Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa passed away on December 5 after suffering from a cardiac arrest. Puratchi Thalaivi Amma was laid to rest at Chennai’s Marina beach, next to her mentor MGR. Thousands of people gathered outside her final resting place to pay tributes. Political leaders paid their last respects[Read More…]
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Life without parole for Georgia man in toddler’s ‘hot car’ death
A Georgia man was sentenced on Monday to life in prison plus 32 years for intentionally leaving his toddler son to die inside a sweltering sport utility vehicle on a summer day. Justin Ross Harris, 35, was found guilty last month of felony murder, as well as counts of first-[Read More…]
President Mukherjee, PM, Sonia Gandhi, condole Jayalalithaa’s death
President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Union Ministers, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and various other top leaders from across the country have condoled Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s death and paid tributes to her. Jayalalithaa died late on Monday night at a[Read More…]
O Panneerselvam sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for 3rd time
Following Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s death, senior AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam was elected the leader of the Legislature Party shortly after Monday midnight and sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. At a solemn ceremony in the Raj Bhavan, Panneerselvam was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor[Read More…]
Child dies as father waits at bank; no cash for fee, teen hangs self in UP
In a tragic incident, a three-year-old girl died in a bank in Uttar Pradesh on Monday as her labourer father waited in a line to withdraw money for her treatment while a college student allegedly hanged himself after returning empty-handed the fourth time, police said. The government’s surprise decision to[Read More…]
Tragic! Senior citizen dies while waiting in line to exchange currency notes
In a tragic incident, a 73-year-old man, who was standing in a queue to exchange his old currency notes, collapsed and died in suburban Mulund on Friday afternoon, police said. Vishwanath Vartak, a senior citizen, was standing in a queue outside a branch of the State Bank of India in[Read More…]
Religion gone overboard? 13-year-old dies after fasting for 68 days
In a case of traditions taking the better of logic, a 13-year-old girl in Hyderabad died last week after fasting for 68 days in a Jain ritual observed during the holy period of ‘Chaumasa‘. Named Aradhana, the girl was a student of class 8 and was admitted to the hospital[Read More…]
Tragic! Syrian girl succumbs to injuries after mistaking bomb for toy
A 4-year-old girl in rebel-held east Aleppo died from injuries inflicted by picking up an unexploded cluster munition she thought was a toy. Four-year-old Emam Muhammad was hurt on Monday when she was playing outside and taken to the children’s trauma ward at M2, one of east Aleppo’s last hospitals[Read More…]
Appalling: Man in Agra beats wife to death for birth of 3rd girl child
In a shocking incident, a man along with his relatives allegedly assaulted his wife for giving birth to third girl child. The woman later died in the hospital. The accused are on a run. This is the second such case in Agra zone in less than three months’ time. Identified[Read More…]
Kerala politicians bludgeon stray dogs to death, parade with the bodies
In a shocking incident, members of the Youth Front (Mani) on Monday killed around 10 stray dogs in Kottayam, to protests against rising menace of street dogs in the city. The members were from the youth wing of the Kerala Congress group and they battered the dogs, tied a few[Read More…]
Deadly selfie: Man dies after falling into dam while taking picture
A 20-year-old man met a tragic end after falling into a dam in Maharashtra’s Beed district while taking a selfie. Sheikh had gone to the Bindusarai dam in the afternoon with his friends. While clicking a selfie along the edge of the dam, Gazik Sheikh and his friend Akhtar Sheikh,[Read More…]
Another 15-year-old succumbs to pellet injuries in Kashmir, marks 85th death
Another death in Kashmir has fanned the silent anger of its populace, with hundreds gathering for the funeral of 15-year-old Momin Altaf. After being crippled by unrest for more than two months now, the people of valley are still not ready to give up the series of protests that broke[Read More…]
Unable to afford ambulance, Odisha man walks with wife’s dead body
In a shocking incident of apathy, a man from Odisha was forced to carry the dead body of his wife for more than 10 km as he did not have money to afford a hearse van and hospital authorities did not offer him a vehicle or an ambulance. The incident[Read More…]