A school teacher was suspended after a class I student died allegedly because of caning by him, police said on Monday.
Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Thursday demanded registration of a murder case against those responsible for the death of a protesting farmer at the Khanauri border point of Punjab-Haryana.
A BSF head constable was killed in unprovoked firing by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border (IB) in the Ramgarh sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district early Thursday, officials said.
Banda chief judicial magistrate Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, additional chief judicial magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said.
BJP leader from Haryana and actor Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack in Goa, police said on Tuesday.
This is the eighth case of suspected suicide by a coaching student in Kota so far this year, according to the police.
In yet another shocking case of rape in Uttar Pradesh, a 22-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped, forced to drink acid and later strangulated to death in Baheri area in Bareilly.
Ram Prasad, the accused, allegedly carried out the act early on Sunday morning, they said, adding the arrest was made after the post-mortem report found death by strangulation and burns.
"Allah ko pyaari ho gayi meri beti," said Ansaar, whose 11-day-old daughter was among the seven newborns killed in a blaze at a childcare hospital.
The officials of the Delhi Fire Services said the blaze broke out at the children's hospital in Shahdara on Saturday night.
Intense monsoon rains brought normal life to a standstill in several parts of eastern and central Rajasthan, flooding out roads, rail tracks, low-lying residential areas and hospitals and claiming seven lives since Sunday night.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said he was "stunned" over Delhi Police registering a murder case in connection with death of his wife Sunanda a year ago and sought "full information" from the investigators on basis of which the conclusion was arrived at.
While Mahipal's family is blaming the death on vaccination, the authorities cited an autopsy report to say that he suffered from a cardiac disease.
One of the high points of the proceedings was when Indrani Mukerjea's lawyer smartly utilised Dr Zeba Khan's expert status to pose her A Most Curious Question. He asked her if a skull can grow new teeth, even after the person, who it belonged to, had died, three years before. We can be sure that the discrepancy between the number of teeth discovered in the skull unearthed in 2012 and the skull shown in court in September 2019 will come up soon in Courtroom No 51. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora Murder Trial.
Sardar Sooran Singh, the Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was assassinated in Pir Baba area of Buner district.
Two empty bottles of a cough syrup were found in a Goa apartment, where a start-up CEO allegedly killed her minor son, indicating she may have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him in signs of a premeditated murder, even as she was subjected to psychological test to assess her mental state and help find the motive for the gruesome crime, the police said on Wednesday.
A day after a Bharatiya Janata Party delegation met President Ram Nath Kovind seeking dismissal of the Mamata Banerjee government over the "political murder" of a party MLA, the West Bengal chief minister wrote a latter to him claiming the saffron party might have presented "distorted facts".
Bhadur Singh (17), a resident of Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh, was found dead in his room in Mahaveer Nagar-II on Friday night and his body was recovered from the room on Saturday morning, they said.
Suffering from Parkinson's disease and a host of other medical ailments, Swamy, who was then 83-year-old, was remanded to judicial custody following his arrest.
Dhillon told reporters that IPS Section 304 slapped against the Nihang could be converted into Section 302 (murder) following further investigation.
Aashifa had recently eloped with her partner Chand Babu, a resident of the same village, Mishra said.
'We can save 70 patients out of 100, if they reach a hospital well within time.' 'The most crucial aspect is time.'
A man allegedly killed his 23-year-old wife here and left their two-year-old son locked in a room with the body lying in a pool of blood before jumping to death from a metro station in Ghaziabad, police said on Monday.
India on Wednesday asked its acting high commissioner in Islamabad to seek a meeting with the Pakistan foreign office in connection with the death of an Indian under mysterious circumstances in a jail there.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday announced compensation and jobs to the kin of the three civilians who were found dead in Poonch district as a massive search operation was underway to track down terrorists behind the recent ambush on two Army vehicles that left five soldiers dead.
The state government submitted the first post-mortem report of 20 people, who were killed in police firing in Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district on April 7.
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.
While the protesters alleged that the worker died in police firing, police have denied the charge.
There were no signs of 'rigor mortis'. I think they died 1.30-2 hours before they were brought here. Their post-mortem has been conducted, Dr Narendra Sengar told ANI.
Union minister Gopinath Munde's liver was ruptured in the road accident and he suffered a cardiac arrest due to shock, as per preliminary post-mortem report by a team of doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
England will have to make some tough decisions about the futures of some of their most decorated senior players after they were ruthlessly exposed by Australia in a 15-day Ashes capitulation.
Violence broke out on Sunday near Kallakurichi as protesters demanding justice over the death of a girl student went on a rampage setting fire to vehicles and indulged in stone pelting, in which police personnel also became the target.
Refusing to comment on the controversy stirred by a senior AIIMS forensic doctor's allegation that he was pressured to manipulate the postmortem report of Sunanda Pushkar, former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Thursday merely said that it was up to the investigators "to sort it out"
A psychological autopsy attempts to explain why a person has taken his life by analyzing medical records, interviewing friends and family and conducting research into his state of mind prior to death, say experts.
It has also sought a status report from the state government on 183 "police encounters" that have taken place since 2017.
A three-member team of senior doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences IN Mumbai on Saturday began post-mortem on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, even as the police continued to probe various angles including suicide in the case.
The accused has been identified as Harsh Sahay Gurjar and was held from Ganganagar in Sawai Madhopur district
Extending its winning run in the south, the Congress on Sunday won 64 assembly seats to form government in the Bharat Rashtra Samiti-dominated Telangana, with the southern solace coming in the midst of a saffron sweep of the Hindi heartland where the Bharatiya Janata Party wrested two states from the grand old party and retained one.
The victim, a Mumbai resident and a Class 7 student, had to knock the doors of the apex court as the law prohibits the abortion of a foetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
