fatalities

Kathmandu, March 21 Two Indian nationals died on Saturday after being hit by a local bus in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.Padam Upadhyay and Satish Kumar Kushwaha, both Indian nationals working in Kathmandu, sustained serious injuries after being hit by a private bus in the Bhotebahal area...

Nainital, March 21 Two men died and two others sustained serious injuries on Saturday after their car plunged into a gorge in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, police said.According to the police, all four tourists travelling in the car were residents of Uttar Pradesh.The accident...

Saharanpur (UP), March 21 Two teenage cousins were killed after a tractor-cart collided with their motorcycle in the Gangoh police station area of Saharanpur district, police said on Saturday.The deceased have been identified as Shakib (15) and Sabir (16), both residents of Sangatheda village...

Chatra, March 20 Three women were killed in lightning strikes in the Chatra district of Jharkhand on Friday, officials said.Circle Officer Udal Ram of Pathalgadda said that Shama Praveen (35) died in the village of Bandarchuwa after being struck by lightning while she was collecting mahua...

Salem (Tamil Nadu), March 20 At least seven people were killed and several others injured when a TNSTC bus collided head-on with vehicles near the Ariyanoor village in the district on Friday, police said.The accident occurred when a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus travelling from...

New Delhi, March 20 An Indian national was killed in an Iranian attack on Riyadh this week, bringing the total number of Indian fatalities from the ongoing conflict in West Asia to six since it began three weeks ago.The Indian national died following a missile attack on Riyadh on Wednesday...

Patna, March 20 – Three people, including two teenagers, were killed in a tragic accident in the West Champaran district of Bihar, police said on Friday.The incident occurred late Thursday night, around 11:50 p.m., near Nathbaba Chowk in Bagahi, under the Bairia police station area.According...

Anuppur, March 20 – A devastating road accident on National Highway-43 (NH-43) claimed the lives of two individuals when a speeding car collided with a parked tractor-trolley in the Tama police station area of Anuppur district, Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Friday.The incident occurred...

Agra (UP), March 20 Five people, including four from a family, died, while four others sustained serious injuries when a sports utility vehicle (SUV) in which they were travelling crashed into a tree here, police said on Friday.According to the police, the deceased have been identified as...

New Delhi, March 19 A relative of the nine family members who died in a fire in a multi-story building in the Palam area here said on Thursday that many of them died due to suffocation, as there were no visible injuries on their bodies.Ramesh Soni, whose nephew owns a jewelry shop next to the...

March 19 The Mizoram Excise and Narcotics Department reported in its latest report that 19 people have died this year due to drug abuse, bringing the total number of such deaths since 1984 to 2,016.The report stated that the 19 drug-related deaths were recorded up to March 19. Of these 19...

New Delhi, March 18 – A fire that broke out in a four-story residential building in southwest Delhi’s Palam area on Wednesday morning resulted in the deaths of nine family members, including a 70-year-old woman and three young girls, one just three years old.The incident triggered a...

Bhubaneswar, March 18 Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi suspended four officers on Wednesday for dereliction of duty, two days after a fire at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack killed 12 patients, officials said.The suspended officials include three personnel from the Odisha...

In New Delhi and Indore, 17 people, including many children, were killed and several shops in Ahmedabad and Chandigarh were gutted due to devastating fires on Wednesday. The incidents triggered panic and large-scale firefighting operations.Authorities rushed to contain the fires and rescue...

Korba, March 18 Five people, including a woman and her nine-year-old granddaughter, were killed in two separate road accidents in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday.The first accident occurred on Tuesday night, while the second took place on Wednesday morning, they...

Indore, March 18 Eight members of a family were killed when a fire broke out in a three-story house after an explosion at an Electric Vehicle (EV) charging point outside the building in Indore early on Wednesday, officials said.The deceased included two minor children and three women, they...

Jaipur, March 17 – At least five people lost their lives, and more than a dozen others were injured in a tragic collision between a bus and a trailer truck on the highway near Baramsar in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district on Tuesday.The accident occurred around 7:00 a.m. on the Sardarshahar...

Kathmandu, March 16 – The Indian Embassy said on Monday that it is working with the relevant Nepali authorities to ensure the early repatriation of the remains of pilgrims who died in a minibus accident in the western Gorkha district on Saturday.According to local police, seven Indian pilgrims...

Ballia (UP), March 16 A 22-year-old woman and her son died, while her husband sustained injuries after a fire broke out at a commercial establishment in a village in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, a senior police official said.According to the police, the deceased were...

New Delhi, March 16 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his distress over the loss of lives in the tragic hospital fire in Cuttack, Odisha, on Monday, and announced an ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for the families of the deceased.The incident...