The army, with the help of locals, on Thursday brought the bodies of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others from Keyla, where the helicopter with five on board crashed on Saturday last.
"The death was caused due to asphyxia but the cause of that cannot be confirmed until the forensic report is received," he told mediapersons, adding that the entire autopsy was videographed. A team of doctors performed the autopsy at Royapettah Hospital for nearly three hours starting 10 am.
Paliwal was riding her Harley Davidson on a nationwide tour along with fellow biker Dipesh Tanwar.
The Delhi Police have recovered Alprax tablets -- an antidepressant -- from the hotel room in which Sunanda Pushkar was found dead. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A Swiss skier was killed and two others wounded by an avalanche in the north Kashmir's ski resort Gulmarg on Friday afternoon.
Team India's performance in recent ICC events resembles a Bollywood blockbuster, predictable to the core -- high on hope, low on scope. The WT20 was just another one.
Violence erupted in parts of summer capital Srinagar following the death of a class 12 student in Friday's violent clashes between protestors and security forces in old city.
An Indian lecturer was found dead in southern Nigeria's Benin City after he had gone for a trek, and is suspected to have died of exhaustion.
Lovely Varughese, the mother of Pravin Varughese, 19, a student at the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, filed a civil suit against Gaege Bethune, 22, the last person to see Pravin alive, the City of Carbondale and Police Chief Jodi O'Guinn demanding compensation in excess of $1 million (Rs 10,00,000)from each.
The much-awaited autopsy has failed to determine the cause of death of three-year-old Indian boy Gurshan Singh, whose body was found in Melbourne after he went missing from his house, the Australian police said.
According to the information shared by Uttar Pradesh Police with the CBI, the witness, named Yunus, who ran a general merchant shop in Makhi village, where the MLA and the victim lived, was allegedly not well for sometime.
The special investigation team (SIT) probing the Shopian rape and murder case Thursday evening raided the Pulwama district hospital and seized vital records.
The police has sent the body of Dharmendar Singh for a post-mortem. He is believed to be between 30-35 years old. "The cause of the death will only be known after autopsy is done. The police is investigating the cause behind the death," a police official told PTI.
Pop icon Michael Jackson had a lethal amount of Propofol, a powerful anaesthetic, in his system which may have caused his sudden death, according to leaked toxicology results.
Amid growing speculation over the cause of Michael Jackson's death, a doctor who lived with the 'king of pop' has gone missing, a report said today.
The Central Reserve Police Force on Thursday said it has ordered an inquiry into the shocking recovery of uniforms, suspected to be that of troopers martyred in a recent Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh, in a garbage dump near a hospital in state capital Raipur.
The bodies of Nelofar Jan (22) and Asiya Jan (17), who had been working in their farm, were recovered from a local stream on Saturday morning. Villagers allege that duo was killed after being raped by security forces.
In a new turn to the infamous Shopian rape-and-murder case, the gynaecologist, who was part of the team that conducted the second autopsy of the two women, has told the Central Bureau of Investigation that she did not collect vaginal swabs from the victims.
A worker has died in a "work-related fatality" at the site of a 2022 World Cup stadium in Qatar, the country's World Cup organizing body said late on Saturday.
The guidelines are being drafted to dispel any misconception and raise awareness regarding spread of the disease from a deceased
A three-year-old boy and his 30-year-old father were gunned down by militants in the Pehlipora Dinaro village in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday night.
The incident took place early morning in Soorwal police station area when the bus was on its way to Lalsot from Sawai Madhopur.
Michael Jackson's autopsy reports suggest the singer may have been suffering from an eating disorder.
Six persons were arrested in Namakkal on Thursday in connection with the death of a Dalit engineer, whose body was found on the railway track near Pallipallayam in the district on June 27, police said.
The minor was beaten by a cop for riding his bicycle without permission.
Dr. Ere Shesiah, chief consultant pathologist of the Jamaican government, told an inquest that Bob Woolmer "died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation associated with Cypermethrinide poisoning".
The accused was charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, carjacking, unlawful possession of a handgun and possession of a handgun for unlawful purpose.
Amid a growing controversy over the death of MBA graduate Ranbir Singh at the hands of the Uttarakhand police, his autopsy report on Sunday revealed that he was shot at close range and may have been tortured, and his family demanded a CBI probe into the killing.The report showed that the body of 22-year-old Singh, who was gunned down by the police on Friday, bore 12 marks of bullets fired from close range and 27 other injuries, suggesting that he may have been tortured.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi is now gone. But the mass appeal of fundamentalism among Pakistan's burgeoning, young, illiterate, unemployed and angry population isn't, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The incident, which came months after the lynching of dairy farmer Pehlu Khan by suspected cow vigilantes in Alwar, has triggered an outrage.
A senior police officer said Abdul Rashid Raina, a resident of Pahalgam was shot by the soldiers after failing to respond to the army guard's direction and running away.
Philip Alston, a United Nations human rights expert has said that the trial of six 'alien unlawful enemy combatants' at the Guantanamo Bay under the Military Commission Act fails to meet the basic due process standards required for a fair trial under international humanitarian and human rights law.
A seven-member Pakistan judicial commission on Saturday arrived in Attari in Punjab to cross examine witnesses in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case.
Tarishi, according to the minister, was 19-years-old. She passed out from American School Dhaka. Presently, she was a student at Berkeley.
Dr Silvano Sapeco, a forensic expert in the state-owned Goa Medical College and hospital, was suspended on Monday from the Scarlett murder case investigation. The state government felt there was a mistake on his part, Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane told PTI this morning, refusing to elaborate on the 'mistake'. Scarlett's bruised corpse was found on Goa's popular Anjuna beachfront on February 18.Sapeco did not express the possibility of homicidal drowning.
The family's disappearance coincided with reports that a vehicle had sunk into the Eel River in Northern California.
A heavily pregnant woman and her husband have become latest victims of suspected honour killing in Pakistan, just a day after another pregnant woman was killed by her own mother in the same Punjab province for contracting marriage against parents' will.
Three persons allegedly seen last with 15-year-old British tourist, Scarlette Keeling, who was raped and murdered are likely to be arrested. The Goa police say that three persons had been detained and are being questioned. The police initially said Scarlette drowned to death, but the two autopsy reports stated that she was sexually assaulted.
The boy had been knocked down by a vehicle near Karpur Gate in Anekal on Sunday evening and when his father, a migrant labourer from Assam, took him to the Anekal government hospital, he was declared "brought dead", police said.
The report of the first autopsy conducted on Scarlette at the Goa Medical College indicates that the British tourist was sexually assaulted and it is a case of homicidal drowning. Sources say this fact was hushed up and to the public it was reported as a case of death by drowning. It is learnt that the case was being hushed up as it would affect tourism in Goa. Tourism is considered to be the back bone of Goan economy.
