Chronicles
Stampede kills 5 students at New Delhi school
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of students who were jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured in India's capital.
A sixth person has died in the collapse of a bridge being built for the Indian capital's metro rail, police said Monday, as the government prepared to investigate the prestigious project's worst-ever accident.
2 killed, many injured as railway bridge collapses
NEW DELHI: A 34-metre stretch of an under-construction bridge of the Delhi metro railway collapsed at Laxmi Nagar here on Sunday, killing two persons on the spot and injuring over a dozen. Six vehicles, including three cars, were damaged.
14-year-old boy on way to school crushed by Blueline bus
A 14-year-old boy was crushed to death by a Blueline bus in the Shastri Park area of Northeast Delhi around 7 am on Wednesday. More than a dozen buses were destroyed by an angry mob after the accident.
5 hurt as BPO cab runs amok
NEW DELHI: Five people, including a 3-year-old girl, were injured on Tuesday night when an overspeeding call centre cab rammed into them while they were relaxing on a raised platform outside their residence in J-Block, Mongolpuri. Power cut had fo...
Accident snuffs out lives of woman, daughter
NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old woman and her minor daughter were killed and two other members of the family sustained serious injuries in a road accident on Ridge Road here on Sunday. The condition of the injured was said to be serious.
Minor fire at Reserve Bank building in Delhi
NEW DELHI: A minor fire broke out on the ground floor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) building in the heart of the capital on Sunday. Eight fire-tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire that broke out around 6.25 p.m. was brought under cont...
Two Delhi-based youths drown at Goa beach
Panaji, July 13: Two youths from Delhi were drowned at Calangute beach, 15 kms away from here, police said today. Sandeep Dharmpal Jain and Deepak Adishwar Jain, both in their 30's, were washed away from the Calangute beach yesterday while their f...
4 months on, Delhi police fail to trace missing girl
New Delhi, July 4: A mother of a 17-year-old missing girl has moved the Delhi High Court accusing the police of failing to trace her daughter even after four months of registering a case.
Bomb scare at Metro station in Delhi
An anonymous phone call to police this afternoon threatening to blow up a metro station here triggered panic at the facility. The Hauz Qazi Police station received the threat call at around 0230 pm saying that bombs were placed near the Chawri Baz...
Call centre cabs kill two in Delhi
New Delhi: Two people were killed on Friday in two accidents in the national capital involving call centre cabs, police said.
MBA graduate found hanging in her south Delhi residence
New Delhi (PTI): A 24-year-old MBA girl, who was to join as an executive in a Mumbai firm next week, allegedly committed suicide in the capital, apparently after a fight with her father and elder sister.
CBI banks on forensic tests in Aarushi case
Dr Rajesh Talwar — in CBI custody over the murder of his daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj — was subjected to a lie detector test on Wednesday.
1 killed, 3 injured in mishap at IGI airport
The accident took place when a bus carrying the crew members hit the passengers after the driver lost control of the vehicle, airport sources said.
Two journalism students killed in rail accident
Two students of journalism were killed in a train accident on the outskirts of the capital, the police said Sunday.
India tops world murder count
India has earned the dubious distinction of being the country where maximum number of murders takes place in the world, three times more than its neighbour Pakistan and double the figures in United States.
Girl shoots self over marriage refusal in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Apparently upset with her parents for having objected to her relationship with her boyfriend, a Class XII student allegedly tried to kill herself with her father's licensed gun inside his car near Kondli in east Delhi on Saturday. The b...
NCR gangster killed in encounter
Hardcore criminal of the NCR region Jatan Sirohi was killed in a police encounter that ensued after criminals made an attempt to get him released while he was being taken to Bulandshahar jail.
Two killed as Gujjars, Rajasthan police clash
Two persons were killed and six others, including two policemen, injured in police firing and clashes during Gujjar protests in Rajasthan's Sawaimadhopur district.
3, including 7-yr-old, killed in accidents
One person was killed and three others injured when their Tata 407 tempo rammed into a railway container at Moolchand flyover, just short of the BRT corridor around 4 am on Tuesday.