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Goa Police, Bengaluru start-up invent technology to detect illegal drones
Goa Police in association with a Bengaluru-based start-up has come up with a technology which can detect unauthorized drones, which are a public safety hazard, a statement issued by Goa Police on Monday said.
Six dead after ship sinks off Turkey's coast: State media
Six crew members were killed after a Panama-flagged cargo ship sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast on Monday, state news agency Anadolu reported. Osman Kaymak, governor of the northern Turkish province of Samsun, told Anadolu that seven others were rescued after the Volgo Balt 214 vessel encountered trouble 80 nautical miles from Samsun and had sent a distress call at 8:10 am (0510 GMT). The crew members found alive were taken to hospital. The governor's office had initially said there were a total of 13 crew members, including nine Ukrainians, two Azerbaijanis and two Russians. But the Russian embassy in Ankara said on Twitter that there were no Russians on board and Kiev's envoy to Ankara, Andriy Sybiha, said there were 11 Ukrainian crew members. He also said four Ukrainian citizens were among the dead. The cause of the incident was not given by Turkish authorities but Sybiha said on Twitter that the ship "sank off the coast of Samsun due to weather conditions".
Appropriate steps taken to rescue 15 people trapped in illegal mine, Centre tells SC
The Centre informed the Supreme Court Monday that all appropriate steps were being taken to rescue 15 miners trapped since December 13 in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya and Indian Navy has deployed remotely operated underwater vehicle in the operation there. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that 71 members of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), 20 from State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), 16 Navy personnel and others, including those from Odisha fire service and Coal India Ltd were working in the rescue operation. The Meghalaya government meanwhile filed a status report on the rescue operation and said there were problems like difficult terrain and lack of proper infrastructure at the site which were creating hurdles. The apex court is hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Aditya N Prasad who has sought urgent steps to rescue 15 miners trapped in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills ...
S Railway refunds Rs 7.68 cr to victims of Kerala floods
: Southern Railway Monday said it has refunded over Rs seven crore to passengers affected during the floods that caused havoc in Kerala and parts of Tamil Nadu last year. In August 2018, the passengers who had booked tickets for travel in Kerala were unable to take up journey as the booked tickets were lost along with their belongings in the floods, a press release from Southern Railway said here. Some of the passengers had lost their belongings, including personal identification cards and rail travel tickets, the release said. Following the representations made by the public, the railway said in the release that it has refunded the claims even in the absence of physical tickets through verification of records. The refund offices set up by railway had received a total number of 14,648 claims during August 20-October 20, 2018 and a sum of Rs 84.14 lakh was paid, the release said. The sum was over and above the refund generated across the booking counters from August ...
SC restrains K'taka from pumping treated water for recharging ground water table in Kolar distt
The Supreme Court Monday restrained the Karnataka government from pumping secondary treated water from its sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Banglore into irrigation tanks in Kolar district for recharging the ground water table after taking note of a report claiming that the water was contaminated. The apex court stayed the Karnataka High Court order by which the state government was allowed to pump the secondary treated water from Banglore-based STPs to the minor irrigation tanks situated in Kolar District for recharging the ground water table under as the K & C valley project. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul took note of the submission of lawyer Prashant Bhushan that the high court "overlooked" a report which had pointed out that the water, to be pumped for recharging the ground water table, was contaminated and had contained "higher heavy metals, high nutrients, higher Biochemical Oxygen Demand and Chemical Oxygen Demand". It also issued notices to ...
Cold weather chills Bengaluru, fog hits flights
Cold weather with a minimum temperature of 12 degrees Celsius was recorded in Bengaluru, with fog affecting flights, officials said on Monday.
Two dead after ship sinks off Turkey's coast
Two crew members were found dead after a Panama-flagged cargo ship sunk off Turkey's Black Sea coast on Monday, officials said. "The total number of crew members rescued alive is seven and our teams have found the bodies of two. Our rescue efforts continue," the governor's office of the northern Turkish province of Samsun said on Twitter. The governorate had earlier said there were 13 crew members including nine Ukrainians, two Azerbaijanis and two Russians. The ship encountered trouble 80 nautical miles from Samsun province and had sent a distress call at 8.10am (local time). The cause of the incident was not given. A plane, four helicopters and several rescue boats were on hand to find the missing crew, the governor's office said in a separate statement.
Marshalls treat grounded Chinese vessel as 'crime scene'
The grounding of a Chinese-flagged fishing vessel in the Marshall Islands is being treated as a "crime scene", officials in the Pacific Ocean archipelago said Monday. The 308-foot (94-metre) boat, which ran aground last week on a remote northern atoll, was not licensed to be in the country's waters. "What they were doing in Marshall Islands' waters is still unanswered," Chief Secretary Ben Graham said, adding that the government "is treating this as a crime scene". The boat's 24-member crew arrived in the capital Majuro on Sunday after being rescued by a government patrol boat and a Chinese fishing vessel, with the US Coast Guard providing aerial reconnaissance. The grounded vessel, the Ou Ya Leng No 6, is a frozen fish carrier and the owner is reported to be a squid supplier to longline vessels fishing in the region. Sam Lanwi, deputy director of the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, said the boat was "not licensed to operate in the Marshall Islands exclusive economic ...
Fog delays 20 flights in Bengaluru
Scores of passengers were left stranded and many others had to miss their connecting flights, while some even missed their business meetings and appointments as the airport authority in Bengaluru rescheduled at least 20 flights due fog on the runway.Scores of passengers in Bengaluru were left stranded, with several missing their connecting flights while a couple of them missing their business meetings and appointments as the airport authority here rescheduled at least 20 flights due to the presence of fog on the runways.Following the bad weather conditions, a couple of airlines such as Vistara, SpiceJet, Jet Airways and IndiGo have rolled out travel advisories urging passengers to check their flight status before heading for the aerodrome.This had witnessed disruption in aerodrome services on Sunday after at least 50 flights were rescheduled between 6 am and 9 am which were delayed owing to bad weather.Three flights, including a Singapore-Bengaluru IndiGo flight and Goa-Bengaluru Air .
2 killed, dozen injured as car collides with bus in Rajasthan
Two people died and a dozen others sustained injuries when a car collided with a bus due to poor visibility caused by dense fog in Rajasthan's Bikaner, the police said Monday. The accident occurred on the Bikaner-Bajju state highway in Srikolayat Police Station area, the police said, adding that the car collided head-on with the private. Two occupants of the car died on the spot whereas twelve others sustained minor injuries, they said. The injured were taken to a government hospital in Bajju town, they said.
4 cows, 3 calves die in UP's Banda due to lack of fodder
Four cows and three calves have died apparently due to lack of fodder in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, locals said Monday. The incident happened in the district's Gureh village of Sadar area on Sunday. About 150 cattle were kept in an enclosure by villagers of which seven died due to lack of fodder, Ram Kishore, husband of the village head said. Sub Divisional Magistrate of Sadar, T Ansaria, said he has no information about cattle "deaths". "A team has been sent to the village and will ensure availability of fodder there," the official said.
Women cab drivers for female passengers at Bengaluru airport
Cab services driven by women for female passengers were flagged off at the Kempegowda International Airport here on Monday.
2 miners found dead in another illegal coal mine in Meghalaya
Bodies of two miners were recovered from an illegal coal mine located at a remote village in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, police said on Monday. The bodies were recovered late on Saturday from the coal mine in Jalyiah village, a few kilometers away from the district headquarters of Khliehriat, they added. "Acting on a missing person complaint lodged by Philip Bareh on Friday, the police conducted a search in the village and recovered the body of Elad Bareh. The body was found near the entrance of the coal mine," Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Jaintia Hills district Sylvester Nongtynger told PTI. On searching a little deeper, another body was found, the SP said, adding that the deceased was identified as M Basumatary. The bodies were recovered almost a month after 15 miners were reported trapped in another illegal coal mine located about 40 km away at Khloo-Ryngksan, highlighting that illegal coal mining continued despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban on ...
California highway closed by mudslides, more rain coming
A powerful winter storm unleashed mudslides in Southern California wildfire burn areas and trapped motorists on a major highway, and the northern part of the state braced for more wet weather Sunday. Saturday's deluge loosened hillsides where a major blaze burned last year in and around Malibu, clogging the Pacific Coast Highway with mud and debris. A stretch of the scenic route northwest of Los Angeles was expected to remain closed in both directions until Monday while crews tow away stuck vehicles and clear lanes. No injuries were reported. The rapper Soulja Boy was among those whose cars were mired in the muck that was up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) deep in some areas. The 28-year-old retweeted a photo of the mudslide and posted: "My car got stuck too almost went into the ocean," along with a prayer emoji. An automated rain gauge in the western Santa Monica Mountains showed nearly three-quarters of an inch (nearly 2 centimeters) of rainfall in one hour, said the National Weather ...
6.5-magnitude quake jolts Indonesia, no tsunami alert
An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia on Monday, however no tusnami alert was issued, according to a disaster management official.
Michigan family of 5 killed in wrong-way crash in Kentucky
Authorities in Kentucky say five family members from Michigan headed home from vacation were among six people killed in a wrong-way accident on Interstate 75. Lexington police said in a statement that a southbound pickup truck being driven in the northbound lanes struck the family's sport utility vehicle at 2.30 am Sunday. The statement says the SUV caught fire. All five occupants died, along with the pickup's driver. The Fayette County coroner's office says the family from Northville, Michigan, was returning from a vacation in Florida. A coroner's statement identified them as 42-year-old Issam Abbas, 38-year-old Rima Abbas, 14-year-old Ali Abbas, 13-year-old Isabella Abbas, and 7-year-old Giselle Abbas. The pickup's driver was identified as 41-year-old Joey Lee Bailey of Georgetown. The crash remains under investigation.
5.9-magnitude quake jolts Iran's Gilangharb city, 75 injured
At least 75 people have been injured in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that shook Gilangharb city in Iran's Kermanshah province, Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran Emergency Organisation, said.
Meghalaya: 2 dead after coal mine collapses
In yet another mine-related mishap, two people lost their lives after a coal mine collapsed in Mooknor village on Sunday.S Nongtnger, SP, East Jaintia Hills said, "It is suspected that boulders hit them while they were trying to extract coal. The investigation is underway to identify the owner of the quarry."Meanwhile, the operation to rescue the miners who have been trapped in a mine at Ksan near Lyteiñ River in East Jaintia Hills is still underway.Fire service operated their pumps for 7 hours and 6.30 hours respectively from shaft No. 2 and 3. One pump was started at 10:00 am and another pump was started at 10.30 am respectively.The water from both the shafts reduced by 4 feet but due to heavy seepage from other shafts, the water level increased and only 2 feet water has been reduced. A total 12,15,000 litres water has so far been pumped out from both the shafts.The Indian Navy divers and the NDRF jointly assisted the Coal India in their works. The miners have been stuck in the mine
Day 25 of Meghalaya mine mishap: Rescue ops hit roadblock
Rescue operations for the 15 miners trapped in a Meghalaya mine hit a roadblock on Sunday as the two high-powered pumps engaged in dewatering did not operate the whole day after developing technical glitches, and Navy divers could not venture down with no change in the water level, officials said. The high-powered pumps of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd installed Saturday to pump out water from the main shaft, where the miners are trapped since December 13, developed glitches and could not function the whole day. Another submersible pump from Coal India Ltd (CIL) also faced a snag, affecting dewatering operations in the nearby abandoned mines in East Jaintia Hills district, they said. "Two pumps from Kirloskar Brothers and the submersible pump from Coal India encountered glitches and the dewatering process in the main shaft was affected," R Susngi, spokesperson for the operation, told PTI. The two high-powered pumps are undergoing repair work, he said, adding that the CIL pump was replaced ...
CRIME-BRIEFS
A 29 year-old man died and another was injured after falling from a moving DTC bus in northeast Delhi's Nandnagri area, police said Sunday. The incident took place on Friday, they said. The victims were rushed to a nearby hospital, where Kishore succumbed to injuries during treatment, officials said. Investigation has revealed that the door of the bus was open when the accident took place, a police officer said. A case has been registered against the accused driver, he added.