Mangled remains of a school bus with blood stains on it, strewn bags, tiffin boxes, notebooks and text books was all that remained at the accident site of the bus-train collision in which 18 persons, including 16 school children, were killed in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday morning.
The accident occurred near Pattoki, when the bus carrying more than 60 passengers was going from Lahore to Multan, police said.
33 per cent of all road accidents and 35 per cent of fatal accidents took place on national highways and expressways.
Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a masterpiece, and like most masterpieces of the cinema, it's a great act of folly, observes Sreehari Nair.
India have sent an 84-strong contingent of para-athletes, the largest ever in the country's history -- a heady mix of youth and experience, for the Paralympic Games, starting in Paris on Wednesday.
The situation in Jainoor town in Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district remained peaceful on Thursday a day after a protest by tribal organisations against an autorickshaw driver's alleged attempt to rape and murder a tribal woman sparked communal tension prompting authorities to impose a curfew.
At least 18 people were killed and another 14 injured on Thursday when a private bus rolled 400 feet down into a gorge in Rohtrung village in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district. Fifteen people died on the spot while three others succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital, Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner D D Sharma said.
The bus was proceeding to Thiruvananthapuram from Bengaluru, while the lorry was coming from the opposite direction on the Coimbatore-Salem Highway when the mishap occurred in the early hours of Thursday.
Operations at the Delhi airport remained normal. However, three flights were returned or diverted to the Delhi airport due to bad weather in Chandigarh, Varanasi and Lucknow on Tuesday night.
When the landslide hit, Sruthi's house was washed away, along with its inhabitants. She lost her entire family and some relatives. All she had left for a close confidante was her fiance Jenson. Days after the landslide and the loss of her family, Jenson died in a road accident that also left Sruthi with serious injuries. News of the accident and Sruthi's backdrop as the lone surviving member of a family wiped out in the July landslide, was picked up by the media, and people rushed to help.
Seven people, including five women, were killed in New Delhi's Badarpur area on Sunday morning when an over-speeding Blueline bus rammed into pedestrians crossing a road. The incident triggered protests among angry onlookers, who set the bus on fire. The driver of the bus has been arrested, police said. Senior police officials have rushed to the spot and a large number of police personnel have been deployed in the area to avoid any untoward incidents.
State announces ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh for the kin of those who died. Search operations are on.
Former international sprinter Anand Shetty, who met with a road accident, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Mangalore.
At least 16 students were killed and 18 others injured when the school bus carrying them fell into a canal in Andhra Pradesh's Khammam district on Tuesday afternoon. The bus, carrying students of the LV Reddy school of Vepalagandla village, met with the accident when the driver, while trying to avoid a speeding bike coming from the opposite direction, lost control of the vehicle. The bus fell off a bridge in to the canal.
The accident occurred when the bus, on its way to Haldwani town of Uttarakhand from Bulandshahar, collided head-on with the mini-truck, carrying people back from Garhmukteshwar after performing last rites of a deceased at river Ganga, they said.
School was open despite DM's order to the contrary. Orders have been issued to cancel its recognition.
20 passengers of a mini-bus are feared dead in a road accident in the hilly Doda district of Jammu region. A senior state government officer said the mini-bus which was on its way from Premnagar to Thathri in Doda district carrying 24 passengers, rolled down into the fast flowing Chenab river on Sunday morning.
Seventeen persons were killed and 22 injured when a Delhi-bound public bus from Pithoragarh fell into a deep gorge in Almora district on Saturday afternoon.
At least seven people were killed and 18 injured when a passenger bus plunged into Chenab River in the hilly Doda district of Jammu region on Wednesday morning.A senior police officer said the bus was on its way from Bhaderwah to Doda when the driver lost control while trying to maneuver the bus around a bend."So far, we have recovered the bodies of seven passengers. A massive rescue and relief operation is underway at the accident site," a officer said.
Fifteen persons, including five women, were killed and 40 others were injured when a private bus rammed into a tree near Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday, police said. The bus was coming to Batala from Gurdaspur when it rammed against a tree near Bidhipur village railway crossing near Dhariwal on Tuesday evening.
Nine people were killed and 28 injured when a passenger bus fell 350 feet into the Chenab river near Ramban on the Jammu Srinagar national highway on Sunday evening. Sources said that the accident took place when the driver of the bus lost control while maneuvering a curve. A massive rescue and relief operation was launched immediately. The condition of ten of the injured victims is serious, said the police.
A Kolkata-bound luxury bus from Orissa collided with a loaded truck at Baliara National Highway in Howrah district.
Despite the hope that lessons will be learnt, the next accident invariably shows that nothing has been learnt -- or if learnt, they have been ignored, observes Prosenjit Datta.
The incident occurred around 5:10 am when the Hyderabad-bound bus from Bangalore hit against a culvert, breaking its diesel tank. Within few minutes the bus was reduced to cinders, police said.
'The government never asked any transport association before making this law on hit and run cases.' 'MPs only clapped to Amit Shah's new law and never questioned him about this law.' 'Are these MPs not bothered about the lives of drivers?'
Yash Dayal's story is now one of resilience and redemption, proving that comebacks often speak louder than any setback.
Thirty five passengers, including six women were killed and seven critically injured when a bus fell into the Chenab river in Kishtwar district on Thursday. The bus, which was on its way from Jammu to Kishtwar, skidded off the road and fell into the river at Kandni-Phagumarh area at around 12.30 pm, said Himant Lohia, the Deputy Inspector general of police, Doda-Ramban-Kishtwar range.
At least 30 passengers were killed and as many injured when an over-crowded bus slipped into a gorge near Haripur in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Friday.
The bodies were so badly charred that doctors found it difficult to determine the gender of the victims.
Seven passengers were charred to death when a luxury bus caught fire after colliding with a diesel tanker in the wee hours of Wednesday on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway.
The coach and ten players of Goan football club Sporting Club de Goa were injured when their team bus, on way to the airport, overturned at Kolkata.
A bus transporting 15 Indian fishermen released from a Pakistani jail met with an accident in Punjab province on Monday, causing minor injuries to four of them, officials said. The Lahore-bound bus collided with a speeding truck at Jehanian, located 330 km from the capital of Punjab province, an official of the Highway Police Patrol said.
At least 21 people, including eight children and eight women, were killed in a road accident in Patan district of Gujarat when a minibus lost control and collided with a stationary state road transport bus on Wednesday night.
The accident occurred on Sunday night at around 10.30 pm when the bus skidded off the road and fell into a 600-feet gorge after the driver lost control. The driver was driving for four days on a trot.
At least 18 people were killed and 24 others injured on Saturday when a private bus plunged into the Beas river near Vindravani in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
The accident took place at Vishnuprayag when the driver of the bus carrying 45 passengers lost control of the wheel on being hit by a boulder which rolled down a hillside due to a landslide in area, police said, adding that 41 bodies had been retrieved.
Terming the killing of seven people by an over-speeding Blueline bus as shocking, the Delhi high court has summoned the counsel for NCT government and Blueline operators on Monday for an urgent hearing on the matter. The court's direction came after amicus curiae Anup J Bhambani brought the accident to its notice and sought appropriate directions to the government and Blueline operators.
At least five passengers were killed and 15 others wounded when a mini-bus met with a tragic accident in hilly Doda district of Jammu region on Friday afternoon.
