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New Delhi, March 5 A 17-year-old girl was killed and over 100 shanties were gutted after a major fire broke out in Delhi's Rithala area in the early hours of Thursday.The blaze left dozens of migrant families homeless as it swept through the densely packed settlement. The Delhi Fire Services...

Bhandara (Maharashtra), March 4 A 23-year-old man, originally from Uttarakhand, drowned in the Ravanwadi lake in Bhandara district here on Wednesday, police said.The deceased, identified as Saurabh Mehera, was working in a restaurant in Nagpur. On March 3, he and his friends had gone to...

Kolkata, March 4 One person died after a fire broke out in a cluster of shops near the Madhyamgram railway station in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, officials said.The body of an employee from a sweetmeat shop was recovered from the damaged shop after fire service...

Kolkata, March 4 Three people drowned and one went missing after being swept away by the Hooghly River while they were bathing after celebrating Holi in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Balaram Sarkar Ghat in Ward...

Pune, March 3 At least four people were injured after an iron structure of a temporary stage erected for a Holi event collapsed in the Mundhwa area of Pune city on Tuesday, police said.According to police, the incident occurred while the Holi celebration was underway at the 'Royal Palms' lawn...

Pune, March 3 At least four people were injured after an iron structure of a temporary stage erected for a Holi event collapsed in the Mundhwa area of Pune city on Tuesday, police said.According to police, the incident occurred while the Holi celebration was in progress at the 'Royal Palms'...

Beed, March 2 A 22-year-old man died and three others were injured after their speeding car overturned and crashed into the protective wall of a well in Beed district, Maharashtra, in the early hours of Monday, police said.The accident occurred near Nagaryachiwadi in Shirur Kasar taluka, while...

Vetlapalem (Andhra Pradesh), March 2 The death toll from the cracker unit blast here has reached 22, according to a district official on Monday."One person died on Sunday night at 9 pm. The death toll has risen to 22," said Kakinada District Medical and Health Officer (DM&HO) J Narasimha Nayak to

Buxar (Bihar), March 1 Two people drowned and one was critically injured after they got trapped in a pit in the riverbed while fishing in Buxar district of Bihar on Sunday afternoon, officials said.The incident occurred at Ramrekha Ghat, within the Town police station area of the district...

Nagpur, March 1 At least 18 workers died, and 24 others were injured, most critically, in a powerful explosion that occurred at an explosives manufacturing factory in Nagpur district, Maharashtra, on Sunday morning, police said.The explosion took place at the detonator packing unit of SBL...

Nagpur, March 1 At least 17 people were killed and 18 others injured in a powerful explosion that ripped through an explosives manufacturing factory in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Sunday morning, police said.The incident occurred a day after an explosion at a cracker unit in Andhra...

New Delhi, March 1 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed his condolences for the loss of lives in an explosion at an explosives factory in Nagpur, Maharashtra, and announced an ex gratia of ₹2 lakh each for the families of the deceased and ₹50,000 for the injured from the Prime...

Vetlapalem (Andhra Pradesh), March 1 The death toll in the cracker unit blast here in the Kakinada district rose by one overnight, reaching 21, according to an official on Sunday.As many as 20 people, including nine women, were killed and nine more were critically injured in a powerful blast...

Aurangabad, February 26 Three people were killed and seven others were injured after their SUV collided head-on with a truck in Aurangabad district, Bihar, on Thursday, police said.The accident occurred near Dev Mor on NH-19 in the afternoon, they said.A total of 10 people were travelling in...

Mathura (UP), February 26 A 17-year-old boy and his friend drowned while bathing in a pond near a temple here, police said on Thursday.According to police, Saksham (15), Ravi, and Kartik, all 17, residents of Kosi Kalan, had gone to Barsana to celebrate Lathmar Holi. While returning in the...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 The death toll from the collapse of an unauthorized advertisement board in Bhubaneswar's Khandagiri area rose to two after another injured person succumbed to injuries in the hospital, police said on Wednesday.Two others, including a woman, are in critical condition...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 The death toll from the collapse of an unauthorized advertisement board in Bhubaneswar's Khandagiri area rose to two after another injured person succumbed to injuries in the hospital, police said on Wednesday.Two others, including a woman, are in critical condition...

Patna, February 24 – A tragic road accident on NH-31 near the Bagdi Bridge in the Jhandapur police station area of Bhagalpur district claimed four lives and left 16 people injured on Tuesday evening.According to the in-charge of the Jhandapur police outpost, a speeding truck collided with a...

Meerut (UP), February 24 Six people, including women and children, were killed in a fire that broke out at a house in the Lisadi Gate area of Meerut, police said on Tuesday."The incident took place on Monday night. The injured members of the family were rushed to the civil hospital, where...

Bijapur, February 23 An Indian Police Service (IPS) soldier was injured on Monday when a pressure-activated improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites detonated in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, a police official said.The incident occurred when security personnel were conducting...