Wayanad landslides official death toll at 222, search and rescue operations enter seventh day

Wayanad landslides official death toll at 222, search and rescue operations enter seventh day

Mass cremation of the unidentified people who lost their lives in the recent landslides at the Pithumala burial ground, in Wayanad, on Aug. 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Kerala government pegged the official death toll in the Wayanad landslide disaster at 222 even as the search for survivors and bodies of victims entered … Read more

Chandipura virus: Death toll rises to 15 as the virus spreads in more districts in Gujarat

Chandipura virus: Death toll rises to 15 as the virus spreads in more districts in Gujarat

 Chandipura virus causes fever, with symptoms similar to flu, body aches, diarrhoea, vomiting and acute encephalitis. It is transmitted by vectors, including mosquitoes, ticks and sandflies. Representational image | Photo Credit: REUTERS The National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune on Wednesday confirmed the first death of a four-year-old girl died of Chandipura virus while … Read more

Assam floods claim 8 more lives, death toll 46

Assam floods claim 8 more lives, death toll 46

Villagers travel in a boat through a flooded area following heavy rainfall, at Khandhakhati village in Morigaon. File | Photo Credit: ANI GUWAHATI The second wave of floods in Assam claimed the lives of eight people — the most in a 24-hour phase — on Wednesday, taking the death toll since May to 46. The … Read more

Rajkot Game Zone inferno tragedy death toll goes up to 33; Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognisance

Rajkot Game Zone inferno tragedy death toll goes up to 33; Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognisance

Firefighters carry out cooling operations and search for remains at TRP game zone at Rajkot, Gujarat on May 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI The death toll in Rajkot’s fire tragedy in the TRP game zone has climbed to 33 while more than 15 persons are still missing in what the Gujarat High Court … Read more

NHAI increases toll rates on key highways in Karnataka, including Bengaluru-Mysuru

NHAI increases toll rates on key highways in Karnataka, including Bengaluru-Mysuru

A toll gate on a highway. | Photo Credit: BASHKARAN N Starting April 1, as part of its annual revision, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has raised toll rates on the access-controlled Bengaluru-Mysuru and Bengaluru-Hyderabad highways, and on the Hoskote-Devanahalli section of the Bengaluru Satellite Town Ring Road (STRR). On the Bengaluru-Mysuru access-controlled … Read more

One more cheetah dies at Kuno National Park; toll rises to seven

One more cheetah dies at Kuno National Park; toll rises to seven

A cheetah after being released inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on September 17, 2022. Image for representation purposes only. File | Photo Credit: PTI One more cheetah at the Kuno National Park imported from Africa passed away, authorities confirmed on January 16. Namibian Cheetah Shaurya is the seventh … Read more

As Nanded hospital death toll rises to 31, Sambhajinagar hospital reports 18 deaths

As Nanded hospital death toll rises to 31, Sambhajinagar hospital reports 18 deaths

With over a dozen dead in State-run hospitals in two districts of Maharashtra in little over 48 hours, the Opposition has slammed the government for gross negligence, and trigged calls for an investigation.  Authorities on Tuesday confirmed an additional seven patient fatalities, including four newborns, between October 1 and 2, at Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government … Read more

Protests as toll collection begins on recently inaugurated Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway

Protests as toll collection begins on recently inaugurated Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway

A toll booth on the Bengaluru Mysuru Expressway. On the first day of toll collection following the inauguration, protests and technical glitches are being observed on the expressway. | Photo Credit: BHAGYA PRAKASH K After a few outfits staged protests opposing the NHAI’s decision to impose toll on the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway from March 14 (Tuesday), … Read more

Survivors still being found as Turkey-Syria quake death toll tops 28,000

Survivors still being found as Turkey-Syria quake death toll tops 28,000

LATAKIA: Syria – Ibrahim Zakaria lost track of time drifting into and out of consciousness while trapped for nearly five days in the rubble of his home following the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria this week. The 23-year-old cellphone shop worker from the Syrian town of Jableh survived on dirty drips of water … Read more