beings, you have to go a little extreme.'
'While narrating a scene to Amitji, Akshay and Tusshar, they learnt that Aishwarya was not the heroine opposite Akshay as they had presumed.' 'She had a negative role.' 'They were shocked, more so when they learnt that she didn't know this.' '"Shooting will stop midway, she won't do the film", I was warned.'
The 2021 census will be conducted through a mobile phone application, moving away from the traditional pen and paper.
'Approach people with respect, mindful that they know their job better than you do, and that you're not superior to them just because you may be better educated or their boss.' Skoda Auto VW India MD Gurpratap S Boparai cites his management credo to Pavan Lall.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com visited many polling booths in Varanasi on polling day. This is what he discovered.
There is a total of 590,000 private and commercial diesel vehicles registered with Delhi Transport Department and out of them, there are 121,000 commercial vehicles and 161,000 private vehicles including cars, jeep, tractors, which are more than 10 years old
Those killed included three couples and three children, superintendent of police B L Sujata Rao said.
Two government school teachers, including a woman, were shot dead by terrorists in Eidgah area of Srinagar amid increasing attacks on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Before Netanyahu, the PM has hosted Japanese premier Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Ahmedabad.
Two alert citizens helped the Mumbai police arrest an assistant sub-inspector of police for the murder of a 40-year-old woman.
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There's a car and bike to match every personality and every budget in 2018, say P Tharyan and Joshua David Luther
The BJP's chief ministerial candidate's pitch has an amateurish feel
The spectator size too has been reduced to 25,000, officials said.
