Dhubri: More than 100 people have been found dead and the death toll from the boat accident in the Brahmaputra River in Assam's Dhubri continues to rise. As rescue teams searched for survivors, the families of those who died and those who were missing were inconsolable. A day after the ferry capsized, very few bodies have been recovered. There is no clarity on the number of people dead. While there...
09:08 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Catastrophe struck for 32-odd families residing at Ganpati Sadan in Tardeo on Thursday -- they were rendered homeless within a matter of seconds, as flames engulfed their homes. The fire caused a cylinder to burst, which eventually claimed the life of 65-year-old Arvind Phansekar. 11 others were injured in the mishap and rushed to Nair Hospital. The fire was sparked off at the meter box of the building at...
03:14 PM, Mar 16, 2012
CHENNAI: In a bizarre abduction episode, a class X student, who was allegedly kidnapped by his friends for Rs 1-crore ransom on February 26, was rescued by police on Wednesday night. Four youth, including a juvenile and two brothers from UP, were picked up in connection with the case. Four country guns and ammunition were seized from the UP youth.Police said the victim, K Yuvaraj (17), studying in a school...
08:30 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Pune: A six-feet-long crocodile that strayed into the Khadakwasla Canal on Monday evening was finally rescued on Tuesday after more than 20 hours of chaos. A joint effort by the Katraj Zoo, the Irrigation Department (ID), the National Defence Academy (NDA), the Forest Department and locals helped rescue the reptile. PMC officials were also summoned and apprised of the situation. On Monday, local boys spotted the crocodile in the canal...
01:11 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Washington/Mogadishu: Helicopter-borne elite US Navy Seals struck deep into Somalia in a daring pre-dawn raid and freed two hostages - an American woman aid worker and a Dane - after a shootout with pirates holding them, leaving at least nine gunmen dead, a rare mission in the restive African nation. The secret operation to secure the safe release of 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan, an American citizen employed by the Danish Demining...
06:25 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Rome: Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as Tuesday. The cruise liner, its hull gashed by a reef and pocked by holes blasted by divers searching for the missing, yielded two more bodies on Monday, 10 days after the accident. The corpses of...
04:12 AM, Jan 24, 2012
The first batch of Indians rescued from the Italian cruise liner returned to Delhi on Thursday. ...
02:27 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: The first batch of Indians rescued from ill-fated cruise ship 'Costa Concordia', which had run aground off Italy's coast on Saturday, arrived on Thursday. Fifteen out of the 200 Indians rescued from ship were flown to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport in an Emirates flight. There were a total of 203 Indians were on board the ill-fated ship - one passenger and 202 crew members. Of them,...
12:20 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Giglio: Divers searching the capsized Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia suspended work on Wednesday after the vast wreck shifted by more than a metre, delaying plans to remove the oil from the liner to prevent a possible environmental disaster. Five days after the 114,500 tonne cruise ship struck a rock and capsized off the picturesque Tuscan island of Giglio, hopes of finding anyone alive have faded and salvage experts are...
03:49 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Giglio: More than 48 hours after the hull of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia was torn apart by rocks off the Tuscan coast, its captain, Francesco Schettino says he's not at fault. "I don't know if it was detected or not but on the nautical chart it was marked just as water at some 100-150 meters from the rocks and we were about 300 meters from the shore, more...
09:48 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Giglio: Two hundred and one Indians have been rescued from aboard the sinking ship Costa Concordia, that hit rocks off the coast of Italy on Friday night, said Sunil Aggarwal, First secretary, Indian Embassy, Rome. He added that one Indian was still missing. "People saw him (the missing Indian) rescuing the passengers. There are no eye witnesses to tell us where he is," he said. He said that there would...
08:02 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: Around 130 Indians were rescued on Sunday from the shipwreck of the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, which hit rocks and badly listed near the Italian island of Giglio, late on Friday. Rescue workers are still searching for the survivors; around 4000 people were on board. The luxury 114,500-tonne ship was operated by Costa Crociere, a unit of Carnival Corporation and Plc, the world's largest cruise company. The stricken...
11:14 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Cuddalore: Cyclone Thane came and went, and claimed 42 lives alongwith. Rescue operations are on in Puducherry and other areas that bore the brunt of the storm. However, Cuddalore, the worst-hit of all, still remains without milk and electricity, two days after the storm. CNN-IBN visited Thottampattu, a village of 400 families, almost 6 km away from the coast in interior Cuddalore. Over 50 homes in the village have been...
08:01 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that the locals who had risked their lives to rescue people from the AMRI Hospital fire would be given jobs with the Green Police, a band of volunteers who assist in controlling traffic. Banerjee was speaking at the Kolkata Police investiture ceremony where she handed over Rs 5,000 each to 65 youths who had voluntarily played a key role in...
01:44 AM, Dec 14, 2011
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