The Shimla Police has on Sunday arrested Gaurav Verma, a student of IIT-Roorkee, for the murder of IIT-Delhi girl Pragati Tibberwal. The police said after the murder, Verma – who is from Manikapur in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh – had attempted suicide twice.
The two had reached Shimla early on Friday morning and checked in at Hotel [...]
A 42 years old scientist of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) was found murdered at his residence in south Mumbai. Mahadevan Padmanabhan Iyer, a mechanical engineer working in BARC’s Reactor Group, was found murdered at his residence ‘Anand Bhavan’ near Breach Candy Hospital late last night.
Hailing from Tamil Nadu, Iyer was found lying in his [...]
At least nine people have been died and seventy others injured when a a major fire broke out on the seventh floor of Carlton Towers, a business centre housing several offices and commercial establishments, on Tuesday.
Some casualties apparently occurred when a few people jumped out of the building in panic, eyewitnesses said. Three persons were [...]
The Delhi High Court granted interim bail to Vishal Yadav serving life imprisonment in Nitish Katara murder case today to attend his sister’s marriage, scheduled on January 25.
In the bail plea he said his father was no more and being the eldest son in the family, he has to perform the rituals of his younger [...]
Shiv Sena’s Shraddha Jadhav was Tuesday elected Mumbai mayor. Securing 114 votes, Jadhav trounced the opposition Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Priscilla Kadam who got 96 votes.
The Congress’ hopes of bagging the prestigious post were ruined after seven corporators of the Samajwadi Party (SP) boycotted the elections at the last minute.
Another six corporators of the [...]
Ashok Kamte died due to police lapses said his wife Vinita Kamte in her book – To the Last bullet. Vinita Kamte alleged that police were slow to respond to attacks. Ashok Kamte, Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar were killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008.
The police even after a year of [...]