Death In Mumbai Locals

A two-year-old girl was crushed to death by a tempo while she was playing on a road in a locality in Mumbai, police said on Sunday.

On February 5, Navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey from Jharkhand walked down a hill in Maharashtra's Palghar district in a semi-burnt condition. At the hospital, before his death, he told the local police that he had been kidnapped from outside the Chennai airport on January 30, kept confined in the Tamil Nadu capital for three days for ransom and set o...

A 17-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death by two brothers at Shastri Nagar locality in suburban Kalina in the wee hours of Sunday, a police official said.

No fatal incident involving commuters was reported on Mumbai's suburban rail network on June 26, a rarity in the metropolis where eight to nine passengers die everyday in mishaps.

A local cricketer was stabbed to death by three unknown assailants in Mumbai on Thursday night. He was identified as Rakesh Panwar was in his mid-thirties. He has been killed in the Bhandup area in Mumbai.

A 56-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by some people, including husband of a local corporator, in Bandra when he tried to intervene in a scuffle over a social media post, the police said today.

The sinking feeling in a waterlogged city and the deadly potholes are not limited to Mumbai alone. Kalyan in Thane district near Mumbai has reported five pothole deaths this monsoon. The latest accident involved a 26-year old local resident Kalpesh Jadhav who was run over by a truck after he slipped and fell down because of a pothole.

Veteran actor Sridevi had "accidentally" drowned in the bathtub of the hotel where she was staying, the Dubai police said on Monday. As the case was transferred to the "Dubai Public Prosecution" for regular legal procedure, the police, according to a media report, called in Sridevi's husband Boney Kapoor for questioning and his statement was record...

Actor Sridevi, who was initially thought to have died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday, had drowned in the bathtub of her hotel in Dubai, the police there said today. The autopsy report listed "accidental drowning" as the cause of death. In its official twitter handle, the Dubai government's media office said the case was being transferred to the "...

Indian embassy officials in Dubai are working closely with the local authorities to ensure that the body of Bollywood icon Sridevi, who died last night, is taken to Mumbai today.

The Maharashtra government is considering change in office timings to reduce peak hour crowding in suburban local trains which is resulting in many commuter deaths, the Bombay High Court was informed today.

The Central Railway (CR) will soon introduce modified seating arrangement in the coaches of local trains to check the ever increasing deaths of commuters due to falling off the impossibly crowded suburban trains in the Mumbai region.

With nearly 10 people dying on the railway tracks in Mumbai every day and many among them falling off overcrowded local trains, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Railways.

The Bombay High Court today rapped the railways for its lackadaisical approach towards safety of passengers and failure to provide better services in suburban local trains.

Twelve men convicted for the 7/11 serial blasts on Mumbai's local trains in 2006, are expected to be sentenced by a court today. The prosecution has said it will seek the strictest punishment, the death sentence or a life term, for those charged with murder.

A two-year-old girl was crushed to death by a tempo while she was playing on a road in a locality in Mumbai, police said on Sunday.

On February 5, Navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey from Jharkhand walked down a hill in Maharashtra's Palghar district in a semi-burnt condition. At the hospital, before his death, he told the local police that he had been kidnapped from outside the Chennai airport on January 30, kept confined in the Tamil Nadu capital for three days for ransom and set o...

A 17-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death by two brothers at Shastri Nagar locality in suburban Kalina in the wee hours of Sunday, a police official said.

No fatal incident involving commuters was reported on Mumbai's suburban rail network on June 26, a rarity in the metropolis where eight to nine passengers die everyday in mishaps.

A local cricketer was stabbed to death by three unknown assailants in Mumbai on Thursday night. He was identified as Rakesh Panwar was in his mid-thirties. He has been killed in the Bhandup area in Mumbai.

A 56-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by some people, including husband of a local corporator, in Bandra when he tried to intervene in a scuffle over a social media post, the police said today.

The sinking feeling in a waterlogged city and the deadly potholes are not limited to Mumbai alone. Kalyan in Thane district near Mumbai has reported five pothole deaths this monsoon. The latest accident involved a 26-year old local resident Kalpesh Jadhav who was run over by a truck after he slipped and fell down because of a pothole.

Veteran actor Sridevi had "accidentally" drowned in the bathtub of the hotel where she was staying, the Dubai police said on Monday. As the case was transferred to the "Dubai Public Prosecution" for regular legal procedure, the police, according to a media report, called in Sridevi's husband Boney Kapoor for questioning and his statement was record...

Actor Sridevi, who was initially thought to have died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday, had drowned in the bathtub of her hotel in Dubai, the police there said today. The autopsy report listed "accidental drowning" as the cause of death. In its official twitter handle, the Dubai government's media office said the case was being transferred to the "...

Indian embassy officials in Dubai are working closely with the local authorities to ensure that the body of Bollywood icon Sridevi, who died last night, is taken to Mumbai today.

The Maharashtra government is considering change in office timings to reduce peak hour crowding in suburban local trains which is resulting in many commuter deaths, the Bombay High Court was informed today.

The Central Railway (CR) will soon introduce modified seating arrangement in the coaches of local trains to check the ever increasing deaths of commuters due to falling off the impossibly crowded suburban trains in the Mumbai region.

With nearly 10 people dying on the railway tracks in Mumbai every day and many among them falling off overcrowded local trains, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Railways.

The Bombay High Court today rapped the railways for its lackadaisical approach towards safety of passengers and failure to provide better services in suburban local trains.

Twelve men convicted for the 7/11 serial blasts on Mumbai's local trains in 2006, are expected to be sentenced by a court today. The prosecution has said it will seek the strictest punishment, the death sentence or a life term, for those charged with murder.