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Students among 23 killed in Nepal bus crash
At least 23 people were killed and 14 injured in Nepal when a bus carrying students and their teachers back from a botanical trip ran off a road and plunged into a ravine.
Kuwait Airways flight from Mumbai lands back due to
A Kuwait-city bound Kuwait Airways flight was diverted back to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) due to cabin "pressurisation" issue, an airport official said Saturday. The Airbus A320 aircraft made a "safe" landing under emergency conditions, the official added. The number of passengers on board the flight could not be immediately known. "The local standby was declared at for Kuwait Airways flight KU 304 after the pilots sought diversion from the Mumbai ATC due to (cabin) pressurisation problem," the official said. The aircraft landed safely on Runway 09/27, the official said, adding that on landing, the captain informed that all operations were "normal" and no assistance was required. Later, the local standby was withdrawn from runway 09/27, he added.
Raj DGP asks officials to tackle cybercrime, traffic woes
Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) Kapil Garg Saturday asked the officials to prepare a work plan to deal with cybercrime and traffic menace in the state. Efforts should be made to nab the criminals by making use of technology. A special work plan should be made to curb cybercrime and take action against such criminals, Garg said at a meeting here after taking the charge of the post. Garg, who was appointed DGP on Thursday (December 20), also directed the officials to come up with a work plan in consultation with experts to ease out traffic congestions in Jaipur and other cities of the state so as to curb road accidents. He asked the officials to adopt positive outlook to the problems of common people and in disposing their issues in a stipulated timeframe. The top police official also directed officials to take effective action against criminals and maintain better law and order situation in the state, besides showing sensitivity towards weaker sections of the society, ...
Twin bombings near Somalia's Presidential Palace kill 8
At least eight people were killed in twin suicide car bomb blasts near Somalia's Presidential Palace in the capital on Saturday, the police said.
2 arrested over UK's Gatwick Airport drone chaos
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with a string of drone sightings which brought UK's Gatwick Airport to a standstill for three days.
Passenger adamant on smoking on-board delays flight
New Delhi (India), Dec 22, (ANI): A Vistara airlines flight was delayed by three hours after a passenger engaged in an argument with on-board crew as he wished to smoke on the plane.The UK-707 flight from Amritsar to Kolkata flight was scheduled to have a halt in Delhi, which is where the incident was reported prior to take off.The said passenger asked the flight attendant to permit him to smoke, citing that the flight is long. On being denied, the passenger engaged in an argument, following which he was issued a warning letter by the pilot and was later offloaded at Delhi airport, as per the airline spokesperson.In a statement about the incident, the airline regretted the delay and asserted that they do not accept unruly behaviour of any kind."We confirm that a customer of UK707 Amritsar to Kolkata via Delhi. After pushback from Delhi which was the intermediate stop en-route to Kolkata, we had an unruly customer situation who insisted on smoking on board. Vistara regrets the delay, ..
S Korea repatriates 3 North Korean sailors
South Korea repatriated three North Korean sailors and the body of a deceased mariner retrieved from the East Sea by authorities earlier this week, said the Unification Ministry on Saturday.The North Korean sailors were found by a local coast guard on Thursday after their boat went off-course in the South Korean waters of East Sea. While the three sailors were rescued, the coast guard also retrieved the body of the fourth seaman, Yonhap News Agency reported.Following the rescue operations, South Korea, in a letter, informed North Korea via the Korean Red Cross about the repatriation, after which Pyongyang accepted it.More details about the boat and the sailors were not immediately known.
J&K Governor announces compensation for 6 killed in Uttarakhand landslide
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Saturday announced ex gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of six Kashmiri labourers who died in a landslide in Uttarakhand a day ago, an official statement said.
23 killed in Nepal bus accident
A bus carrying college students and their teachers back from an educational trip veered off a mountainous road and lunged into a ravine in Nepal, killing 23 people and injuring 14 others. The fatal crash occurred on Friday when the bus was returning from Kapurkot in Salyan district. According to the District Police Office, Dang, there were 37 persons 34 students, two teachers and a diver, on the ill-fated bus, which drove off the road and fell some 700 metres down near Ramri village, about 400 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu. Fourteen persons, including five women, were injured in the incident. The students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had been visiting a farm for their botany project, The Kathmandu Post reported. Poor road infrastructure and reckless driving are the leading causes of accidents in Nepal.
21 killed in crash of Nepal bus on college botany field trip
A bus carrying college students and their instructors back from a botany field trip drove off a highway in a mountainous area on Friday, leaving 21 dead and 15 injured, police said. The bus plunged down a mountainous slope and rolled about 500 meters (1,640 feet), police said. The Nepalese students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had been visiting a farm in a nearby district. Rescue operations were difficult at the crash site near Ramri village, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, because the crash happened in a remote area and the wreckage was scattered. The injured were taken to hospitals for treatment. Vehicle crashes in in mountainous Nepal are generally blamed on poorly maintained vehicles and roads. The accident happened a week after truck veered off a mountain road in Nepal, killing 16 people.
WCD to run conditional cash transfer in UP, Rajasthan on pilot basis
The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) on Friday said it has decided that conditional cash transfer scheme will be carried out on a pilot basis in lieu of take-home ration.
505 black spots identified in Himachal
Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary BK Agarwal said Friday there were approximately 3,000 road accidents each year in the state and 80 per cent of them were caused by human errors. Chairing a high-level road safety meeting, the chief secretary said, "Eighty per cent accidents in the state take place due to mistakes made by humans, while 15 per cent occur due to bad condition of roads and adverse weather conditions. Five per cent of them are caused due to technical issues." He asked the Public Works Department (PWD), the Police and Road Transport Department to work jointly to reduce the number of accidents. Stating that 505 black spots have been identified in the hill state, he asked respective district superintendent of police and PWD officials to jointly visit these sites to ensure improvement of the on-ground situation. He instructed the police and district administration to mark dangerous sites. Among the mishaps, most of them were two-wheeler accidents. Number of car and bus ...
Lioness dies in road accident in Gujarat
A lioness succumbed to injuries sustained after being hit by a vehicle in Rajula range of the Gir forest in Amreli district of Gujarat, a forest department official said Friday. The lioness, aged 1-2 years, died at a rescue centre at Babarkot in Amreli district, around 340km from here, where she was taken after being found in an injured state on a road near Balani Vav village, he said. "The lioness was rescued from the road accident site and sent to a rescue centre at Babarkot. The veterinary officer could not save the animal. It died late last night," the official said. This comes two days after a lioness and its two cubs were crushed to death by a goods rain near the Gir forest in the same district. The incident took place on Monday midnight near Borala village in Savarkundla taluka when a pride of six lions was walking along the railway track. On Thursday, the carcass of a lion cub was found in a farm in Khambha taluka of Amreli district. Forest officials had said ...
Indian-origin man jailed for drink-drive killing has sentence cut in UK
An appeal court in the UK on Friday reduced by two-and-a-half years the sentence of an Indian-origin man who was jailed for 13 years for killing three teenage boys in an accident in January. Jaynesh Chudasama, 29, admitted to driving at more than two-and-a-half times over the alcohol limit on January 26 evening, when the fatal collision occurred near a bus stop at Hayes in west London. Traces of cannabis were also found in the car hire worker's system following his arrest. At the latest hearing, the Court of Appeal concluded that there had been an error in sentencing him to 13 years behind bars for the crime and cut his sentence down to 10 and-a-half years instead to take his guilty pleas into account. "Prior to consideration of his guilty pleas, this was a case for the maximum sentence of 14 years. The appropriate discount for the pleas, however, was not one third but one quarter," said Judge Brian Leveson at a judgment hand-down hearing, during which the victims' families shouted ...
7 labourers dead, 3 injured, 1 missing in landslide in Uttarakhand
At least seven labourers were killed, three others injured while another is missing in a landslide near the construction site of Char Dham all-weather road in Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag district Friday, police said. The incident took place in Ukhimath area near Banswada on the Rishikesh-Kedarnath national highway at around 12 pm, they said. Rudraprayag District Magistrate Mangesh Ghildiyal said the incident took place during the construction of a retaining wall. A total of 23 labourers were at the site at the time of the incident, of them 11 got buried under the debris and 12 escaped unhurt, the DM said. Seven bodies have been pulled out of the debris and efforts are on to trace the missing labourer, he said. Three injured labourers were also pulled out of the debris, he said, adding that two of them were critical and sent to AIIMS Rishikesh by air. Senior officials rushed to the spot and rescue and relief operation is underway, he said. The DM has ordered a magisterial probe into the .
Six killed in plane crash in DR Congo election flight
Six people were killed when a plane chartered by DR Congo's election commission crashed near Kinshasa airport, sources said Friday. The Antonov 26 crashed Thursday as it was about to land after delivering election material to Tshikapa in the centre of the country, a spokesman at the Independent National Election Commission (CENI) told AFP. The consignment comprised "election results forms" and was safely delivered before the accident, the spokesman said. Presidential, legislative and provincial elections were due to have been held in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, defusing a two-year-old crisis over the future of President Joseph Kabila. But the twice-delayed poll suffered a new setback on Thursday when CENI ordered a week-long postponement after a fire destroyed electronic voting machines and ballot papers at a warehouse in Kinshasa. The delay will enable CENI to get replacement ballot papers from the South Korean firm supplying the equipment, the panel said. An official
Tugboat capsizes near Alang in Gujarat, four missing
Four crew members have gone missing after a tugboat capsized following a blast in its diesel tank near Alang in Gujarat Friday, the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) said. Three other crew members were rescued, said GMB Vice Chairman and CEO Mukesh Kumar. The tugboat had been hired by Customs officials to reach a ship anchored in the sea near the coast of Alang town in Bhavnagar district, around 220 km from Ahmedabad. The area is known for its ship-breaking industry. "The tugboat had taken Customs officials for the inspection of a ship before it went for recycling at the ship-breaking yard. After the customs officials had boarded the ship, a blast occurred in the diesel tank of the tugboat," said Kumar. "The tugboat sank. While three crew members were rescued by those on the ship, four others are still missing. Our search operation is still on," the IAS officer added. Someone on board the ship captured the incident on mobile phone and shared it on social media. The video shows
Six of a family injured in house fire in Uttarakhand's Tehri
Six members of a family, including four minor girls, suffered severe burn injuries Friday in a fire caused by a leaking gas cylinder at their house in Uttarakhand's Tehri district, a senior official said. All the injured were rushed to AIIMS Rishikesh after primary treatment, she said. Among the injured, three girls were sent to Rishikesh by air, while an old couple and another girl were sent to the hospital by an ambulance, she added. The injured where identified as Keshar Singh Gusain (73), his wife Sumitra Devi (65) and the four girls -- Himanshi (13), Anshika (10), Anchal (8) and Arushi (6). All the four girls are sisters. Of them, Arushi, Anshika and Himanshi are said to be in critical condition. According to District Megistrate Sonika, Gusain changed the gas cylinder and started preparing tea at around 7 am. He was later joined by his wife and their four granddaughters in kitchen. They realised the gas leakage only after a bulb in the kitchen burst and the room caught fire, she .
Seven labourers crushed to death under boulders in Uttarakhand
Seven labourers were killed in a rockfall on the Rudraprayag-Gaurikund highway on Friday.
13 miners killed in Czech coal mine explosion
A methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the Czech Republic killed 13 miners, officials and the state-run OKD mining company said on Friday.