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LONDON: A 24-year-old Indian man from Hyderabad has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder a student from Kerala working as a part-time waitress in a Hyderabadi biryani restaurant in East London.Sriram Ambarla, of no fixed abode, an Indian national, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday. He choked and almost collapsed when he stood to enter his plea. He had to be given water and was allowed to sit down...

KOLKATA: A student in the fourth year of the electrical engineering department at IIT Kharagpur was discovered dead in the hostel room, the institute confirmed on Wednesday. The family of the deceased student, K Kiran Chandra, who was discovered hanging in his secured room, was notified on Wednesday and has since arrived on the campus.In an official statement concerning the student's passing, the...

BENGALURU: A 20-year-old college student has alleged that she was harassed by an off-duty pilot on an Akasa Air flight from Bengaluru to Pune and her complaint to the flight attendant and the airline failed to elicit any action. The flyer alleged that the pilot forced her into switching seats and moving close to him and offered her the 'alcoholic drink' he was consuming.Akasa Air said it investigated...

BAREILLY: A 17-year-old girl lost both her legs and left arm after her stalker, 19, allegedly pushed her in front of a moving train in Bareilly while she was returning from NEET coaching on Tuesday. She is currently undergoing treatment in a private hospital here and her condition is critical, said police. Dr OP Bhaskar, who had initially treated the girl, said, "She was brought to hospital with both...

Atul Rao, an Indian-American student currently studying in London, has made the life-changing decision to pursue a career in medicine, inspired by the dedicated healthcare professionals of the UK's National Health Service (NHS) who saved his life after his heart stopped six times in a few hours.Rao, who is originally from Seattle and a student at Baylor University in Texas, faced a critical health...

KOLKATA: A 17-year-old student has succumbed to dengue infection, making it the first known dengue death in central Kolkata during the current outbreak. Most dengue deaths in the city this year have so far been reported from the southern and eastern parts of the city, along with pockets of northern fringes like Bangur Avenue and Bidhannagar.TOI had reported the death in its late edition on Friday.The...

NEW DELHI: The Consulate General of India in Vancouver has requested Canadian authorities to investigate the recent incident of assault on an Indian national in Kelowna. Prompt action against the perpetrators has also been sought in the case, which saw a 17-year-old Sikh high school student getting assaulted at a bus stop after an altercation with another teenager in Canada's British Columbia province,...

NEW DELHI: The US has assured India of a quick investigation into the death of Andhra Pradesh student Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck by a speeding police patrol car in Seattle in January this year.India had "strongly" taken up the case with the Biden administration after a recently released bodycam video showed an American cop "joking and laughing" about the Indian student's death.'She had limited...

NEW DELHI: An investigation has been launched against Seattle police union leaders following the emergence of troubling footage from an officer's body camera. NBC News has reported that this footage recorded an officer making inappropriate remarks while discussing the death of a Indian-origin woman, named Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck and killed by a police cruiser while crossing a street.Daniel...

MUMBAI: A 15-year-old girl died by suicide by jumping off a seven-storey building in Mumbai's Malad on Saturday.Police said she had run away from home allegedly after her parents took away her phone to discourage her from spending long hours on social media.The girl was a class IX student. She lived in Malwani with her parents and sister. She was undergoing treatment from a psychiatrist for a mental...