Poushi Mandal, 33, was grimacing in pain as she sat on the stretcher outside the old casualty block of the female ward at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital on Friday afternoon. Husband La...

Chaos and stampede-like situation prevailed at suburban Thane station on Friday, as commuters thronged to board the air-conditioned local on the first day of its regular run.The AC train services star...

Timelessness is a concept that comes glibly to Indians; they have a lot to say about the delusions of this time-bound life. Perhaps it is this mode of thought that predominates in their vision of infr...

Six people, all but one of them minors, were killed and about 35 others injured in a stampede of panicked concert-goers early on Saturday at a disco in a small town on Italy's central Adriatic coast, ...

Fifty six people were killed in a stampede as mourners packed streets for the funeral of a slain Iranian military commander in his hometown on Tuesday, forcing his burial to be postponed, state-affili...

An eight-year-old boy crushed in a stampede set off by a police baton-charge on protesters in Varanasi died in hospital on Friday night as the death toll since Thursday’s protests in Uttar Pradesh r...

Two footbridges had been sanctioned for Santragachi station, where a stampeded on the lone, narrow footbridge on Tuesday evening left two men dead, in the fiscal 2010-11.One is barely 20 per cent comp...

Namita Sardar was resting under a banyan tree barely a few yards from the serpentine queue that led to Kachua Loknath temple around 2.45am on Friday.She and her husband Sujoy Sardar were about to join...

Two men died after being injured in a stampede on a narrow footbridge at Santragachi station, in Howrah, after several trains arrived in quick succession on Tuesday evening.Sources said the victims �...

The Baba Loknath Brahmachari temple authorities in Kachua plan to approach the owners of an adjacent pond to “use a part of it” to widen the road leading to the temple.Government officials on Satu...