accident

NEW DELHI: A 66-year-old Sikh man died from head injuries sustained after being assaulted following a car accident in New York. This incident marks the second attack against a Sikh individual in New York within a week.Jasmer Singh was allegedly the victim of a brutal assault by 30-year-old Gilbert Augustin after their vehicles collided in Queens the previous Thursday.After the collision between Singh...

PALGHAR: One person was killed when a bus rammed into a crane on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Sunday.The bus, belonging to the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation was carrying 35 passengers.The incident took place at around 3am when the crane which had hit a road divider on the highway was being reversed at Dapchari check post on Maharashtra-Gujarat border, and the...

MUMBAI: A 38-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run close to the Magathane Metro station at Borivali East in Mumbai on Monday. The Kasturba Marg police have registered a case of negligence against an unknown person.A patrolling police vehicle was informed by the control room around 1pm about the incident. On reaching the Magathane flyover, they found a man lying unconscious near the divider on the...

CHENNAI: Seven of a family, including two children, died in a road accident when a lorry rammed a car, in which they were travelling, in Pakkiripalayam bypass road near Chengam in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai district. A lone survivor, a woman, is undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Tiruvannamalai.One of the deceased, identified as Sathish, from Tumkur in Karnataka, along with his wife,...

NEW DELHI: A viral video on Wednesday showed the body of a man being dragged by a car in Delhi. The person was identified as a taxi driver with residence in Haryana's Faridabad. According to ANI, the body of the male with injuries was found near the service road of NH8 on October 10. A case was registered under sections 302 and 201 of the IPC. "A probe is underway," ANI quoted Delhi Police as...

TRICHY: At least nine people died and five others suffered injuries in an explosion in a country cracker manufacturing unit in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu on Monday. Sources said a private country cracker manufacturing unit at Viragaalur hamlet near Vettriyur village was producing crackers for local events and temple festivals. The explosion happened around 10am, and a fire broke out. Fire service...

CHENNAI: A software engineer was fatally run over by a bus when he was trying to cross the road at Jafferkhanpet in Chennai on Wednesday morning.The Guindy traffic investigation wing (TIW) police said the man, Rishi Gautham, was a native of Dharmapuri and working in company in Taramani. On Wednesday morning, he returned from Dharmapuri on a bus and got down at Jafferkhanpet. While he was crossing the...

BHIWANDI: An angle iron-laden container overturned on the Mumbai-Nashik highway in Maharashtra on Wednesday night, hitting the traffic there for more than 12 hours.The route witnessed jams for about 20 km during this time.According to the Bhiwandi rural police, the incident took place late last night at 11.30 pm when a container — coming from Nashik side towards Mumbai — suddenly overturned on the...

MUMBAI: Over 50 residents were rescued from various floors of a 12-storey building in Kurla-west after a fire broke out on Friday night.The incident took place in a Slum Rehabilitation Authority(SRA) building located opposite Kohinoor Hospital. According to BMC’s disaster management, the fire was confined to electrical wiring, scrap materials etc in the electrical duct from the ground to the 12th...

NEW DELHI: Two people were injured when a private bus carrying 50 passengers from Ajmer overturned in Delhi's Rajokri, near Gurugram on Wednesday.According to police, the incident took place near the Rajokri flyover near the Delhi airport around 7am.The two injured passengers included a woman and a child. "The injured have been hospitalised," police said.(With inputs from ANI)!(function(f, b, e, v, n,...