Intense monsoon rains brought normal life to a standstill in several parts of eastern and central Rajasthan, flooding out roads, rail tracks, low-lying residential areas and hospitals and claiming seven lives since Sunday night.
Low-lying areas along the Yamuna were on Wednesday flooded as water level in the river inched closer to breaking the 207.49 metres mark, the highest in recorded history, prompting the authorities to evacuate over 5,000 people even as a man drowned in the river.
he students were part of an around 126-strong group from InamdarCollege in Pune who went to Murud in three buses for a picnic.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath has stoked a controversy with his remarks again.
The mishap occurred when the boat was ferrying people from Patwaria Ghat to Darbe Bhador area on the other side of the river. It was caught in the swirling current and capsized immediately.
Seventeen went missing when a boat capsized in Kankai River in Kishanganj district.
The teams are equipped with inflatable boats, ropes and other rescue equipment.
Heavy waterlogging was witnessed in several towns and cities, while roads were closed in rural areas on Friday morning due a heavy spell.
Eighteen people, 15 women and 3 girl children, were drowned and many were missing when an overcrowded trawler carrying about 100 pilgrims capsized in Hoogly river at Talpatti island in East Midnapore district on Saturday.
The boat was carrying labourers from Singhighat, about 20 km from the district headquarters, when it lost balance and\n\ncapsized.
The soldiers were rebuilding a bridge damaged in June by monsoon floods in Kinnore, about 180 kilometers north of Simla
It is alleged that there were no expert divers on the spot.
On balance, RG contesting from Raebareli instead of Amethi isn't the masterstroke the party's adherents are touting it to be, but neither is it the blunder the BJP and its tame media is framing it as, points out Prem Panicker.
Maharashtra: 6 drown as trawler hits ship
The earnestness of the actors keep Kaala Paani from drowning, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Politics infused the event in Doha where Belarusian swimmers competed as neutrals due to restrictions imposed on their athletes, and Russia's, stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- which Moscow called a "special military operation".
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.
Gurprinder Singh Sodhi, father of 20-year-old Ishmeet, said at their home in Ludhiana that the event management company, which took his son to the Maldives, informed him at around 2000 hours that the singer had died due to drowning in the swimming pool of the hotel where he was staying. The B Com second year student of MNC College in Mumbai had gone to the pool for frolicking, but fell into its deep end leading to his drowning, agencies reported, quoting a hotel official.
Artists from all over the world are now sharing amazing tributes to the widely seen photo of Aylan under the Turkish hashtag #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik, or #HumanityWashedAshore.
Thirty-two people, including women and children of Bagsibundu village of Koppal district, were out on a picnic when the mishap occurred.
Fighter's distressing lack of thrills and sizzle reduces the exercise to an excuse for tedious amounts of Pakistan bashing, observes Sukanya Verma.
In Punjab, more than 9,000 people were evacuated in Patiala, Rupnagar, Moga, Ludhiana, Mohali, SBS Nagar and Fatehgarh Sahib districts, officials said on Tuesday.
Nine students and a teacher were drowned at Vedaranyam, Tamil Nadu on Thursday after the school van carrying them fell into a pond.
Three persons including two doctors got drowned while one was reported missing as a hospital bus rolled into a canal in Lucknow on Wednesday.
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 youths had earlier objected to being disciplined by the policeman Niteen Dondu Dagale.
The ever-grinning forward failed to score a goal, restricting himself to his characteristic flicks and shimmies without ever turning them into anything effective.
Yaariyan 2 evokes a tinge of nostalgia for the time when music (and lip sync songs) used to be the mainstay of a commercial film, notes Deepa Gahlot.
'It was not a natural death; it was an accidental death.'
Novak Djokovic steered Serbia into the Davis Cup semi-finals with a straightforward 6-4 6-4 win over Britain's Cameron Norrie to give his team a winning 2-0 lead on Thursday.
The new idol of Lord Ram was placed in the sanctum sanctorum of Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi temple on Thursday afternoon, ahead of the January 22 consecration ceremony.
Two passengers were killed and at least 42 feared drowned after a Punjab roadways bus fell into a canal near Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab in the wee hours on Wednesday, the police said.
Darrick, who is originally from Toronto, Ontario, pretended that he had got into trouble in the river, splashing and crying out for help. The footage shows the elephant going towards him as he moves towards the river bank on the other side.
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.
'He would love that the world is talking about how talented he was. And he really was very talented.'
Sajid Piludia of Morbi's biggest graveyard for Sunni Muslims said nearly 40 members of the Muslim community lost their lives in the incident.
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