Hyderabad: Toll due to heavy rains in the state went up by two on Sunday, taking the total to 14. The bodies of two persons, who had been washed away in Kali Vanka in Chippagiri mandal in Kurnool district, were found about 3 km away. According to Alur CI Venkatramaiah, the victims were identified as Basha (22), an autorickshaw driver from Ramadurgam in Chippagiri mandal. He was on his way...
12:37 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Beirut: Syrian rebels fired grenades at tanks and troops while regime armor shelled Damascus neighbourhoods on Monday, sending terrified families fleeing the most sustained and widespread fighting in the capital since the start of the uprising 16 months ago. A ring of fierce clashes nearly encircled the heavily guarded capital as rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad pushed the civil war that has been building in Syria's impoverished provinces...
07:48 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam was grim with vast tracts of land in both Brahmaputra and Barak valleys remaining submerged even as the death toll climbed to 125. An estimated 24 lakh people have been affected in the worst-ever flood in recent years causing large-scale devastation in 4,540 villages with more than 9.35 lakh hectares of land completely inundated, official sources said. While the water level of rivers in...
03:42 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Beirut: An opposition group that documents human rights violations in Syria says more than 17,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011. The violence has grown increasingly chaotic in recent months, and it is difficult to assign blame for much of the bloodshed as the country spirals toward civil war. The government restricts journalists from moving freely, making it impossible to independently...
07:08 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Indianapolis: Powerful tornadoes ripped through the US midsection on Friday, killing at least 27 people in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio as they splintered homes, damaged a prison and tossed around vehicles across the region. At least 13 people were killed in southern Indiana, another 12 in neighbouring Kentucky and two more in Ohio from storms that battered a band of states from Ohio to Alabama, officials said. "We are no...
11:51 AM, Mar 03, 2012
HYDERABAD: As sure as one year follows the next, Hyderabad sees a spate of accidents occurring during revelry on new years eve. This time, 10 people lost their lives in five separate mishaps in the city and its outskirts. All the accidents were attributed to drunken or rash driving. In Bowenpally, five youngsters travelling at a high speed on one motorcycle, crashed into a wall and fell into a nala....
09:07 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Manila: Nearly 1,000 people were killed when flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Washi swept through riverside and coastal villages in the southern Philippines late last week, the national disaster agency said on Tuesday. The agency said 957 were killed and 49 were missing, with most of the casualties coming from the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. The previous death toll was 650. Authorities in the two...
09:03 AM, Dec 20, 2011
22-year-old Umesh Pandey was shot dead on Friday when he attempted to charge the toll fee of 27 rupees. ...
09:28 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: Three days after the earthquake, Sikkim is still battling the aftermath. With many villages cut off, there are fears the quake horror could get worse. The death toll has now crossed 98, with 70 killed in Sikkim alone. Relief and rescue operations have picked up speed and with the weather clearing up, authorities hope to get access to stranded areas. In fact on Tuesday, the Army was able...
07:15 AM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Army finally reached the epicentre of Sunday's killer earthquake in the town of Mangan in Sikkim on Tuesday morning even as the death toll climbed to 82. Army units managed to reach Mangan after the road was cleared on Tuesday morning. However, North Sikkim was cut off again due to a heavy landslide on the road linking Mangan barely hours after it was cleared. Official sources said...
06:55 AM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: A man injured in the Delhi High Court blast succumbed to injuries on Saturday, taking the death toll in the terror attack to 15. 58-year-old Rattan Lal died at 8:20 am in the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. He was in a serious condition and both his legs had been amputated, doctors said. He is survived by wife, three daughters and a son. "Yesterday, he had expressed his desire...
10:13 AM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: A 34-year-old victim of the Delhi High Court blast succumbed to injuries at a hospital on Thursday morning, taking the toll in the terror attack to 14. Mridul Bakshi, who was seriously injured in the blast on September 7, died around 4 AM, doctors at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital said. Doctors said Bakshi had suffered multiple injuries on his head, chest, hands and legs. Mridul, a resident...
08:57 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu: With two more persons succumbing to injuries at a hospital, the death toll in the police firing on a stone-pelting mob of Dalits, who indulged in violence following detention of their leader John Pandian, has risen to seven, police said on Monday. Two persons identified as Teerpukani and Vellaichamy succumbed to injuries late on Sunday night. Officials have suspended bus services to the rural areas in the...
10:30 AM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: The death toll in Wednesday's blast outside the Delhi High Court has gone up to 13 after another patient, who was admitted in the ICU ward at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, succumbed to his injuries on Thursday evening. Earlier on Thursday, a 40-year-old man, injured in Wednesday's blast, died at a hospital taking the toll to 12 while the condition of four of the victims continued to...
10:03 PM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: A 40-year-old man, injured in Wednesday's blast outside the Delhi High Court, died at a hospital on Thursday taking the toll to 12 while the condition of four of the victims continued to be critical. Pramod Kumar (40), a resident of west Delhi's Hari Nagar, breathed his last at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Thursday morning, hospital and police officials said. A majority of the victims of...
09:56 AM, Sep 08, 2011
Mae Sai: At least 74 people were killed in a strong earthquake that struck Myanmar, state media said on Friday, while a series of aftershocks have caused panic but only limited damage in Thailand and Laos. The death toll from Thursday's 6.8 magnitude tremor was expected to rise slightly in Myanmar after 225 homes and nine government buildings were destroyed. Over 100 people were injured, according to state television. The...
05:34 PM, Mar 25, 2011
The official death toll of the Japan earthquake and tsunami has crossed 8,800 and 13,000 are reportedly missing. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 22, 2011
Cairo: The death toll in the popular uprising in Egypt has now risen to 11, following the death of an Eqyptian reporter who died after being shot during clashes in Cairo last week. Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud had been taking photographs of fighting between protesters and security forces from the balcony of his home when he was shot on January 28. This was the first reported death of a mediaperson as...
07:32 AM, Feb 05, 2011
New Delhi: At least 100 pilgrims are feared dead after a bus carrying pilgrims overturned and fell into a ditch near Sabarimala temple on Friday night. The accident happened 100 km away from sabarimala at around 8.45 PM on Friday night when a bus carrying pilgrims returning from the temple fell into a gorge. The pilgrims pilgrims were returning from the Sabarimala temple after a Makar Sankranti ritual when the...
11:05 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Varanasi: A 60-year-old woman, who was critically injured in the blast on Tuesday succumbed to injuries on Saturday, taking the toll in the incident to two. The woman, Phoolrani, was among the 37 injured in the blast that took place between the Dashashwamedh and Shitla ghats when the evening 'aarti' was on. BHU Hospital ICU head D K Singh said Phoolrani had sustained serious head injuries and had lost a...
12:43 PM, Dec 11, 2010
