An aged man crossing the rail tracks in Thiruvankulam on the outskirts of the city was hit by a speeding train and his body was badly mutilated.

But, a dispute between the police over the jurisdicti

A total of five persons including four members of a Malayali family were killed in a road accident involving two cars at the Ottapara bypass at Athoor near Salem on Tuesday.

The deceased have been i

S. Aravindhan grew up seeing his mother, the sole bread winner, working hard as a maid and struggling to make both ends meet.

This prompted Aravindhan, the eldest of three children whose father, an

Twelve people were injured when a gas cylinder exploded in North-East Delhi on Wednesday morning, fire brigade officials said.

The incident took place in a shop in Jhilmil Colony's Krishna Market at

A man from Bihar, suspected to be part of a gang, which planned to loot temples in rural areas in Tamil Nadu, succumbed to injuries after he fell down from the tower of a temple in the district, polic

Rescue workers digging through rubble after a plane crash in Nigeria that killed the 153 people on board turned their attention on Monday to the ruins of a building where more deaths were feared.

An

A 26-year-old computer engineer from Kerala was among 153 passengers and crew killed in the Nigerian plane crash on Sunday.

Rijo K Eldhose, employed with Hewlett and Packard, was on his way to Lagos

Chaos broke out in the densely-populated Lagos neighbourhood where a passenger jet crashed Sunday, as rescue workers faced heavy crowds and aggressive soldiers while trying to access smoldering wrecka

At least 23 Pakistani wedding guests, including six children, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine near the capital Islamabad, police said on Monday.

Sixty people were injured when the driver

Rescue workers have so far pulled at least 62 bodies from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, an official said as searches pressed on Monday at the site of the dev