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- India
Odisha rail crash: NDRF ends operation, withdraws all 9 teams
Delhi: The National Disaster Response Force on Monday ended its rescue operation with the withdrawal of all its nine teams from the triple train accident site in Odisha’s Balasore district that has…
- Middle East
Turkey ends earthquake rescue efforts except in 2 provinces
Ankara: Nearly two weeks after massive 7.8 earthquake that left over 44,000 people dead in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish disaster agency on Sunday said it is calling off rescue efforts in…
- Telangana
Telangana rains: Amid red alert Bhupalapally records highest rainfall
Bhupalapally: Amid the heavy rains that continue to lash the southern state, Mahamutaram village in Jayashankar Bhupalapally district received the highest rainfall in the state recording more than 300 mm, said the…
- India
Over 6,000 pilgrims leave Jammu for Amarnath base camps
Jammu: The 11th batch of over 6,000 Amarnath pilgrims left the Jammu city on Saturday for the twin base camps in Kashmir even as the annual pilgrimage to the cave shine in…
- India
46 dead, 11 reported missing in U’khand flash floods, landslides
New Delhi: As many as forty-six persons have reportedly died and 11 are reported missing in the heavy rains leading to flash floods and landslides in several parts of Uttarakhand. Rescue and…
- Telangana
Rescue operations continue in Warangal as heavy rains come to halt
Warangal: The heavy rains which left many parts of Warangal inundated have come to a halt on Monday. However, rescue operations continued as several areas are still flooded due to overflowing of…
- World
24 killed as bus plunges into ravine in Indonesia
Jakarta: At least 24 people were killed and 13 others sustained serious injuries after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province on Monday night, the state media…
- India
Pune: NDRF recovers civilian body from Pune drainage hole
Pune: The National Disaster Response Force has recovered the body of a civilian, who got trapped in a hole meant for a drainage line in the Dapodi area of Pune, police said.…
- India
Maharashtra rains: Around 500 people stranded, buses stuck
Kolhapur: Eight buses and as many as 500 passengers remain stranded near the hem of the Kohlapur city, as several parts of Maharashtra witnessed heavy downpour giving rise to flood-like situation in the state. The area…
- India
One rescued, two stuck inside septic tank in Chembur
Chembur: One person has been rescued while a woman and a child are still stuck inside an underground septic tank they fell into at the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)…
- India
State govt extending all support to locate trapped soldiers: Himachal CM
Dharamshala: The Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur said that state government is lending all possible support to the security forces in their rescue operations to locate jawans trapped under the…
- World
8 killed in Paris apartment blaze, rescue ops on
Paris: A massive fire killed eight people after it swept through an apartment block in central Paris in the wee hours of Tuesday. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said that the fire may…
- Kashmir
Five dead after avalanche strikes in Ladakh, search on for 7
Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir): Five people died after getting buried under snow while seven others were missing on Friday after an avalanche hit three vehicles at Khardung La in Ladakh region of…