New Delhi: Deaths in the country due to consumption of contaminated water are on the decline, the government informed the Rajya Sabha. A total of 2,595 people lost their lives in 2013 due to water-borne
Taipei: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan on February 6 has increased to 108 with some nine people still reported missing, the authorities announced on Saturday.The 16-storey Wei Guan building, the most
Chandigarh: Seven more people have succumbed to swine flu virus in Punjab in the last four days taking the death toll from the disease to 31."The death toll due to swine flu in Punjab during
The government launched the Road Safety week on 11th January, 2016 with an aim to tackle the growing number of road accidents in the country. In 2014, about 5 lakh road accidents claimed more than 1.4
Bhopal: It is not at all right to link every death with Vyapam, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday, the day a female trainee police sub-inspector committed suicide.Chouhan said every death
Washington: Contrary to popular assumptions, global warming may not lead to substantial reduction in winter deaths, a study says.Warming climate trend has led to reductions in cold-related mortality than some experts have anticipated, the results
New Delhi: The toll due to the April 25 earthquake in India has gone up to 78, while the number of injured people stands at 560, the government said on Wednesday."As per latest reports, 78
New Delhi: People in the age group of 30-45 years have been the worst affected by swine flu with most number of deaths, 34 per cent of the toll, taking place in this age bracket.According
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday condoled the loss of lives in a stampede at a Madhya Pradesh temple."Deeply saddened to know about 10 pilgrims death in a stampede at a temple in
Beijing: Rainstorms and ensuing floods have affected seven provincial-level regions in China, causing 27 deaths and relocation of over 84,000 people as of Saturday, Xinhua reported.From Monday to Thursday, heavy rains battered the provinces of
The Hague: A court in The Hague has found the Netherlands (Holland) liable over the 1995 deportation and deaths of 300 Bosnian Muslim men who were under the protection of Dutch UN peacekeeping Blue Helmets
Kolkata: The Left Front staged a Walk Out from the West Bengal Assembly today after an Adjournment Motion it brought alleging starvation deaths in tea gardens in North Bengal was disallowed by the Speaker. Speaker
Berhampur/Srikakulam: Cyclone 'Phailin' on Sunday left a trail of destruction damaging lakhs of homes affecting nearly nine million people and destroying paddy crops worth about Rs 2,400 crore.The loss of lives was minimized to a
Patna, July 20: The pathetic state of a primary health centre in Bihar and delays in rushing them to better hospitals killed most students after they consumed mid-day meals in their school, the distraught parents
Mathura, June 26: Three villagers, including a father-son duo, allegedly died after inhaling poisonous gas when they went inside a well to fetch a utensil that had fallen into it in Tentigaon village, police said
New Delhi, Oct 13: Yoga guru Ramdev today lashed out at the Nehru-Gandhi family and challenged the government to probe the unnatural deaths of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Robert Vadra's father. Addressing a
New York: Celebrities share their reactions to the death Friday of Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck:•“In 1974, Dick Zanuck and I sat in a boat off Martha's Vineyard and watched the mechanical shark sink to the
Spain, Jul 11: Several thousand people tested their bravery Wednesday by dashing with six fighting bulls through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona in the fifth day of the famed San Fermin
Pamplona, Spain, Jul 6: Tens of thousands of revelers showered each other with sparkling wine and waved red kerchiefs Friday as the blast of a small rocket signaled the start of this year's running of
Guwahati, Jun 27: Incessant rainfall in Assam has led to worsening of the flood situation in the state today triggering fresh inundation and landslides in 23 districts that left 10 more dead, taking the toll
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