Dramatic incident took place at the residence of the Himaval Badranantha in Aluva  finally culminated in the arrest of the hi-tech swami for attempted suicide and murder charges

Five people were killed and four injured in two road accidents in Lucknow Saturday, police said

Three members of a family were killed and three injured when a fire broke out in a thatched house in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said Saturday.

The Delhi Traffic Police Saturday conducted a special drive and fined 295 people for dangerous driving, a senior police official said

Two people from Amritsar in Punjab, were killed and two injured Saturday when the jeep they were travelling in collided with a truck in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the police said.

The murder of Noida girl Aarushi Talwar turned into a whodunit Saturday as the original suspect, the family's domestic help, was found dead on the terrace of their house with his throat slit in the same manner as the first victim.

 At least 29 people were killed and 14 others injured when a farm truck plunged into a river in the south-western province of Guizhou Thursday, the police said

 At least 15 people were killed Wednesday when two missiles allegedly fired by NATO forces in Afghanistan targeted a suspected militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said.

 A woman was killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a staff bus of computer peripherals manufacturer Moser Baer overturned as the driver tried to avoid an oncoming vehicle

A top member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) and human rights lawyer Maheswari Velauthan was shot dead in her native northern Jaffna peninsula Tuesday evening, party and military source said.

A 27-year-old disc jockey's (DJ) body was found in Manori beach in north-west Mumbai Tuesday afternoon.

At least 150 militants have been killed by Afghan and foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said Tuesday

Two people, including a child, died after they were pushed out of a private bus by its conductor for paying Rs.2 less than the fare near Orissa's Jharsuguda city Tuesday, the police said

A lawyer was shot dead in Daltanganj district of Jharkhand Tuesday, the police said.

Yesteryear's Bollywood actor Navin Nischol and his brother were acquitted of charges of abetment of suicide of his wife Gitanjali

Two criminals who allegedly tried abducting two people were lynched by a mob at Bilhaur in this Uttar Pradesh city Saturday evening.

A parents' association and a citizens' forum Saturday decided to intensify their stir to seek justice for an 18-year-old student of a college in north Gujarat who earlier this year said she had been raped by six teachers for months

The Turkish military Saturday said it killed 19 fighters of the banned underground organisation, the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), in clashes in which six Turkish soldiers also died.

A software engineer committed suicide by hanging herself after her father, a senior government officer, refused to let her marry a young man from another caste, the police said Thursday

At least 29 people were killed in Peru after a passenger bus plunged over a cliff into a canyon south of the capital Lima, police said Wednesday.

The Noida police have arrested a man and recovered from him a mobile phone that was robbed April 8 - the day when robbers struck at five places in this township, killing a former air hostess and injuring a retired army officer

An 18-year-old girl from this Gujarat town has lodged a complaint with the police, accusing her father of repeatedly raping her over a period of time

At least 17 people died and 30 remained missing Monday in Brazil after an unlicensed ship floundered and partially sank a day earlier in the Solimoes river in the Amazonian state of Amapa.

The wife of a real estate agent was found dead Monday in the Kaushambi residential towers of Ghaziabad

The capital's saga of shame continued Monday as a 24-year-old blind woman was allegedly raped by a rickshaw puller in northeast Delhi, while in another incident a neighbour allegedly tried to sexually assault a seven-year-old girl in west Delhi.