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Cyclone Sitrang kills 35 in Bangladesh, several homes destroyed: Official

At least 18 people, including three children, were killed in different parts of Bangladesh as the cyclonic storm Sitrang lashed the country, leaving a trail of destruction, officials said on Tuesday. Sitrang completed its landfall and weakened to a tropical depression over Bangladesh in the early hours of Tuesday, The Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported. As many as 18 deaths caused due to the cyclonic storm were reported from different parts of Bangladesh since Monday night, it quoted officials as saying. Three members of a family died after a tree fell on their house in Comilla, while four people died at Bhola district after being crushed under trees and from drowning, the report said. One death each was reported from Narail and Barguna sub-districts. The body of a child was recovered from Chittagong district. A mother and her two-year-old son died after a boat sank during the storm in Jamuna River in Sirajganj district. One man died after the railing of a multi-story building colla

Mumbai logs 32 new Covid-19 cases, no death; active tally drops below 800

Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 32 new cases of coronavirus, raising the overall tally to 11,53,502, while no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the metropolis, the local civic body said. The death toll remained unchanged at 19,738. The city has reported less than 100 COVID-19 cases on the second consecutive day after 53 on Monday. The cumulative count of recoveries rose to 11,32,966 after 128 patients recuperated from the infection in the last 24 hours, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). A bulletin issued by the civic body said the city currently has 798 active cases. As many as 1,738 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking their total number to 1,84,32,428, said the bulletin. Mumbai's coronavirus recovery rate was 98.2 per cent, while the case doubling rate stood at 6,047days, it stated.

Fire in Ahmedabad 'chawl' due to crackers, explosions in 5 gas cylinders

A fire broke out in a 'chawl' or tenement in Ahmedabad city apparently due to crackers, causing explosions in five gas cylinders kept in different rooms on Tuesday, but no casualty was reported, officials said. The incident took place in the city's Sarangpur locality in the wee hours. The officials also said as many as 57 fire calls were received from across the city post-Diwali on Monday. "A chawl (old row tenement) with 11 rooms and located on the first floor caught fire that triggered blasts in five LPG cylinders kept in different rooms," said Divisional Fire Officer, Ahmedabad, Om Jadeja. The blaze, appeared to have been caused by firecrackers, started from three godowns storing plastic materials located on the ground floor of the building. "Residents of the building escaped unhurt. It took nearly one-and-a-half hours to douse the flames as the approach road to the building was narrow, causing delay in movement of fire tenders," he said. In a separate incident on the city's

15 incidents of fire in Pune on Diwali; house gutted, no casualty

At least 15 incidents of blaze due to firecrackers were reported in Maharashtra's Pune city on the occasion of Diwali and in one incident an entire house of gutted, a fire official said on Tuesday. No one was injured in the blaze which erupted at the house located in Aundh area late Monday night, the official from the Pune Municipal Corporation's fire department said. He said 15 incidents of fire, suspected to have been caused due to firecrackers, were reported from various parts of Pune between 7 pm and 11 pm on Monday. In one such incident, a fire broke out in a four BHK (bedroom hall kitchen) flat located on the first floor of a 12-storey building in Aundh area, he said. "Following the call, seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot where 30 to 35 residents were shifted to the terrace for safety and the fire was doused," the official said. No one was injured in the incident, but the entire flat was gutted in the blaze, he said. "As per some eye-witnesses, the fire broke out i

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6 people feared dead in small plane crash off Costa Rica: Official

Six people, apparently including a German business magnate, were feared dead Saturday after a small plane crashed into the Caribbean just off the Costa Rican coast. All five passengers are believed to be German citizens, according to Security Minister Jorge Torres. The plane's pilot was Swiss. Costa Rican authorities said pieces of the twin-engine turboprop aircraft were found in the water Saturday, after the flight went missing Friday. A flight plan filed for the small, charter plane listed Rainer Schaller as a passenger. A man by the same name runs international chains of fitness and gym outlets, including Gold's Gym and McFit. Martn Arias, Costa Rica's assistant security minister, said no bodies had been located yet at the site, about 17 miles (28 kilometers) off the coast from the Limon airport. Pieces have been found that indicate that this is the aircraft, Arias said. Up to now we have not found any bodies dead or alive. The plane was a nine-seat Italian-made Piaggio P180 .

Plane crashes into New Hampshire building; all on board die: Official

A small plane crashed into a building in New Hampshire, killing the two people on board and sparking a large fire on the ground, authorities said. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Saturday that a single-engine Beechcraft Sierra aircraft crashed into a building north of Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, New Hampshire on Friday evening. City officials said on their Facebook page that no one was injured in the building that was hit by the plane but that those on the plane have perished." The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate. The NTSB will be in charge of the investigation and will provide additional updates, the FAA said. Keene Mayor Mayor George Hansel told The Associated Press that two people on the plane died but that they have not been identified. He said the the plane hit a two-story barn connected to a multi-family apartment building. All eight people were evacuated from the apartment building due to the subsequent fir

Mumbai logs 146 new Covid-19 cases, no death; active tally at 986

Mumbai on Saturday recorded 146 new cases of coronavirus that raised the tally of infections to 11,53,299, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. The toll remained unchanged at 19,738, while the count of recoveries reached 11,32,575 after 180 patients recovered from the infection during the day, the official said. The daily count of infections has witnessed a slight decline, as the city had logged 161 cases on Friday. According to a bulletin issued by the civic body, 4,481 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 1,84,22,952. With a recovery rate of 98.2 per cent, Mumbai is left with 986 active cases, it stated. Of the latest cases, only 13 patients were symptomatic. The overall growth rate of the infection in the city is 0.014 per cent for the period between October 15 and October 21, while the doubling rate was 5,222 days, the bulletin stated. Meanwhile, the civic body has announced that COVID-19

Seven injured in blast at BPCL oil depot near Bhopal, says official

Seven persons were injured, two of them seriously, in a blast that occurred when petrol was being filled in the container of a tanker at a Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited's (BPCL) depot on the outskirts of Bhopal, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday evening at the oil depot located in Bakania area, Khajuri police station in-charge Sandhya Mishra said. The "unexpected fire" was being investigated, BPCL said in a statement later. "Seven persons were injured in the blast. While six of them are either drivers or helpers of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) who were there to get fuel filled in their tankers, one is an employee of BPCL," she said. Two of them were seriously injured and undergoing treatment at a private hospital, Mishra added. While the exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, the police official said a short-circuit could be the reason. In a statement, the state-run BPCL said, "An unexpected fire occurred at our PO

Maharashtra records 387 Covid-19 cases, 1 death, 457 recoveries in a day

Maharashtra on Saturday reported 387 COVID-19 cases and one death, which took the state's tally to 81,27,259 and the toll to 1,48,379, a health official said. The addition to the tally is lower than the 402 cases detected on Friday, he pointed out. The lone death took place in Ulhasnagar in Thane district, which is part of Mumbai Circle, the official added. Mumbai Circle accounted for 257 of the new cases, followed by 75 in Pune, 22 in Nagpur, 14 in Nashik, eight in Kolhapur, four each in Aurangabad and Akola, and three in Latur, he said. The recovery count increased by 457 in the last 24 hours to touch 79,79,019, leaving the state with an active caseload of 2,496, the official informed. Mumbai has 986 active cases, followed by 472 in Thane and 426 in Pune districts. State health department data showed the recovery rate was 98.14 per cent and the fatality rate stood at 1.82 per cent. So far, 8,51,62,544 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Maharashtra, including 14,758 in th

15 killed, 40 injured as UP-bound bus with labourers rams into truck in MP

Fifteen persons were killed and 40 others injured after an Uttar Pradesh-bound private bus, mostly carrying labourers going home for Diwali, rammed into a trailer-truck from behind in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Saturday. The accident occurred around 11.30 pm on Friday near Teonthar town, when the bus was going to Gorakhpur from Hyderabad, they said. The bus, a sleeper coach, was negotiating a mountain road in Sohagi ghati, about 60 km from the district headquarters, when it rammed into the trailer-truck from behind on national highway (NH)-30, Rewa Superintendent of Police (SP) Navneet Bhasin said. The trailer-truck suddenly applied brakes after it hit another vehicle ahead of it, due to which the bus crashed into the truck, he said. "Fifteen people were killed and 40 others injured in the accident. The victims were mostly labourers going home to Uttar Pradesh for Diwali. The bus also belonged to that state," he said. The impact of the crash was so severe t

Death toll in Army helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh rises to 5

The toll in the Army helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh rose to five with the body of the last missing personnel recovered on Saturday, a defence spokesperson said. The advanced light helicopter (ALH), carrying five Army personnel including two pilots, was on regular sorties when it crashed at 10.43 am on Friday near Migging, around 25 km south of Tuting, he said. The bodies of the four other personnel were recovered on Friday evening from the crash site in a densely wooded mountainous area, around 35 km from the border with China, defence spokesperson Lt Col A S Walia said. The deceased Army personnel were identified as pilots Major Vikas Bhambhu and Major Mustafa Bohara, CFN Tech AVN (AEN) Aswin K V, Havildar (OPR) Biresh Sinha and NK (Ppr) Rohitashva Kumar, he said. The cause of the crash is not yet known and details are being ascertained, the officer said. "It is reported that the weather was good for flying operations. The pilots had more than 600 combined flying hours on

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Mumbai reports 161 Covid-19 cases, 0 death in last 24 hours: BMC

Mumbai on Friday reported 161 new coronavirus infections and zero pandemic-related fatalities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release. It took the tally of COVID-19 cases in the city to 11,53,153, and death toll to 19,738. On Thursday, Mumbai had logged 147 new COVID-19 cases and zero fatalities. As many as 5,900 coronavirus tests were conducted since previous evening. The tally of tests conducted so far went up to 1,84,18,471. A day before, 5,122 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city. Tally of recuperated patients rose to 11,32,395 with 178 patients recovering on Friday. The city has a recovery rate of 98.2 per cent. Mumbai has 1,020 active COVID-19 patients now. Of 161 new COVID-19 cases, only 14 patients were symptomatic. The growth rate of COVID-19 cases in the city was 0.014 per cent for the period between October 14 and 20, while the case doubling rate was 5,123 days.

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Delhi records 141 fresh Covid-19 infections, positivity rate at 2.04%

Delhi on Tuesday logged 141 new COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.04 per cent, according to data shared by the health department. No new fatality due to the viral disease was reported in the city. With these new cases, the national capital's Covid case tally has climbed to 20,05,104, while the death toll stands at 26,506, the department said in the latest bulletin. The new cases were detected from 6,906 tests conducted on Monday, it showed. The national capital on Monday recorded 61 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 3.61 per cent. On Sunday, the city recorded 115 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 1.59 per cent. On Saturday, 135 Covid cases were reported with a positivity rate of 2.12 per cent. The day before, the city reported 112 cases with a positivity rate of 1.75 per cent. The number of active Covid cases in Delhi now stands at 500, the bulletin stated, adding that a total of 315 patients are under home-isolation. Of the 8,819 beds reserved for Covid .

Maharashtra records 358 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths; active tally at 2,788

Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 358 fresh coronavirus cases and two fatalities that raised the tally of infections to 81,28,258 and the toll to 1,48,374, a health department official said. With 370 patients recovering from the infection in the last 24 hours, the count of recoveries reached 79,77,096, the official said. As per a bulletin from the health department, the state is now left with 2,788 active cases. Mumbai recorded 128 fresh cases. Both the fatalities were reported from Nagpur city and district. Maharashtra's (COVID-19) fatality rate now stands at 1.82 per cent and the recovery rate at 98.14 per cent, the bulletin said. A total of 14,475 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted so far in the state to 79,76,726, it said. Coronavirus figures in Maharashtra are as follows: Total cases 81.28,258, new cases 359, death toll 1,48,374, recoveries 79,77,096, active cases 2,788, number of tests so far 79,76,726.

Data story: India adds 1,542 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,913

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Maharashtra sees 462 new Covid-19 cases, 0 death; active tally 2,818

Maharashtra on Saturday reported 462 COVID-19 cases, which took the state's tally to 81,27,259, while the death toll stood unchanged at 1,48,371, a health department official said. A day earlier, the state had seen 477 cases and four deaths, he pointed out. Mumbai circle accounted for 288 of the new cases, followed by Pune (89), Nagpur (25), Akola(17), Aurangabad (16), Nashik (11), Latur (10) and Kolhapur (6) circles. The recovery count increased by 403 in the last 24 hours to touch 79,76,070, leaving the state with 2,818 active cases, he said. Mumbai led with 1,143 active cases, followed by 550 in Pune and 487 cases in Thane, the official added. As per the health department's data, the recovery rate is 98.14 per cent and the fatality rate stands at 1.82 per cent. So far, 8,50,56,146 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Maharashtra, including 18,618 in the last 24 hours, as per official data. Coronavirus figures of Maharashtra are as follows: Positive cases 8127259; fresh ca