Seven members of a family were charred to death in a road accident near Surendranagar at around 3 a.m. on Saturday when a dumper truck hit their Echo vehicle. The accident caused a fire in the vehicle, in which all the seven persons trapped inside perished,...

Fourteen people, including six children, were killed when the SUV they were travelling in crashed into a stationary truck near Manikpur in Uttar Pradesh.All the deceased were members of a marriage party and there were no survivors, said police.The incident took...

Eleven members of an extended family, including six women and a child, were killed and over a dozen others injured in a road accident in the early hours of Wednesday at  Waghodia crossroads near Vadodara in Gujarat, police said.The accident occurred when...

Two women and an eight-year-old boy were killed and four others injured in a wall collapse after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai district on Sunday, police said.According to police, the cooking gas cylinder belonged to Mukhtabai...

Karnataka would seek more funds from the Centre to speed up relief and rehabilitation works in dozen of districts across the state that were ravaged by heavy monsoon rains and flash floods due to release of excess water from dams on major rivers, an official said...

The Delhi Fire Service received as many as 205 fire calls as Diwali celebrations were going on, with one casualty reported in Outer Delhi in one such incident, a senior officer said on Sunday.During the peak hours from 6pm to 11.58 pm on Saturday, 129 fire...

Seven members of a family were killed on Monday morning and four others injured when an SUV they were travelling in collided with a truck in Satna district.The victims were returning after attending a condolence meeting in Panna district when their Balero...

Nine people were killed due to a huge blast and fire in an Ahmedabad cotton mill on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters have rescued nine others from the site of the blast which razed an entire portion of the building.According to sources from LG Hospital,...

Four persons were killed and seven injured on Wednesday morning following an explosion in an illegal firecracker godown at Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh, police said.Additional Superintendent of Police Ayodhya Prasad Singh said, "A house situated in a ward...

Four Tamil Nadu residents alleged to be members of an interstate red sanders smugglers were burnt alive and two others critically injured after their vehicles rammed into a dumper truck in Kadapa district, police said."As of now four persons have died, while...

Four people were killed when the car they were travelling in fell into a ditch in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district, police said on Saturday.The accident happened on Friday night in Nehtaur area.Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar said the car...

Seven members of a marriage party died when a goods carrier auto- rickshaw carrying 16 passengers rolled down from a hilltop outside a temple at Thantikonda village of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, police officials said on Friday.Nearly 10 other...

A local Congress leader Asim Khan and another person were killed and seven others injured in a fire triggered by an LPG cylinder blast at a firecracker-making unit in the Sardhana area of Meerut.The incident happened on Thursday.The impact of the blast...

Seven wooden houses were gutted in a fire in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district on Friday, police said. However, there were no casualties.The cause of the fire at Purbani village is yet to be ascertained.Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur expressed grief over...

Seven persons were killed and more than 30 others injured when a bus collided with a van in Puranpur area of Pilibhit district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday."The roadways bus was heading to Pilibhit from Lucknow while the van was proceeding from...

Heavy rains and flash floods in Telangana have claimed 50 lives, including 11 in Hyderabad, the government said on Thursday.Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced Rs 5 lakh compensation each to the families of the deceased.For those whose houses were...

Several residential areas in Hyderabad and suburbs remained inundated on Wednesday as unprecedented rainfall has left at least 13 people dead.Hyderabad has been lashed by rains since Tuesday evening.The rains abated early Wednesday, but dozens of colonies both...

Five people died in Andhra Pradesh in rain related incidents, following heavy rainfall across the state due to a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal which crossed the Andhra coast near Kakinada on Tuesday morning.Two persons died in Munagada mandal's Ganapathi...

Two people were killed and five others were injured in a house collapse in the old city of Hyderabad on Sunday, police said.The incident occurred in Hussain Alam area. The dead, both women, and injured belonged to the same family.The house was said to be...

The driver and his helper were killed in Delhi early Friday in a fatal accident when their truck carrying iron rods rammed into a furniture factory."The driver Arif Ali and the helper  Mumtaz Ali succumbed to their injuries in the accident. Both were...

Three people were killed and seven others injured due to lightning strikes in Tripura, officials said on Tuesday.Officials of southern Tripura's Gomati district administration said that lightning struck the 10 persons while they are working at Hirapur village...

After over a month-and-a-half, fresh floods in five Assam districts have affected 1.79 lakh people besides killing one person, officials of Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said on Saturday.The ASDMA official said that in the third wave of...

An under construction commercial building in ward number 14  Merra Malli Mohalla  near Ramlila Ground of Dera Bassi sub-division collapsed roof-on, around 09:30 am on Thursday morning during the construction of the first floor of the building...

Ten people were killed, several injured and more than two dozen were feared trapped after a three-storey building crashed in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi, around 60 km north of Mumbai, early on Monday, officials said.Among the deceased are four minors....

At least two people have lost their lives due to landslides and floods in Arunachal Pradesh, while 33,200 people were affected in three Assam districts, officials said on Friday.According to the officials, thousands of people were affected due to the fresh...

At least 18 persons were killed in lightning strikes in 10 districts of Bihar on Tuesday, even as the Meteorological Department cautioned people not to move about in open places due to fear of lightning and heavy rain in the next 24 hours.Lightning detection...

Five labourers were killed and 11 injured when a passenger vehicle in Uttar Pradesh rammed into a truck in Bahraich district on Monday.All the labourers had returned to their homes during the national lockdown and were going back to work, police said.They...

As many as 16 persons have died due to flood-related incidents in Odisha while over eight lakh people have been affected, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Kumar Jena said on Saturday.He said that 16 persons have died due to wall collapse and drowning,...

The death toll in the Tarique Garden building crash in Mahad town here rose to 13 with 8 more bodies recovered from the rubble while a 4-year-old boy was among the 83 survivors, police and NDRF said on Tuesday.The NDRF said that 9 more bodies have been retrieved...

All nine persons trapped after a huge fire at an underground hydroelectric power station in Telangana were killed, officials said on Friday.All the efforts by rescue workers to save the trapped employees at Telangana State Generation Corporation (TS Genco)...

At least 10 patients were killed and several others injured in a fire at a hotel functioning as a Covid care facility early on Sunday, Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Alla Nani said.The government has set up a committee to inquire into the incident, said...

A massive search operation using man and machine, is underway on Saturday to find 50 odd people reported missing after a landslide in Kerala's Idukki district.Since the Thursday midnight tragedy struck Rajamalai, 18 people have lost their lives while more...

In one of the worst air disasters witnessed in Kerala, an Air India Express flight, returning from Dubai under the Vande Bharat mission, crashed at the "table top" Kozhikode airport on Friday evening, leaving at least 17, of the 190 people aboard, dead...

In one of the worst air disasters witnessed in Kerala, an Air India Express flight, returning from Dubai under the Vande Bharat mission, skidded off the runaway at the "table top" Kozhikode airport leaving at least 14, of the 190 people on board, dead including...

Heavy rain followed by a landslide at Rajamalai in Idukki district on Thursday night has left atleast 15 persons dead, including a child, and more than 60 others are reported missing, a police official said on Friday.The latest reports indicate that there...

Tragedy struck a family for second time in 24 hours, as three persons were killed in an accident in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district on Sunday while they were on their way to Visakhapatnam to attend the last rites of a relative who was killed in crane crash...

At least five persons were killed in a massive explosion in a boiler that ripped through the Manas Agro Industries & Sugar Ltd. plant at Bela here on Saturday afternoon, the police said.According to an official of Nagpur Rural Police, at around 2.14...

At least 10 persons were reported killed and several others injured when a jetty crane collapsed on Saturday at the Hindustan Shipyard Limited premises.According to eyewitness accounts, the mishap occurred between 11.30 am and 12 noon when officials were...

Almost half of Bangladesh remained in the grip of floods on Monday, which have also claimed the lives of 119 people.According to the daily flood situation report of the country's disaster response coordination center, the victims were reported in 21 (out of...

The flood situation in Assam further deteriorated on Thursday with four more persons losing their lives, taking the toll to 93, even as the number of people affected rose to 28.32 lakh across 26 districts, officials said.Officials of the Forest Department...

The flood situation in Assam further improved on Monday, even though one more person's death was reported in Kamrup (Metro) district, taking the death toll due to the deluge in  the state to 85, while around 24.30 lakh people in 24 of the 33 districts...

Six people died on the spot and another 20 were injured in an accident early on Sunday on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Kannauj district. Most of the passengers were migrant workers from Bihar returning to their work places in Delhi.Police said a passenger...

Even as over a month-long flood situation in Assam marginally improved on Saturday, three more persons were killed in two districts, taking the death toll due to the deluge in the state to 79, while around 28 lakh people in 26 of the 33 districts remaiend...

In Mumbai's worst building disaster this monsoon season, the death toll in the Thursday's collapse of a part of Bhanushali Building near the GPO shot up to 10 while 12 others were injured, the BMC Disaster Control said on Friday.Besides, two others were...

Five persons of a family were killed and a child was injured when a wall collapsed in Wajid Khel locality of Chowk Kotwali area in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday.Shahjahanpur District Collector Indra Vikram Singh said the family of five...

A house and 16 shops were damaged on Friday in a landslide on Srinagar-Leh national highway in J&K's Ganderbal district.Police said a landslide hit the Srinagar-Leh highway at Bonbagh village 36 kilometres from Srinagar."One residential house and 16...

Two persons were killed and 15 others rescued from debris of two buildings that crashed in the city and its suburbs on Thursday afternoon, the BMC Disaster Cell said. A few others could also be trapped, it added.In the first case, two persons were killed...

At least 21 people have been killed and 31 others reported missing due to the flash floods and landslides in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, an official said.The search and rescue efforts were intensified in the flash flood-stricken district of Luwu...

Six persons including a three-year-old girl died when the car in which there were travelling veered off the road and fell into a ditch on Thursday morning in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, police said.Two injured children have been admitted to hospital.The...

Flood in different parts of Assam inundated large swathes of land in Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage site, killing at least 51 wild animals though 102 animals have been rescued, officials said on Tuesday.They said many tigers and rhinos had strayed...

At least nine more people were killed in five districts of flood-ravaged Assam on Tuesday, increasing the state's death toll due to the deluge to 59 even as 28 of its 33 districts waged a grim battle amid sufferings of around 33 lakh people, officials said.Assam...

At least five persons including two minors were killed in a road accident that took place in Raggi Nallah area of Doda district on Friday.Police officials told news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a vehicle bearing registration number (JK19-6674)...

Four persons including two brothers died probably due to Carbon Diaoxide present at the bottom of an unused well in North Kashmir’s Kupwra district on Thursday.Chief Medical Officer Kupwara, Dr Kounsar said that all these four persons were brought dead in...

Four person died at Dard Harie Kralpora in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday after they fell in the well.They were rescued from the well under unconscious state, and shifted to hospital where they were declared dead. Officials told news agency—Kashmir...

At least five persons including two minors were killed in a road accident that took place in Raggi Nallah area of Doda district on Friday.Police officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a vehicle bearing registration number (JK19-6674)...

The vehicular movement on Jammu-Srinagar national highway was restricted temporarily after a truck loaded with liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders caught fire, triggering explosions that rattled the entire area at Tikri near Udhampur.Officials told news...

A 55-year-old man, injured in a house collapse following encounter at Kanimazar Nawa Kadal here last week, succumbed to burn wounds at SMHS hospital here, officials told GNS on Sunday. They said the man identified as Manzoor Ahmad Khan from Hawal Srinagar...

A massive fire broke out in several residential houses in Gamroo village of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday late afternoon.An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that fire emanated from a residential house of Ali Mohammad...

Fire broke out in a quarter at Police Training Centre Manigam here in Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district.Sources told KNT that smoke started coming out from a quarter and without no time flames engulfed the quarter. The fire which has not been controlled...

One person was killed and four others were rescued while fate of two others is unknown as massive landslide buried 9 vehicles including some trucks at Seri Ramban along the  jammu-Srinagar highway on Saturday.SSP Ramban Haseeb-ur-Reman, who is supervising...