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THANE: A man in Maharashtra's Thane city allegedly beat a close relative to death and caused injuries to her 14-year-old son during a heated dispute, as reported by the police on Sunday.The police took into custody a 30-year-old individual named Sanju Vilas Lokhande in the early hours of the day, charging him under sections 302 (pertaining to murder) and 307 (related to attempted murder) of the Indian...

MUMBAI: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani received two death threat emails two days in a row. On Friday, he got an email saying: "If you don't give us Rs 20 crore, we will kill you. We have the best shooters in India." Ambanireceived another death threat from the same account Saturday. This time the sender demanded Rs 200 crore, saying the amount had been increased due to "non-response to the...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre's stand on a plea to permit the mother of a woman from Kerala, who is facing the death penalty in Yemenfor the murder of a national, to travel to the country to save her daughter from gallows. Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre's counsel to file a status report within two weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on November 16. The...

MUMBAI: A retired ACP, Pradeep Temkar, allegedly jumped to his death from his seventh floor flat in a Matunga building on Monday. Police said Temkar (70) had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for some mental health issue. They said he retired in 2014 as ACP in the traffic police department.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if...

NEW DELHI: A hotel owner in his thirties and his eight-year-old son were allegedly stabbed to death in their sleep at their residence in central Delhi's Paharganj area, police said on Saturday. The gruesome discovery of their lifeless bodies took place in the afternoon when the hotel owner's wife and daughter, concerned by the lack of response to their repeated calls to the man's mobile phone, decided...

Chennai: Police who registered a case of suicide in the October 14 death of a 37-year-old electrician have now altered the case and launched a hunt for Manali-based construction firm owner Shanmugasundaram, his son Rishi and their employees Vadivel and Sundaramurthy for abetting the suicide of V Saravanan.Their involvement came to light after doctors who performed the autopsy of Saravanan, found...

NEW YORK: The Indian-origin Sikh mayor of Hoboken city in the US state of New Jersey has opened up about being the target of a series of letters that threatened to kill him and his family. The letters, which he received last year, first called on Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, who is a practising Sikh, to resign, but then began threatening his and his family's life, targeting him for his Sikh faith, CBS...

GANGTOK: The death toll in the devastating flash flood in Sikkim has risen to 40, with the recovery of two more bodies, news agency PTI quoted officials as saying. The tragedy, which occurred about two weeks ago, has left 76 people still missing. The flash flood, triggered by a cloudburst in the Teesta river in the early hours of October 4, caused widespread destruction in the state, affecting around...

KOLKATA: A 32-year-old auto driver stabbed to death his 21-year-old wife at Haridevpur's Dolly Villa on Sunday night. Accused Suvendu Das had reportedly consumed poison after stabbing his wife. He, too, was battling for life till reports last came in.The incident, police said, took place at 10.15pm. Suvendu allegedly had a tiff with his wife, Krishna, and stabbed her multiple times, witnesses told...

SINGAPORE: An investigation into the death of a 14-year-old Indian-origin student-athlete at the Singapore Sports School, has revealed there was a safety lapse as his badminton coach failed to check on his well-being before leaving the track. The coach has been served a notice of dismissal, according to a Channel News Asia report on Saturday. Pranav Madhaik, who was part of the school's badminton...