Bhopal, July 15 (IANS) A child was among two persons killed and three others injured after a truck rammed into a parked dumper on National Highway-46B in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.The accident took place around 4 a.m. on the Midghat stretch of the national highway under the Budhni police station limits. The impact of the collision was so severe that both vehicles suffered extensive damage, leaving the highway partially blocked for some time.Acc…
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Ratlam, July 13 (IANS) A pediatrician and his 80-year-old father-in-law were killed and five other family members were injured in a road accident on the Ratlam-Indore four-lane highway in the early hours of Sunday, police said on Monday. Dr. Manish Singh, a pediatrician at the Government Children’s Hospital in Ratlam, died on the spot, while Shivnarayan Rajauria, 80, succumbed to injuries during treatment at the government Medical College Hospital on Monday morning.The accident occurred around…
Hyderabad, July 13 (IANS) The wife of a police officer allegedly died by suicide in Alwal of Medchal Malkajgiri district near Hyderabad, police said on Monday.Hemalatha (50), wife of Chandrasekhar, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of the Charminar area in Hyderabad, was found dead at their residence in Saibaba Nagar colony in Alwal on Sunday evening.She allegedly hanged herself on Sunday when she was alone at home. As she did not respond to phone calls from her husband, the latter informed…
Jaipur, July 13 (IANS) A devastating road accident on the Jodhpur National Highway in Rajasthan’s Balotra district claimed the lives of five pilgrims and left three others critically injured, said police on Monday.The accident happened late Sunday night. The victims were returning from the Padasla Bhomiaji temple in Osian when their SUV collided with an unidentified heavy vehicle near Bhandiyawas-Kudi around midnight. According to police, eight people from Kanod village in the Baytu area were …
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) A Bolero vehicle allegedly rammed into a motorcycle late on Sunday night, killing a father and son in a tragic road accident under the City Kotwali police station area in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district.According to information, the accident occurred near Hama Tiraha around 12:30 A.M, when Kripal Sen (around 50), a resident of Khop village in Chhatarpur district, and his son Kunti Sen were returning home after attending an invitation ceremony.Police sources said th…
Jammu, June 27 (IANS) Two persons were killed and four others were injured on Saturday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district. Police said two elderly persons died and four others sustained injuries after their vehicle went out of the driver’s control, veered off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Doda district.The incident took place near Basti village in Bhaderwah when the driver lost control of the vehicle at a blind curve. The six persons brought to hospital were iden…
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday substantially enhanced compensation awarded to a Uttarakhand carpenter who lost his right leg in a road accident, holding that courts must assess the real impact of an injury on a victim’s livelihood and recognise “functional disability” rather than mechanically relying on medical disability certificates. A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and N.V. Anjaria increased the compensation payable to claimant Shankar Dutt from Rs 11.51 lakh, as a…
Jammu, June 24 (IANS) At least 23 pilgrims were injured on Wednesday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said here, adding that two of the injured sustained critical injuries.Officials said the pilgrims were injured after a minibus carrying devotees to the revered Sukrala Mata shrine near Billawar town of the district dropped into a gorge in the Simbli area when the driver lost control of the wheel.The officials said the minibus was on its way to the shrine whe…
Patna, June 19 (IANS) The convoy of Mokama MLA Anant Kumar Singh narrowly avoided a major road accident while returning to Patna after attending a wedding ceremony in Badpur village within his Assembly constituency. The incident occurred late on Thursday night near the Sabnima petrol pump in the Athmalgola police station area of the Barh subdivision.According to an official, the convoy was travelling along the four-lane highway when a vehicle at the front of the convoy allegedly lost control and…
Patna, June 12 (IANS) A pall of gloom descended over the Bihar Police Department after four people, including three Station House Officers (SHOs) posted in Madhepura district, lost their lives in a horrific road accident in Begusarai early Friday morning.Expressing deep sorrow over the tragedy, Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary described the deaths as an irreparable loss for the police fraternity.In a condolence message posted on social media, the Chief Minister said, “The news of the unti…