The boat carrying 15 people capsized in the Ganga river while it was travelling towards the Karsaura Ghat. Eight of the occupants were rescued.
"Eight bodies have been fished out while three to four persons are still missing and feared drowned," officials said.
Seven members of the family were boating in a river near Chhui Khadan village, about 110 km from Raipur, on Friday evening when the boat capsized, police said.
A rescue plane spotted the capsized boat of a French round-the-world sailor who triggered his distress beacon near Cape Horn on Tuesday, organisers said.
At least five persons are feared drowned after a boat in which they were crossing Saryu River in Bahraich capsized, police said on Tuesday.
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 death toll could be higher as several bodies were taken away by relatives who searched the vast river in wooden fishing boats. More bodies were also feared trapped inside the sunken ferry.
The ferry got caught in a cyclone in Buriganga river in Narayanganj district close to Dhaka.
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.
Around 18 of the 40 people went missing on Tuesday after a boat carrying them capsized on the Ganga River at Betawar ghat near Shooltankeshwar area in Varanasi, the police said.
Twelve persons were feared drowned when a boat capsized in Balan river in Bihar's Begusarai district on Wednesday evening, official sources said.
More than 4,000 rescue workers are racing against time to find survivors amid rough weather conditions.
A day after 12 students and two teachers were killed in a boat accident in Harni lake on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat, three persons, including a manager of a contractor, have been arrested, said a police official on Friday.
Rescue teams, including divers, were rushed to the spot, 30 km from the district headquarters.
The HC also criticised the principal secretary of the urban development and urban housing department for preparing and submitting such a report, nearly 6 months after 14 persons lost their lives in the tragedy.
Bodies of 26 people who drowned after two boats capsized in Bihar were recovered on Tuiesday even as a search was on to trace around 50 missing people, the police said.
Several persons went missing and are now feared dead after a boat carrying flood victims capsized in the swollen Kosi in Bihar's Madhepura district during a rescue mission on Friday.
Two dozen students and four teachers were on a picnic and taking a boat ride in the Harni lake when the tragedy occurred in the afternoon, they said.
Seven people died and 20 others were missing after a boat capsized in Narmada river at Malsar village, about 80 km from Vadodara, Gujarat.
Five persons, including four children, were drowned and eight others went missing after a boat capsized on Monday in the Sohali river in Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh.
The mishap occurred about 80km from Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
The victims were coming from Murrvakonda village in Kunrool district to participate in a local festival at Singotam when the mishap occured.
Police and PAC personnel have fished out 22 bodies so far while 10 others have been rescued, he said. A search was on to trace others.
Twenty-five people drowned and an equal number went missing when an overcrowded country boat capsized after being caught in a whirlpool in the swollen Kosi river in Supaul on Wednesday.
Chinese rescuers on Friday lifted the cruise ship capsized in the mighty Yangtze river to one side using two salvage vessels and massive cranes with the death toll rising to 82.
With the recovery of 35 more bodies, the toll in the boat capsize in Bihar's Khagaria district rose to 56 on Wednesday, as search the National Disaster Response Force personnel continued to search for nearly 20 more missing people.
The Indian Navy's P8I maritime patrol aircraft on Thursday located a Chinese fishing vessel that capsized three days ago in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
The accident occurred when officials and some others were on their way in four boats to the site of the proposed memorial of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, where work was to begin on Wednesday.
The country-made boat was carrying the villagers from Pinapaka to Cherla village near the temple town Bhadrachalam.
National Disaster Response Force teams and Krishna district authorities have launched a massive search and rescue operation to trace the missing people.
A ferry packed with 1,500 passengers on their way home to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha festival capsized at Nazirpur area in southwestern Bangladesh, drowning 30 people, officials said.
The boat was carrying around 40 people and turned turtle when it was about to reach the river bank.
The death toll in the trawler capsize in Hooghly river shot up to 69 on Monday night with 28 bodies retrieved from the waters, even as search for 43 others missing was suspended for the night due to inclement weather and strong currents.
A survivor has claimed that the incident occurred after the boat hit a rocky patch in the Prongs Reef Lighthouse area in sea, which is the southernmost tip of Mumbai.
At least nine Army personnel, including an officer, were on Saturday washed away in strong water currents of Jhelum River as their boat capsized during a rescue operation in flood-affected Pulwama district of Kashmir, an official said.
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.
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 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.
Tourist centres have been closed in many districts, including Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram, and a night travel ban has been imposed in the hilly areas of Idukki district.
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