In a series of massive disasters, at least 65 villagers are reported buried alive in hillslides and landslides that occurred in Raigad, Ratnagiri and Satara districts of the state following torrential rains, top officials said here on Friday.Chief Minister...

At least four persons were reported killed as torrential rains pounded Maharashtra on Thursday for the second time in five days, hitting the coastal Konkan and western parts severely, officials said.Though Mumbai was largely spared, heavy rains lashed coastal...

A five-member family was wiped out while three others rescued when a portion of a hillock caved and crushed several hutments in a suburb of Maharashtra's Thane on Monday, officials said.The incident in Kalwa suburb occurred this afternoon, as heavy rains...

At least 22 persons were killed in 11 different incidents as rains wreaked havoc on Mumbai and Mumbai Metropolitan Region since midnight, the BMC Disaster Control said here on Sunday.As Mumbai slept the skies opened up with thunder, lightning and heavy...

Five members of a family were killed when their van collided with a truck which then overturned and fell on the van, crushing the passengers.The incident took place on Friday in Itaunja in Lucknow on the Sitapur highway.A JCB machine was called for the rescue...

One soldier was killed and seven suffered serious injuries after an Army heavy vehicle carrying these personnel met with an accident on Wednesday morning in upper Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh due to inclement weather conditions, Indo-Tibetan Border...

Two persons were burnt alive strapped to their seats when the Maruti Eeco van in which they were travelling collided with an electric pole and caught fire in Gurugram on Saturday, police said.The incident occurred at around 5 p.m. on Tikli-Gairatpur Bas...

Six people, including two minors were killed after a car carrying them crashed in Balrampur district on Friday.The police said that the car, travelling at a high speed, turned turtle and fell into a ditch after colliding head on with a bike.The incident...

In the first major monsoon-related tragedy, at least 11 persons were killed and 7 more injured when a two-storied residential building collapsed and crashed on an adjoining tenement in Malad west late on Wednesday, officials said here on Thursday. The tragedy...

Five people were killed and one injured on Saturday in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district.Police said a vehicle went out of the driver's control around 9.30 a.m. in Digdole area."The vehicle dropped into the Bisleri...

As many as eight people were killed after a gas cylinder exploded in a house here, causing two other adjoining houses to collapse.The incident took place on Tuesday night in Wazirganj police circle.Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over...

Nearly 29 labourers from Uttar Pradesh, who were working at Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project in Uttarakhand's Chamoli and went missing when a glacier burst triggered a massive flash flood on February 7, have finally been declared "dead".This will bring...

Exactly a week after the devastating Cyclone Tauktae struck Maharashtra, a total of 86 bodies have been recovered from the Arabian Sea, including 70 from the two vessels that sank near Bombay High Fields, an official said here on Sunday.Barge Papaa-305 and tugboat...

The Indian Navy has recovered six more bodies from the Arabian Sea, while an expert diving team with specialised vessels located the sunken Barge Papaa-305 resting on the seabed, officials said here on Saturday.With this, the death toll in the Arabian Sea...

As the death toll in the barge tragedy in the Bombay High Fields rose to 49 on Thursday, it has now emerged that there could have been over 10,000 people in the path of the devastating Cyclone Tauktae as it whirled over to Gujarat on Monday.In the tragedy...

The death toll in the barge tragedy near Bombay High Fields increased to 37 with 11 more bodies recovered and brought to shore, officials said here on Thursday.On Wednesday, at least 26 persons on board the drifting Barge Papaa-305 were found dead in the...

Four members of a family were killed in a house collapse in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.The roof of the house in Kalandar Shah locality collapsed following incessant rains in the past 36 hours.The victims comprised a woman, Afsana and her two daughters...

In a gruesome tragedy, at least 22 persons on board the drifting Barge Papaa-305 met a watery end in the stormy Arabian Sea in the aftermath of the Cyclone Tauktae, officials said here on Wednesday.Their bodies have been brought to Mumbai by Indian Navy...

At least 6 persons were killed in Maharashtra as the fury of Cyclone Tauktae wreaked havoc in the state, bringing heavy rains, strong gales of over 100 km/hr, uprooting scores of trees, damaging over 2,500 homes, disrupting road traffic, and forcing shutdown...

Stormy winds and heavy rains caused by Cyclone Tauktae claimed two lives and uprooted more than 1,000 trees in Goa, disrupting normal life and road traffic and causing power outage in most parts of the coastal state on Sunday."Two people lost their lives because...

Even as the authorities are saying that the 18 wild elephants were killed after being struck by a massive 'lightning' bolt in central Assam's Nagaon district, the wildlife experts are saying the tragic incident is very "mysterious" and demanded a thorough...

At least four persons including a senior citizen, were killed when a massive fire engulfed the Prime Criticare Hospital at Kausa in Mumbra town, early on Wednesday morning, officials said.Another more than 20 patients in different wards were evacuated,...

A total of eight people have died after an avalanche hit Uttarakhand's Chamoli Garhwal district near India-China border at 4 p.m. on Friday, the Indian Army said. The force said six people are critical and are undergoing medical treatment.The road access...

At least two people have died after an avalanche hit Uttarakhand's Chamoli Garhwal district near India-China border at around 4 p.m. on Friday, the Indian Army said.The road access is cut off at four to five locations due to multiple landslides and Border...

At least 13 patients including 6 women perished in a major fire that broke out in a private Covid hospital in Virar town of Palghar district of Maharashtra, around 80 kms north of Mumbai, early on Friday, officials said.President R. N. Kovind, Prime Minister...

Nine persons were killed after a jeep plunged into the Ganga river from the Pipa bridge in the Danapur police station area adjacent to state capital Patna on Friday.Many persons are reported to be missing. A police official said a group of people were returning...

Five persons were killed and several injured when the Lucknow-Chandigarh express rammed into a truck, a DCM trailer and two motorbikes on the railway track on Thursday morning.The incident took place in Katra police circle early on Thursday morning and the...

In a horrific incident, at least 22 Covid-19 patients on ventilator support died at a Nashik public hospital after an abrupt drop in pressure due to leakage in oxygen supplies, and two others succumbed later, officials said.The tragedy occurred at the Dr...

Four patients were killed when a fire engulfed a private hospital in the Chhattisgarh capital Raipur on Saturday.While Ramesh Sahu succumbed to burn injuries, three others -- Ishwar Rao, Vandana Gajmala and Devika Sonkar -- died due to suffocation.The reason...

At least 12 people were killed and 43 others were injured after a DCM truck in which they were travelling fell into a 25-feet deep gorge at Chakkarnagar road near Udi crossing in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district on Saturday.SSP Brijesh Kumar Singh said that...

Three labourers were killed and four were still trapped on Monday when an unauthorized under-construction portion of a two-storeyed auto manufacturing factory in Punjab's  Ludhiana town collapsed, police said.Thirty seven labourers were rescued in a joint...

Two slabs of an under-construction flyover on the Dwarka Expressway near the Daultabad village Chowk collapsed on Sunday around 7.30 a.m.The broken span is part of the 29-km long expressway, which is intended to connect Kherki Daula on the Delhi-Gurugram...

A mini truck carrying labourers was hit by a speeding milk van in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district early Tuesday leading to the death of five people and injuring four others.One of the injured in the Duvvuru area accident is reported to be serious.The...

One of the tents installed at the farmers protest site at Singhu border on Delhi's outskirts caught fire around 10 a.m. on Saturday. It was doused quickly with the help of the fire brigade and no casualties were reported in the accident.Duggal Singh, a farmer...

Nine persons were killed and three seriously injured when a Scorpio vehicle rammed into a container on Thursday morning in the Etmadpur area here.Police said eight died on the spot, while the ninth succumbed to injuries in the S.N. Medical College emergency...

At least seven persons were killed in a major fire that broke out on the 13th floor of a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata's Strand Road area on Monday evening.Among the dead, four were fire brigade officials, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Kolkata's...

A 28-year-old youth was killed on the spot when a vehicle he was driving fell into a deep gorge in Doda district of Jammu division on Wednesday.Official sources told GNS that the vehicle-EECO Van-driven by one Sajad Ahmed son of Mohammad Hussain wani of...

At least 30 persons drowned when a bus loaded with passengers fell into a canal on Tuesday morning in Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh. At least seven persons had been rescued so far.The bus with over 50 passengers was on way from Siddhi to Satna when it went out...

With the rescue operation expected to wind up in next few days, rescuers on Tuesday found two more bodies inside a tunnel of the disaster-hit Tapovan project in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand taking the total number of bodies recovered so far to 58.Uttarakhand...

Six people were killed in a road accident in J&K's Doda district on Monday, police said.A vehicle on way from Doda to Batote went out of the driver's control and dropped into a deep gorge at Rangi Nallah, they said."Relief and rescue teams were immediately...

At least 14 people, including five women and a child, were killed when a mini bus overturned and collided with a truck in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool early Sunday morning.The accident occurred around 4.30 a.m. on Hyderabad-Bengaluru national highway near Madapuram...

A 'Jhula Bridge' is in the making in Uttarakhand's recent flood ravaged zone that will soon connect hundreds of people residing in 13 villages.The villages lost their road connectivity from rest of the country after the February 7 flash flood that swept...

At least four people were injured when a major fire followed a blast in a gas cylinder godown of a major oil and gas company in the thickly populated Versova suburb of Andheri west, here on Wednesday, officials said.According to the BMC Disaster Control,...

A massive flood in Uttarakhand's Joshimath area on Sunday is a rare incident of a glacial burst, and may be "a climate change event", say leading climate scientists.Satellite and Google Earth images do not show a glacial lake near the region, but there...

Over 150 people have lost their lives and over 150 are missing following a massive flood near a power project at Reni village in Joshimath area of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday, officials said.The incident occurred after the water level in Dhauliganga...

There was a massive flood in Uttarakhand's Joshimath area due to the water level in Dhauliganga river suddenly crossing its regular flow on Sunday morning followed by an avalanche near a power project at the Reni village of Chamoli district.The incident took...

Close on the heels of the shocking murder of two women by their parents in Madanapalle, another tragedy was recorded from Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Thursday in which four members of a family, two women and their two daughters, drowned to death...

Ten persons were killed and 13 grievously injured in a collision between a truck and a mini-bus on the Moradabad-Agra highway in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The injured have been admitted to the government hospital and district hospital in Kundarki, the police...

Six persons were killed when their auto-rickshaw was hit by a speeding truck in Telangana's Mahabubabad district on Friday, the police said. The deceased include three women who were on their way to Warangal to shop for a marriage.The accident occurred near...

At least five persons were killed when an ambulance rammed into a stationary truck in the Gopiganj area in Bhadohi district on Tuesday morning.The ambulance was going from Asansol in West Bengal to Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, carrying a dead body.Sources...

Two earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted Chile's Magallanes and Antarctica region, with no reported casualties or damages, but authorities issued a tsunami warning after the first temblor.According to the National Seismological Centre...

A loud sound of explosion was heard in Shivamogga on late Thursday night, suspected to be caused by explosive materials kept on a stone crushing site, the police said, adding at least 10 people have been reportedly killed.This incident took place in Abbalagere...

At least five persons suffocated to death as a major fire broke out in an under-construction building in a plant of global vaccine giant, the Serum Institute of India (SII), here on Thursday afternoon, shocking the country.Health Minister Rajesh Tope and...

A total of six persons were killed and seven injured in Rajasthan's Jalore district when a bus caught fire after coming in contact with a high tension wire of 11,000 volts, police said on Sunday.The bus was on its way to Ajmer (and Beowar situated near...

Three people were killed in a fire that broke out at a scrap shop in Delhi's Kirti Nagar area, officials confirmed on Friday.The fire broke out at the shop at around 11 p.m. on Thursday night and soon it engulfed small shanties above it where a family of a...

At least 25 people were killed and 20 others were injured as the roof of a structure in a cemetery in Muradnagar area here collapsed while they were sheltering under it amid heavy rains after attending a funeral on Sunday, officials said.The incident was...

Five youngsters were killed when the car in which they were travelling collided with a truck in Hyderabad in the early hours of Sunday, police said.The accident occurred at Wipro Circle in Gachibowli when the car jumped a signal and was rammed by the truck.A...

Six persons were killed when a multi-purpose vehicle they were travelling in fell into a well in Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh. Three others were evacuated by passersby.The victims were returning from a wedding when the accident took place, the police...

Three persons were killed and five others sustained serious injuries when the car in which they were travelling, rammed into a stationary truck in Shahabad area in Hardoi district.The accident took place late on Monday night.All the passengers in the car were...

Two persons lost their lives while travelling in a private bus in Pali in Rajasthan when a 100 feet long and two feet wide pipe pierced through one of the windowpanes of the bus, chopping the head of the woman sitting on the window side and injuring the...