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From Selma to Minneapolis | The New Yorker

On March 16, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Viola Liuzzo got into a late-model Oldsmobile and drove eight hundred miles from her home in Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama. Days earlier, following the Bloody Sunday protests, where voting-rights demonstrators had been tear-gassed and beaten, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had issued an appeal to people…

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Asphyxiation, heart failure: Autopsy details Noida techie Yuvraj Mehta’s desperate fight before drowning in pit | Noida News

NOIDA: The post-mortem report of 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta, who drowned after his SUV fell into a water-filled pit in Sector 150, Greater Noida, has revealed that he died due to asphyxiation and cardiac failure.Trapped in the deep, icy water on a fog-choked night, Mehta struggled to survive for nearly 90 minutes. He managed…

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