Dies

CHENNAI: A 55-year-old drunk man, who was fast asleep at his home in Chennai’s Kannagi Nagar on Wednesday night, died of asphyxiation after fire spread from a mosquito coil to his bedsheet. The deceased has been identified as Moorthy, who was employed as a security guard at Santhome. Moorthy reached home around 11pm on Wednesday. He was drunk. He lit a mosquito coil and slept.A spark from the coil...

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...

NOIDA: In a tragic incident, an artist playing the role of Lord Parshuram in Ram Leela in Jharkhand's Garhwa district suffered a sudden heart attack onstage on Wednesday and died while being taken to the hospital.The artist, Vinod Prajapati, had been portraying the role for the past 10 years and was well-known in the area for his passion for acting.During the performance, the scene of Sita's swayamvar...

GHAZIABAD: The head warder of Ghaziabad's Dasna Jail took his own life by leaping in front of a goods train at a railway crossing near the prison. The warder, identified as 42-year-old Sanjiv Kumar, hailed from Douki in Fatehabad, Agra district. The incident occurred on Sunday, and Kumar had been part of the UP jail service since 1995. He was recently posted at Dasna Jail on July 5 following a transfer...

THANE: A woman in her early thirties died in Maljipada in the district after falling off a motorcycle on hitting a pothole and coming under the wheels of a dumper truck, said the police on Friday. The accident took place on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway (NH-8) late on Thursday night. The deceased was identified by the police as Laxmi Gupta. She had been returning from the Tungareshwar temple in the...

COIMBATORE/MADURAI: A 35-year-old woman, who was arrested for kidnapping an 18-month-old boy from Tiruchendur, died in the custody of the Alandurai police in Coimbatore district on Monday afternoon.Police had picked up Thilagavathi and her husband, Pandian, 43, from Poondi in Coimbatore district and brought them to the Alandurai station earlier in the day.A senior police officer said, "The couple were...

NEW DELHI: A plumber lost his life in West Delhi's Narayana area on Monday when an elevator suddenly started moving. The incident occurred in a multi-story building's elevator, which the plumber had entered to clear water that had accumulated inside.According to police reports, the victim was identified as Sanjay, a resident of Rajeev Camp.A senior officer explained that while Sanjay was inspecting the...

KOLKATA: Bengal recorded the first kala-azar death of the year on Wednesday when a 47-year-old man succumbed to the infection at a Kolkata hospital. Avadesh Paswan, the victim, was a resident of Bihar who fell ill during a visit to his in-laws' place in Howrah's Bally. With this, the state has recorded 10 kala-azar cases this year till August. In Bengal, Habibpur in Malda is known to be endemic for...

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...

ULHASNAGAR: A 47-year-old labourer died after a portion of a balcony of a flat collapsed during internal repairing work in Ulhasnagar on Wednesday afternoon.The incident took place at around 1pm at Shiv Palace building situated near Sadhubela College.The deceased was identified as Sairuddin, a resident of Bihar.The fire brigade team found that internal repairing work was going on inside the first-floor...