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Meerut (UP), February 24 Six people, including five children, were killed and a woman was injured after a fire, suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, broke out at a house in the Lisadi Gate area here, police said on Tuesday."The incident occurred at Kidwai Nagar around 8 pm on...

New Delhi, February 24 – Six members of a cloth merchant's family, including five children, were killed after a massive fire broke out at their two-story home in the Lisari Gate area of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.An elderly woman and a neighbor sustained severe burn injuries and are receiving...

Etawah (UP), February 23 Two people were killed and five others were injured when their car collided with a truck loaded with rice, while attempting to overtake another truck on the Agra National Highway here on Monday morning, police said.SHO of Jaswant Nagar police station, Kamal Bhati, said...

Narsinghpur, February 23 Three labourers were killed and seven others were injured after their pickup truck overturned at a bridge under construction near Barman in the Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, a police official said.The incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the...

Lucknow, February 23 Five people were killed and at least 14 were injured when a double-decker bus overturned near the toll on the Purvanchal Expressway here on Monday evening after the driver lost control of the vehicle, police said.According to officials, 80-85 passengers were on board the...

Peshawar, February 23 Three personnel of the Federal Constabulary (FC), a paramilitary force, were killed on Monday in a terrorist attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, police said.The incident occurred in the Karak district.Karak District Police Officer Saood Khan said that...

Kozhikode (Kerala), February 23 Three people died after a 50-meter-long concrete slab at a building owned by the Kozhikode Corporation collapsed on loading workers in Valiyangadi on Monday, police officials said.The deceased have been identified as Jabbar, Ashraf, and Basheer, who were working...

Sonbhadra (UP), February 22 Three women were killed and two others were injured on Monday after a soil mound collapsed in a forest area of Kirwani village, a police officer said.The deceased had gone with other women to collect clay from the Kirwani forest for plastering and painting their mud...

February 23, New Delhi – At least 17 people, including two foreigners, were killed in a bus accident near Charaundi in the Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality of Dhading along the Prithvi Highway on Monday.The bus, traveling from Pokhara to Kathmandu, plunged into the Trishuli River. Among the...

Bhubaneswar, February 22 – Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced on Sunday that each of the five police personnel who died in a road accident in the Jharsuguda district earlier that day would receive a compensation of Rs 5 lakh.According to a statement issued by the Chief...

Itanagar, February 22 One person was killed and three others were seriously injured when a sports utility vehicle (SUV) they were travelling in fell into a gorge in the Shi-Yomi district of Arunachal Pradesh early Sunday morning, police said.The accident occurred near the Yapik village when...

Mehsana, February 21 Five members of a family were killed and six others were injured on Saturday after their minivan crashed into a barrier on the Unjha-Mehsana highway in Gujarat, police said.The family was returning to Ahmedabad after attending a wedding ceremony in their hometown in the...

Bagalkot (Karnataka), February 21 – Three migrant laborers and their two-year-old child, all from Maharashtra, were killed in a road accident in Bagalkot district, Karnataka, on Saturday, according to police.According to police, the victims were traveling in a tractor-drawn cart to a sugarcane...

Mehsana, February 21 – Five members of a family from Ahmedabad were killed and six others were injured when their car collided with a barrier on the Unjha-Mehsana highway near Unava in northern Gujarat on Saturday morning, police said.The family was returning from a wedding in Rajasthan to the...

Gwalior, February 21 – At least five people were killed and seven others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a van on a national highway in the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh during the night of Friday and Saturday, police said.The accident occurred between 2:30 a.m. and 3...

Jaipur, February 18 Two people died and three others were injured after a sports utility vehicle (SUV) overturned in the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan on Wednesday evening, police said.The victims were travelling from the Tonk district to attend a 'mayra' ceremony (a pre-wedding ritual) when...

New Delhi, February 17 A 32-year-old man died from asphyxiation after a fire broke out at a building in the Sadar Bazar area of north Delhi on Tuesday, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said.The deceased, identified as Sohan (32), was found unconscious on the second floor of the building...

Kabul, February 17 – Two miners were killed and two others were injured in an explosion inside a mine in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said on Tuesday.The accident occurred in the Ragistan district on Monday afternoon, resulting in...

New Delhi, February 16 Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the deaths of factory workers in a fire accident at a chemical factory in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.The fire accident in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan...

Nagpur, February 14 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said a thorough investigation will be conducted into the incident in Mulund, Mumbai, on Saturday, where a section of the metro rail collapsed, killing one person and injuring three others.The investigation will cover aspects of...