Tragedy News

Nepal has been frequently confronted by forces beyond its control. They include, among others, earthquakes, floods, and glacial disasters, which have exposed the country s vulnerabilities

A 200-year-old building collapsed in Kolkata s Jorabagan amid heavy rain early Tuesday, killing an elderly woman and leaving several residents trapped under the debris. The three-storey structure had long been declared dangerous by the Kolkata Municipal Corpor

The Cuffe Parade police investigating the untimely death of an Indian Navy sailor, his wife and their two children have learnt that the deceased woman had apprehended that her husband could kill her and their children and her father had recently tried to take

The police registered an Accidental Death Report and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths. According to the police, Mehra had four siblings and had been estranged from them over monetary and property-related issues

An Indian Navy sailor, his wife and their two minor children were found dead at their residence in Navy Nagar area of south Mumbai, police said on Sunday.According to the Cuffe Parade police, the sailor was found hanging at his residence on Saturday night. The

In a tragic incident, 19-year-old British cyclist Finlay Tarling, a member of cycling team NSN Development team, a team co-owned by former FC Barcelona player and World Cup winner Andres Ineista, lost his life while competing in the eight stage of the Volta a

The Supreme Court Friday stayed an order of the Madras High Court which quashed Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay s order providing government jobs to relatives of people who died in a stampede at Karur last year. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chand

Not all that long ago, arranging a marriage involved merely matching janampatris and horoscopes, gotras and castes. Families depended on relatives and chitchat from their communities to veto a prospective spouse

A holiday outing at Goa s popular Baga Beach turned tragic when a tourist was swept away by powerful waves after venturing onto seaside rocks despite repeated warnings from his companion. The chilling incident, captured on video, has since gone viral on social

The Delhi government on Tuesday carried out a demolition drive against an illegal shrine constructed on government land in the middle of a road as part of an ongoing road-widening project connecting Pitampura and Shalimar Bagh, according to the Chief Minister'

In a suspected suicide pact, an expatriate from Kerala who recently returned from Qatar after losing his job, his wife, and their teenage son and daughter allegedly consumed poison, police have said. While the man and his daughter have died, the wife and son a

Vietnam boat capsize updates: At least 15 Indian tourists were reportedly killed and 21 others rescued after a tourist speedboat carrying 32 Indian nationals and four crew members capsized near Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam on Saturday. Two of the surviv

The boat that capsized in Vietnam, killing several Indian nationals, had many employees and distributors of Lava Mobiles, a company representative told The Indian Express. Many of the dead are believed to be from Andhra Pradesh; the final toll is yet to become

A small plane crashed in the Bahamas on Friday, killing ten people. The deadly incident occurred in North Andros, prompting a government investigation

Even as the eight persons buried under the debris of the collapsed three-storey building at the Moshi garbage depot remained untraced till Friday afternoon, angry relatives confronted civic officials, while the Sharad Pawar-led NCP demanded that an FIR be regi

At 11 pm on Thursday, the narrow lanes of Sarvodaya Nagar, a neighbourhood in Ghaziabad, were silent. Residents sat on their haunches on staircases outside their houses, watching as the rainwater slowly receded

The Vanrai Police on Thursday, July 9, filed a 3,500-page chargesheet against 12 of the 13 accused, including mastermind Ayush Vicky Sahitya and Mahesh Khemlani, in connection with the deaths of two management students during a music concert at NESCO in Gorega

Standing amid the rubble in G Block of Rohini s Sector 16 on Wednesday evening, Shyam Kishore recalled the last conversation he had with his twin brother, Ram, around an hour before an under-construction building collapsed and killed him while he was passing b

Minutes after Moinuddin stepped out to buy food and household items, the illegal four-storey structure came crashing onto his shanty in Janta Nagar in Mankhurd s Mandala area, killing his wife, four children and a six-year-old girl from the neighbourhood who h

On Sunday morning, at around 10 am, Yunus Kundawala left his residence in Bharat Nagar, Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), for the inauguration of his family s new shop in Kurla s Naupada. The shop had been taken on lease by his sons Burhan (26) and Mustafa (24), mar

A 28-year-old man allegedly killed his wife by striking her on the head with a battery after suspecting her of talking to someone on the phone and then died by suicide by consuming aluminium phosphide tablets, in Outer Delhi s Ranhola, police said on Saturday

The Delhi High Court Monday directed social media platforms to block a user and take down posts and videos that allegedly contained contemptuous remarks against a sitting HC judge. The user had...

Tarjani was among the eight of a family who died in a massive blaze at Flourish Stays, a bed-and-breakfast in South Delhi s Hauz Rani, on Wednesday. They were staying at the B&B because an elderly family member, Radhe Shyam Aggarwal, had been admitted in the i

After the arrest of the owner of Flourish Stays B&B in South Delhi where a fire killed 21 people on Wednesday, the Delhi Police are looking into his accountant in whose name the licence to operate the facility was allegedly obtained. During the investigati...

The family of MSRTC driver Ghanshyam Barkale, 43, first learned he had died in Tuesday s Surat bus accident through social media messages. They waited hours before depot officials confirmed the news.

Pune: The Maharashtra state excise department s Pune division is set to initiate steps to secure the custodial interrogation of Yogesh Wankhede, the prime accused in the Pune hooch tragedy, sources said on Wednesday. Wankhede is in the custody of the Crime Inv...

At least seven people on board a bus were killed and 40 others were injured after it caught fire following its head-on collision with another bus, near Badroli town in Gujarat s Surat district on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Out of the 27 people hospitalise...

Following the hooch tragedy, the Pune Rural police suspended four constables who were allegedly in contact with key accused Radheshyam Prajapati, who is allegedly the main supplier of the illicit liquor. The consumption of suspected methanol-laced illicit liqu...

Following the hootch deaths in Pune, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seized over 5,000 kg Methanol from the premises of Rex International Company in Bhiwandi in Thane district, on Saturday. As per an FDA press release, the spurious liquor that caused m...