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Itanagar, March 16 Four labourers died and three others were injured on Monday after a wall collapsed during a landslide at Niti Vihar in Itanagar, police said.The landslide, triggered by heavy rain, buried seven people working at the site under debris, Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) SP Jummar...

Saharanpur (UP), March 16 Two people were killed after a tin shed, under which they had taken shelter to escape heavy rain, collapsed, police said on Monday.The incident took place on Sunday night, and the deceased have been identified as Jaipal Saini (55), a former village head, and Ramkesh...

Mangaluru/Udupi, March 11 A woman from Maharashtra, who was found in a distressed state on a national highway in the Udupi district about a month ago, has been reunited with her family after recovering from a mental health episode, officials said on Wednesday.The 45-year-old woman is from the...

Shimla, March 11 An 18-year-old student in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district defended himself against an attack by a leopard by using his bare hands and smashing the animal's jaws with stones, killing it.The second-year student at the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) was rushed to the Arki...

Pune, March 10 Police in the Pimpri Chinchwad area of Pune have arrested five people for allegedly kidnapping a businessman and demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh, officials said on Tuesday.The accused, all from Uttar Pradesh, allegedly abducted the businessman from the Rahatani area on Monday...

Ayodhya (UP), March 10 A 55-year-old devotee died and two others were injured after a swarm of bees attacked people who had gathered at a temple complex during a weekly fair in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district on Tuesday, police said.The incident occurred at the Aughad Baba temple in...

Jhansi (UP), March 9 A 20-year-old man, who had been kidnapped, was rescued on Monday, with the arrest of four accused, including two juveniles, after a brief encounter, officials said.The accused later demanded a ransom of Rs 2 lakh from the victim's family for his release, they said.Police...

Morena, March 9 A fully grown crocodile was rescued after it wandered into a wheat farm, causing panic among villagers in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, a forest official said on Monday.The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon in Masoodpur village in the Sarai Chola area when some...

Bhubaneswar, March 8 Two Class-7 students who had run away from their homes here to avoid the annual examinations were rescued from the house of a relative of one of them in Angul district, Odisha, the police said on Sunday.The two girls had left their homes in the Maitri Vihar police station...

New Delhi, March 7 The NHRC said on Saturday that its intervention in a case involving six Indian workers who were allegedly "tortured while in captivity" by their employer in Thailand over the past several months has resulted in their rescue.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had...

New Delhi, March 7 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on Saturday that its independent intervention has resulted in the swift rescue of six Indian workers from Kendrapara district in Odisha, who were allegedly being held captive by their employer in Thailand for several months...

Thane, March 7 A 40-year-old woman from Gujarat, who had gone missing during a trip, has been reunited with her family with the help of the police and a social organization in Maharashtra.Suman Viki Kharva, a resident of Surendranagar, had gone missing from Madgaon, Goa, during a trip with her...

Lucknow, March 7 A helicopter carrying Uttar Pradesh's Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to Kaushambi had to make an emergency landing after it experienced a technical problem shortly after taking off from Lucknow, sources said on Saturday.According to a BJP leader close to Maurya...

Jaipur, March 6 Around 20 people were injured after a wall of a balcony at a mosque here collapsed on them on Friday, police said.Many of the injured were given first aid, and six people have been hospitalised, they added.Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Karan Sharma said that the...

In New Delhi, on March 6, Kaouther Ben Hania, a Tunisian filmmaker, stated that she felt complicit in a war crime when she decided to make "The Voice of Hind Rajab," a docudrama about a six-year-old Palestinian girl. The film depicts the events surrounding Hind Rajab's death during the...

Ayodhya (UP), March 5 At least two teenagers drowned to death in the Ghaghra river here while taking a bath after playing Holi, police said on Thursday.According to police, Sumit (15), Raj (16), Rishabh (17), Anoop (15) and Vishal (16), all residents of Mubarakganj village under the Raunahi...

Surat, March 4 Seven people, including a 95-year-old man and children, were rescued after a fire broke out in a bungalow in the Surat district of Gujarat in the early hours of Wednesday, fire brigade officials said.No injuries were reported.Seven people were safely evacuated after a fire...

Khunti, March 2 A sub-adult elephant, which fell into a 20-foot well, was rescued after a three-hour operation in Khunti district, Jharkhand, on Monday, a forest department official said.The incident occurred at the Serengdih village, under the Sadar police station, around midday."After a...

New Delhi, February 25 Three people were safely rescued after they were trapped inside a lift at an apartment complex in southwest Delhi, a fire services official said on Wednesday.According to the Delhi Fire Services, the incident, which took place at Akshardham Apartments in Dwarka...

Bahraich (UP), February 25 A male leopard was rescued from atop a tree in the Bitania village, under the Nanpara forest range of the Bahraich Forest Division, on Wednesday morning. It died while being taken to the range office, a senior forest official said.Divisional Forest Officer (DFO)...