There are 763 registered voters among around a thousand residents of this remote village in Alirajpur assembly constituency, reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, but no candidate has bothered to visit the place, locals said on Thursday.
State Disaster Management Department Principal Secretary Vyasji said in Patna that the boat, with more than 65 passengers on board, capsized near Ghoria Ghat while sailing to Bhagwanpur from Ranha village.
The country-made boat was carrying the villagers from Pinapaka to Cherla village near the temple town Bhadrachalam.
A boat, carrying about 60 passengers, capsized on Monday morning, killing 47 people, including 18 men, 15 children and 11 women. According to reports reaching Lucknow, 17 passengers managed to swim safely to the riverbanks. UP Additional Director General of Police Brj Lal attributed the tragedy to 'overloading'.
Assam's flood situation remained critical on Tuesday with over 6.71 lakh people affected in 20 districts in the second wave of flooding this year, as the Indian Air Force (IAF) rescued 13 stranded fishermen from the severely-hit Dibrugarh district, an official said.
At least 54 people went missing when an overloaded boat carrying 110 Bangladeshis and Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Malaysia sank today in the Bay of Bengal, the second such incident in eight days.
The bodies of 5 more persons were fished out of the Ganga river while a search was on to trace the 7 others who had gone missing after a boat capsized in the river near Shooltankeshwar area.
The mishap occurred as an overcrowded boat carrying about 35 to 40 people from Dhauri village in Bhojpur district to Masarwa village in neighbouring Arwal district capsized in mid-stream, Superintendent of Police (SP) M R Naik said.
The marvellous boat is covered in 5,300 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels consisting of 38,000 next-generation cells by SunPower.
With the recovery of 12 more bodies from the Ganga on Tuesday, the death toll in the boat tragedy in Ballia's Dubahar area has climbed to 57, police said.
Some of the most amazing boats in the world are set to sail at Mumbai International Boat Show this week.
Following last year's terror attacks, the Mumbai police on Tuesday launched two more bulletproof boats - Koyna and Kaveri, touted to "be the fastest high-speed interceptor boats in Indian waters" at the Gateway of India.
A 30-year old Indian-American man, who was set to tie the knot next month, died in a tragic boat accident near the Statue of Liberty while on a holiday.
A search operation by the Navy and Coast Guard, for a suspicious boat that was apparently sighted by fishermen off Diu coast, did not yield results but surveillance has been enhanced along the west coast, a Navy official said on Tuesday.Fishermen in Diu informed security agencies on March 29 that they had seen a white boat with 'Al-Salam' written on it near the Diu coast. There were five persons on board and they were asking for directions.
The drugs seized include 3,089 kilograms of charas, 158 kg of Methamphetamine and 25 kg of morphine.
Seven persons went missing on Friday evening after a boat carrying 22 persons on board capsized on the Champavati river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, in Bongaigaon district of western Assam.
The Kerala Tourism Development Corporation boat 'Jalakanyaka', which sank in the Thekkadi lake in the first week of October, killing 45 tourists, suffered from faulty construction.A probe conducted by a committee appointed by the state government and headed by Dr Pyarelal, head of the department of Ship Technology in Cochin University of Science and Technology, has concluded in its report that there were severe technical faults in the construction of the boat.
Loshali had contradicted the government's claim that the crew of the intruding Pakistani boat had themselves set the vessel ablaze, leading to an explosion that caused the vessel to sink.
Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday said it would release 30 Sri Lankan fishermen and 19 boats on December 22 and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to prevail on the island nation to take similar action at the same time to set free fishermen from the state and their boats.
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today said the secular traditions of Kerala, as reflected in events like Nehru Trophy boat race, was the best example for the rest of the country to follow.
The police on Monday arrested Victor Samuel, driver of the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation boat that capsized in Thekkadi lake killing 45 tourists on board.
The Kerala Crime Branch will investigate the boat mishap at Thekkadi, in which a tourist boat owned by the Kerala State Tourism Development Corporation capsized on Wednesday, claiming the lives of 41 tourists.State Director General of Police Jacob Punnose told media persons that the Superintendent of Crime Branch (Kottayam) Valsaraj will be the investigating officer in the case. He added that Inspector General of Police R Sreelekha will be in charge of the investigation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday embark on a near two-day meditation exercise at the famed Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari, and the district has come under a thick security blanket following the high profile event.
Indian warship INS Sharda came to the rescue of the vessel FV Omaril with 11 Iranian and eight Pakistani crew members after it came under attack from pirates, they said.
The boat, with about 80 passengers onboard, mostly tourists from outside Kerala, sank after cruising five km from the boarding point from where it had set out around 4 pm.
Thirteen Iranians were rescued by a US Navy destroyer on Thursday, more than 40 days after their boat was commandeered by suspected Somali pirates in the northern Arabian Sea.
The final toll in the boat tragedy at Thekkady in Kerala reached 45 with the recovery of one more body from the lake on Sunday, as authorities called off search operations saying all the victims had been accounted for.
Eleven people from Delhi, including three each from two neighbouring families, were among 39 people killed in boat capsize in Kerala's Thekkady, officials said today.
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The bodies of 117 refugees have been recovered in the Mediterranean sea after a smuggling boat carrying mainly African migrants capsized off the coast of Libya
Carlos sought tranquility in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, accompanied by his brother Alvaro and friends.
The army is sending more men in response to the demand from the fishing community for immediate repair of their boats.
This is Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's maiden Lok Sabha election, but political experts and voters feel he can easily win Porbandar seat in his home state Gujarat, despite the electorate facing some key issues like unemployment.
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While the coalition will not be unstable because of pressures, the effort from partners will be to constantly remind the central government and the BJP how much it is dependent on them.
Tragedy was in store for five children who were riding on boats braving the flood waters to their school to appear for the on-going examination. Their boats capsized killing them.
