Mumbai boat accident: 13 people died and 99 were rescued after a Navy craft off the Mumbai coast collided with a passenger ferry carrying people from the Gateway of India to Elephanta Island on Wednesday.
After the cloudburst, the rains have lashed the state. In heavy rains since Friday Jogindernagar received the highest rainfall of 85 mm followed by Gohar (80 mm), Shilaroo (76.4 mm), Poanta Sahib (67.2), Palampur (57.2 mm) Dharamshala (55.6 mm) and (Chopal 52 mm).
The Indian Army's Madras Engineers Group built a bridge in just 16 hours amid the ongoing rescue mission in Kerala's landslide-hit Wayanad.
Many people are still trapped under the debris of an overhead water tank which collapsed on Sunday evening. The District Magistrate has called in the NDRF for fast-paced rescue work. The overhead water tank was constructed three years ago by Jal Nigam under the Gangajal Drinking Water Project.
Six children and two adults became trapped earlier in the day when one of the cables snapped while the passengers were crossing a river canyon in Battagram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A gush of mud that swept away homes and cars in a resort town southwest of Tokyo left at least two people dead and about 20 missing, officials said Sunday.
Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery.
The cyclone completed its landfall around noon packing strong winds and heavy rainfall along the Odisha coast and neighbouring areas of West Bengal.
All the 274 personnel who were on board barge P305 that sank and tugboat Varaprada that went adrift during Cyclone Tauktae fury have been accounted for with the recovery of 16 bodies along Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts.
The child, identified as Anil Dewasi, is alive, and efforts are underway to rescue him, they said.
A 10-month-old baby was miraculously rescued by a fire brigade team in Pune. The miraculous rescue was captured in a video. Take a look:
Fourteen people have been rescued from the debris of a three-storey building that collapsed on Tuesday night near Crawford Market in south Mumbai, officials said.
Twenty-three people were killed and 27 got injured in the explosion in Batala town. Scattered shoes, broken glass panes and vehicles were seen all over the accident spot, as security personnel and rescuers were sifting through the rubble in search of survivors.
People on the U.S. coast made final preparations for a storm with winds at a still-dangerous 110 mph (175 kph), making it a Category 2 storm. At least seven deaths were reported in the Bahamas, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown. The storm’s punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters destroyed or severely damaged thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics.
Amid heavy downpour in Gujarat, leading flood-like situation in which several lives have been lost, a heart-warming video of a heroic rescue operation has emerged. The video is of a policeman risked his own life to save two children from gushing floodwaters in Gujarat.
The drop was visibly more than 7 meters and would have resulted in instant death if the first officers haven’t got to the Coolidge Highway bridge
An overloaded boat carrying 38 people capsized on Sunday close to the ‘Pavitra Sangamam’, the confluence point of Krishna and Godavari rivers, at Ferry village near Vijayawada.
New Delhi, Jul 10: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed sorrow at the loss of lives in a rail accident in Uttar Pradesh and directed the Railway Ministry to deploy all available resources in the
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