AlHijjah 12, 1432, Nov 8, 2011, SPA - An official says a stampede has killed 16 Hindu pilgrims and injured about 50 during a religious ceremony on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India.
Government spokesman Amit Chandola says the stampede (...)
Monsoon rains have collapsed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of north and east India, killing at least 48 people in recent days and leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned by the raging waters, officials said Monday, according to (...)
Indian police say at least 40 people have been killed after a truck overturned and fell into a roadside pond in the country's north.
Senior police official Brij Lal says the truck was carrying pilgrims traveling to a local temple Monday in Ballia (...)
Officials say at least 21 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured when an express train derailed in northern India, AP reported.
Railway official A.K. Jain says the Kalka Mail train was on its way to New Delhi from a station near (...)
Cold weather killed nine homeless people in India overnight Tuesday, bringing the death toll from three weeks of frigid winds and near-freezing temperatures to 116.
Police say the worst-hit state is Uttar Pradesh where about 90 people, mostly poor (...)
A sightseeing bus overturned and plunged into a gorge, killing 22 Indian tourists and injuring 12 others who were visiting a town at the foot of the Himalayas, AP quoted Indian officials as saying on Thursday.
Among the 22 killed were 13 children, (...)
A bus collided head-on with a van that was carrying mourners returning from a funeral in northern India, killing 34 people, police said Sunday.
State police official D.Y.S. Chauhan said another 14 people in the two vehicles were injured in the (...)
Qa'dah 03, 1431, Oct 11, SPA -- Police say a bus fell into a river while trying to overtake a car Monday in northern India, killing at least 18 people.
Police officer Amitabh Yash says nearly a dozen people were injured in the accident in (...)
Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday.
Twenty-four people died Sunday as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in Almorah (...)
At least two people were killed and several wounded in northern India on Saturday in clashes between police and farmers angry at what they say is low compensation for land taken to build a highway, Reuters cited officials as saying.
Police opened (...)
At least 35 people are feared drowned after a boat capsized on the Ganges river in northern India early Monday, police said.
The crowded vessel was carrying 60-70 people traveling to a temple for a religious function, according to local police (...)
Fierce thunderstorms with heavy rains uprooted trees and destroyed hundreds of homes, crushing dozens of people to death and injuring scores of others in northern India, police said Saturday.
At least 43 people were killed and 70 hurt in the deluge (...)
Four trains collided Saturday in two separate accidents caused by dense winter fog in northern India, killing five people and injuring about 50 others, police and railway officials said.
The first accident took place near the town of Etawah, (...)
A police official says 43 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in
northern India.
Paramilitary force commander S.M. Shamim says 20 bodies
have been pulled from the debris after the landslide
Saturday buried three remote (...)
At least 74 people died as heavy monsoon rains lashed northern India, bringing dozens of poorly constructed buildings crashing down, police said Thursday, AP reported.
All the deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh state, one of India's poorest, (...)
Police say at least 17 people have
been killed and 35 injured when a packed bus collided with
a truck in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
State police spokesman Surendra Srivastava says seven of
those injured in Sunday's accident are (...)
Flooding, house collapses and
lightning strikes caused by heavy rains killed at least 14
people in northern India, taking the reported death toll in
the annual monsoon season to 79, officials said Sunday.
Heavy rains lashed the eastern part of (...)
Flooding, house collapses and lightning strikes caused by heavy rains killed at least 14 people in northern India, taking the reported death toll in the annual monsoon season to 79, AP quoted officials as saying Sunday.
Heavy rains lashed the (...)