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Hungary tourist boat disaster death toll reaches 11
Hungarian police confirmed Tuesday the discovery of two more South Korean victims of a sightseeing vessel which sank in Budapest last week, raising the toll to eleven tourists killed with 17 still missing. "A (male) body was found in the window of the boat wreck and brought to the surface," said a statement by Hungarian counterterror police TEK, who are leading the search operation. Later, police confirmed a male body found in the Kulcs area some 70 kilometres south of the accident scene was also a victim. The Mermaid boat carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank last Wednesday seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise ship on a busy stretch of the river in the heart of the Hungarian capital. Only seven of the 35 people on board have survived so far, leaving 17 missing with the prospect of finding any more passengers alive seen as practically zero. Those missing include a six-year-old girl as well as the Mermaid's Hungarian captain and a crew member. Divers
Boeing, AAI plan roadmap to modernise air traffic management
Aerospace major Boeing has entered into a technical assistance agreement with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop a comprehensive 10-year roadmap for modernising air traffic management in India.
Massive search to locate missing AN-32 draws blank
A massive search operation using satellites of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), sorties by navy's long range maritime reconnaissance aircraft P8I and helicopters equipped with advanced sensors over the possible crash sites has not provided any clues about the wreckage of the missing Indian Air Force's AN-32 transporter in Arunachal Pradesh, giving anxious moments to the families of 13 persons on board, including six officers and seven others.
Niti V-C visits Jharia Coal Fields in Jharkhand
Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar Tuesday visited Jharia Coal Fields in Jharkhand as part of the High Level Committee on Mines, Minerals and Coal to recommend structural reforms in these sectors. "Had a detailed discussion with officials of BCCL, CCL & CIL in #Dhanbad today on measures to augment coal production in India and early implementation of the #Jharia Master Plan," Kumar said in a tweet. The Niti Aayog vice-chairman further said he also visited the Jharia Rehabilitation site at Belgaria in Dhanbad to assess the status of rehabilitation work for the affected families in the area.
Massive search operation continues for missing IAF aircraft in Arunachal
A massive search operation involving a large fleet of planes, choppers and ground force was underway on Tuesday and satellite imagery being used to trace an AN-32 transport plane of the Indian Air Force, a day after it went missing near the thickly-forested Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh. Aircraft equipped with advanced sensors including C-130J, AN-32 and Indian Navy's long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft P8I were deployed besides Mi-17 and ALH helicopters of the Army to locate the missing plane, officials said. The Russian-origin transport aircraft, with 13 people on board, went missing Monday afternoon around 33 minutes after taking off from Jorhat in Assam for Menchuka near the border with China. IAF spokesperson Group Capt. Anupam Banerjee said the families of all air-warriors on board the aircraft have been informed and are being regularly updated on the progress of search for the missing aircraft. Military sources said rescuers have not received any signal from the missing
NITI Aayog team inspects Dhanbad mines, meets families in fire zone
A high-powered team of the NITI Aayog, headed by Deputy Chairman Rajiv Kumar, inspected the underground mines of Bharat Coking Coal Limited here on Tuesday and sought early rehabilitation of residents living in the fire and subsidence zone of the coal belt. Kumar told reporters here that the team wanted to ascertain the reasons behind the slow pace of rehabilitation in Jharia, besides looking into the possibilities of increasing coal production. "We have to increase production of coal to cater to the requirement of the steel sector and end dependence on foreign countries. No doubt, the Jharia belt has affected mining, but we will have to enhance production by checking the fire," he said. With over a century-long history of mining, Jharia's surface is filled with cracks and pits that continuously release toxic gases and fire. Subsidence or the collapse of surface land is common in the area. The deputy chairman of the policy think tank, who met the families living in the fire zone, said
5 die as SUV rams into bikes
Five people were killed after a vehicle rammed into two motorcycles in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar district on Tuesday, police said. The speeding SUV hit the two bikes near Manaksar overbridge in Suratgarh town, an officer said. A person named Bajrang was charred to death after his bike caught fire after the collision, Suratgarh Deputy Superintendent of Police Vidhya Prakash said. Four others killed in the incident have been identified as Laksham Ram (50), Jagdish (56), Hazari (30) and Nakshatra Singh (28), the officer said. A search is on for the driver who fled the spot. The bodies have been handed over to the families after post-mortem, the officer added.
Reyes' car crashed due to speeding, says Navarro
Spains general director of traffic on Tuesday confirmed that former Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid football star Jose Antonio Reyes, 35, and his cousin died in a car accident on Saturday due to speeding.
Tesla Model S catches fire at a Supercharger station
A Tesla Model S car stationed at a Supercharger station in Antwerp, Belgium caught fire while hooked up to a charger without any apparent reason, the media has reported.
No trace of An-32 plane, ISRO aids in search
More than 24 hours after it disappeared while on flight, an Indian Air Force (IAF) An-32 aircraft with 13 people on board remained untraced in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday even as a massive search operation continued.
NFR to complete electrification of 3,165 km tracks by 2020
The Northeast Frontier Railway has taken up a daunting task of electrifying more than 50 per cent of the total 6,242 km of railway lines by March 2020, officials said on Tuesday. A total of 534 km of railway lines has already been electrified and an additional 2,631 km of railway lines will be electrified by March 2020, the spokesperson of NF Railway, P J Sharma, said. A total of 219 kmof railway tracks under the jurisdiction of Katihar Division of NF Railway was electrified in 2017-18, including Katihar Yard (37.51 km) and Katihar- Kumedpur-Malda Court (181.84 km) sections, and since then a total of 315 km of railway lines were electrified during 2018 -19. Electrification of 1,085 km of railway tracks, including the Raninagar-Jalpaiguri-New Bongaigaon-Rangiya- Guwahati section, is supposed to be completed by December 2019, the spokesperson said. Currently, 21 pairs of passenger trains and 14 goods train running on electric traction originate from NFR and travel ...
CR, WR, NHA hold drive for Ayushman Bharat scheme awareness
Central and Western Railways along with the National Health Authority (NHA) held a beneficiary identification drive to zero in on contractual staff like porters attached to the national transporter in connection with the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana. Railway officials said the drive, held at CSMT and Mumbai Central on Saturday, was attended by the principal chief medical directors of WR and CR as well as the Maharashtra government's health agency. The drive was to increase awareness among porters about the provisions of this national scheme, they said. "A total of 111 contractual staff were screened and 15 documents were sent for AB-PMJAY. At present seven railway hospitals of Western Railway, namely Jagjivan Ram Hospital at Mumbai Central, Divisional Hospitals at Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Ratlam, Rajkot, Dahod and Sub-Divisional Hospital at Valsad are empanelled under the Central scheme," a WR official said. Sudhakar Shinde, CEO of State Health Agency ..
Ebola cases in DR Congo break 2,000 mark
DR Congo's health ministry said late Monday that it had recorded more than 2,000 cases of Ebola, two-thirds of which had been fatal, since the disease broke out in the country's east 10 months ago. "Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of cases stands at 2,008, of which 1,914 have been confirmed (by lab test) while 94 are probable," it said in an update. "In all, there have been 1,346 deaths (1,252 confirmed and 94 probable) and 539 people have recovered." The ministry said it was important to retain the overall perspective, despite the breaching of the symbolic threshold of 2,000 cases. "In recent weeks, the trend has been positive, although vigilance is still necessary," it said. There have been fewer attacks on Ebola teams by armed groups, which means health workers have "recovered some of the lost time to contain the spread of the epidemic," it said. The epidemic was first declared in North Kivu province on August 1 and then spread to neighbouring Ituri, although ...
No trace of missing An-32 despite massive search
Despite a massive search operation, an Indian Air Force (IAF) An-32 aircraft that went missing with 13 people on board a day earlier near the China border in Arunachal Pradesh remained untraced on Tuesday.
PMDA completes inspection of Lupin's Mandideep facility unit with no major observations
Drug firm Lupin Tuesday said Japanese regulatory agency, PMDA, has concluded the inspection of Unit 2 at Mandideep facility in Madhya Pradesh with no major observations. The inspection was conducted between May 14 and May 17, 2019, Lupin said in a statement. The good manufacturing practices (GMP) inspection by the Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japan of the company's Mandideep facility (Unit-2) has been completed, it said. "The PMDA inspection closed with no critical or major observations," Lupin said. PMDA is Japanese regulatory agency that protects public health by assuring safety, efficacy and quality of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Shares of Lupin Tuesday closed at Rs 742.20 per scrip on the BSE, down 0.39 per cent from its previous close.
AAI in pact with Boeing for modernising India's air traffic management
Boeing said Tuesday that it has signed a technical assistance agreement with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to jointly develop a comprehensive 10-year roadmap for modernising air traffic management in India. The roadmap is expected to be developed within 18 months and it will be undertaken with a grant from the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Boeing said in a statement. The AAI owns and manages around 125 airports across the country. "This objective of the agreement is to develop a roadmap for AAI to use as guidance in the modernization of the Indian National Airspace System (NAS) based on global and local best practices to optimally utilize airspace capacity, enhance communications and invest in navigation, surveillance and air traffic management," Boeing said. As part of the project, Boeing said it will also work closely with Indian aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), airlines operating in India, airport operators and other ...
Allianz warns of costs from new shipping emissions rules
New emissions rules set to hit the shipping sector from next year risk causing costly harm to vessels, German insurance giant Allianz said in a study published Tuesday. "The worry is that we could see an increase in the frequency and cost of machinery breakdown claims" related to the changeover, senior shipping underwriter Justus Heinrich of Allianz subsidiary AGCS said in a statement. In October, UN body the International Maritime Organization (IMO) ruled that the maximum sulphur content in ship fuels should drop to 0.5 percent, from up to 3.5 per cent at present. Ships now face costly refits or fines for non-compliance, with "sniffer drones" set for deployment at major ports to identify polluters, Allianz said. There are also concerns that traffic might be disrupted if ports do not have enough of the less-polluting fuels in stock, the insurer added. Turning to annual data on ship safety, Allianz said total losses of major ships were down by 55 per cent in 2018, at 46. Fewer ...
AAI signs technical assistance pact with Boeing
The US aircraft maker Boeing co and national airports body AAI Tuesday announced the signing of a technical assistance agreement for developing a comprehensive roadmap for modernisation of air traffic services in the country. The air traffic services comprises communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) and air traffic management (ATM). The 10-year modernisation roadmap will be undertaken with a grant from the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), a release said. The agreement is aimed at developing a roadmap for AAI to use as guidance in the modernisation of the Indian National Airspace System (NAS) based on global and local best practices to optimally utilize airspace capacity, enhance CNS/ATM, it said. The implementation of modern technologies and global practices will allow India to increase its airspace capacity significantly by improving communications, enabling flexible use of airspace and allowing the safe processing of additional flights using air navigation ...
Boat capsizes in sea, all safe
A fishing boat with eight persons on board capsized off the Mumbai coast, a police officer said Tuesday, adding that all of them have been rescued. The incident occurred on the intervening night of June 2 and June 3, when the boat, "Ajanta", was returning to Uttan in Thane district. "The boat capsized around 30 nautical miles away from Mumbai. All the eight men, including the owner of the boat, fell into the sea due to the impact. They were rescued by two other boats nearby. All of them are safe," said the senior officer with Uttan Sagri police station. The boat sank completely this morning, he said, adding that two boats have been dispatched for relief.
TN: ICGS Vikram rescues 2 boats stranded with 20 fishermen
Indian Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel ICGS Vikram rescued two fishing boats Star of Sea 1 and Star of Sea 2 with fishermen on board respectively after they developed engine failure on Monday night.The Marine police station in Kanyakumari at around 10:45 pm on Monday night reported two fishing boats, registered with the state of Tamil Nadu, adrift off Kiltan Island, Lakshwadweep.A total of 20 crew were on board the boats that were stranded due to suspected engine failure.On receiving information ICGS Vikram which was in the vicinity was immediately diverted to render assistance.Acting swiftly, the vessel reached the distressed boats and an assessment by the specialist crew of ICGS Vikram indicated a major engine failure and subsequent malfunctioning due to water ingress on the engine system.On identifying the criticality of the situation and to ensure the safety of the boat and its 20 crew, Indian Coast Guard Ship Vikram commenced towing of two crippled boats to Androth, which is ..