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Rahul Gandhi arrives in Guwahati to honor the late singer Zubeen Garg. He will visit Garg's resting place and meet his family. Meanwhile, the Baksa region faces unrest after clashes erupted when accused in Garg's death case were moved. Police have cancelled leaves and suspended internet services. The Chief Minister stated a team will travel to Singapore for justice. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will arrive in Guwahati on Friday to pay tribute to the late singer Zubeen Ga ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 8 The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of Tamil actor C. Joseph Vijay has approached the Supreme ... Chennai, Oct 8 The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of Tamil actor C. Joseph Vijay has approached the Supreme Court seeking an independent inquiry by a former apex court judge into the September 27 stampede at Tamil Nadu's Karur that left 41 people dead and several others injured. The party, through its Secretary Aadhav Arjuna, has filed a petition challenging the Madras High Court's O ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Assam police on Friday arrested another two persons including Sekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprabha Mahanta regarding the probe related to death of singer Zubeen Garg. The SIT produced the two in the court. The court remanded the duo to 14-day custody of the SIT. While Sekharjyoti Goswami is a member of Zubeen's band, Amritprabha Mahanta is a singer who was to perform in the North East India Festival at Singapore. Both of them were in the yac ...Read More >
Guwahati: Shyamkanu Mahanta, one of the accused in the Zubeen Garg death case, filed a criminal writ petition with the Supreme Court last Tuesday, seeking the transfer of the investigation from the SIT to the CBI or the NIA and appointing a retired Supreme Court judge to oversee the probe. The petition was submitted a day before Mahanta's arrest by the Assam Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) at Delhi airport.In his petition, Mahanta also requested protection for himself and his family from ...Read More >
Guwahati (PTI): Musician Shakharjyoti Goswami and singer Amritprabha Mahanta were arrested on Thursday in connection with the death of singer Zubeen Garg, police said. Garg's musician Goswami and singer Amritprabha, who were present at the spot when the incident happened, were called for interrogation during the day and later arrested, they said. "We have found some evidence against them. So, to enquire further, their arrest was necessary," an officer said. With this, four persons were arrest ...Read More >
Singapore: Singer-musician Zubeen Garg died due to drowning while swimming off a Singapore island and not while scuba diving as reported earlier, media reports said Thursday. Assam-based Garg, who was in Singapore for the 60th year of India Singapore Diplomatic Relations and to celebrate India ASEAN Year of Tourism, North East India Festival, died on September 19. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said they have extended a copy of the autopsy report, along with its preliminary findings on Garg' ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 1 (PTI) Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma and festival chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta were arrested from Delhi on Wednesday morning in connection with the singer's death in Singapore last month, Assam Police said. The duo has been booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy and causing death by negligence, a senior police officer said. Soon after their arrest, they were brought to G ...Read More >
GUWAHATI: The special investigation team (SIT) of the Assam Police criminal investigation department (CID) on Wednesday arrested the chief organiser of North East India Festival, Shyamkanu Mahanata, and Siddharth Sharma, the manager of singer Zubeen Garg, in connection with the latter's death in Singapore earlier this month, police said. Officials confirmed that Mahanta was arrested at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Wednesday shortly after he landed from Singapore on an A ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The latest Crime in India 2023 report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), released after more than a year's delay, has painted a mixed picture for Tamil Nadu's law and order. While crimes against Dalits and children have increased noticeably, the state has seen a decline in murders and other violent offences, keeping its overall crime rate slightly below the national average. According to the report, Tamil Nadu recorded a crime rate of 264.9 per lakh pop ...Read More >
Chandigarh: As per a report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 112,720 cases were registered in Haryana in 2021, which increased to 125,435 in 2022. The figure peaked at 2023, with 129,294 cases. Based on an estimated population of 3 crore, the state recorded 426.3 crimes per lakh, and the chargesheet rate was 44.2%. In contrast, neighbouring Himachal Pradesh had fewer cases, and the chargesheeting rate was over 82%, while in Punjab, it was around 63%.Notably, there was solace ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu treported the most murders of senior citizens in 2023 with 201, show statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Besides, 211 other deaths of elderly people were reported under various crime categories during 2023.Tamil Nadu also reported the second most number of cases of culpable homicide not amounting to murder with 11 cases -- behind Uttar Pradesh, which reported 15 such killings.Overall, Tamil Nadu reported 2,104 cases of crimes against senior citize ...Read More >
Lucknow, Sep 30 (PTI) Lucknow recorded more cases of murder, rape, kidnapping, acid attack, culpable homicides and deaths due to negligence with a higher crime rate than Ghaziabad or Kanpur, according to the latest NCRB data for 2023. Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Lucknow are the only three places from Uttar Pradesh which are included in the annual crime data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in the category of the 19 "metropolitan cities" that have a population of over 20 lakh. The ...Read More >
Mumbai, Sep 30 (PTI) Maharashtra topped in recording abetment of suicide cases across the country with 1,389 offences in which 1,480 people died in 2023, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. Madhya Pradesh was on the second spot with 1,153 abetment of suicide cases in which 1,211 persons killed themselves, while Uttar Pradesh was on the third spot with 1,075 cases and 1,186 victims, data in the report showed. As per the data published by the New Delhi-headquarte ...Read More >
Chennai, Sept 30 (PTI) Days after a rally led by him in Tamil Nadu's Karur witnessed 41 stampede deaths, TVK founder and actor Vijay on Tuesday said he hasn't visited the affected persons so far as his presence there would lead to an "unusual situation." Challenging Chief Minister M K Stalin, Vijay said the CM could "do anything to him," but not his party colleagues. He insisted he did nothing wrong and that the truth behind the fatal incident would come out. The top actor said he has never fa ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 30 (PTI) India registered 27,886 cases of crimes against senior citizens in 2023, a marginal dip from 28,545 in 2022, with Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu among the states reporting the highest numbers, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said in its annual report. Crime head-wise, the highest number of cases (7,608 or 27.3 per cent) was registered under "simple hurt", followed by theft (4,130, 14.8 per cent) and "FCF" (forgery, cheating and fraud) (3,473, 12.5 pe ...Read More >
Karur, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Police investigating the tragic stampede at actor-politician Vijay's Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) rally in Karur have arrested yet another key party functionary, intensifying the probe into the stampede that claimed 41 lives. On Tuesday, Karur Police took into custody Ponraj, the TVK Central City Secretary, just a day after the arrest of Mathiazhagan, the party's West District Secretary. Both arrests come as part of the investigation into whether lapses in crowd ...Read More >
Chennai: Noted Tamil YouTuber Felix Gerald was arrested on Tuesday for "spreading rumours" over the Karur Vijay rally stampede incident, which claimed 41 lives and injured over 60, police said. The arrest comes close on the heels of police registering cases against over 20 people for allegedly spreading rumours over the stampede and following the arrest of three persons. Gerald runs a YouTube channel featuring content in Tamil on current topics. Meanwhile, a special police team arrested a Tami ...Read More >
Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Vijay remained inside his campaign vehicle for an extended period at the rally venue in Karur on Saturday which led to overcrowding and restlessness among the crowd, according to a First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Tamil Nadu Police in the stampede incident that killed 41 people and left 60 injured. The police has not filed any case against Vijay, but an FIR has been registered against three key leaders of his party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Th ...Read More >
CHENNAI/KARUR, Sep 29: TVK chief and actor-politician Vijay "deliberately" reached late at Velusamypuram in Karur district, leading to overcrowding and restlessness among the people, gathered to attend his rally on September 27, according to an FIR into the stampede in which at least 41 people have died and 60 were injured. While the FIR didn't name the TVK chief and was against three party office-bearers: Mathyiyalagan (Karur district secretary), Bussy N Anand (state general secretary), and CT ...Read More >
Karur: The deadly stampede at actor Vijay's rally in Tamil Nadu's Karur has left the country in shock, claiming 41 lives and injuring 60 others. The Tamil Nadu police have initiated a probe and arrested Mathiazhagan, the district secretary of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), for his alleged role in the incident. Mathiazhagan was named the prime accused in the FIR registered following the incident. As per the police, the FIR also names three other party office-bearers: Bussy N Anand (state general ...Read More >
Karur (Tamil Nadu), Sep 29 (PTI) Actor-politician Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's Karur West district secretary was arrested in connection with the stampede at the party president's rally, police said on Monday night. Karur West district secretary V P Mathyiyalagan was among the three TVK office bearers named in the FIR into the stampede that occurred on Saturday in which at least 41 people died and 60 were injured. TVK state general secretary Bussy Anand and party deputy general secretar ...Read More >
Chennai: TVK Karur district secretary Mathyiyalagan has been arrested in connection with the Karur stampede that killed at least 41 people and injured over 60 during a rally addressed by party chief and actor-politician Vijay on September 27. According to the FIR, Vijay "deliberately" delayed his arrival at Velusamypuram in Karur district, which triggered restlessness and overcrowding among thousands of supporters waiting for hours under the scorching sun. The case, however, does not directly ...Read More >
Chennai/Karur (Tamil Nadu), Sep 29 (PTI) TVK chief and actor-politician Vijay "deliberately" reached late at Velusamypuram in Karur district, leading to overcrowding and restlessness among the people, gathered to attend his rally on September 27, according to an FIR into the stampede in which at least 41 people have died and 60 were injured. While the FIR didn't name the TVK chief and was against three party office-bearers: Mathyiyalagan (Karur district secretary), Bussy N Anand (state general ...Read More >
Karur: Actor-politician C Joseph Vijay, heading the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, remained inside his campaign vehicle at Velusamypuram, the venue, for an extended period, leading to overcrowding and restlessness among the crowd that had gathered to attend his rally on September 27, according to an FIR into the incident in which at least 41 people have died. The police have not booked any case against the actor, but registered an FIR against three key functionaries of the TVK --district secretary f ...Read More >
TVK Karur stampede: According to an FIR, the crowd climbed over steel sheds and trees to get a better vie of Vijay's rally, and when these collapsed, they fell on the crowd below, resulting in the fatal stampede. An FIR filed in connection with the deadly Karur stampede claimed that actor-politician Vijay remained inside his campaign vehicle at the venue for an extended period, leading to overcrowding and restlessness among the crowd that had gathered to attend his rally on September 27. Accor ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The First Information Report (FIR) in the Tamil Nadu stampede case has blamed Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay's late entry to the rally for "overcrowding and restlessness" among the crowd that eventually led to the death of 41 people and left 60 injured.The stampede at Velusamypuram occurred after actor Vijay stayed inside his campaign vehicle for an extended period. As the crowd surged forward for a better view, the narrow venue became unsafe, and many climbed on steel sheds and ...Read More >
Karur Stampede: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday urged everyone not to spread disinformation and rumours on social media regarding the Karur stampede in which 41 people lost their lives. Stalin termed the tragedy a terrible incident. He said that a tragedy like this has never happened before, and should never happen again. Expressing sorrow, CM Stalin said that the administration is working tirelessly to help the people. "We have lost 41 lives, including children and women. We have ...Read More >
Karur (Tamil Nadu), Sep 29 (PTI) Actor-politician Vijay, heading the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, remained inside his campaign vehicle at Velusamypuram, the venue, for an extended period, leading to overcrowding and restlessness among the crowd that had gathered to attend his rally on September 27, according to an FIR into the incident in which at least 41 people have died and 60 were injured. Meanwhile, a TVK source said Vijay has been asked by the police not to visit the government facility to v ...Read More >
MUMBAI - A stampede that killed at least 39 people at a campaign rally in southern India happened after a crowd of thousands waited hours in baking heat without sufficient safeguards, officials and witnesses said on Sept 28. Some 27,000 people thronged a public road in Tamil Nadu state in hopes of seeing popular actor-turned-politician Vijay on Saturday, but panic broke out and 39 were killed , the authorities said. Witnesses cited hours of delays, insufficient police presence and people fal ...Read More >
CHENNAI, India, Sept 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Police charged three close aides of a popular actor and politician with culpable homicide and negligence on Sunday after a stampede at his rally in southern India killed at least 40 people, officials said. Some 27,000 people thronged a public road in Tamil Nadu state in the hope of seeing the politician, known by the single name of Vijay, on Saturday but panic broke out, triggering a deadly crush. Such crowd incidents happen frequently during mass gath ...Read More >
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