Gwalior, June 14 (IANS) After a 17-hour rescue operation, the body of the second MBBS student who drowned in Gwalior’s Tigra Dam was recovered on Sunday.In a tragic incident, two second-year MBBS students of Gajara Raja Medical College drowned in the deep waters of Tigra Dam on Saturday evening while on a picnic with friends.The deceased were identified as Ayush Srivastava, a resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, and Gopal Agarwal, a resident of Bina in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district.The incident o…
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Amaravati, June 14 (IANS) The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel on Sunday joined the operation to search for a two-year-old girl who has been missing since June 6 from a palm oil plantation in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada district.Following the directions of Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, the NDRF entered the fray to trace Sunkara Gnaneswari.State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) is already participating in the search operation. A 40-member SDRF team along with police, revenue, f…
Imphal, June 13 (IANS) Search operations continued for the third consecutive day on Saturday to trace a 14‑year‑old girl student who was swept away by flash floodwaters in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, officials said. A district official said the tragic incident occurred on June 11 at Laijon Veng in the Tuibong Sub‑Division of Churachandpur district, where the young girl was swept away by strong currents triggered by incessant rainfall.The Class 8 student, identified as Lamboikim, wa…
Ahmedabad, June 11 (IANS) On the afternoon of June 12, 2025, as emergency crews rushed towards the wreckage of Air India flight AI-171 in Ahmedabad, one of the first specialist police units to be mobilised was the city’s K9 squad.The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had crashed shortly after take-off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA), striking the campus of B.J. Medical College and its surrounding residential buildings in the Meghaninagar area.Of the 12 crew membe…
Dehradun, June 10 (IANS) Four people lost their lives after a car reportedly went out of control and plunged nearly 500 metres into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand’s Mussoorie on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive rescue operation involving multiple emergency agencies. The fatal accident took place on the Jharipani-Kolukhet shortcut road at around 9 a.m., officials said. Teams from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), police, fire services, and medical…
Patna, June 10 (IANS) Three women were reported missing after a boat carrying farmers capsized in the Kosi River in Bihar’s Darbhanga district while they were on their way to harvest ‘moong’ (green gram) crops from their fields on Wednesday morning, officials said.The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has launched an intensive search operation.According to an official, the incident took place near the ring embankment at Tarwara Ghat under the jurisdiction of the Jamalpur police station area…
Gandhinagar, June 3 (IANS) Gujarat has positioned 14 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams and 22 State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams ahead of the monsoon season as the state administration stepped up preparedness measures with a stated goal of ensuring “zero casualty” during heavy rain and flood situations. The preparedness plan was reviewed at a high-level pre-monsoon meeting chaired by Chief Secretary M. K. Das in Gandhinagar on Wednesday, bringing together senior state off…
Devprayag, June 2 (IANS) A major road accident was reported in Uttarakhand’s Devprayag region on Tuesday after a vehicle carrying eight people plunged nearly 200 metres into a deep gorge near Ganga Hotel Darshan. The incident triggered panic in the area and prompted an immediate response from rescue agencies. As soon as information about the accident was received, teams from the police, the Revenue Department, and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) rushed to the spot and launched an inte…
Dehradun, May 31 (IANS) More than 50 devotees had a narrow escape on Sunday as they headed to Gurudwara Shri Reetha Sahib during the ongoing ‘Jod Mela’ in Uttarakhand; however, the vigilant disaster teams averted the tragedy by swiftly mounting a timely operation to rescue all of them. The incident occurred at the historic Shri Reetha Sahib Gurudwara in Champawat district, where Sikh devotees had arrived in droves to participate in the three-day annual fair, held to commemorate Guru Nanak De…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday expressed grief over the loss of lives in a tragic bridge collapse incident in Hamirpur district and directed officials to intensify relief and rescue operations at the site.Posting on X, CM Yogi said, “The loss of lives in a tragic accident on the Betwa River in Hamirpur district is extremely heartbreaking and heart-rending. My condolences are with the bereaved families. Instructions have been issued to the distri…