Teams of the National Disaster Response Force started landing in Gujarat with the help of the Indian Air Force to undertake preventive evacuation of people living on the west coast, an IAF official said.
'How will they give me permission to die when there are many others in conditions worse than mine?'
'The RSS-BJP fight against TMC excesses seem to have been limited to fighting the assembly poll, not coming to the defence of ordinary Bengalis who are being crushed daily by Trinamool goons,' points out Virendra Kapoor.
Elated over winning the Nobel Peace prize, renowned child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi on Friday dedicated the coveted award to people of India and vowed to work with renewed vigour against exploitation of children and to ensure their welfare.
A search and rescue operation was immediately launched. However, the rescue team has not been able to find the boy so far.
In the year 2016, 8132 human trafficking cases have been reported in India.
The dam breach caused a flood-like situation in seven downstream villages, with as many as 12 houses being swept away.
A copious amount of blood, beating, crying, saving, sacrificing, nationalism fills up its staggering three hours running time. Emotions run sky high, but you feel nothing, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Since Friday evening, 41-year-old Shemir, who works as a logistics manager in Dubai Silicon Oasis, has been making frantic phone calls to different trauma centres in Kerala near the Kozhikode airport to get information of his family members on board the flight.
the India Meteorological Department has forecast intermittent rain with heavy to very heavy showers in the city and suburbs and extremely heavy rain at isolated places in next 24 hours.
"Collective conscience of the society shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess," the POCSO court said.
'People think about his final 48 hours and how did he become a martyr... but the life I came to know from uncle and aunty was of someone who was so full of joy and laughter.'
Each story is sadder than the next, but what is most heartbreaking is to see the indifference shown towards these children by the police.
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An emotionally overwhelmed Karthik, father of the twins, is in awe of the IAF now, and says, "I salute these brave men."
The couple who allegedly bought the infant have been identified and the child will be rescued.
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The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers are still digging out people trapped beneath mounds of rubble.
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On April 15, 2013, the convicts had shoved objects in the victim's private parts and leaving her in a house believing she was dead. The child was rescued 40 hours later on April 17 and had to undergo multiple surgeries at All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Delhi.
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The Batote-Doda-Kishtwar National Highway was closed due to huge boulders at Thathri market triggered by the cloudburst.
The bus carrying about 40 persons was on its way from Reckong Peo in Kinnaur to Nauni in Solan.
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The man, a 27-year-old Swiss citizen, carried out the attack on a train travelling in Switzerland's far east, along its border with Liechtenstein, and was also injured.
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However, some areas in south Mumbai, which witnessed a record rain on Wednesday, were still water-logged, they said. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted moderate to heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs and intense showers in some parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in next 24 hours.
The tremor struck at 6:53 am in Assam at a latitude 26.3 degree North and 92.0 degree East with its epicentre at a depth of 16 km in Darrang district
Rescued from slavery at age 7 by Kailash Satyarthi's Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Om Prakash Gurjar is today one of the world's 7 top influential youngsters.
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It's like Agatha Christie walked into Roman Polanski's Chinatown conversing in Vishal Bhardwaj with a smattering of Brian De Palma for razzle-dazzle -- the upshot is mesmeric, raves Sukanya Verma.
Luck has been smiling on six-year-old Prince since the nation watched him being rescued from a 60-feet-deep pit last week with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday announcing free education for him.
At least 15 people have died in heavy floods and landslides triggered by continuous rain for the last three days in Assam, where airforce helicopters, army, National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force have been pressed into service for rescue work, officials said.
The life and work of Satyarthi is synonymous to the never-ending crusade against child slavery.
However, after a raid at the place on Sunday night, police said 24 girls were rescued.
