C J Roy, founder and chairman of real estate firm Confident Group, died by suicide in Bengaluru. The incident occurred amidst ongoing Income Tax searches at his premises. Family alleges pressure from a central agency may have contributed to his death.
The deceased identified as J R Philemon, native of Senapti district in Manipur, was found dead in room no 171 of the Brahmaputra Hostel, police said.
A 23-year-old woman in Rajasthan allegedly conspired with her lover and accomplices to murder her husband just three months after their marriage.
A senior Pakistani investigator probing graft charges involving Premier Raja Pervez Ashraf was found dead in mysterious circumstances at his official accommodation in Islamabad on Friday, police said, amid reports that he was "under pressure" due to the high-profile case.
A man-made forest created by Padma Shri awardee Jadav Payeng, known as 'Forest Man of India', was substantially damaged after miscreants set it on fire. An investigation has been ordered.
According to Inspector General of Police K P Singh, Mahant Giri's body was found hanging from the ceiling by his disciples. A purported suicide note of seven-eight pages was also found at the site in which the seer had written that he was mentally disturbed and was ending his life.
'We don't know the cause of death. We will know it later after post mortem'
The incident took place overnight and was reported to police by Kumar's colleagues.
Bharat Borge, the mechanic whose timely discovery that there were pebbles and mud in the gear box of Anil Ambani's helicopter, was found dead beside railway tracks in suburban Andheri in Mumbai under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday.
Colorado Rockies president Keli McGregor was found dead in his Salt Lake City hotel room on Tuesday, the team said.
The decomposed body of the 31-year-old actor was found on Friday evening after neighbours complained of a foul smell emanating from her apartment, an official said.
The student was identified as 24-year-old Sudheer Reddy Satti.
According to media reports, Ashish Prabhakar, 42, an additional Superintendent of Police, allegedly shot himself with his revolver. The police have found the woman's mobile phone and are trying to identify her.
Constable Javaid Ahmad was found dead by the roadside at Sehpora in the neighbouring Kulgam district
Carradine played Kwai Chang Caine in smash hit 1970s TV series Kung Fu, and regained his iconic glory recently when he played titular villain Bill in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies.
A suicide note was recovered, indicating remorse and prompting further investigation into the circumstances.
The body of Minu Banik was recovered from the old MLA's hostel number 101, which is occupied by SP MLA Laskar.
The deaths are being investigated as a homicide by the Los Angeles police department, with reports indicating that the couple was stabbed to death.
A woman was found dead in a room of the Manora hostel for Members of Legislative Assembly on the Free Press Journal Road in south Mumbai on Saturday night, police said on Monday. According to the Cuffe Parade police, the deceased Rupali Andhare, 27, was the niece of Dilip Dhaigunde, who is the personal assistant to Nationalist Congress Party MLA Babanrao Shinde.
NYPD sources are reported to have said sleeping pills were found at the scene, but no suicide note.
A New York Police Department spokesman said the Australian-born actor had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment, which is believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.
Detectives said three people of Indian descent were known to be living in the house located in the suburb of Clayton South. At the time of fire it is believed that two boys aged five and 10 and their 37-year-old mother were there.
The son of Max Mosley, president of Formula One's governing body, has been found dead at his home in London, a police source said on Wednesday. Alexander Mosley, 39, an economist, was discovered by a relative on Tuesday at his house in the Notting Hill area of west London, the Sun said on its website.
Hans Raj College in New Delhi was closed on Wednesday after a visually impaired student hailing from Agra was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hostel room in the campus.
The body of one of the nine workers trapped inside a coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district was recovered by army divers on Wednesday on the third day of the rescue operations, officials said.
Iqra Qureshi, an elusive drug operator in Dongri, becomes the NCB's prime target after confessions expose her as the key figure in a mephedrone network. Despite months of surveillance, she remains a step ahead of the authorities. A sudden tip-off leads to a raid on her home, where officers recover a significant drug consignment and arrest her-though her composure hints the story may not truly end there.
Exactly five days after he was named as the key accused Chief Medical Officer Dr B P Singh's murder case in Lucknow, jailed deputy chief medical officer Dr Y S Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail on Wednesday evening.
A prominent Pakistani journalist who went missing over the weekend, was found dead in Punjab province on Tuesday and his body bore marks of torture, police said.
A couple was lynched by a mob in West Bengal's Nadia district after the body of a child was found. The mob suspected the couple of involvement in the minor's death and also vandalized their property. Police are investigating both the murder of the boy and the lynching of the couple.
The Australian police are hunting the killer of a three-year-old Indian toddler who was found dead after he went missing from his Melbourne house.
A 61-year-old Indian man was found dead under an overpass bridge in Melbourne with stab wounds, a report stated on Monday.
A 26-year-old Indian employee at an IT firm, who was accused of murdering an American woman, was found dead after he allegedly committed suicide due to suspected drug overdose at a New Jersey hotel.
Tension gripped Shopian on Wednesday after a member of a group, who was spearheading the agitation against the rape and murder of two women in May, was found dead.
Chaitanya was working in Cognizant Technologies on a Southeast Airlines project.
It was not immediately known how Arya, a 2008-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, died.
Head Constable Gaviri Ram of 138 battalion was found lying in a pool of blood inside his barrack in the BSF camp Khanetar top area of Poonch district, officials said.
The Centre and the Union Territory of Ladakh administration have accused jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk of attempting to instigate Gen Z for protests, drawing parallels to unrest in Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Arab Spring.
The Bombay High Court has questioned the length of the Mumbai police's inquiry into the death of Disha Salian, former celebrity manager, who died in 2020. The court has asked why the inquiry is still ongoing after five years and has directed the police to produce the post mortem report and provide copies of statements to the petitioner, Disha Salian's father.
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