Rescue

Nitish Kumar To Rescue As Bihar Cops Blundered Into "RSS Snooping" Row

India News | Written by Manish Kumar | Thursday July 18, 2019

Reports of a circular from the Special Branch of the police seeking information about the RSS and 19 affiliates caused a sensation. The RSS, or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is the ideological mentor of Nitish Kumar's partner BJP.

14 Killed In Mumbai Building Collapse, Rescue Ops Called Off: Highlights

India News | Edited by Niharika Banerjee | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Fourteen people have been killed after a decades-old building collapsed in south Mumbai's crowded Dongri neighbourhood on Tuesday. Nine people were rescued, with three teams of the National Disaster Response Force that carried out search and rescue operations overnight. The rescue ops have now been called off.

52 Lakh Affected As Assam Flood Situation Worsens, 20 Dead So Far

India News | Reported by Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited By Jimmy Jacob | Thursday July 18, 2019

The number of people affected by the Assam floods rose to 52 lakh today, with as many as 1.5 lakh being moved to relief centres amid a red alert issued by the government. Five more died today, taking the total number of people killed in the floods to 20, even as the Indian Army was called in to assist in rescue operations.

Rare Rhinos In Kaziranga National Park In Danger As Assam Floods Worsen

India News | Reuters | Thursday July 18, 2019

Floods in Assam worsened on Tuesday with incessant rain swelling already raging rivers, inundating villages and a rhinoceros sanctuary as 1,000 soldiers were deployed to rescue people fleeing the rising waters.

Human Chain To Remove Debris In Search For Survivors In Mumbai's Dongri

Mumbai News | Edited By Debanish Achom | Tuesday July 16, 2019

At the site where a four-storey building crashed in Mumbai's Dongri this morning, narrow lanes and a dense neighbourhood were a huge challenge for rescue workers.Three people have died and eight have been rescued.

Mumbai Building Collapse Updates: 10 People Dead, Rescue Operations Underway

Mumbai News | Edited by Abhimanyu Bose, Niharika Banerjee | Tuesday July 16, 2019

Building Collapse Mumbai: A four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai's crowded Dongri neighbourhood this afternoon, leaving at least 40-50 people trapped under debris. Ten people have died.

12 Dead As Decades-Old Mumbai Building Collapses, Many Feared Trapped

India News | Edited By Debanish Achom | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Twelve people were killed and over 40 feared trapped after a decades-old, four-storey building collapsed in south Mumbai's crowded Dongri neighbourhood around 11:40 am on Tuesday. Eight people have been rescued.

Assam Man, Rescued During Floods, Happy "Most Precious" NRC Paper Is Safe

India News | Written by Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Thursday July 18, 2019

In flood-ravaged rural Assam thousands who are displaced are as worried for their lives and that of their families as they are for their citizenship papers.

43 Lakh Affected, 95% Of Kaziranga Park Flooded In Assam: 10 Points

India News | Reported by Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited By Jimmy Jacob | Tuesday July 16, 2019

The Assam government on Monday issued a red alert as the flood situation turned extremely critical, displacing tens of thousands and cutting off entire portions of the state. As many as 4,157 villages across 30 districts of the northeastern state, including Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Biswanath, Sonitpur, Darrang, Udalguri, Baksa, Barpeta, Nalbari, Chirang...

Video: CRPF Men Jump Into River To Rescue Woman In Jammu And Kashmir

India News | Reported by Nazir Masoodi | Monday July 15, 2019

What was supposed to be a day of routine patrolling for some CRPF men turned into a dramatic rescue operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Tangmarg town today.

After Ship Sank, Bengal Man Survived Without Food For 5 Days At Sea

Kolkata News | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday July 15, 2019

Rabindranath Das, the master of a capsized fishing trawler who floated for five days clinging on to a bamboo pole in the turbulent Bay of Bengal without food and life jacket till he was rescued by a Bangladeshi ship in Chittagong coast, has been brought to the city for treatment.

Police Rescue 3 Men After Bumping Into Kidnappers In Rajasthan's Jaipur

Jaipur News | Press Trust of India | Monday July 15, 2019

Jaipur, Rajasthan: In a stroke of serendipity for three men brutally beaten up and held captive at a flat in Rajasthan's Jaipur, a police team chasing an SUV robbery accused bumped into one of the kidnappers and rescued the three on Sunday.

11 Dead, 26 Lakh Affected As Assam's Flood Nightmare Worsens

India News | Written by Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Sunday July 14, 2019

Eighty-year-old Bano Khatun looks at her village in Barpeta, one of the worst-hit districts in Assam, and her eyes well up with tears. Her home has been washed away and the crops in her fields laid waste by one of the worst rain-related disasters witnessed by the state in recent times.

14 Killed In Building Collapse After Heavy Rain In Himachal's Solan

India News | Reported by Mohammed Ghazali, Edited by Anuj Pant | Monday July 15, 2019

Fourteen people, including Army personnel, were killed after a multi-storey building collapsed in Himachal Pradesh's Solan, around 45 km from capital Shimla, on Sunday. Seventeenpeople - 12 civilians and five soldiers - have been rescued from the rubble till now, said a policeofficer.

Watch: Leopard Rescued After He Falls Into Well In Pune District

Pune News | Edited by Niharika Banerjee | Sunday July 14, 2019

A leopard was rescued today from a well in Maharashtra's Pune district after he fell into it probably this morning, officials said on Sunday.