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 Ani from Kullu when it skidded and fell into the river near Jhiri, 20-km from Kullu. The bus driver jumped off the vehicle before it plunged into the river, Negi said. Search parties were deployed to trace the missing.
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07:50 AM, May 09, 2013
Dera Ismail Khan: Military operations and insurgent attacks in lawless districts of Pakistan on Sunday left eight members of the security forces and around 30 militants and criminal suspects dead, officials said. Two soldiers and 16 militants were killed in clashes in the Tirah Valley area of the Khyber tribal region in the northwest, the military said in a statement. Another three soldiers were wounded in the remote mountainous district...
01:50 AM, May 06, 2013
Dhaka: The mayor of the Bangladesh municipality where a factory building collapsed killing more than 400 people was suspended from office on Thursday, a government minister said, as rescuers pressed on with the task of recovering bodies from the wreckage. The scale of the April 24, 2013 disaster has prompted a worldwide outcry at poor safety and pay in many factories making clothes for Western brands, with Pope Francis on...
07:12 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Observing that deployment in counter-insurgency operations was straining the resources of the Army, a Parliamentary panel on Monday said the force should be relieved from these tasks to focus on undertaking its regular conventional duties. In its report tabled on Monday, the Standing Committee on Defence expressed concern for saving lives of soldiers in counter-terrorist operations and slammed the Defence Ministry for its "lackadaisical attitude" for doing away...
06:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Savar: Bangladeshi rescuers on Sunday launched the second phase of rescue operations, as they found little evidence of survivors under tonnes of debris of the 8-storey building that collapsed this week, leaving 362 people dead. "I would like to tell you, we are getting little rhythm of life under the debris. Even if some people are alive they are not responding," said Major General Hassan Sarwardy, Commander of the rescue...
02:34 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Mumbai: Thirty-six policemen were suspended after a sting operation showed them accepting bribe to allow illegal constructions in Mumbai's Kurla area. The sting operation, conducted by a social activist, comes in the backdrop of the collapse of an illegal building in Thane which claimed 74 lives. The Mumbai Police has initiated an inquiry against the accused policemen. ...
09:21 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: Thane Commissioner of Police KP Raghuvanshi on Sunday said that nine people have been arrested in the building collapse that led to death of 74 people and injured over 60 and sent to police custody till April 20. Raghuivanshi also said that one of the builders was nabbed in UP and the other in Thane. "We have also arrested some public servants who were involved in this. The builders...
03:48 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The police have now arrested one more person including two builders, the local corporator, an Assistant Sub Inspector, a Suspended Deputy Commissioner and also an Assistant Commissioner of the Thane Municipality in the Thane building collapse. The eight people have been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act and for criminal conspiracy in the tragedy which led to death of 73 people. They eight accused were produced in court...
01:42 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: The four-year-old miracle survivor of Thursday's Daighar building crash in Thane finally opened her eyes to harsh reality on Sunday, and cried, much to the relief of surviving relatives and siblings, doctors said. The victim, Sandhya Thakur, had been unable to open her eyes, swollen with dust, watering and psychological trauma, after the seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday. She had spent several hours under the debris before rescuers dug...
12:21 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: Seven people including the two builders were arrested on Saturday, three days after after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Thane. Seventy three people have died and more than 60 injured in Maharashtra's worst ever building collapse in decades. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal Commissioner,...
08:09 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: Two days after 72 people died and over 60 were injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse in a decade, the police on Saturday arrested two builders, Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, of the illegal building. While one of them was arrested from Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the other was arrested in Thane by the Thane Crime Branch. Earlier in the day, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) completed its...
05:14 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: The NDRF said that rescue operation in the tragic Thane building collapse is over and the death toll has gone up to 72 in one of Maharashtra's worst ever building tragedy. More than 60 people have been injured after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Mumbra area on Thursday evening. The builder, the contractor and the supervisor have been charged with culpable homicide. Municipal authorities...
12:54 PM, Apr 06, 2013
More than 24 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still rising. 71 people are reported dead so far. This toll includes 9 boys and 13 girls. ...
12:37 PM, Apr 06, 2013
More than 40 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still climbing. Seventy one people are reported dead so far and the toll includes nine boys and 13 girls. More than sixty people have been injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the authorities are assessing the full extent of the tragedy. ...
10:27 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: More than 40 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still climbing. Seventy one people are reported dead so far and the toll includes nine boys and 13 girls. More than sixty people have been injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the authorities are assessing the full extent of the tragedy. Thane Municipal authorities have said that the...
07:29 AM, Apr 06, 2013
In one of Maharashtra's worst building collapses in a decade, over 40 people have died and 60 have been injured after a seven-storeyed building in Laxmi Compound in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane, crashed down like a pack of cards into a heap of rubble on Thursday evening. ...
10:08 PM, Apr 05, 2013
24 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the full extent of the tragedy is still unfolding. 48 people are killed and over 60 are injured and entire families are wiped out. Even the few who escaped have lost their loved ones. ...
10:02 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Among those injured in the Thane building collapse is a four-year-old girl, whose parents are yet to be traced. She was rescued by a person who is now taking care of her in the hospital. The man claims she was found with several injuries including on her head and needs a CT scan. The girl is around four to five years of age. Efforts are on to try and...
03:08 PM, Apr 05, 2013
The death toll in the Thane building collapse climbed to 36 - 11 of them children. More people are still trapped in the rubble and lack of equipment is hampering rescue work. ...
12:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
An eyewitness to the tragic Thane building collapse says the administration and the builders are hand in glove. He adds that illegal building was constructed in just two months. ...
12:34 PM, Apr 05, 2013
