A bus carrying 63 persons, most of them college students, fell off a bridge in Sawai Madhopur when the driver lost control trying to avoid collision with an overloaded ‘jugaad’, killing 26 and injuring 34 others.
Of the dead, 23 are students of Mother Teresa Teacher’s Training Institute in Jhalawar. A teacher as well as the [...]
At least two persons have been killed and one other injured when an old shell exploded at a metal scrap shop in Mamun Cantonment area of Pathankot today.
The shop owner, dealing in discarded junk of army, and his employees were extracting metal out of the shell when the blast occurred at around 2.30 pm.
According to [...]
Around six member of a marriage part have been killed and 27 others were injured in a head-on collision between two private buses near Mamugoia village between Jalalabad and Guru Harsahai in the Ferozepur district tonight.
Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav said both the buses were carrying ‘Baratis’. While one was on its way to Abohar, [...]
Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Arcot N Veerasamy is admitted to hospital following illness. He was admitted to Apollo Hospitals last night after he suffered low pressure and frequent vomiting.
Hospital sources said his condition is stable. Deputy Chief Minsiter M K Stalin had called on him around 13:30 hrs last night, on arriving from Tiruchirapalli, party [...]
Around two people have been killed after protests in Karnataka over the publication of a translated version of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s article in a Kannada daily turned violent Monday, police said.
Curfew has been clamped in Shimoga city, about 280 km from Bangalore, and prohibitory orders imposed in Hassan district, around 200 km from Bangalore, [...]
Upper reaches in the Kashmir valley, including world famous ski resort of Gulmarg, experienced fresh snowfall since early this morning while plains, including summer capital, Srinagar, had rains, disrupting normal life.
The educational institutions are scheduled to reopen tomorrow after winter vacation in the Kashmir valley, where the maximum and minimum temperature were above normal despite [...]