Pilgrims Dead

Six persons, part of a group of Kanwar Yatra pilgrims on their way to Bhopal from Haridwar, were crushed to death by a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district in the early hours of the morning, police said.

Ten pilgrims, including two children, died after their vehicle overturned and fell into a roadside ditch in Uttar Pradesh's Pilbhit this morning, the police said.

A suspect in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala has been detained in Uttarakhand, police sources have said today.

Four more pilgrims died in Kedarnath on Wednesday while three others were flown to AIIMS-Rishikesh in an air ambulance for treatment after they were taken ill.

Four passengers were killed and at least 20 more injured when a bus they were travelling in caught fire near Katra in Jammu, said the police.

12 pilgrims died and over a dozen injured in a stampede at Jammu and Kashmir's Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. The stampede was triggered by a "minor altercation among some young boys" amid a massive rush of devotees on New Year, officials said today.

24 people have been reported dead and many others washed away in floods following incessant rains in Andhra Pradesh. Visuals from the temple town of Tirupati show hundreds of pilgrims trapped in massive floods.

A pilgrimage to fulfil vows ended in a grave tragedy for a family as a ghastly road accident left 12 of them, including nine women and a six-year old girl, dead near Vedadri village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.

Fifteen Buddhist pilgrims including a monk were killed after their flatbed truck plunged off a 300-metre (1,000 feet) cliff in eastern Myanmar, police said Tuesday, blaming faulty brakes

Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday.

More than 30 pilgrims were killed and dozens injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura.

A senior Jammu and Kashmir government officer has alleged that he was held up for hours in an ambulance with his father's body on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway because of traffic restrictions for the Amarnath Yatra on Thursday.

Two Myanmarese Buddhist pilgrims were killed in a massive fire in a five-storey hotel in north Delhi's Karol Bagh on Tuesday, while a woman guide accompanying them escaped death by jumping off its second floor, Myanmar embassy official said in Delhi.

A 30-year-old man from Delhi died of suspected heart attack enroute to the cave shrine of Vaishno Devi in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said today.

Two Amarnath pilgrims were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir''s Ramban district on Monday while they were transporting the body of their dead friend on a motorcycle without informing the police.

Six persons, part of a group of Kanwar Yatra pilgrims on their way to Bhopal from Haridwar, were crushed to death by a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district in the early hours of the morning, police said.

Ten pilgrims, including two children, died after their vehicle overturned and fell into a roadside ditch in Uttar Pradesh's Pilbhit this morning, the police said.

A suspect in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala has been detained in Uttarakhand, police sources have said today.

Four more pilgrims died in Kedarnath on Wednesday while three others were flown to AIIMS-Rishikesh in an air ambulance for treatment after they were taken ill.

Four passengers were killed and at least 20 more injured when a bus they were travelling in caught fire near Katra in Jammu, said the police.

12 pilgrims died and over a dozen injured in a stampede at Jammu and Kashmir's Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. The stampede was triggered by a "minor altercation among some young boys" amid a massive rush of devotees on New Year, officials said today.

24 people have been reported dead and many others washed away in floods following incessant rains in Andhra Pradesh. Visuals from the temple town of Tirupati show hundreds of pilgrims trapped in massive floods.

A pilgrimage to fulfil vows ended in a grave tragedy for a family as a ghastly road accident left 12 of them, including nine women and a six-year old girl, dead near Vedadri village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.

Fifteen Buddhist pilgrims including a monk were killed after their flatbed truck plunged off a 300-metre (1,000 feet) cliff in eastern Myanmar, police said Tuesday, blaming faulty brakes

Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday.

More than 30 pilgrims were killed and dozens injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura.

A senior Jammu and Kashmir government officer has alleged that he was held up for hours in an ambulance with his father's body on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway because of traffic restrictions for the Amarnath Yatra on Thursday.

Two Myanmarese Buddhist pilgrims were killed in a massive fire in a five-storey hotel in north Delhi's Karol Bagh on Tuesday, while a woman guide accompanying them escaped death by jumping off its second floor, Myanmar embassy official said in Delhi.

A 30-year-old man from Delhi died of suspected heart attack enroute to the cave shrine of Vaishno Devi in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said today.

Two Amarnath pilgrims were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir''s Ramban district on Monday while they were transporting the body of their dead friend on a motorcycle without informing the police.