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...

Six members of a family were killed and five injured when a car in which they were travelling collided head-on with a borewell lorry in Telangana's Rangareddy district on Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred near the Malkapur Gate in Chevella mandal...

Eight persons were killed in Kaushambhi district on Wednesday morning when a truck, laden with stones, overturned on a car that was parked near the road.All the eight passengers in the car were killed on the spot. At least two more are feared trapped.The police...

Four persons were killed and one injured in a road accident when a car rammed in to a state transport bus from behind along the Greater Noida Yamuna Expressway early Saturday, the police said.The collision of the car and truck at 6.45 a.m. was of such intensity...

At least six persons, including two women and two minors, were killed after being run over by a speeding truck in Odisha's Nayagarh district on Tuesday.The incident occurred near the Sharankul area of the district, the police said. Five persons were killed...

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...