Three children were on Wednesday injured when a crude bomb dumped in a garbage heap went off, triggering panic in Allahabad, where a powerful explosion had claimed five lives less than a month ago. The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon in Daraganj police station area, a stone's throw from the famous Nagvasuki temple.
An army jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at Mehdipatnam Garrison area in Hyderabad on Monday, the police said. Appala Raju, Lance Naik, shot himself with his service rifle at around 4 am, a senior police officer attached to Special Branch of Hyderabad city police said.
Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti, a media report said on Tuesday.
'Will the MCA brutes have the gumption to say how Shah Rukh Khan was abused and provoked into reacting and the kind of language they used to start the fracas?' Sukhminder Lamba asked. 'The abuses used by them, if ever revealed, will have hell breaking loose.'
'Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the ill-fated aircraft have been retrieved. AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau) is conducting investigations,' Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, as fresh questions were raised on the safety parameters of the runway.
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, one of the well known psychiatrists in Chennai and the founder-trustee of Sneha, a voluntary centre for suicide prevention, answers some of these questions raised by the murder of a teacher by a student in Chennai.
Neighbours calling police claimed they heard the man chanting Islamist slogans.
A 16-year-old boy was abducted and murdered allegedly by three of his friends, including two minors, who had demanded a ransom of Rs 50,000 after being inspired by a crime-based TV serial.
In the incident caught on camera, the boy lay bleeding in agonising pain for about 25 minutes before he was rushed to a hospital nearby.
A 16-year-old boy was allegedly thrashed by a group of boys, stripped naked and subjected to unnatural sex in southwest Delhi's Inderpuri area. The incident took place on Monday, but it was reported to the police yesterday, following which four persons have been arrested, a police official said.
Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat-trick as rampant Manchester United beat Wigan Athletic 5-0 to go level on points with Manchester City after the Premier League leaders were held 0-0 at West Bromwich Albion on Monday.
Concerned over reaching school late due to traffic snarls caused by an under-construction flyover, an eight-year-old boy in Bengaluru wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose office directed the concerned department to look into the issue.
Over 260 policemen were also injured, of whom 57 received gunshot wounds, IG (Law and Order) Praveen Kumar said on Saturday.
For this dispensation, ideas are dangerous. Those who propagate liberalism and democratic traditions are even more dangerous, observes Rashme Sehgal.
'For the Tamil Nadu protestors to openly ask popular film actor Vijay Sethupathi not to don Murali in 800 is a travesty in every sense. It may have given them a cause to tell the world, and the governments in New Delhi, Colombo and Chennai, that the Sri Lankan ethnic issue was still alive in the state -- more so, during the current run-up to two major events in the first half of 2021,' says N Sathiya Moorthy.
In a security scare, a youth carrying a pistol on Thursday attempted to enter a ground where Rahul Gandhi was addressing a public meeting and was detained by police.
Three teenagers arrested in connection with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in the United Kingdom were on Friday released on bail even as the police apologized to the family that it came to know about the incident not from them but from Facebook.
Slamming Tarun Gogoi for the police firing in Guwahati on June 22 in which a 9-year-old boy was killed, social activist Swami Agnivesh on Thursday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should 'embarrass' the Assam chief minister by taking out a padayatra in Guwahati. "Just as Rahul Gandhi has undertaken a padayatra in Uttar Pradesh to embarrass (Chief Minister) Mayawati, the prime minister who represents Assam in Parliament should go on a padayatra here".
Selectors might be forced to axe Ricky Ponting or Mike Hussey from the Australian cricket team for the upcoming four Tests against India after their dismal show in the just-concluded series with New Zealand, feels former captain Allan Border.
Clinical psychologist Sadia Raval talks about what drives young teenagers today to take drastic steps like killing their family members to support their lifestyle.
A 13-year old boy was shot dead by the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in an alleged case of mistaken identity in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, official sources said in Guwahati.
At least two persons including a nine-year-old boy were killed and several others injured when police opened fire to control a mob of protestors who went on a rampage on the arterial Guwahati-Shillong Road near Assam's capital complex at Dispur on Wednesday.
Two persons were killed in the violence, which also left more than 60 people, including police personnel, injured.
An 11-year-old boy was killed and 35 other students were injured, some of them seriously, when a soil-carrying truck skidded off the road and rammed into a school at Dhamangaon on Sinnar-Ghoti road in the district around noon on Wednesday.
A day after picking up five people for questioning, the police have prepared a sketch of the man who sent an email from Kashmir's Kishtwar district, claiming responsibility for the Delhi high court blast. As per the description provided by the detained people, including the cyber cafe owner, the sender is a 17-18 year old boy, and the police are hopeful of tracking the suspect soon.
Deepti Patwardhan visited Budapest and was mighty amused by the Children's Railway, which as it turns out is not a train for kids but rather one that is run by them!
The bodies have been recovered from the encounter site where the search operation was still in progress
A middle-school student allegedly committed suicide in Murshidabad district of West Bengal by consuming pesticide after his father, a farmer, could not afford to buy him an expensive mobile of his choice.
Six persons, including a 12-year old boy, were injured in twin bomb blasts at a market complex in Imphal, officials said on Thursday.
The Gujarat forest department has advised tourists and locals against taking "selfie with lions" to discourage them from getting dangerously close to the wild animal and putting their lives at risk, an official said.
Bonhomie replaced an atmosphere of shock and anger in the house of Gulrez Khan alias Vickky, after Supreme Court scrapped a section 66A of IT Act.
In a strong reaction to attacks on African nationals, heads of African missions in India termed the incidents as "xenophobic and racial" and asserted that no known, sufficient and visible deterring measures have been taken by the government.
A five-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from outside his residence in Mumbai's suburban Kandivali early this month, has been rescued from Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday.
With some army personnel coming under scanner over the killing of a 13-year-old boy in Chennai, Army Chief General V K Singh on Wednesday promised strong action against anybody found guilty. However, he said the entire force should not be defamed if any individual is suspected.
A 13-year-old boy was shot at allegedly by army personnel when he trespassed into their area at the Island Grounds locality on Sunday, triggering protests from locals. Police said Dilshan has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a government hospital.
This is the fourth death this year caused by vehicles skidding on potholes on the Jawhar-Dahanu road.
Life in Srinagar and other major towns was affected by a shutdown called by the hard-line separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani to coincide with the first death anniversary of a student killed by a tear smoke shell hit in old city last year.
For this 18-year-old boy, his handicap is just another motivating factor. Crippled by a wrong diagnosis of his polio and its subsequent medication by a village doctor when he was just one-year-old, Gulshan Kumar has come a long way.
The death toll is feared to rise with women and children casualties in the deadly blast.
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