Thursday, July 5, 2012

Five-year-old boy dies after falling into open sewer near Gurgaon

Five-year-old boy dies after falling into open sewer near Gurgaon


Five-year-old boy dies after falling into open sewer near Gurgaon

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:56 PM PDT

A five-year-old boy died after he fell into an open sewer in Manesar near Gurgaon on Thursday night. The victim, identified as Sumit, was rescued within an hour of falling in the sewer and was rushed ...


Patients suffer in power cut at Rajasthan's biggest government hospital

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:24 PM PDT

Patients today faced a hard time in SMS hospital, the biggest government hospital in the state, following disruption in electricity supply tonight. Three patients of ICU were shifted to another hospit...


Dishonour killing: Delhi man stabbed by wife's brothers

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:07 PM PDT

In a case of dishonour killing, a 21-year-old man was on Thursday stabbed to death by the brothers of his wife. The couple had married against the wishes of the girl's family three months ago, police ...


Delhi wakes up to pre-monsoon showers

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:55 PM PDT

The much awaited rain has brought some relief to the national capital that has been reeling under high temperatures. Parts of Delhi woke up to pre-monsoon showers this morning and the Met department h...


5-year-old boy dies after falling into open sewerage in Gurgaon

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:44 PM PDT

Only two weeks after the death of four-year-old girl Mahi who fell into a borewell, a five-year-old boy also fell to his death tonight in an open sewerage line near Industrial Model Township here.


Three tourists injured in Goa hotel accident

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:45 AM PDT

Three tourists including two Americans were injured after a false ceiling came crashing down upon them at a hotel in Cavelossim village near Panaji. The injuries were not serious and the three dischar...


Train passengers robbed in Bihar

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:40 AM PDT

A group of armed criminals looted cash and valuables worth Rs.3 lakh from passengers on a train in Bihar's Jamui district on Thursday night, injuring over half a dozen people who tried to resist, poli...


Delhi University declares fourth cut-off list

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:57 AM PDT

The Delhi University declared its fourth cut-off list declared on Thursday, showing admissions closed in courses across the board.


Portion of Rajasthan University's science wing collapses

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:15 AM PDT

A portion of a three-storey building that housed the University of Rajasthan's science laboratories for research scholars collapsed here about an hour before the classes were to start on Thursday morn...


African student beaten, stoned in Jalandhar; in coma for 3 months

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:08 AM PDT

On June 25, a man named Nestor Ntibateganya wrote to the chief minister of Punjab, describing the condition of his son, who lies in a coma in a hospital in Patiala.


1,500 smuggled liquor bottles seized in Greater Noida

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:07 AM PDT

Excise department officials seized 1,500 bottles of smuggled liquor on Thursday from Dankaur-Jhhajar road in Greater Noida and arrested one person in this connection.

Child kidnapper caught on camera at Mumbai station

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT

The Mumbai Police has released a CCTV footage from the city's biggest train station which shows a man kidnapping a baby girl. Please call Senior Inspector Surendra Deshmukh of the CST Police station a...


Record-setting demand for power in Delhi

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:38 AM PDT

Delhi simmered with a high of 41 degrees today. The demand for power set a record: 5642 MW, according to the state-owned BSES. Last August, the peak demand had touched 5028 MW.


Parrikar objects to IPS officers deputed in Goa without discussion

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:34 AM PDT

The Goa government has put its foot down on posting of IPS officers who are deputed to the state by the Union Home Ministry without prior consultations. In a recent development, IPS Officer I B Rani ...


The gunny bag on a farm in Maharashtra had a baby girl inside

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:31 AM PDT

A farmer at work in his fields in eastern Maharashtra was caught off guard when he heard loud cries from a closed gunny bag. He opened the bag, lying near the Pus River, to find a tiny baby girl insi...

Retain trial-run set-up on BRT corridor, orders court

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:28 AM PDT

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the transport department of the city to retain till its final order an arrangement that allowed plying of all vehicles in the lane reserved as the bus rapid t...


Amarnath Yatra death toll reaches 31 as pilgrim dies of heart attack

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:21 AM PDT

A 55-year-old pilgrim died at the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir's Himalayas, taking the death toll during the ongoing pilgrimage to 31, officials said on Thursday.


Team Anna denied permission to hold fast at Jantar Mantar

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:39 AM PDT

Delhi Police has refused permission for Team Anna to hold an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar from July 25, saying the protest timing coincides with the Monsoon Session of Parliament when other outfit...


Road in Kolkata to be named after Satyendra Nath Bose of Higgs Boson fame

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:24 AM PDT

The West Bengal Assembly today accepted a proposal to name a road in Kolkata after eminent physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, one of the pioneers in the work that led to the potential discovery of the "Go...


Mumbai waterlogged, but north India still waits for monsoon

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:11 AM PDT

Mumbai witnessed unrelenting rain yesterday; local trains were delayed and flight schedule was hit. But since last night, there has been intermittent rain.


Nagpur: Witnesses thrashed in court premises

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:37 AM PDT

Three witnesses of a murder case were thrashed by a group of persons alleged to be close to the accused in the district court building, police said.


African student beaten in Patiala: Father's letter to Punjab Chief Minister

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT

A student from the African country of Burundi has been in coma for nearly three months after he was beaten up and left to die in Patiala. The student suffered severe brain damage from the attack. The ...

Goa puts a freeze on new ore carrying barges

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:42 AM PDT

Heavy river traffic has forced inland marine authorities in Goa to put a temporary freeze on the number of barges plying the rivers, ferrying iron ore from mining jetties to transcontinental cargo shi...


What's behind Gurgaon's power problems?

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:18 PM PDT

In northern India, where the mercury crossed 40 degrees Celsius - 104 degrees Fahrenheit - every day for the last month, Gurgaon, an outsourcing megacity that is home to more than 1.5 million people, ...


Rains lash Lucknow, parts of UP

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT

Heavy rains lashed Lucknow and other parts of Uttar Pradesh early on Thursday, bringing respite from the hot and muggy weather. The downpour is likely to continue for the next few days, a Met departm...


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