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Jammu, March 16 One person was killed and another was injured in a landslide near a hydropower project, while over 230 people, including women and children, were evacuated after they were caught in heavy snowfall at the high-altitude Sinthan top in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district...

Srinagar, March 16 Most of the higher areas in Kashmir received moderate to heavy snowfall, while the plains experienced rain, disrupting traffic in some areas, officials said on Monday.Several vehicles were stranded due to heavy snowfall along the Sinthan Top, after which police and the army...

Srinagar, March 16. Alert Indian Army troops braved extremely harsh weather, including heavy snowfall, to rescue 214 stranded passengers from Sinthan Pass in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday."After heavy snowfall disrupted movement at Sinthan Pass, which connects the Valley with the...

New Delhi, March 16 – A joint rescue operation by the Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police successfully evacuated 214 stranded tourists and local civilians from the high-altitude Sinthan Pass on Monday, following heavy snowfall that had disrupted movement in the region.According to the...

Bhubaneswar, March 16 At least ten patients died after a major fire erupted in an ICU at the Odisha government-run SCB Medical College and Hospital here early Monday morning, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said.The chief minister, who rushed to the hospital, said that around 11 hospital...

Bhubaneswar, March 16 At least ten patients died after a major fire broke out in an ICU at the Odisha government-run SCB Medical College and Hospital here in the early hours of Monday, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said.The chief minister, who rushed to the hospital, said that around 11...

Jammu, March 15 More than 30 light motor vehicles were stranded after moderate snowfall at Sinthan top and Margan top in the Kishtwar district on Sunday, prompting a joint rescue operation by police and civil administration officials.The vehicles got stuck due to fresh snowfall and slippery...

Gangtok, March 15 One person was killed as heavy rain, accompanied by hail, lashed several parts of Sikkim on Sunday evening, officials said.A 55-year-old woman, identified as Kala Devi Chettri, was killed after being trapped under a falling tree in Rakdong Kafer in the Tumin-Lingi assembly...

Bhubaneswar, March 15 A 52-year-old man is alleged to have committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance after killing his wife, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old granddaughter in Odisha's Deogarh district following a domestic dispute, police said on Sunday.Ramesh Garia is alleged to...

Chennai, March 15 – A tragic explosion involving a cooking gas cylinder at a house in Navalur, near Chennai, on Sunday resulted in the death of two children and left four others seriously injured, authorities said.The incident occurred at a residence on 2nd Street in Chamundeswarar Nagar, a...

Hyderabad, March 14 Three people, including a 10th-grade student, died and another was injured after they fell into an agricultural well while it was being cleaned using a crane in the Jayashankar Bhupalpally district of Telangana on Saturday, police said.The incident occurred in Korikishala...

New Delhi, March 13 A school student sustained injuries after she jumped onto metro tracks at the Dwarka Sector-14 metro station on Friday afternoon, apparently due to stress related to her board examinations, an official said.Metro staff and commuters at the station immediately alerted...

Sahibganj/Gumla, March 13 Two brothers drowned in the Ganga in the Sahibganj district of Jharkhand, while the body of a boy was recovered from a well in the Gumla district, police said on Friday.The drowning incident occurred in the Yogichak Sarakanda village, within the Rajmahal police...

Veraval, March 12 – In a swift and coordinated search and rescue operation on Thursday, an injured fisherman was safely evacuated by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) after receiving a distress call from a fishing vessel in the Arabian Sea.The ICG's ship C-149, stationed at Veraval, was dispatched...

New Delhi, March 12 A major explosion was narrowly averted in the Matiala area of southwest Delhi when a Delhi Police head constable smashed the window of a locked CNG-fitted car and moved it away from a raging fire that destroyed over 400 shanties, officials said on Thursday.The fire broke...

Noida, March 12 A fire broke out at an electric meter manufacturing factory in Sector 4 here on Thursday morning, leaving 26 people injured, police said.The injured were among nearly 240 workers who were trapped inside the factory, Capital Power System Limited, in the Phase 1 police station...

New Delhi, March 12 At least 80 shanties were completely destroyed after a major fire broke out in a slum cluster near the fish market in the Matiala area of southwest Delhi, police said.No casualties have been reported in the incident, they said.According to the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), a...

Bhagalpur, March 11 Three young men from a family drowned in the Ganga river in Bhagalpur district of Bihar on Wednesday morning while trying to save their aunt, officials said.The incident occurred around 9:30 am near a ghat in the Ghogha police station area, where the family had gathered for...

New Delhi, March 11 Two people, including a former BJP councillor, were injured after a short circuit caused a fire in a residential building in south Delhi early Wednesday morning, officials said.The fire was reported at 5:44 am from a house on Hanuman Road near the Chirag Delhi Metro...

Gurugram, March 10 Seven workers were killed and four others, including three from Nepal, were injured when a pile of soil collapsed on them at a construction site here, officials said on Tuesday.The incident occurred on Monday evening at the Signature Global Society in Gurugram's Sidhrawali...