Ahmedabad, July 20 (IANS) The death toll in the explosion at an allegedly illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad’s Ramol area has risen to 10 after one of the critically injured victims succumbed to extensive burn injuries at the Civil Hospital in the early hours of Monday.Ahmedabad Civil Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Rakesh Joshi said the deceased, identified as Govind Damor, died at 2:15 a.m. after suffering burns over more than 95 per cent of his body. He was originally from…
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Ahmedabad, July 19 (IANS) The explosion that tore through a firecracker manufacturing unit on Ramol-Gatrad Road in Ahmedabad on Saturday afternoon has emerged as the culmination of a long history of regulatory action, an earlier fatal accident, alleged illegal operations and repeated safety violations, according to the Gujarat Police investigation. The blast at the unit, operating under the name ‘New Gujarat Fire Works’ on Survey No. 629/1/2/3 in the limits of Vastral village, killed nine people…
Mumbai, July 11 (IANS) A 12-year-old boy lost his life while two of his family members were injured after a section of a neighbouring building collapsed and fell on their house in Maharashtra’s Thane district, officials said. The incident took place at around 3:35 p.m. on Friday at Madras Chawl in Azad Nagar, Brahmand, prompting an immediate rescue operation by local authorities and emergency services.Officials said the affected building was a ground-plus-one-storey structure estimated to be aro…
Bathinda, July 1 (IANS) Four en route to the Amarnath Yatra died as the vehicle carrying pilgrims from Rajasthan collided with a truck on the Bathinda-Bikaner National Highway in Punjab’s Bathinda district on Wednesday morning. Eight people sustained serious injuries and have been admitted to AIIMS, Bathinda, for treatment.Officials stated that the accident occurred on the Bathinda-Bikaner National Highway, whereThe devotees were travelling in a traveller van. The impact was so severe that the v…
Chandigarh, June 30 (IANS) Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) has apprehended four accused after a brief exchange of fire near the Sirhind Canal Link Road in Bathinda, and recovered two sophisticated pistols from their possession, said Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Tuesday. Those arrested have been identified as Gurdeep Singh, Sukhchain Singh and Gurvinder Singh, all residents of Salabatpura village in Bathinda; and Jashanpreet Singh, a resident of Dullewala villa…
Quetta, June 26 (IANS) The protest of Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) of Balochistan against the acid attack on a woman doctor Mah Noor Nasir at a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta, continued for the 19th day on Friday, local media reported. During a recent central meeting, the association decided to escalate the protest and said that the closure of Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) in government hospitals would continue until the authorities do not agree to their demands, Pakistan-based daily The Exp…
Colombo/Islamabad, June 24 (IANS) The persistence of acid violence in Pakistan reflects deep-seated societal and institutional failures, exposing the state’s inability to effectively enforce its own laws and a culture that continues to silence women through “mutilation”, according to a report. Often preceded by threats, harassment, or rejected proposals, acid attacks are preventable acts of violence. However, the Pakistani authorities have failed in monitoring risk factors, enforcing controls on…
Ahmedabad, June 12 (IANS) On the first anniversary of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, officials from the city’s Civil Hospital and police have detailed the emergency response, forensic operations, and multi-agency coordination that followed one of India’s deadliest aviation disasters.The Air India Flight AI-171 crash occurred on June 12 last year shortly after take-off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed in the Meghani…
Jaipur, June 12 (IANS) A bus carrying around 40 tourists collided with a truck loaded with iron angles in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district early Friday morning, leaving the bus driver and conductor dead and around 16 passengers injured, several of them critically.The accident took place near the Buchawas cut on National Highway 152-D at around 5 a.m.According to preliminary information, the bus was returning to Jaipur from Manali when it crashed into a truck parked on the roadside.The impact was …
Gandhinagar, June 10 (IANS) Nearly a year after the Air India Flight AI-171 disaster in Ahmedabad, Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) G.S. Malik has detailed the extensive rescue, traffic management and victim identification operation undertaken in the aftermath of India’s deadliest aviation accident in decades. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, operating from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed shortly after take-off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12. The aircra…