I got tired of hauling buckets of water to my distant trees and dumping the water at the base of the tree only to see it ...

A 14-month-old boy drowned in a bucket of water outside his home at Melachery in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpet district earlier this week.

At around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, he was slinging buckets of water on the fire, but the heat was overpowering. Thirty minutes later, the smoke cleared and blue skies appeared. Salit had no idea it ...

The child is said to have woken up when the house help and his sister aged 11 years were asleep. He then stumbled to the bucket unheard in the house and drowned therein.