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The bus was on its way to Chapda from Nemawar town when it skidded off the road and fell into the overflowing river near Khategaon, they said.
The wisdom lies in shifting the investments to rest of Mumbai, and restrict the Mumbai-centric investments to fill the gaps, catch up with the graph and not for the future. The investment in Mumbai later should be only towards maintenance.
'Cases are increasing, day by day, because testing has increased.'
The overcrowded state-run bus had swerved off the road and hurtled down a hillside into a gorge on Tuesday, killing 57 people and injuring 28 others in one of the worst highway tragedies in recent memory.
'They suck talent and dump elsewhere,' says ZohO founder Sridhar Vembu.
Mumbai does not need to be - de-congested - it needs to redeploy its eastern seaboard.
The bus, which way on its way to Kishtwar from Keshwan, skidded off the road at Sirgwari and rolled down into the gorge around 7:30 am.
The winners of the 60th annual World Press Photo Contest have been announced. The winning shot was taken by Turkish Associated Press photographer called Burhan Ozbilici, with an image he has simply titled An Assassination in Turkey. Showing Mevlut Mert Altintas shouting after shooting Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, on December 19 2016.
'All the hotels and restaurants from where I used to eat have been shut. I used to beg but now there is no one to give me alms too'
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.
'The Railways must provide a rail system that they can be proud of.'
Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget on Thursday.
'Whether we like it or not, coronavirus is knocking on the door. We only have two weeks, a month if we are lucky, to prepare for its spread.' 'The US wasted this opportunity and is facing spreading virus and economic meltdown,' notes Sonalde Desai.
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The shooting interrupted an otherwise peaceful, six-hour bash that only began to clear out in the late afternoon.
'We don't want to lead this hellish life. Enough is enough.'
'Mumbai is at a peak, from here it can only be a downward trend.'
In the overcrowded local trains, auto-rickshaw stands, BEST buses and long queues at the Bandra-Worli sea link toll plaza, the staple language of Mumbai is Hindi, unlike most of the other cities of Maharashtra, where Marathi still dominates the public conversation domain.
Shanghai Metro officials have started hiring people to solve the problem of overcrowding in its 37.5-km subway line, which was opened two years ago.
The callousness with which these political dissidents are being treated goes against the Supreme Court's directive, given right at the beginning of the lockdown. The apex court had directed states to release prisoners to decongest jails, which had become hotspots of the coronavirus.
Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a "sad reality". Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath report.
Delhi Metro commuters had a harrowing time on Wednesday as an overhead wire snapped at Yamuna Bank station during the evening peak hours.
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A Mandoli-bound goods train had crossed Wadala station when three rear wagons of the trains derailed.
To all those who were expecting the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam alliance to do well (some even predicted a sweep), the Tamil Nadu results came as a big surprise. What went in favour of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam alliance at the last minute is anybody's guess.
At least eight persons were killed and 18 others feared drowned in two separate boat mishaps in Bihar's Purnia and adjoining Supaul districts on Wednesday, officials said.
In MP, farmers say sales under new 'Sauda Patrak' method below MSP; Haryana mustard farmers wait for their turn to sell. The annual purchases of major rabi crops in North India largely wheat, mustard and also chana to some extent have been delayed as most cereal mandis were closed in the aftermath of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
With the government asking the companies to operate with only 50 per cent staff strength, and exports dipping to almost zero, the truck and bus drivers idling at the petrol pump say they hardly have any work now. At a petrol pump on the deserted Bavla-Changodar highway near Ahmedabad in Gujarat, several trucks and buses are neatly parked in a row.
With projections suggesting the number of cases in the city will touch 75,000 by the end of May, civic authorities are working overtime to add to the number of beds.
At least 23 people were killed, including women and children, and 44 others injured when a speeding bus collided with a truck in lower Assam's Dhubri district in the early hours on Tuesday.
The death toll in an accident involving a bus carrying 100 passengers including 35 Indian pilgrims in Nepal has reached 36, as more bodies were pulled out of the water on Tuesday.
The death toll for the worst ever migrant disaster in the Mediterranean could be as high as 950 said reports even as Italy's coastguard coordinated the search for survivors and bodies.
State Home Secretary Afzal Amanullah told rediff.com that criminals were convicted and sentenced by the fast track court set up by the state government.
'This city will prove its true greatness not by 'getting on with it'; but, rather, by holding accountable those who perpetrated this act and those who allowed it to happen.'
The 10-day Ganesh festival began on Saturday under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, with devotees restricting celebrations to their homes and using online platforms to get 'darshan' of the Lord at temples, amid strict COVID-19 restrictions imposed by governments.
At least 20 persons were killed and over 30 injured when a private bus skidded off the road and plunged into a canal at Kestopur in North 24 Parganas on Friday. Two cranes pulled the bus out of the canal. Local people helped the police and fire-brigade in the rescue operations.
The accident had sparked violent protest in Nadia district on Sunday during which several boats were torched and police fired tear gas shells and rubber bullets to quell the mob.
Convicts at a prison in Argentina's second largest city Cordobaturned violent during family visiting hours and took several people hostage to protest overcrowding.
'The Swedish government would consider who will live, who will not die, in rationing coronavirus healthcare!' 'This means the 'biological age' would supersede the patient's chronological age as a potential guideline,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
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