A case under Section 301 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against him.
At least 40 people died and nearly 150 others were injured on Friday after a packed three-storey ferry carrying around 500 passengers caught fire on the Sugandha River in southern Bangladesh, officials said.
With the recovery of three more bodies, the death toll in the boat mishap in the swollen Kosi river in Supaul district has climbed to 28, a senior official said on Thursday.
The boat, whose capacity was 100 people, was overloaded.
Vaishnaw said that the actual reason behind the accident could be ascertained only after dismantling the engine's equipment.
With the recovery of six more bodies, the toll in the boat mishap in Hirakud reservoir in Sambalpur district, Odisha, on Monday rose to 17.
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
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced Rs 10 lakh ex gratia for bereaved families.
Death pursued this Rohingya family as they fled the violence in Myanmar.
The boat carrying children and staff of a school at nearby Angamali capsized in the reservoir at Thattekadu bird sanctuary in Ernakulam district last evening.
All 37 sailors on board a cargo ship are missing after the vessel sank late Thursday night after striking a reef on the sea near Dongjia island in east China, official sources said.
Eight people were killed and over 1,000 students were trapped in floods after rainstorms in several areas in China triggered by Typhoon Haiyan.
The boat is believed to have capsized when migrants moved to one side of the vessel when a merchant ship approached.
Nearly 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors 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.
At least 164 people have been feared killed after a wooden boat capsized off the coast of Nigeria. The boat conveying 166 passengers capsized nearly 40 nautical miles off the Nigerian coast on Tuesday.
The death toll in the ship capsize in Yangtze River, China's worst shipping disaster in 70 years, rose to 434 after two more bodies were found on Monday.
The accident occurred when the private boat 'Ma Kamala' was headed to Majuli from Nimati Ghat and the government-owned ferry 'Tripkai' was coming from the riverine island.
Jasprit Bumrah showcased why he is rated so highly as a bowler on Sunday night.
The overall flood situation in Assam further worsened on Thursday as fresh areas came under water with the death toll rising to 30 and many others went missing in a boat capsize in Goalpara district.
The death toll in the tragedy in the mighty Yangtze rose to 65 as rescuers retrieved another 39 bodies till morning.
Rescuers and naval divers on Wednesday recovered more bodies from an ill-fated ferry which capsized in Meghna River in southwest Bangladesh, taking the death toll to 110 in one of the worst boat tragedies in the country in recent times. The ferry MV Shariatpur-1 had collided head-on with a cargo vessel and capsized at 3 am local time on Tuesday, trapping most of the estimated 300 passengers on board.
The death toll in the Chinese cruise ship that capsized in the mighty Yangtze river on Saturday jumped to nearly 400 as hundreds more bodies were found by disaster teams, making it China's deadliest boat disaster in 70 years.
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.
Grieving relatives of those on board the ill-fated cruise ship that capsized in the mighty Yangtze were on Thursday barred from reaching the site as rescuers pulled out more bodies, taking the death toll to 77 amid assurances from China of "no cover up" in the probe into the tragedy.
Six students, all from a group of New year's day revelers were feared drowned after the boats carrying them capsized in the mighty Brahmaputra River in Kamrup district of Assam on Friday evening.
The accident had sparked violent protest in Nadia district on Sunday during which several boats were torched and police fired tear gas shells and rubber bullets to quell the mob.
All 40 trawlers which went missing in the Bay of Bengal following a storm were traced on Monday, but two of them capsized leaving seven fishermen missing, officials said.
An overloaded boat carrying 38 people capsized on Sunday close to the 'Pavitra Sangamam'.
Several persons, mostly women and children, were feared drowned when a boat capsized in Harohar River in Bihar's Sheikhpura district on Thursday, according to the police.The mishap occurred near Bavghat under Ghatkusumbha block when the victims, all residents of Panapur village, were going to immerse the idols of Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati after Karma Puja.Some 40 people were said to be traveling in the boat when it overturned and sank, sources said.
The sailors were rescued by a Bahrain Coast Guard helicopter when their cargo ship Siddnath capsized on Friday morning. The boat, with 1,000-tonne capacity, was carrying 485 tonnes of rice to Iraq for the India-based company Sea Star Shipping.
Five people were killed while 10 others were feared drowned after a country-boat carrying 28 passengers capsized in the swollen Burhi Gandak river near Mahesaurhi village in Khagaria district, Bihar, on Tuesday.
The boat was believed to have capsized when migrants moved to one side of the vessel when a merchant ship approached.
All the 17 Indian sailors, who survived the capsize of their cargo ship off the Bahrain coast, spent almost three hours in a life raft in extreme cold before being plucked to safety in a dramatic rescue operation by a police helicopter. The ship Siddnath, loaded with rice from the United Arab Emirates, was heading to Iraq when it capsized on Friday morning, but no one was injured in the incident despite the waves rising as high as 10 feet.
Tropical storm 'Tauktae' (pronounced as Tau'Te) which had intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm, lies close to the Gujarat coast, the India Meteorological Department said. "The landfall process has started and will continue during next two hours," the IMD said.
The mishap occurred when the boat carrying about 50 pilgrims from Mangala Bhavani temple in Balia district of neighbouring Uttar Pradesh capsized midstream in Buxar town area of Bihar, official sources said.
Some of the rescued children said at least 50 students were in the capsized boat.
With 10 more bodies fished out from the Yamuna river in Kaushambi district on Saturday, the number of deaths in two separate boat mishaps in Uttar Pradesh has risen to 26.
The CM said that initial probe indicated "mismanagement" to be the prime reason for the accident, which occurred on Wednesday evening.
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