Six persons were killed and a few others were feared trapped as a huge portion of the slab from fifth to ground floor completely collapsed in Sai Siddhi resident building located at Nehru Chowk, Ulhasnagar in Thane district, about 53 km from Mumbai, on Friday night.
The fire aboard the MV X-Press Pearl which caught fire off the Western coast of Sri Lanka was contained on Friday, with the Indian Coast Guard actively participating in dousing operations, with Sri Lankan Navy, for the last few days.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Odisha and West Bengal on Friday to review the impact of cyclone “Yaas” which pounded parts of India's eastern coast, killing at least six people and forcing the evacuation of over 21 lakh people to safe shelters in West Bengal, Odisha, and Jharkhand.
13 Naxals killed in an encounter with the C-60 elite force of Maharashtra Police in a forest area at Paydi-Kotmi, in Etapalli in Gadchiroli in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in the early hours of Friday, official sources said. Gadchiroli is about 900 km from Mumbai.
The Indian Navy’s first destroyer INS Rajput was decommissioned at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh after serving the nation for 41 glorious years on Friday.
AFGHANISTAN. Herat: Many barefooted minor girls with ragged appearance can be seen working in different corners of Herat city, in northwestern Afghanistan. These girls who...
While the death toll in the mishap in which a barge P305 and a tugboat Varaprada were sunk, following the intensification of cyclone tauktae on Monday off Mumbai Coast reached 60, the Indian Navy decided to carry out under water search to locate wracks of the barge and the tug on Friday.
While 49 bodies of the personnel aboard the barge Papaa-305, that sank with intensification of Cycle Tauktae on Monday evening off Mumbai coast, have been retrieved by the Indian Navy (IN) and Indian Coast Guard(ICG), a blame game has started involving multiple agencies over the sinking of the ill-fated barge.