Treasure hunter crushed to death in temple outside Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Aug 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) A youth was killed and three others injured as a pillar of an old temple on the outskirts of Bengaluru fell on them as they and five others dug under it…
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DJB employee jumps into water tank, dies
New Delhi, Aug 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Delhi Jal Board (DJB) employee committed suicide by jumping into a water tank in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar phase 2, police officials said on Saturday. The deceased was identified…
Cylinder blast in south Delhi leaves 6 injured
New Delhi, Aug 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) A cylinder blast was reported in a house in JJ Camp in Tigri in south Delhi on Saturday evening. At least six people, including a woman, were injured in the…
Fake call centre busted in Haryana, one arrested
Gurugram, Aug 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s flying squad have busted another illegal call centre operating from Sohna Road that allegedly duped 600 foreign nationals of Rs one crore, police officials said…
Kozhikode flight tried to land once before final skid on runway
New Delhi, Aug 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ill-fated Air India Express flight from Dubai to Kozhikode tried to land amid heavy rains and low visibility at around 16 minutes before it landed and skidded off the…
Krishna river in rain-hit Karnataka flows near danger mark
Bengaluru, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Krishna river and its tributaries in Karnataka inched close to the danger mark due to heavy rains and discharge from neighbouring Maharashtra into the state’s northern region, officials said on Saturday….
AI Express plane landed deep in touchdown zone, inclement weather blamed
By Rohit Vaid New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Heavy rains, along with low visibility, are being cited by aviation industry experts as the key reasons that caused the horrific plane tragedy at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport…
Sword brandished at Goa birthday celebration; probe on
Panaji, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Goa police on Saturday launched a probe in a bizarre birthday celebration by unidentified persons outside the state’s biggest dairy plant in South Goa on August 4, in which a person…
Kozhikode plane crash: CISF men in forefront of rescue mission
By Rajnish Singh New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Assistant Sub-Inspectors Ajit Singh and Mangal Singh of the CISF prevented the loss of many lives with their quick response following the crash of an Air India…
Palghar lynching: Maha CID submits first report to Juvenile Board
Palghar (Maharashtra), Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Moving ahead in the April 16 Palghar triple lynching case, the Maharashtra CID has filed its report against two juveniles, arrested in connection with the murder of two Sadhus and…
Dismissed from Transport dept, man impersonates as Cop to extort money
The Delhi police have arrested an ex-employee of the Delhi Transport department for impersonating as a policeman and robbing people in the national capital. The man identified as Subhash Chander, is a resident of Loni…
Rapper Badshah paid Rs 75 lakh for fake social media likes, followers
Mumbai, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Continuing its probe into the sensational social media racket linked to creating fake ‘followers and likes’, busted last month, the Mumbai Police has investigated at least 20 prominent personalities including rapper…
Kerala activist Rehana Fathima surrenders in obscenity case
Ernakulam (Kerala), Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) A day after the apex court rejected her plea against the Kerala High Court order denying her anticipatory bail in a case under the POCSO Act and IT Act over…
Gloom deepens at Kerala landslide site; 24 bodies dug out so far
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the confirmed death toll in the landslide in Kerala’s Idukki district climbed up to 24 with the recovery of five more bodies on Saturday, the gloom deepened as the loud…
No relief for flood-hit, say Bihar villagers
By Manoj Pathak Muzaffarpur, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nearly 16 of the 38 districts in Bihar have been inundated with people rendered homeless and struggling to get food. Although the water levels in the Bagmati river…
Thak Thak gang members behind viral robbery video nabbed
New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi police nabbed the Thak Thak gang members involved in a robbery case of July 21. The CCTV video of the robbery went viral on social media platforms including…
Goa oppn MLA questions shortening of Mopa airport runway
Panaji, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hours after an Air India Express flight crashed in Kerala, an opposition MLA in Goa on Saturday expressed concern over a July decision to reduce the length of a runway at…
Aviation Ministry, DGCA were forewarned in 2011 about dangers in Kozhikode runway
New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Precious lives have been lost in the Air India Express runway mishap on Friday evening, but the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the…
Family, friends of Kerala crash pilot find his demise ‘hard to believe’
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Family, friends and relatives of Captain Deepak V. Sathe, the pilot who was killed in Friday’s Air India Express aircraft crash at Kozhikode International Airport, find it hard…
Pregnant woman saved by delay in getting fitness certificate
Dubai/Kozhikode, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Dubai-based Ijaz Ummar and his seven-month-pregnant wife Jasleena are left stunned at their narrow escape, for she was slated to be on the Air India Express flight that crashed at Kozhikode…