A nine-year-old boy died in Rajasthan’s Phalodi district after falling into a 1,050-foot-deep borewell, bringing a nearly 39-hour rescue operation to a tragic end early Saturday. Despite sustained efforts by disaster-response teams and the local administration, rescuers were unable to save the child. The boy was finally brought out of the borewell at around 3:30...
Seven people were killed and 10 others injured after a Tempo Traveller carrying pilgrims plunged into a drain along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan’s Kota district on Saturday morning. The accident took place at around 7 am in the Simliya police station area. The vehicle was reportedly carrying around 20 passengers who were travelling from...
A deadly prison disturbance in Mexico’s northwestern state of Sinaloa has left 10 people dead and 16 inmates injured, prompting a major security response and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the violence. The incident occurred on Thursday morning, October 8, at the El Castillo Penitentiary in the coastal city of Mazatlán, during scheduled family...
Delhi Police has asked the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to consider closing entry and exit gates at 57 metro stations as part of heightened security arrangements ahead of a planned protest on October 10. The proposed measures are intended to manage the expected movement of demonstrators, prevent overcrowding around sensitive locations and maintain law...
Police in Karnataka have registered a case against expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Basanagouda Patil Yatnal and two others following allegations that documents identifying eight living people as dead were submitted in an attempt to remove their names from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The case came to light after...
An Indian national was among five crew members killed after Somali pirates hijacked the fuel tanker MT Honour 25, with the vessel later coming under the control of security forces in Somalia’s Puntland region. The deceased Indian sailor has been identified as Mohammed Tanweeruz Zaman, a resident of West Bengal who worked as a cook...
Severe coastal flooding has struck Surf City on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island as a powerful nor’easter brings storm surge, heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous surf to the US East Coast. Videos and images shared by residents showed streets across the coastal community submerged under rapidly rising water. In several areas, floodwaters spread across...
A high-intensity explosion at a suspected illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Bihar’s Araria district late Friday caused extensive damage to a residential house and left several people feared injured, triggering panic in the surrounding neighbourhood. The blast took place at a house in Muslim Tola, falling under the Bhargama police station area. The force of...
Four people, including three children, were killed in a devastating road accident in Haryana’s Nuh district after a speeding truck collided with a motorcycle carrying a family of six, police said. The crash took place late Tuesday night on the Nuh-Tauru road. The victims were travelling on a motorcycle when the truck struck them near...
A long-distance passenger bus caught fire on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway early Thursday morning, triggering a major emergency but ending without injuries after the driver quickly evacuated all 14 passengers. The incident took place at around 7:25 am near kilometre 16.600 on the Mumbai-bound carriageway. The bus, which was registered in Madhya Pradesh, was travelling from...