An alcoholic 46-year-old man from Ghatkopar has fled after crushing his wife’s head with a rock in the wee hours of Wednesday; this is the third gruesome incident of children being unfortunate witnesses to their mothers’ murders in the city in a fortnight.

Duraiswami Arjun, who is an alcoholic, is absconding after killing his wife in a fit of rage at his house in Santosh Nagar, Ghatkopar.

“Arjun, who works as a drain cleaner, is a habitual drunkard and would often get into fights with his wife after consuming liquor,” said Vinay Kakade, senior police inspector, Dindoshi police station.

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A Jaguar fighter aircraft on Thursday crashed in Dilahi Firozpur village in Mau district, killing its pilot and a girl working in a field, the second IAF plane to meet with an accident this week.

The single-seater plane of the IAF burst into flames soon after the crash, DIG, Azamgarh range, L.Ravikumar said.

The pilot and a girl working in a field were killed in the accident, he said.

The Jaguar, a deep penetration strike aircraft, had taken off from Gorakhpur airbase in UP, IAF sources said in Delhi.

On Tuesday, a MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed while landing at Naal airfield in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, killing the pilot.

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Mumbai: “He wanted to name her Arpita, but she will never hear her father call her by that name,” said an inconsolable Ashwini, who was sitting outside J J Hospital’s morgue with her month-and-a-half old unnamed daughter.

Ashok Bate (35) died at the JJ hospital yesterday after 50 per cent burns and serious injuries to his abdomen and left arm.

They have three children Aditya (9), Divya (8) and the infant. Bate worked as a peon in an office in Zaveri Bazaar and had gone to Khau Galli with his colleagues to snack on a vada pav, when the blast took place.

“He always ate at Khau Galli, I never thought he would die like this. What will happen to my three children,” cried Ashwini, who sensed something wrong when her husband was transferred from ward number 35 to the critical care unit last afternoon.

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New York: A man accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions was ordered Thursday to undergo a psychological evaluation after his lawyer told a judge that his client might be mentally ill.

“He has indicated to me that he hears voices and has had some hallucinations,” said the attorney, Pierre Bazile.

Levi Aron, 35, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and kidnapping as prosecutors said he lured Leiby Kletzky to his home Monday after the little boy got lost while walking home from an Orthodox Jewish day camp.

Video cameras captured the fateful encounter between the two on a Brooklyn street, while Leiby’s mother waited anxiously just a few blocks away. Detectives later found the boy’s severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in the man’s freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives.

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Mumbai: In a seemingly coordinated attack, three explosions took place in Mumbai one after the other on Wednesday between 6.54 and 7.06 in the evening – the first at Zaveri Bazaar in South Mumbai, the second at kabutar khana in Dadar West, central Mumbai and the third again in South Mumbai at Opera House. The Maharashtra home secretary has said 20 people have died 113 are injured. The death toll may rise.

In Delhi, the Home Ministry has confirmed that this was a terrorist attack and Mumbai has been sealed and is on high alert. Mr Chidambaram said his ministry would make a statement every two hours or sooner. The next statement will be made at 11 pm today.

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New Delhi: The devastating Kalka Mail accident has now claimed 69 lives. At least 150 passengers have been injured in the accident.

The rescue operation, has, meanwhile, ended. The rescue workers faced extreme difficulty in reaching the last coach of the New Delhi-Howrah Kalka Mail that derailed on Sunday.

Nearly hundred Armymen were pressed into service with medical supplies being rushed to the area.

The train was on its way to New Delhi from Howrah, with 1,200 passengers on board when 15 bogies of the train derailed near Malwan station in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district on Sunday.

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Tokyo: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 hit Japan’s northeastern coast on Sunday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for the area still recovering from a devastating quake and killer wave four months ago.

Residents in coastal areas were warned to evacuate for about two hours after the quake, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake hit at 9:57 local time (0057 GMT), and a warning of a tsunami was issued for most of the northeastern coastline. The epicenter of the quake was in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu, at a depth of about 20 miles (30 kilometers).

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