Accident

7 killed, 3 injured in lightning strike in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar

Seven men were killed and three injured after they were struck by lightning in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar-Bhatapara district on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place this evening in Mohtara village when the victims were working in a field, a district administration official said. "As per preliminary information, these persons gathered at the edge of a pond near their field amid heavy rainfall when lightning struck. The deceased were identified as Mukesh (20), Tankar Sahu (30), Santosh Sahu (40), Thaneshwar Sahu (18), Pokhraj Vishwakarma (38), Dev Das (22) and Vijay Sahu (23)," he said. The three injured persons have been hospitalised, the official added.

Porsche crash: 2 more held for swapping blood samples, total arrests now 9

The Pune police have arrested two more persons in connection with the alleged swapping of blood samples in the Porsche car crash case, a top official said on Tuesday. With the arrest of the duo late Monday night, the number of persons held in the Porsche car crash case has gone up to nine, the police said. "The blood samples of two minors who were with the juvenile accused in the car, were swapped with those of these two persons, who include a father of a minor," Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said this morning. The high-end car allegedly driven by the minor under the influence of alcohol knocked down two motorbike-borne IT professionals, one of them a woman, in Pune's Kalyani Nagar area in the wee hours of May 19, killing them. The boy's father is a prominent builder. The boy's parents and doctors - Dr Ajay Taware, then HOD of forensic medicine department, Dr Shrihari Halnor and one Atul Ghatkamble, a staffer from Sassoon are already arrested for allegedly swapping the ..

Rau's IAS centre tragedy: The high cost of libraries in coaching hubs

Success stories in movies and TV shows like 12th Fail, Aspirants, and Kota Factory have driven many students to coaching centres, while the traditional 'hard work' approach has led many aspirants into

Nepal flight crash: Table-top runways are risky, India has five of them

Five airports in India have table-top runways, which are situated on elevated terrain, with steep drops on one or more sides, leaving minimal margin for error

Travel influencer Aanvi Kamdar dies after falling into 300 ft gorge

The 27-year-old Mumbai-based social media influencer was on a monsoon outing with seven friends. She fell into the deep gorge near the Kumbhe waterfall at Mangaon, Maharashtra while shooting reels

No water, no food: Kerala man trapped in medical college lift for 2 days

A 59 year old patient became trapped in a lift in Thiruvananthapuram Medical College for more than 40 hours. Three staff members have been suspended as investigation continues

BMW hit-and-run case: Why was the 23-year-old served alcohol? Updates

Mumbai BMW hit-and-run case: Mihir Shah and his friends consumed four large pegs of Whiskey each, and paid a bill amounting to more than Rs 20,000 before the tragic incident. Updates here

Another bridge collapses in Bihar, 13th such mishap in three weeks

Bihar witnessed another bridge collapse on Wednesday, making it the 13th such incident in the state in a span of three weeks, an official said. The bridge collapsed at Mahishi village in Saharsa district earlier in the day, he said. It might be a small bridge or causeway. District officials have left for the spot. We are trying to gather more information about the incident, Additional Collector (Saharsa), Jyoti Kumar, said. There were no reports of any injury or fatality. The Bihar government has suspended at least 15 engineers in connection with the series of recent incidents of bridge collapse reported from various districts, including Siwan, Saran, Madhubani, Araria, East Champaran and Kishanganj. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had last week instructed officials to conduct a survey of all old bridges in the state and identify those that require immediate repair.

One accused detained by police in Pune hit-and-run case, car seized

The accused has been identified as 24-year-old Siddharth Raju Kengar alias Gorakh

Woman killed as BMW hits her; accused identified as Shiv Sena leader's son

A woman died after the two-wheeler on which she was travelling with her husband was hit by a BMW car in Mumbai's Worli area in the early hours of Sunday, a police official said. The woman, identified as Kaveri Nakhwa (45), was travelling with her husband Pradip on the arterial Annie Besant Road when the luxury car driver lost control at around 5:30am, the Worli police station official said. "Kaveri Nakhwa fell on the road. Passersby alerted police about the incident. She was rushed to civic-run Nair Hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival. Kaveri and her husband are fisherfolk and were on their way home in Worli Koliwada from Sassoon Dock in Colaba," he said. The driver of the car, Rajesh Shah, and one more occupant identified as Rajrishi Rajendrasingh Bidawat have been booked and detained, the Worli police station official said. Speaking about the incident, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said the law was equal for everyone and no would be spared. Asked if ..

Hathras stampede: Ghaziabad victim's kin receives Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia

A cheque of Rs 2 lakh was on Sunday handed over to the family members of a woman who died during the stampede in Hathras, officials said. Vimlesh Devi (50) was among the 121 people who died in the stampede that happened after the 'satsang' of self-styled godman Surajpal alias Narayan Sakar Hari alias Bhole Baba in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras. A cheque of Rs 50,000 was also handed over to 18-year-old Mahi, who was injured in the stampede. The ex-gratia amounts were given from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund and handed over by Ghaziabad Mayor Sunita Dayal, a statement said. The mayor handed over a condolence letter of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to the family members of deceased Vimlesh Devi and expressed sympathy for Mahi. The mayor was accompanied by Sub-Divisional Magistrate Arun Dixit and Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam corporator Neeraj Goel.

Italian landowner arrested after Indian worker dies in farm accident

Italian police arrested a farm owner on Tuesday on suspicion of homicide after one of his workers, an undocumented labourer from India, bled to death when his arm was cut off by a piece of farm equipment. The landowner abandoned the bleeding worker and failed to call an ambulance, prosecutors said. The death of Satnam Singh has shocked Italians and sparked protests by unions and farm workers demanding better working conditions. They have called for an end to the exploitive caporalato system of using underpaid migrant labour to work in Italy's agriculture industry. Even President Sergio Mattarella has weighed in on the case, referring to what he said was the cruel exploitation of workers like Singh and inhuman conditions in which seasonal farmhands often work in Italy. Carabinieri police in Latina, a largely agricultural province south of Rome, arrested farm owner Antonello Lovato after prosecutors bumped up the original suspected crime of manslaughter to homicide with malice ...

Kavach implementation progressing rapidly on 3k km routes: Railway Ministry

A day after the collision of two trains in West Bengal, the Railway Ministry Tuesday said the implementation of Automatic Train Protection System, also known as Kavach, is going on in a rapid manner on 3,000 route kilometer, and once completed it will help prevent such accidents. A goods train rammed into the stationary Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express near Rangapani, 30 km from the New Jalpaiguri station in Siliguri, on Monday morning killing 10 people and injuring around 40. The accident triggered a wave of criticism of the railways over the delay in the implementation of the Kavach. In response, the ministry said Kavach is a very complex system involving six major sub-systems: laying optical fibre cable along the track, installing telecom towers along tracks, installing telecom equipment on these towers and on trains, setting up data centres at stations and integrating them with the signal system, installing equipment on tracks; and finally installing equipment on locomotives

Woman falls 300 feet into valley while reversing car to make reel. WATCH

The woman attempted driving in reverse while her friend was filming a reel at the time of the incident

Yearly average of over 40 'consequential' train accidents since 2018-19

Longer-term trend shows decline in number of incidents

Kanchanjunga Express accident: Kavach status back in focus after mishap

The railway ministry is in process of floating tenders for Kavach integration for over 10,000 rkm, and has completed track-side infrastructure work on over 6,000 rkm, a top government official said

34 Singapore Airlines passengers still in hospital a week after turbulence

Singapore Airlines said that 50 people who were aboard Flight SQ321 on May 21 are yet to leave Bangkok

Pune Porsche crash: Rs 3 lakh 'paid to swap' teen's blood sample, peon held

A peon from Sassoon General Hospital in Pune was arrested for allegedly accepting a Rs 3 lakh bribe to swap a teen's blood sample involved in a Porsche crash with an alcohol-free one

Another Indian student dies in US, this time in bike accident in NY

An Indian student died in a bike accident in New York, US, on Wednesday, the Consulate General of India informed on Thursday.Shri Belem Atchyuth was a student at the State University of New York.The Consulate General of India in New York offered condolences to the family of the deceased student, saying that they were in touch with his family members and have also called on local agencies to extend all assistance.In a post on X, the Consulate General of India in New York stated, "Saddened to learn about the untimely demise of Shri Belem Atchyuth, a student at SUNY who met with a bike accident and passed away yesterday evening; our deepest condolences to the family; @IndiainNewYork is in touch with the bereaved family & local agencies to extend all assistance including sending the mortal remains back to India."The incident comes amid a spike in the deaths of Indian-origin students in the US. Earlier, in April, an Indian student, who had been missing since March this year, was ...

Death toll in Ghatkopar hoarding collapse incident rises to 17: Officials

The death toll in the hoarding collapse incident that occurred in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area on May 13 has gone up to 17 with the death of a man at a civic-run hospital here, officials said on Wednesday. Raju Sonawane (52), who had suffered injuries after the hoarding collapsed on a petrol pump in Chheda Nagar locality during gusty winds and unseasonal rains, died during treatment at the KEM Hospital on May 19, a civic official said. Earlier, the authorities had declared 16 persons, including a retired Air Traffic Control (ATC) general manager and his wife, as dead. The collapse of the giant 120x120 feet hoarding had also left 75 persons injured. A day after the incident, the injured who needed to undergo neurosurgery were shifted to the KEM hospital, the official said. Bhavesh Bhinde, the director of the advertising firm that had installed the hoarding was later arrested from Udaipur in Rajasthan. A court here has remanded him police custody till May 26.