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…
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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…
Ahmedabad, May 26 (IANS) Nearly a year after the Air India plane crash killed 260 people in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat government has approved the construction of a new super speciality hostel complex for doctors near Ahmedabad Civil Hospital after the existing accommodation blocks damaged were declared unsafe and marked for demolition. Announcing the decision on Tuesday, State Health Minister Praful Pansheriya said: “Tata Airlines had agreed to pay Rs 53.12 crore to the Health Department towards th…
Gandhinagar, May 25 (IANS) The Gujarat government has activated dedicated isolation wards in Ahmedabad and Surat and intensified airport screening measures following reported Ebola cases in Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, while maintaining that no case of the virus has been detected in the state or elsewhere in India. As part of its preparedness measures, the state health department has operationalised 32-bed facilities at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and 10-bed facilities at Surat Civil Hospital fo…
Ahmedabad, May 22 (IANS) Nearly a year after the Air India AI-171 plane crash in Ahmedabad, a relative of three victims has claimed that while searching for his family members inside the city Civil Hospital mortuary, he saw the body of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal seated in what he described as a “boxer position”, with his hand still on the aircraft controls.Romin Vohra, a resident of Thasra village in Gujarat’s Kheda district, said he entered the mortuary on June 13, a day after the London-bo…
Bhopal/Dewas, May 17 (IANS) At least three labourers were killed and two others seriously injured in a road accident in the Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, said officials on Sunday. The accident occurred around 12:30 a.m.- 1.00 a.m. near the Berkhedi crossing, close to Chaubaradhara, within the jurisdiction of the Pipalrava police station, when a mini truck laden with a heavy cargo of onions overturned. The truck was en route from the Gandharvapuri area towards Chaubaradhara when the driver re…