The Kerala forest department is of the view that unrestricted entry of vehicles for ferrying pilgrims into the Pullumedu trekking path was one of the factors that paved the way for the January 14 stampede that claimed the lives of 102 Sabarimala pilgrims.
The special team of the Crime Branch of the Kerala police, which began investigation into Friday's stampede that claimed the lives of 102 Ayyappa pilgrims, will submit its initial report in four days.
Sabarimala Special Commissioner Rajendra Nair said a jeep had ploughed through the pilgrims, who were returning from 'makara samkrama pooja', using a narrow trekking path in a heavily forested hilly area, about 7km from Sabarimala hilltop shrine.
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Warning against canvassing for the December 18 phase of Jharkhand assembly polls, Maoists on Tuesday burnt the campaign vehicle of an Independent candidate contesting from Panki assembly constituency in Palamau district, the police said.
Defying a poll boycott call, an estimated 49.84 per cent voters exercised their franchise on Tuesday in 35 assembly constituencies in the fifth phase of Bihar assembly elections amid stray incidents of violence.
Maoists on Thursday blew up a police jeep, killing a policeman and injuring four others at Jaranga village in Jharkhand's Khunti district. Inspector-General of Police V Deshmukh said the jeep overturned under the impact of the blast. He ruled out the possibility of a landmine causing the blast. All the injured victims have been admitted to a hospital in Ranchi. The Maoists also blew up a middle school, Anant Madhya Vidyala, at Pratappur in Chatra district.
Two persons, including a woman, were killed and 18 others were injured on Thursday in clashes between rival groups during the second phase of three-tier panchayat elections across Uttar Pradesh, which recorded 75 per cent polling.
Four jawans of the Central Industrial Force were killed and two others injured when their jeep was blown up in a landmine blast triggered by the Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, the police said.
The judge in his ruling noted that the sale of the vehicle by the owner to another person does not absolve him of the claim and hence ordered that the original owner and the insurance company jointly make the payment to the bereaved family of the powerloom worker from Bhiwandi who was killed in a jeep accident in 2007.
Back in September 2002, Shakti Bhatt/Rediff.com located the former Union Carbide chairman's luxury home in New York, declared unknown by the American and Indian governments. Rediff.com reproduces the feature about his life in hiding.
One person was killed and several others injured as police opened fire on protesters demanding quota for Jat community under OBC category who later went on a rampage, damaging vehicles and rail track and vandalising public property at Mayyar village in Haryana on Monday.
Curfew was imposed in the entire summer capital Srinagar, a day after four people including three teenagers were killed in police firing at Palhallan in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.
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In the unabated violence two more persons were killed and three others wounded in security force's firing in Kashmir on Saturday evening mounting the toll since June 11 to 57.
An indefinite curfew was imposed in Srinagar and other towns in Kashmir on Friday to foil a march called by separatists. Jeeps fitted with loud speakers patrolled Srinagar on Thursday night, announcing the imposition of curfew and urging the locals to stay indoors.Protests had erupted again in Srinagar on Thursday, after the curfew restrictions were lifted, and clashes broke out between security personnel and the protestors.The protest sit-ins continued till late in the night
Four people were killed when the police fired at a group of protesting farmers and fishermen at Sompeta in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.Two more farmers were injured in the firing and are reportedly fighting for their lives. The protestors had started pelting stones at the policemen, who had retaliated by indiscriminate lathi charge.The police then opened fire on a massive crowd that was opposing the state government's proposal to set up a thermal plant.
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The Mangalore police have picked up eight persons in connection with the alleged murder of an National Security Guard commando who used to be part of L K Advanis security cordon.
Army columns were deployed in the entire city, which saw widespread violence in Batmaloo and Maisuma locality resulting in the death of three people on Tuesday.
An indefinite curfew was imposed in Srinagar on Monday and restrictions were put in place in other towns to thwart a march called by separatists.To protest the killing of three teenagers allegedly by the police, the hard-line separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked people to march to south Kashmir's Anantnag town on Monday.The forces beefed up security arrangements in the old city area of Srinagar.
According to the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games, orders have been placed with Tata Motors for nearly 1,800 cars during the games and some more cars, jeeps and trucks for the Queen Baton Relay that would commence its nationwide run from June 25.
Journalist Shakti Bhatt located former Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson's luxury home in New York, declared unknown by the American and Indian governments, in India Abroad, the newspaper owned by Rediff.com, back in September 2002. As a Bhopal court convicted eight people on Monday, June 7, for the worst-ever industrial disaster, we reproduce the global scoop
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Two suicide bombers, including one in police uniform, set off powerful blasts on Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 27, just a couple of days after the terror attacks on Moscow metro claimed 39 lives.
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The Maharashtra government decided to increase tax for commercial and tourist vehicles by amending Mumbai Motor Vehicle Act 1958.
Congress workers torched six buses and a police jeep at Hulkoti, approximately 10 km from Mangalore on Friday, in protest against a garland of slippers being placed on the statue of a late veteran party state leader, allegedly by Sri Ram Sene activists. The Sene activists were suspected to have carried out the act to give vent to their anger against blackening of the face of their leader Pramod Muthalik and an attempt to assault him, allegedly by Youth Congress workers.
Nooriya Haveliwala, who was arrested for mowing down two persons in January allegedly under the influence of alcohol, has tested positive for drug consumption, the police said on Wednesday. "We received Nooriya's drug report from the forensic lab today and she has tested positive for consumption of narcotic substances like morphine and cannabis," said Additional Commissioner of Police R K Padmanabhan. Nooriya, 27, was driving towards her home at Colaba in south Mumbai.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had a miraculous escape on Tuesday night when the engine of his official vehicle caught fire filling the entire jeep with smoke.
In an apparent attempt to derail the probe, Nooriya Haveliwala, the 27-year-old woman arrested for alleged drunk driving and killing two persons including a cop, on Tuesday again changed her version even as the police recorded her friends' statements.
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