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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...

NEW DELHI: A day after a woman was allegedly hit by a bus at Kashmere Gate ISBT, she succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Delhi on Tuesday, police said. Indu, a resident of Noida in Uttar Pradesh, was injured after she met with the accident on Monday. The accused bus driver has been arrested, they added.Indu's husband Karamveer Kumar reported to the police that a Punjab Roadways bus hit his wife...

CHENNAI: A worker of an Indian Oil fuel refilling station in Chennai’s Saidapet died on Friday evening when its roof collapsed during rain. Six others suffered injuries in the accident.The fuel station is located on the Jones Road off the Anna Salai.Fire and rescue services personnel and police were involved in rescue operations. They removed the collapsed roof using cranes.Seven people, who were...

PALGHAR: A 74-year-old woman named Jayanti Mhatre died due to electric shock after she came in contact with an electrict poll during Ganpati Visarjan procession in Nalla Sopara area in Palghar district. The incident unfolded as Mhatre ventured outside her residence on Thursday evening to witness the visarjan procession.She accidentally came in contact with an electric pole and lost consciousness. She...