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CHANDIGARH: In a targeted attack, two Indian-origin youths from Punjab were shot dead in southeast Edmonton, Canada, by unidentified assailants. The deceased have been identified as Gurdeep Singh from Bareh village and Ranbir Singh from Uddat Saidewala village near Budhlada in Mansa, Punjab. According to information received by Gurdeep's family from his friend Arshdeep, the two were on their way to celebrate a friend's birthday when they were allegedly fired upon in the early hours of Friday. Both youths had moved to Canada separately in pursuit of better career opportunities. The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) said it believes the incident was a targeted attack and has launched an investigation. In a statement, the EPS said it is investigating the suspicious deaths of two adult men in southeast Edmonton. Officers attempted life-saving measures until emergency medical services arrived, but both victims were pronounced dead at the scene. "On Friday, December 12, 2025, at approximately 1:43 a.m., officers responded to reports of gunshots in the area of 32 Street and 26 Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located two males believed to be in their 20s suffering from gunshot wounds. EPS officers attempted lifesaving measures until EMS arrived and assumed care. Sadly, both men were pronounced dead at the scene. The EPS Homicide Section has taken over the investigation. Autopsies are scheduled for Tuesday, December 16, and Wednesday, December 17, 2025," the statement read. The statement further noted, "Police are looking for a dark-coloured SUV that may have been in the area at the time of the shooting. Investigators are asking anyone in the area of Silverberry Road and 23 Avenue, as well as 34 Street and 29 Street, who may have dash camera or security footage from approximately 2 p.m. on Thursday, December 11, to 2:30 a.m. on December 12, 2025, to contact police immediately. Police believe this to be a targeted event. The investigation is ongoing."
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) YouTuber Samay Raina appeared before the National Commission for Women (NCW) in Delhi on Tuesday, months after he was summoned in connection with allegedly offensive and sexist content aired during his show "India's Got Latent", officials said. Raina was also among the five social media influencers who appeared before the Supreme Court in a case seeking action against them for ridiculing persons suffering from disabilities. Raina submitted his statement in response to the allegations to NCW officials. Officials said further steps will be considered after reviewing his ...Read More >
BALASORE: In a heart-wrenching incident, a man was forced to carry his 17-year-old daughter's body on a trolley rickshaw for around 7 km to a community health centre in Balasore's Baliapal for postmortem after reportedly failing to afford an ambulance. Asha Bindhani, a minor girl suffering from mental illness, reportedly died by suicide on Thursday afternoon in Deula village under Baliapal police limits. After spotting her, locals informed her father Madhu Bindhani and the police. Madhu, a daily wage labourer, rushed to the spot and found his daughter dead. Shortly after, police arrived and ...Read More >
New Delhi: Two cousins on their way to Murthal for dinner died after their SUV collided with a truck and caught fire in outer Delhi's Rani Bagh on Thursday. Police have caught the truck driver. The deceased were identified as Henry (20) and Dipanshu Chandela (21). They were BBA students. Both were from west Delhi. Henry's family lives in Meera Bagh and Dipanshu in Paschim Vihar. The fire department, which got a call around 3.13 am, sent three fire tenders and 18 fighters to the site near Madhuban ...Read More >
Thrissur: The deaths of a mother and daughter in their rented home in Padiyur have been confirmed as homicides, with the postmortem report confirming that both victims were strangled to death. The police have launched a manhunt for the accused, Premkumar (45), a native of Ithithanam, Kottayam. Premkumar was out on bail for murdering his first wife, Vidya, in 2019. He allegedly killed Vidya to pursue a relationship with an old lover. In the current incident, Mani (74) and her daughter Rekha (43), natives of Vellani in Karalam, were found dead in their home near the Padiyur panchayat office. T ...Read More >
Dwarka crash video: In a significant development in the Dwarka crash, a video recorded inside the Scorpio SUV that hit 23-year-old Sahil Dhaneshra has surfaced. Filmed by a woman sitting next to the teen driver, the video showed him speeding on a road without a divider, narrowly missing a bus before the fatal accident where the SUV collided with Sahil's bike. Moreover, the video footage also shows victim Sahil attempting to overtake the bus on his motorcycle just before the SUV coming from the opposite direction collides with him. Here are all the details you need to know about the recent deve ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 09: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said that Jammu & Kashmir's tourism sector is witnessing a strong revival, with a steady rise in the number of tourists visiting the Union Territory each day.Abdullah, while addressing reporters in West Bengal ahead of the Kolkata Tourism Fair, said, "Tourists are coming back to Kashmir in good numbers. The ongoingAmarnathYatra is proceeding smoothly with heavy footfall on both the Pahalgam and Baltal routes, he said."I spoke to several pilgrims, and they are all happy and satisfied with the arrangements. I have come to Kolkata to ta ...Read More >
Patna: Three members of a family, including two women and a child, died after the SUV they were travelling in veered off the road and plunged into the Sone canal near Saraiya village under the Ranitalab police station area in in Patna district on Saturday morning. Two other passengers sustained serious injuries and are receiving treatment at a hospital.Local officials and police reached the site promptly and retrieved the submerged vehicle using a JCB machine. Police said preliminary investigations suggest the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel, leading to the vehicle losing control an ...Read More >
A 35-year-old man was arrested hours after allegedly beating his 32-year-old wife to death with an LPG cylinder in southeast Delhi's Pul Prahladpur on Sunday, police said. Police identified the victim as Poonam Devi and the accused as Suresh Kumar, who worked as a manager at an inland container depot. The couple married in 2020 and moved to DDA Janta Flats in Pul Prahladpur from Churu, Rajasthan, about a month ago, police said. Police said the couple has two daughters: one aged four lives with ...Read More >
VMPL New Delhi [India], August 14: Ellenox, India's largest venture studio, is accelerating its global push in enterprise AI development. In the past year, the company has grown its headcount by 50% over the last year, bringing in senior AI talent from Amazon and Google to power its next phase of expansion. Already delivering AI transformation for Fortune 50 leaders in fintech, cloud computing, consumer social, and sports-tech, Ellenox has built systems that replace costly call centers with natural-voice AI agents and deployed end-to-end social media pipelines capable of scaling global brand ...Read More >
AGRA: A 32-year-old house painter from UP's Muzaffarnagar allegedly killed his 25-year-old wife, Naurine, and poisoned his sons -- Ahil, 2 years, and Aksha, 6 months -- before taking his own life by hanging over Rs 1,500 'eidi'. Police said Irshad Ahmed and his family were found dead in a locked room on Tuesday morning, leaving the neighbourhood in shock.SSP Sanjay Kumar Verma said, "Prima facie, Irshad had a heated argument with his wife Naurine after the former had given 'eidi' (traditional gift during Eid) to his married sister without informing her. Forensic experts and a dog squad reached ...Read More >
Rahul Verma, a resident of Itiyathok and an eyewitness to the accident, said the road was slippery due to rain in the morning. (ANI) An SUV fell into the Saryu canal in the district on Sunday, leaving 11 people dead and four others injured, police said. Station House Officer (SHO), Itiathok police station, Krishn Gopal Rai, said the victims were going from Sihagaon village to offer holy water at the Prithvinath Temple in Khargupur when the accident occurred near Belwa Bahuta. Rai said the SUV ...Read More >
Gurugram, Sep 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Five people lost their lives in a tragic accident after their Mahindra Thar crashed into a divider on the National Highway while taking the exit towards Rajiv Chowk in Gurugram around 4:30 A.M. on Saturday, police said. The incident took place at Exit 9 of National Highway-48 when the driver of the speeding vehicle lost control of the SUV and it rammed into the divider with great force. According to officials, three women and two men died instantly, while another man sustained critical injuries and was rushed to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram for treatment. Po ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 05: A 42-year-old civil engineer from Suddaguntepalya, Bengaluru, died in his sleep after an alleged domestic altercation with his wife, who claims she acted in self-defence during a violent episode. The deceased, Bhaskar, was reportedly intoxicated when he returned to his Bhavani Nagar residence around midnight on June 27, after staying away from his family for two months. According to police, Bhaskar had been living with a domestic help, with whom he was allegedly having an affair. That night, he came to collect his SUV and encountered his wife, 33-year-old Shruthi. Seeing h ...Read More >
Gurugram, September 27: Five people lost their lives in a tragic accident after their Mahindra Thar crashed into a divider on the National Highway while taking the exit towards Rajiv Chowk in Gurugram around 4:30 A.M. on Saturday, police said. The incident took place at Exit 9 of National Highway-48 when the driver of the speeding vehicle lost control of the SUV and it rammed into the divider with great force. According to officials, three women and two men died instantly, while another man sustained critical injuries and was rushed to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram for treatment. Police added ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The Maharashtra government fears that increase in height of Alamatti reservoir in Bagalkot district of Karnataka from 519.60 meters to 524.256 meters would result in flooding of Sangli, Satara and Kolhapur districts owing to backwaters and there is no need for the Maharashtra government to fear flooding since its own expert committee led by retired Principal Secretary to Irrigation department Nandkumar Wadnekar ruled out flooding from the Almatti and Hipparagi reservoirs, stated Minister of Large Scale Industries M.B. Patil on Sunday. M.B. Patil was the irrigation minister in Sidda ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for calling out the Delhi police for allegedly referring to Bengali as a Bangladeshi language, labelling it a "direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem is composed." Stalin said such remarks were not "inadvertent errors" but a reflection of a regime that undermines India's linguistic diversity. "The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as a 'Bangladeshi language.' This is a direct insult to the very language in which our National Anthem ...Read More >
Mumbai: A day after a roadside dweller was left critically injured after a speeding SUV jumped onto the footpath and hit him, Ghatkopar police arrested the driver Bhavika Dama (30) and her friends Koram Bhanusali (30) and Aniket Bhansode.As the medical test confirmed that Dama, who sustained injuries to her hand, was driving under the influence of alcohol, police have added charges of drunk driving and culpable homicide. The unidentified victim, still unconscious, is being treated at Rajawadi Hospital's ICU for head injuries and a fractured leg.The accident took place around 6.15am on Saturday ...Read More >
Bahraich (UP): A 15-year-old boy died while practising for a race at a government-aided inter college in Nanpara in Bahraich district, college officials said on Thursday. Himanshu, a class 9 student at Sa'aadat Inter College and a resident of Bhaggapurwa village, was participating in a 100-metre sprint with about a dozen classmates on Wednesday as part of preparations for Independence Day celebrations. Witnesses said he crossed the finish line in third place but collapsed unconscious moments later. An ambulance was called, and he was rushed to the local community health centre, where doctors ...Read More >
Kozhikode/Kochi: As the investigation into the confessions of Muhammadali of Vengara regarding a murder committed 39 years ago gains momentum, crucial leads now suggest that the victim in the Koodaranji case may have been a native of a village near the Palakkad-Tamil Nadu border. The fresh clues came to light from the testimony of O P Thomas, who served as the Sub-Inspector at Thiruvambady police station in 1986 and retired from service as a DySP. According to Thomas, a relative had arrived to claim the body at the time and identified the deceased as Sivan. The man, who spoke Tamil, said Siva ...Read More >
New Delhi: In cricket, some defeats leave a scar that generations remember. Something like that happened on Monday as India's narrow loss at Lord's in the third Test against England brought back the vivid memories of another heartbreaker. The match took us back to 26 years ago when in Chennai India fell agonisingly short against arch rivals Pakistan despite Sachin Tendulkar's brilliance. Mohammed Siraj's dismissal stirred the deja vu of Chennai. On a tense final day at Lord's, India needed 21 more runs with just one wicket in hand. Ravindra Jadeja was holding the series single-handedly from o ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said that India's first bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad will commence operations "very soon," and it will reduce travel time between the two cities to just 2 hours and 7 minutes. Talking to reporters at the Bhavnagar terminus in Gujarat, after virtually flagging off three trains: the Ayodhya Express, Rewa-Pune Express, and Jabalpur-Raipur Express, Vaishnaw stated that the bullet train project is moving quickly. Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) will be connected to major cities of Gujarat, such as Vapi, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to May 2019, when EC had changed the guidelines to allow EVM counting to proceed regardless of postal ballot counting stage. The 2019 change did not rule out chances of EVM counting being completed before postal ballot counting. INDIA bloc had, during the 2024 elec ...Read More >
Satara (Maharashtra) [India], October 24 (ANI): A woman doctor died by suicide in Maharashtra's Satara on Friday, leaving a note written on her hand that named a police official and two others, officials said. Satara Superintendent of Police, Tushar Doshi, said that a case has been registered against the accused under charges of rape and abetment to suicide. The Police Sub-Inspector named in the note has been suspended. Also Read | Delhi Fortuner Accident: 2 Cousins Heading to Murthal for Dinner Burnt Alive After SUV Collides With Truck, Vehicle Dragged for 400-500 Metres Before Busting Into ...Read More >
Lucknow, Dec 16 (PTI) At least 25 people were killed and 59 injured in a series of fog-linked road accidents across Uttar Pradesh, with the worst tragedy unfolding on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura, where a multi-vehicle pile-up turned into an inferno, police said on Tuesday. The maximum number of 13 fatalities was reported from Mathura, while four people each were killed in Basti and Unnao and two each in Meerut and Barabanki. According to officials, all the incidents were linked to poor visibility. President Droupadi Murmu condoled the loss of lives and injuries in the Mathura incident, ...Read More >
Gurgaon: A property dealer in Faridabad was run over by a Thar registered in the name of an assistant commissioner of police, sparking allegations that the investigation was being influenced because of connections of the accused. Police are also probing if the ACP's son was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.The victim, Manoj Kumar Mangla, was on his way back from Vrindavan with friends when he stopped at a restaurant near a convention hall in Sector 12 around 1.30am on Sunday. Accor ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 20-year-old youth was fatally stabbed in a road rage incident in east Delhi's Geeta Colony on Friday night. The scuffle began when his scooter grazed another two-wheeler and the three men astride allegedly assaulted and stabbed the victim.The deceased, Yash, was the only son of his parents. Police have apprehended the three accused. The cops said that while Mohammed Aman and Lucky were both in their early twenties, the third accused's age was being verified.There was tension in the area after Yash's family claimed that he was killed for befriending a girl from another community. A ...Read More >
Leh, July 18: Veteran BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Kavinder Gupta, was sworn as the 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.Dressed in traditional Ladakhi attire, Gupta took the oath of office in a solemn ceremony held in Leh, administered by Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, Chief Justice of the High Court of J&K and Ladakh.Welcoming this new chapter in Ladakh's journey, Gupta emphasized service over power, declaring Ladakh deserves dignity, development, and a voice. "I'm here to serve, not to rule."Speaking to the reporters, Gupta acknowledged the pain of past neglect ...Read More >
New Delhi: Industry leaders welcomed the recently announced GST reforms, which reduce the number of tax slabs, stating that it will make tax compliance easier while also directly benefiting consumers through lower prices. Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce Joint Secretary Navjot Alang Rubal said that the reduction of the number of slabs from four to two under the new GST structure is a highly positive step. According to Rubal, this reform will greatly benefit the middle and lower-income groups as the tax reductions on essential items of daily use will bring a noticeable drop in prices. He furthe ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 19 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta celebrated her 51st birthday in her ancestral village, Nandgarh, in neighbouring Haryana on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top Union ministers and BJP leaders greeted Gupta, born on July 19, 1974, on her first birthday after becoming the chief minister in February. "Best wishes to Delhi Chief Minister, Smt. Rekha Gupta ji, on her birthday. Rising through the ranks, she has always remained active in serving Delhi. As Chief Minister, she has undertaken numerous initiatives for the city's welfare. May she be blessed with ...Read More >
Gonda, August 3: A major accident in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district left 11 people dead and four others injured after an SUV carrying 15 passengers fell into the Saryu canal near Belwa Bahuta village, on Saturday morning. The victims, all from Sihagaon village, were traveling to offer holy water at the Prithvinath Temple in Khargupur when their vehicle veered off a narrow, slippery stretch of road and plunged into the canal. All 11 bodies were recovered from the water. Among the deceased were six women, two men, and three children. The victims were identified as Beena (35), Kajal (22), Meha ...Read More >