‘Dead horses’ come alive

Srinagar, In a glaring example of man’s apathy towards animals, two horses given up as dead turned out to be alive after a fortnight in Srinagar Wednesday.

People in the uptown Rawalpora area of the city Wednesday called the helpline telephone numbers set up by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) during the recent windstorm, complaining about the carcasses of two horses lying in the local swamp for the last fortnight. Read More................‘Dead horses’ come alive in Srinagar

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'Murdered' man returns home, 3 accused get bail

NEW DELHI: A man who was supposed to have been murdered walked back to his village in Uttar Pradesh but not before three persons accused of killing him had spent 10 years in prison after being convicted under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code and sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court: an order that was upheld by the Allahabad High Court. Read More................'Murdered' man returns home, 3 accused get bail

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Boy declared dead wakes up in mortuary

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government Monday suspended a doctor in a case of medical negligence in which a teenager declared dead by him regained consciousness in a mortuary in Muzaffarnagar district. Read More................UP: Boy declared dead wakes up in mortuary

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'Dead' woman found alive dies in hospital two weeks later

Kochi,  Nearly two weeks after being declared as ''dead'' by police, a 68-year-old injured woman, who was battling for life at a hospital here finally gave up her struggle and passed away.

Mani, a retired school teacher, died yesterday, hospital officials said.
The woman was brought at the hospital in an unconscious state on June 24 after she was found lying inside a toilet in her house at Paravoor in Ernakulam district on June 23. Read More................''Dead'' woman found alive dies in hospital two weeks later

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'Dead man' comes alive while being taken for post-mortem

Raipur,  His wife was inconsolable, his relatives were mourning his sudden death. So, when 32-year-old Vijay Kumar Ratre 'came alive' and tried to jump out of the ambulance while being taken for post-mortem, the atmosphere changed from one of gloom to incredulous joy.


It all started with the Tikrapara police station here getting several calls from local residents that a dead body was floating in a pond in Lalpur area since several hours. Read More................'Dead man' comes alive while being taken for post-mortem

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After years of legal battle man proves himself alive

Mohali, The 12-year-old legal battle of a retired warrant officer of the IAF to prove that he was was not dead came to an end when a sub-divisional court declared him alive.
Deciding two separate suits dating back to 1999 and 2002, in favour of Sital Singh Bagi, a sub-divisional court at Rajpura in Patiala has set aside the court order issued in 1996, wherein the septuagenarian ex-serviceman was declared "dead", and has now declared him alive. Read More................After years of legal battle ex-IAF man proves himself alive

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Alive man receives his death certificate

Noida: A 70-year-old man has received a photocopy of his death certificate by post at Chaura Raghunathpur area here, police said.
Ishwar Chand Sharma, a resident of Noida Sector-22, received his death certificate on January 14 which declared him dead as on August 18 last year, police said. Read More................Alive man receives his death certificate

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Man buries niece alive for prosperity

Gonda (Uttar Pradesh): Acting on the directions of a self-professed godman that killing of a minor girl would bring him prosperity and good luck, a man buried his eight-year-old niece alive in this Uttar Pradesh district Tuesday, police said.

Shiv Kumar, a resident of Bangharanpurwa village in Gonda, some 150 km from Lucknow, buried his niece Manau alive in fields on the outskirts of the village. Read More................Man kills niece for prosperity

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`Dead' man walking, `guarding' and also getting salary

MUMBAI: Allauddin Sheikh, a security guard with the local civic body, reports to work regularly and draws salary every month. Nothing amiss, except that the 52-year-old was declared "dead" by civic authorities last year. Read More................`Dead' man walking, `guarding' and also getting salary

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Man wakes up after being declared dead

A man who had been declared dead woke up when doctors began to conduct his post-mortem examination in Jajpur district of Orissa, a media report said Monday.

Manas Deo was critically injured after a vehicle hit him Dec 25 near Baragadia village in Jajpur, Oriya daily Sambad quoted Manas's wife Tiki Deo as saying. Read More................Orissa man wakes up after being declared dead

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Dead man comes alive using RTI

AHMEDABAD: Sulochna Shah, 70, could not believe her eyes when a letter from the Records of Rights (RoR) of the revenue department in July 2006 declared her a widow and that Champaklal, her husband, had four more sons and daughters other than her six children! Read More................Dead man comes alive using RTI

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Couple buries baby girl alive

Vadodara: A couple, along with their son, has been remanded to judicial custody for burying alive their fourteenth child, a newborn girl, in Jalodra village in the district. Read more............Couple buries baby girl alive

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'Dead' man in legal battle to say he is alive

Kharar (Punjab): Sital Singh Bagi's life sounds like a script of a Bollywood masala flick.

The 67-year-old ex-IAF man has been fighting a nine-year legal battle to prove that he is the "real" Sital Singh Bagi and not "dead" as his family had got him declared after he fled home allegedly to escape terrorists and did not surface for a decade. Read more........................"Dead" ex-IAF man in nine-year legal battle to say he is alive

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When the Body in the Morgue Wakes up........

An Indian pilgrim knocked unconscious in a stampede that killed 150 people woke up in a morgue as doctors prepared to perform a postmortem examination on him, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Mange Ram, 19, lost consciousness in the stampede triggered by rumours of a landslide that caused panic among thousands of people climbing a steep mountain path, the report said.

Ram told the Times of India he awoke in a hospital morgue after Sunday's tragedy at the Naina Devi shrine in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

"When I woke up, I was in the middle of a row of bodies waiting for postmortem," he said. Read more.................................When the body in the morgue wakes up...

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Dead man comes alive

AURANGABAD: In a shocking incident, an unidentified man, who was allegedly declared dead, came alive at the Government Medical College and hospital (GMCH) here, hospital sources said today. Read more.......................Dead man comes alive

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Dad finds baby alive 10 hrs after docs say it's dead

KOLKATA: For Sangita and Manas Das, the joy of being parents for the third time was shortlived. Minutes after the child was born early on Tuesday, nurses at Belle Vue hospital declared it stillborn. Ten hours later, when the father went to collect the body, the newborn was still breathing. Read more............................................Dad finds baby alive 10 hrs after docs say it's dead

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The dead tell no tale; in India they do

Uttar Pradesh, India:

Two wanted criminals of Uttar Pradesh were arrested recently, years after they were declared dead by their family members.

These are not rare instances in the state . There are over 200 people accused in various cases who the police believe are alive though they have been taken to be dead. Read more at India eNews.................................The dead tell no tale; in Uttar Pradesh they do

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'Dead' newborn breathes again

MUMBAI: A premature newborn baby delivered at the civic-run Sion Hospital was declared stillborn on Monday night—only to gasp to life five hours later while relatives were carrying her towards a cemetery. The hospital authorities have, prima facie, found evidence of negligence and an independent inquiry will be conducted. Read more.............................'Dead' newborn breathes again

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'Dead' woman found alive fortnight after 'burial'

In Kollam city in Kerala state of India, a 75-year-old woman believed to have been dead was found alive a fortnight after her children cremated a body taken from a hospital mortuary. Read more............................. 'Dead' woman found alive fortnight after 'burial'

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'Dead' man comes alive!

KOT AHMED KHAN(Gurdaspur - Punjab): Call it a miracle or diagnostic error on the part of the attending doctor, a 70-year-old man, who was declared dead, came alive while his body was being taken home for cremation. Read more...............'Dead' man comes alive!

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