Tragedy

Bhopal gas tragedy: Plea on convicts' sentence declined

Bhopal: A local court here on Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others.



Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist the prosecution, but had no liberty to become a party in the case. Expressing unhappiness over the development, Jabbar said that it took three years for the court to decide on the admissibility of the petition.

He claimed that it was a violation of the IPC amended section 372 (WA), which says that a person can become a party in the case in which the prosecution is inactive and the concerned persons are not interested in taking the matter to its logical end....more    

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Plea to raise sentence declined

Bhopal: A local court in Bhopal Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...  

Survived only on 2 bottles of water: Bangladesh survivor

Hundreds of onlookers burst into cheers as army engineers pulled out a woman from the basement of the building after 17 days. ...

BJP demands Acharya's resignation on moral grounds

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP in Odisha on Friday demanded resignation of state finance minister Prasanna Acharya in the wake of a Commission finding fault with the drugs administration for spurious liquor tragedy of February 2012 that claimed 41 lives. "Acharya, who was then the state's health minister should resign from the ministry on moral grounds," BJP state president KV Singhdeo demanded at a media conference Bhubaneswar. Though the then excise minister...  

Himachal Pradesh: 32 killed as bus falls into Beas river

Shimla: At least 32 passengers were killed when an overloaded private bus plunged into Beas river on Kullu-Mandi national highway on Wednesday. Thirty-two bodies have been recovered and 15 injured persons rescued and rushed to hospital, while some bodies are feared to have been swept away in the river, Deputy Commissioner, Kullu, Sharab Negi, said. The ill-fated bus, with more than 60 passengers on board, was on its way to...  

Bangladesh building collapse toll climbs to 700

Dhaka: The death in the worst-ever industrial disaster in Bangladesh rose to nearly 700 as rescuers on Tuesday pulled out 18 more decomposed bodies from the debris of the ill-fated eight-storey building that toppled down in April. Officials at the Army control room, which is opened to provide information on the tragedy, said with the fresh recovery, the death toll from the deadly building collapse soared to 697. The officials,...  

Bangladesh building collapse toll tops 640

Dhaka: Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident filed a complaint. The legal development comes as officials on Monday said that the death toll from the country's worst industrial disaster had reached 645. Sheuli Akter, wife of Jahangir Alam, filed the complaint with Dhaka magistrate...  

Bangladesh: Building owner faces murder complaint

Dhaka: The wife of a Bangladeshi garment worker who was killed when a building collapsed filed a murder complaint against the building's owner on Sunday as the death toll from the country's worst industrial disaster climbed to 622. Murder complaints were also filed against the owner of one of the garment factories inside the building and a municipal engineer in the suburb of the capital, Dhaka, where the factory was...  

Bangladesh building collapse toll nears 600

Dhaka: The toll in the building collapse on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka has swelled to nearly 600, authorities said on Sunday, even as rescuers continued removing concrete slabs and debris 12 days after the industrial tragedy. Hoping to find their missing loved ones, many people were seen around the scene of the collapse and visiting nearby hospitals and a school ground where the bodies have been kept for...  

Bangladesh building collapse toll exceeds 500, engineer arrested

Dhaka: Police on Friday arrested an engineer for negligence in duty in connection with the worst building collapse in Bangladesh that left at least 509 people dead. Abdur Razzak Khan worked as consultant when the owner of the eight-story Rana Plaza in suburban Savar illegally added three floors atop the ill-fated building, a police official told newsmen. 63 more bodies were on Friday retrieved from the debris 10th day into...  

Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll rises to 352

Dhaka: Two factory bosses and two engineers were detained in Bangladesh on Saturday, three days after the collapse of a building where low-cost garments were made for Western brands killed at least 352 people. More were being pulled alive from the rubble at the building, where police said as many as 900 people were still missing in Bangladesh's worst ever industrial accident. The owner of the eight-storey building that fell...  

Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll exceeds 300

Savar: The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building in Savar in Bangladesh on Friday rose to 304, as authorities raced against time to look for survivors under tonnes of debris even as a total of 2,348 people were rescued alive. "Our prime target is to rescue the rest of survivors alive as we are running against time," a military spokesman told an official press briefing near...  

Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll rises to 260

Aavar: With nearly 260 people killed in one of the worst building collapses in Bangladesh, thousands of distraught people on Thursday watched rescuers search for their loved ones trapped under the debris of the eight-story complex that had come crashing down within seconds. Survivors described a deafening bang and tremors before the eight-floor building, where most of the employees were women, crashed all around them. Dhaka District police chief Habibur...  

Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll rises to 243

Savar: With nearly 250 people killed in one of the worst building collapses in Bangladesh, thousands of distraught people today watched rescuers search for their loved ones trapped under the debris of the eight-story complex that had come crashing down within seconds. A total of 101 bodies were pulled out of the debris of the collapsed building on Thursday. During Wednesday's rescue operation 142 bodies had been retrieved. The rise...  

Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll rises to 194

Dhaka: With deep cracks visible in the walls, the police had ordered a Bangladesh garment building to be evacuated the day before its deadly collapse, but the factories flouted the order and kept more than 2,000 people working, officials said Thursday. At least 194 people died when a huge section of the eight-story building splintered into a pile of concrete. The disaster in the Dhaka suburb of Savar came less...  

Nitish deferred probe into Godhra carnage to save Modi: Lalu

Patna: Refusing to buy Nitish Kumar's argument absolving himself of the Godhra tragedy, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday accused him of closing the Railways' probe in the train burning incident to suit the interest of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "Nitish as Railway Minister had closed inquiry into the Sabarmati train burning incident to suit interest of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. This had triggered riots,"...  

After PM candidate, BJP, JD(U) spar over 2002 Godhra carnage

New Delhi: There is a new low in the ties between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (United) as the two parties have taken on each other over the Sabarmati tragedy in Godhra in 2002. BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi on Monday pointed out that it was Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who was the rail minister during the Sabarmati tragedy of 2002. "There is no one in the...  

Sabarmati tragedy: Vajpayee said 'raj dharma' should be followed, says JD(U)

JD(U) leader Sabir Ali said Nitish Kumar was railway minister during Sabarmati tragedy, however, Vajpayee said 'raj dharma' should be followed. So, it was not needed for Nitish to react, PM had said it all. ...

HC issues notice to convicts of Union Carbide trial

Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday issued notices to seven persons, convicted in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, following a petition filed by the CBI demanding their retrial. Justice MA Siddiqui issued notices to all seven convicts, seeking replies within four weeks. The CBI in its petition is demanding the retrial of all seven for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304-II of Indian Penal Code. Assistant...  

TN: Strike to be held against Sterlite plant in Tuticorin

Chennai: A day-long general strike demanding permanent closure of the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd will be held on Monday at Tuticorin, said MDMK party general secretary Vaiko on Saturday. The company is part of Britain-based Vedanta Resources Group. In a statement issued here, MDMK founder Vaiko said the anti-Sterlite movement has called for a one-day general strike demanding the permanent closure of the copper smelter plant...