Eight people were killed and 16 others injured when a Delhi-bound double-decker bus rammed into a stationary double-decker bus on the Purvanchal Expressway in Barabanki on Monday, police said.
The bodies were so badly charred that doctors found it difficult to determine the gender of the victims.
Drivers of commercial vehicles, including trucks and tankers, stopped work in several states on Monday and blocked roads at some places to protest against the provision in the new penal law regarding hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
Eleven people died on the spot, one on the way to hospital while two persons succumbed to their injuries in the hospital.
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 driver of the bus fled the scene soon after the accident, the official said, adding that efforts were on to nab him.
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla Tuesday said the decision to invoke a new penal provision related to hit-and-run cases, which has sparked protests by truckers, will be taken only after consultation with the All India Motor Transport Congress.
Around 29 trains have been delayed by two to five hours due to foggy weather, a railway official said.
Despite the national capital recording its best air quality on Diwali day in eight years, pollution levels may rise due to low night temperatures and sporadic burning of firecrackers though there is a ban on their manufacture, storage, sale and use within the city.
Ninety-eight Delhi Traffic Police personnel, who were filmed allegedly accepting bribes from blue-line bus drivers in a sting operation, were on Saturday suspended from service. Nine others also face departmental enquiry in connection with the sting operation on the alleged nexus between policemen and blue-line bus drivers who had earned notoriety for fatal accidents in the city.
A cyclist was killed after being hit by a speeding Blueline bus at Dwaraka in New Delhi on Saturday. The deceased, who is yet to be identified, is the 98th victim of accidents involving Blueline buses in the capital.
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Of the 16 people injured, a man has lost a leg while both the legs of another had to be amputated following the accident, which took place on Vikas Marg in east Delhi's Lakshmi Nagar locality at about 7.05 am when workers were lifting a 400-tonne span of the bridge.
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The migrant workers were walking along the rail tracks apparently to escape the attention of police. A video clip from the scene of the tragedy shows the bodies of migrant workers lying on the tracks and nearby with their meagre personal belongings scattered around.
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A recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Many of the tragedies occurred in the dark, which is when it is cooler to walk, and many people were caught in their sleep. The combination of no traffic and speeding vehicles has led to havoc, endangering the lives of those who found themselves without work or money in the coronavirus-induced lockdown and were frantic to get home, any which way.
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Six pilgrims and a woman pilot were killed when a chopper crashed in Katra, the base camp of the Vaishnodevi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district.
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PM Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have all expressed grief over the incident.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
Their dreams of returning home finally taking wing after two months of lockdown, 10 migrant workers are flying to Bihar thanks to their employer, a Delhi farmer, who bought their plane tickets. Their flight to the Bihar capital Patna is at 6 am on Thursday and the men, who planned to go home in April, can't believe they are going to their villages in Samastipur -- not walking or cycling thousands of kilometres, or scrambling for a seat on a bus or train, but on a plane.
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Indian roads continue to be among the most dangerous in the world. Few people are even aware that the Good Samaritan Law exists. Getting a licence to drive is still far too easy.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju has sought an independent probe by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation after a video surfaced on Tuesday showing an IndiGo ground staff brawling with passenger Rajeev Katiyal at the Delhi airport last month.
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