Six members of a wedding procession were killed on the spot when their car collided with a roadside tree at Bhujuli intersection of this Uttar Pradesh district. Two people were critically injured in the accident.
In a tragic incident, a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) constable, Manoj Pujari, was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast triggered by Maoist insurgents in the dense forests of Bijapur district.
The police have arrested Purendra Kaushik, a local BJP functionary, on charges of murder and attempt to murder. Kaushik had lost to Champai in last year's sarpanch election, a defeat that sources say had left him embittered.
A 7-year-old boy was killed by a prowling tiger while descending a hill with his family after offering prayers at Trinetra Ganesh Temple near the Ranthambore Fort in Sawai Madhopur National Park on Wednesday afternoon.
Three persons were killed following the leakage of nitrogen gas from a chemical factory in the Beawar town of Ajmer district on Monday night.
The incident came to light following a PCR call to Fatehpur Beri police station about a dead body found in a vacant plot in Ayanagar.
Emergency services rushed the injured to the nearby hospital, but three students, all from class 9, succumbed to their injuries.
Police here said around 20 people , all residents of Kumhrai village of Chandpa, were going in a Pick-up van on Tuesday afternoon to see a 60-year-old cancer-stricken elderly resident of Nagla Imalia village of Etah.
An 'A-category' terrorist involved in the recent attack at a labour camp in Ganderbal where seven people were killed, was on Tuesday eliminated in an encounter with security forces in the Dachigam forest in Srinagar.
At least four women were killed and four other people seriously injured after a powerful explosion inside a house resulted in the demolition of four houses in a colony in the Morena city of Madhya Pradesh at midnight on Tuesday.
