Accidental Fire

A college student was accidentally killed during a celebratory firing during a procession taken out for idol immersion on the occasion of Saraswati Puja near Gandhi Maidan in Patna, the police said on Saturday.

A 24-year-old man was arrested for celebratory firing in west Delhi's Rohini on Monday during which a bullet accidentally hit his sister-in-law, police said.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule's saree accidentally caught fire during an event in Maharashtra's Pune on Sunday.

The fire officials believe that the dog jumped onto a bed, unknowingly turning on a hair dryer left plugged in on top of the bed by the woman.

An impatient passenger who couldn't wait for his flight to land, tried to have a quick smoke inside the washroom, and ended up setting the plane's toilet on fire.

A man working at a mobile shop in Punjab's Amritsar was seriously injured in "accidental" firing by a police personnel after which the accused cop was suspended on Wednesday, officials said.

A civilian was killed on Wednesday in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir in alleged accidental firing by a policeman who has been arrested, officials said.

The missile was fired accidentally from the Indian side into an area in Pakistan earlier in March, in an incident the Defence Ministry had called "deeply regrettable" and blamed on "technical malfunction".

Police have registered two cases - an attempt to murder case against the shooter, and the other against the owner for keeping the premises open beyond the permissible time limit of 1 am.

A man, named in over a dozen criminal cases, injured three people in celebratory firing, before accidentally shooting himself with his country-made gun at a marriage function in Rajasthan's Sikar district, police said on Sunday.

Voicing concern over the accidental firing of a missile that landed in Pakistan, Congress leader Manish Tewari on Tuesday called for an institutionalised dialogue on nuclear issues.

A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh explained to parliament how a missile was "inadvertently launched" on March 9 and landed in Pakistan, a Bloomberg report claims that Pakistan had prepared to launch a similar missile in a retaliatory strike.

India had on Friday said it accidentally fired a missile two days back that landed in Pakistan and that the "deeply regrettable" incident was caused by a technical malfunction in the course of its routine maintenance.

A missile was fired accidentally from the Indian side into an area in Pakistan earlier this week, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, blaming the incident on a "technical malfunction" that was "deeply regrettable".

A Manipur Police personnel, who was on poll duty on Monday, was killed in a "suspected case of accidental firing" from his service rifle during the first phase of assembly elections to 38 seats in Manipur, the Chief Electoral Office (CEO) said.

A college student was accidentally killed during a celebratory firing during a procession taken out for idol immersion on the occasion of Saraswati Puja near Gandhi Maidan in Patna, the police said on Saturday.

A 24-year-old man was arrested for celebratory firing in west Delhi's Rohini on Monday during which a bullet accidentally hit his sister-in-law, police said.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule's saree accidentally caught fire during an event in Maharashtra's Pune on Sunday.

The fire officials believe that the dog jumped onto a bed, unknowingly turning on a hair dryer left plugged in on top of the bed by the woman.

An impatient passenger who couldn't wait for his flight to land, tried to have a quick smoke inside the washroom, and ended up setting the plane's toilet on fire.

A man working at a mobile shop in Punjab's Amritsar was seriously injured in "accidental" firing by a police personnel after which the accused cop was suspended on Wednesday, officials said.

A civilian was killed on Wednesday in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir in alleged accidental firing by a policeman who has been arrested, officials said.

The missile was fired accidentally from the Indian side into an area in Pakistan earlier in March, in an incident the Defence Ministry had called "deeply regrettable" and blamed on "technical malfunction".

Police have registered two cases - an attempt to murder case against the shooter, and the other against the owner for keeping the premises open beyond the permissible time limit of 1 am.

A man, named in over a dozen criminal cases, injured three people in celebratory firing, before accidentally shooting himself with his country-made gun at a marriage function in Rajasthan's Sikar district, police said on Sunday.

Voicing concern over the accidental firing of a missile that landed in Pakistan, Congress leader Manish Tewari on Tuesday called for an institutionalised dialogue on nuclear issues.

A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh explained to parliament how a missile was "inadvertently launched" on March 9 and landed in Pakistan, a Bloomberg report claims that Pakistan had prepared to launch a similar missile in a retaliatory strike.

India had on Friday said it accidentally fired a missile two days back that landed in Pakistan and that the "deeply regrettable" incident was caused by a technical malfunction in the course of its routine maintenance.

A missile was fired accidentally from the Indian side into an area in Pakistan earlier this week, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, blaming the incident on a "technical malfunction" that was "deeply regrettable".

A Manipur Police personnel, who was on poll duty on Monday, was killed in a "suspected case of accidental firing" from his service rifle during the first phase of assembly elections to 38 seats in Manipur, the Chief Electoral Office (CEO) said.