Three cars, 3 bikes go up in flames
Three cars and three bikes went up in flames in a mysterious fire reported in the parking area of an apartment complex on AVM Avenue in Virugambakkam on Thursday night.
The fire was noticed at aroun
Toll in Nellore train tragedy rises to 33
The toll in the Nellore train tragedy rose to 33 on Friday morning with the death of Sambasiva Rao, 33, who was admitted to a private hospital in Vadapalani on Monday with 90 per cent burns.
Rao’s re
Bus ride turns horror trip for DPS school kids, 20 injured
Twenty children of Delhi Public School (DPS) South Bangalore miraculously escaped with minor injuries after the school bus in which they were traveling toppled on Friday morning after a BMTC bus ramme
14 victims of TN Express blaze identified; Death toll at 28
A day after a sleeper class coach of Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express was gutted in fire near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, the Government Railway Police (GRP) here has pegged the death toll at 28 and nu
Body parts of crashed MiG-29 pilot recovered
More than nine months after a MiG-29 crashed in the mountainous Lahaul-Spiti area of Himachal Pradesh, the IAF has found some body parts, believed to be of its pilot, in glaciers.
The IAF search tea
16 killed, 19 injured as bus falls into ditch
Sixteen passengers were on Wednesday killed and 19 others injured when their bus fell into a ditch at Chakrata area.
The accident occurred when the bus, carrying a total of 47 passengers, was coming
BMW hit-and-run case: SC acquits three co-accused, pulls up DP
The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted three persons sentenced to varying jail terms for tampering with evidence in the infamous 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, involving former Naval chief Admiral S.M.
Ill-fated S11 coach was a ‘defective’ piece of work
The charred S11 coach of Tamil Nadu Express was a disaster waiting to happen. Coach no. CN08201, manufactured in 2008, was given a sick marking or rather reported defective with electrical problems mo
Survivors recall the horror: There were screams, smoke
Eyewitnesses who escaped with their lives from the horrific train fire tragedy, can never forget those panic-stricken moments. They recall how the tubelights burst with a loud, explosive sound before
Survivors cry for kin
Though some passengers from Tamil Nadu had a miraculous escape from the burning train, they were still inconsolable or worried about ‘missing’ family/friends.
Ms N.S. Veena, 30, going to her native c