MUMBAI - Three fire engines were rushed to the Five Gardens area of Matunga in central Mumbai as a gas smell filled the area on Saturday morning, officials said. The fire brigade officials were suspecting a gas leak.
MUMBAI - Three fire engines were rushed to the Five Gardens area of Matunga in central Mumbai as a gas smell filled the area on Saturday morning, officials said. The fire brigade officials were suspecting a gas leak.
Indian state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp said a “small” leak on one of its offshore oil and gas pipelines had caused a slick about 1.6 kilometres long off the coast of Mumbai.
NEW DELHI — Indian organisers of the Commonwealth Games have left foreign contractors and sports bodies with millions of dollars of unpaid bills, business owners and diplomats said on Thursday.
LUCKNOW — Rehman Ali Rehman, a rickshaw puller in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district, doesn’t mind if has to wait long for a customer. He uses the time to scribble on pieces of paper — poems for his forthcoming book.
LUCKNOW - Prompted by an Allahabad High Court directive, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday ordered the release of a 17-year-old rape victim whom a ruling Bahujan Samaj party lawmaker had falsely implicated in a theft case.
NEW DELHI - Thousands of Muslims offered Friday prayers at the site of a mosque in south Delhi that was demolished by the authorities for being built on public land, as protests were held at three places in the capital, including the walled city, against the demolition.
VANDIPERIYAR - More than 100 pilgrims were killed late on Friday in a stampede in a forest near the Sabarimala shrine when thousands of devotees were returning after watching the celestial Makara Jyothi light, the most important event of the pilgrimage.
VANDIPERIYAR (KERALA - More than 50 pilgrims were killed late Friday evening in a stampede in a forest near the Sabarimala shrine when thousands of devotees were returning after watching the celestial Makara Jyothi light, the most important event of the pilgrimage. The death toll is expected to go up, officials said.
LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Purshottam Dwivedi and his two security guards had raped a 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, a preliminary report by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) revealed.
NEW DELHI - The winter death toll in Uttar Pradesh hit 103 with 13 more deaths reported on Tuesday even as a bright sunny day greeted the people in northern India.