Muzaffarnagar violence: Death toll climbs to 38, curfew continues in riot-hit areas

Curfew on Tuesday remained in force in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar with the army patrolling troubled places as the death toll rose to 38. Over 360 people have been arrested in connection so far. Muzaffarnagar violence: Supreme Court agrees to hear PIL seeking CBI probe into communal clashes Muzaffarnagar violence: Akhilesh asks officials to make arrangement for treatment of injured SP unfazed by Azam Khan?s absence in party?s...

Muzaffarnagar violence: UP Governor sends report to Centre

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi has sent his report on the Muzaffarnagar violence, in which 28 persons were killed, to the Centre, official sources said on Monday. UP Governor sends report to Centre The report has been sent to the Centre on Sunday itself, a senior official said. In the report, the Governor has cited the sequence of events beginning August 27, when three persons were killed in Kawal town of Muzaffarnagar...

Eleven killed in road accident in Jaunpur

 At least 11 people were killed in a road accident in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday night around 11.00 pm after a jeep carrying a group of people skidded from a bridge and fell into Sai River in Jalalpur area. The victims were brought to a local hospital in the wee early morning hours on Saturday (March 02) where eleven of them were declared dead. "At about 12.40 am (local time) all the victims of the accident were brought in. Four of them were brought in injured condition. While one of them succumbed to his injuries,...

Sad story of aircraft crashes and politicians Press Trust Of India

   Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu's death in a helicopter crash adds another sad chapter to the story of politicians who have died in chopper and airplane accidents in the country over the past several decades. The tragedy is a grim reminder of the deaths in aerial crashes involving Indian politicians - YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Sanjay Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, GMC Balayogi, S Mohan Kumaramangalam, OP Jindal, Surendra Singh,...

15 killed, 24 injured in Uttar Pradesh bus accident

  Amroha: At least 15 people were killed and 24 others injured, two of them critically, when a bus rammed into a tree on Amroha-Joya road in the wee hours of Monday. The incident took place at around 2 AM when the overloaded bus coming from Haridwar was on its way to Kamalpura village in Sambal district, police said. While 13 persons were killed on the spot, two others succumbed to injuries in a hospital. All the victims belong...

DGCA orders an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA, has ordered an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh. Officials in New Delhi said a high level team of DGCA officers led by Director General E K Bharat Bhushan will visit the accident site today. Seventeen people were killed and six seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Tawang town of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday. The...

Centre forms panel to probe Tawang chopper crash in arrunachal pradesh

PTI This April 19, 2011 photos shows a Pawan Hans chopper crashing into a gorge while landing in Tawang town of Arunachal Pradesh. A Committee of Inquiry has been appointed to probe the crash, which claimed 17 lives. The government has appointed a Committee of Inquiry to probe the circumstances of the Pawan Hans helicopter crash at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on April 19 that claimed the lives of 17 people. The committee,...

17 killed as copter falls into gorge

Army personnel and villagers having a look at the remains of a Pawan Hans helicopter which crashed in Tawang on Tuesday. Photo: Special Arrangement PTIPeople watch after a Pawan Hans chopper, with 23 people on board, crashed into a gorge while landing in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. Second such crash in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh In one of the worst helicopter crashes in Arunachal Pradesh, 17 persons, including...

12 killed in IAF helicopter crash

An Indian Air Force (IAF) MI-17 helicopter crashed at Bomdir near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, killing all 12 defence personnel on board. The victims included an Army official of the rank of lieutenant colonel and 11 IAF personnel, including two pilots. IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Ranjib Sahoo, based in the Eastern Air Command headquarters in Shillong, told The Hindu that all the bodies have been retrieved from...

Heavy rains lash north India: 73 dead and 72,000 stranded; Uttarakhand worst hit

Rain fury on Tuesday claimed 11 more lives in the north India, taking the toll to 73, even as 71,440 pilgrims bound for the Himalayan shrines remained stranded in monsoon-ravaged Uttarakhand apart from 1700 people stuck in Himachal Pradesh.  Though rescue efforts picked up momentum in flash flood and landslide hit areas of Himachal and Uttarakhand with a let up in the rains and decrease in water level in the Ganga...

Twelve die in Himachal accident

Twelve people, all belonging to a village in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district, were killed when a private vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a 700-metre-deep gorge Sunday night, police officials said. All 12 bodies were recovered early Monday from the wreckage of the vehicle, an official told IANS.The victims, all from Kuthar village, were returning in a multi-utility vehicle after playing a cricket match.Police officials...

27 feared dead in Himachal bus accident

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11 dead in Himachal road accident

At least 11 people were killed and nine injured when an overcrowded multi-utility vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district Saturday, police said. The injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital in Paonta Sahib. Some of the injured have been referred to Chandigarh's Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER). The accident took place...

Eight pilgrims die in Himachal road mishap

  Eight pilgrims, mostly from Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh, were killed and 42 others injured when the private bus in which they were travelling rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh, police said Sunday. The pilgrims had returned from Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir, and were on a visit to prominent Hindu shrines of this hill state. The bus rolled into a 250-metre-deep gorge on the outskirts of Kangra town, 250 km from state capital...

42 killed in road accidents in N India

India has the highest number of road accidents in the world.   At least 42 people, including 33 family members of a marriage ceremony, have been killed and seven others injured in two separate accidents in northern India. The accidents happened in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh in northern India on Wednesday evening and early Thursday, Xinhua reported. A truck carrying members of a family from Chaura to Shekhpur plunged into...

18 killed as bus rolls into 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal's Sirmaur

At least 18 people were killed on Friday and an equal number injured when a private bus carrying passengers skidded off the road and fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, police said. Eighteen bodies have been recovered, Superintendent of Police Sumedha Diwedi said. The bus was carrying at least 35 passengers on board at the time of the accident, and many have been injured. The police officer...

51 killed, 46 injured as bus falls into Himachal gorge

At least 51 people, including 18 women, were killed and 46 others injured Saturday when an overcrowded bus rolled into a 300-feet deep gorge in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, police said. Most of the victims were going to Chamba town to participate in the Minjar, a Hindu fair that symbolises the blossoming of maize. The private bus was going to Chamba town from Dularo village when it skidded off the road and fell into the 300-feet deep...

Himachal bus accident toll rises to 38 in Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), May 9

The death toll in a an accident in which a bus skidded off the road and plunged into the Beas river rose to 38, officials said Thursday. Seven people were still critical. Police officials said negligent driving was the cause of the accident Wednesday, as the driver, who jumped off the bus just before the bus plunged into the river, was on cellphone. The 42-seater private bus carrying over 70 passengers was going to Ani town from...

52 killed as bus falls into gorge in Himachal Pradesh

  At least 52 people, including 18 women and two children, were today killed and 46 others injured when an overcrowded private bus veered off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district.The mishap took place near Rajera, 8 km from the district headquarters of Chamba, when the bus driver lost control over the...

52 killed, 46 injured as bus falls into gorge in Himachal Pradesh

At least 52 people, including 18 women and two children, were today killed and 46 others injured when an overcrowded private bus veered off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district. The mishap took place near Rajera, 8km from the district headquarters of Chamba, when the bus driver lost control over the vehicle after a tyre burst and it fell into the 250-feet- deep gorge, police said. The 42-seater bus, on its...

Road accidents claim 3,479 lives in last 3 years in Himachal

div style="on: In an awakening revelation at Vidhan Sabha transport minister Mohinder Singh said that drunken driving, human errors, bad roads, weather conditions and mechanical failures have claimed 3,479 deaths in road accidents during the past three years in Himachal Pradesh. Minister was responding to a question by Anil Kumar and Yog Raj (Congress), told the Vidhan Sabha during question hour that majority...

28 die in Himachal bus accident

 off the road and fell into a 500-foot-deep gorge Monday night in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, an official said. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the bus, while five injured have been hospitalised, Deputy Commissioner K. R. Bharti told IANS Tuesday. The 42-seater bus, ferrying passengers from Palampur to Asha Puri, a village known for a hilltop shrine,...

Himachal bus accident: Death toll rises to 52

The 42-seater bus, on its way to Chamba from Dulera, was carrying over 100 passengers. As many as 39 people, including the driver, died on the spot, while 13 succumbed to their injuries in the hospital. "All the bodies have been recovered," Chamba Deputy Commissioner Sunil Chowdhary said. The injured were rushed to a hospital in Chamba where the conditions of 12 are stated to be critical. Himachal Assembly Speaker Tulsi...

12 dead in Himachal bus accident

At least 12 people were killed on the spot and 26 injured six of them seriously. The injured have been referred to PGI in Chandigarh in three different ambulances from Dharamsala. A tourist bus, carrying pilgrims from Delhi, veered off the road and plunged into a gorge in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh late tonight, killing 12 and injuring 26, according to Himachal Pradesh Transport Minister G S Bali. The bus,...

IPS Narendra Kumar’s death is an accident not murder : CBI

While filing a chargesheet, CBI has claimed that killing of Madhya Pradesh IPS officer Narendra Kumar is the case of negligence and not murder as driver of the vehicle responsible of officer’s death has nothing to do with any kind of mining mafia. Chargesheet filed by CBI reads, ‘Manoj Gurjar, driver of the vehicle had nothing to do with any kind of mining mafia. He was taking the stones for his own personal use.’ It is noted that...

Accident victims left in lurch

Rescuers inspect a mangled train compartment after a crash in Shivpuri district of MP on Monday. — AFP All Railway employees, including the Station Master of the Badarwas Railway Station in Madhya Pradesh near Guna, are reported to have abandoned their posts early on Monday morning after a goods train rammed into...

Madhya Pradesh minister, four others injured in road accident

img alt="Madhya Pradesh minister, four others injured in road accident" class="imageText" height="296" src="http://images.jagran.com/truckaccident-b-28-05-2012.jpg" width="400"> Madhya Pradesh Minister of State for Agriculture Brajendra Pratap Singh and four others, including a former MP, were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck at Hardua village near. Accident in Madhya Pradesh, road accident in Madhya Pradesh,...

14 killed after bus collides with truck in MP

  Sixteen people were killed and 24 others injured today when their bus collided head-on with a truck near Naugaon Navodaya Vidyalaya, about 20 kms from here. The bus was on its way to Chhatarpur from Harpalpur when it dashed with a Naugaon-bound truck loaded with cement around 7 AM, police said. Representational image. AFP The accident claimed 12 lives on the spot while four others succumbed to injuries on way to a nearby hospital. Chhattarpur...

15 killed in Madhya Pradesh bus accident in Chhatarpur (MP)

  15 people were killed and over 30 injured when their bus collided head-on with a truck near Naugaon Navodaya Vidyalaya, about 20 killometres from Chhatarpur.The bus was on its way to Chhatarpur from Harpalpur when it crashed into a Naugaon-bound truck loaded with cement around 6 am on Tuesday, police said.The accident claimed...

Madhya Pradesh road mishap: Seven killed, one injured as jeep collides with truck

Madhya Pradesh road mishap: Seven killed, one injured as jeep collides with truck 28 Jul 2013, 02:29 PM 16.7K1155 923 Road mishap Road mishap The truck carrying buffaloes hit the jeep coming from Agar in Shajapur near Susner on Saturday evening. Later, police, with the help of local people, extricated the passengers from the mangled jeep and sent them to a local community health center where seven of them succumbed to their injuries while one...

21 dead, 41 rescued in MP bus accident in Bhopal

As many as 21 people were killed and 41 others were rescued when an overcrowded bus fell into Bagdi river in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district, police said. The accident took place on late Wednesday when a private bus, on its way to Indore via Chapra from Nemawar, with around 70-80 passengers on board skidded off the bridge and fell into the overflowing Bagdi river at Khategaon village. Pawan Jain, inspector general of police,...

UP minister’s 18-yr-old son dies in accident

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Youth dies in accident, mob on the rampage in lucknow

A mob set ablaze 16 vehicles at a hot-mix plant and fought a pitched battle with the police after a truck crushed a man at the Gomti Nagar Extension on Tuesday. The police used lathis and rubber-bullets to disperse the mob which hurled brickbats. Paresh Pandey, SP (Trans-Gomti), said over two dozen motorcycles found on the spot have been seized and these would help in identifying the rioters. District Magistrate Amit Ghosh has ordered...

Truck rams into slum, eight kids killed in lucknow

In a tragic incident late Tuesday night, eight children were killed and over a dozen injured when a speeding truck overturned at Nagla Patwari near the bypass in Aligarh, 335 km from here, police said. The incident happened when the truck, loaded with bricks, got stuck in a pothole. The driver lost control, the truck turned turtle and then hurtled into a roadside slum in the village. The...

41 Indian pilgrims dead as truck falls into pond in Uttar Pradesh State

   Villagers stand near the half submerged passenger-laden wagon which was pulled by a tractor in a deep ditch, after a fatal accident in Ballia district, some 350km southwest of Lucknow yesterday   At least 41 Hindus, many of them children, were killed yesterday when their vehicle fell into a roadside pond in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The tractor pulling a trailer was carrying about 60 people from...