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No one was injured in the incident that triggered panic among road users, even as police cordoned off the area and diverted traffic.
The accident occurred around 5.45 pm near Khatauli town, 40 km off Muzaffarnagar, leaving 23 people dead, the Uttar Pradesh police said.
Elephants in Kerala will soon have the luxury of 'ambulance' service to transport sick and injured jumbos.
An ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh, including an immediate relief of Rs 50,000, was announced by the collector for the kin of the deceased.
The double-decker bus belonged to Awadh Depot and was going to New Delhi from Lucknow.
"Unfortunately, there are six more Indians taking the toll to 35," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted.
Bachchan talks about his first day of work after his illness.
Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft on Tuesday to check out an ancient sunken ship found recently in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea.
There's never a bad time to visit Japan.
The couple have a wonderful second honeymoon!
An elephant which had strayed from nearby Baikunthapur forest to Siliguri town went on a rampage for around seven hours damaging over 40 houses and some vehicles before it was tranquilised.
A man and a woman were rescued from the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Tower, a 17-story building in the city that tipped over from the 6.4-magnitude quake early Saturday.
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SpiceJet's ex promoter Ajay Singh is trying hard to pump in huge money into the airline.
According to a survivor, there were at least 18 people on board the state transport bus.
The judge confirmed that the bulk of the evidence submitted by the Indian authorities will be admissible
'My brave JCO managed to get to the gun, sit on top of the dead man and fired away at the attacking aircraft till they melted away into the darkness.'
The bus was proceeding from Hubli to Chitapur in Gulbarga district when it fell into the Almatti canal.
Doordarshan would be deploying more than 20 hi-definition cameras for the coverage of the event on June 21.
The building did not have the mandatory Occupation Certificate granted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but it was already occupied by around 58 flat owners, according to the civic body.
"I asked everyone to keep the purifiers on their mouth. This stopped them from suffocating due to smoke and they were able to breath well, preventing inhalation of carbon dioxide," she said.
Sergio Garcia fired a final round six-under-par 65 to win the Booz Allen Classic in Potomac, Maryland on Sunday.
The 31-year-old passenger was travelling to Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region, from his home state of Bihar.
Senior railway officials said it has been raining off and on in Warangal since morning making it difficult for rescue workers to look for survivors inside damaged bogies.
Moments that show it's an odd, odd world we live in.
Factbox on the second Test match between Australia and England, which starts on Saturday:
Arjun Atwal came up with a five-under 65 that rocketed him to tied 17th position at the US Bank Championships of Milwaukee.
National Disaster Response Force divers recovered the bodies of Pranav Lele (29), Sahil Quereshi (28) and Shrutika Chandwani (27).
'Chinese companies have acquired stakes in 13 ports in Europe, including in Greece, Spain and, most recently, Belgium.' 'Those ports handle about 10 percent of Europe's shipping container capacity,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
"After a long search and working 12-14 hours a day for the last 8 days, the Naval teams have located two bus wreckage submerged in water at Mahad," said Defence spokesperson, Rahul Sinha, in a statement.
The death toll in Friday's building collapse in Mazgaon area here has climbed to 61, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Asked if the rescue operation has been called off, the BMC said though no formal announcement to this effect has been made so far, "it is as good as being called off".
US magician David Blaine spent 44 days suspended in a glass box off London Bridge, and lived on only water.
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