Truck Rescue

Thirty people were killed and 74 injured when a passenger bus and truck collided in Punjab province early on Monday morning, rescue and hospital officials said.

The Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force on Sunday recovered over 1,300 Indian flapshell turtles from a truck in Kanpur as they were allegedly being taken to West Bengal for smuggling out of the country, officials said.

At least 10 people were killed and around a dozen were injured when a private bus collided with a truck on the Moradabad-Agra Highway in Uttar Pradesh this morning owing to poor visibility due to dense fog, an official said.

Altogether 750 parrots and 16 hill mynahs were rescued from a small truck in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district, a forest department official said on Wednesday.

Twentypeople are feared dead after a bus carrying 46 passengers collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district and caught fire on Friday evening. Twenty onepassengers have been rescued and taken to hospital, police said.

A truck transporting schoolchildren in Rajasthan's Dungarpur district was swept away by floods amid heavy rainfall on Sunday. Fortunately, timely intervention by local residents prevented the students from coming to any harm.

A truck driver in Agra saw a seven-foot long python crawling up the front wheel of his vehicle, and screamed for help, the police said.

The man was found in the back seat of a blue pickup truck in Upstate New York. His hands and ankles bound with duct tape; a rope was tied around his neck and attached to the headrest. Police rescued the man, Robert Brandel, a 60-year-old from North Tonawanda, and he told them what happened.

NDTV found that some freshly cut coal stocks were being loaded onto trucks from a new rat-hole mine in the same district where the rescue operations are going on. Across East Jaintia Hills, cranes and freshly mined coal left behind by miners are a common sight. The area is dotted with palatial bungalows of local coal barons.

Rescue workers are racing against time to reach the 15 men trapped inside a flooded 320-feet coal mine in Meghalaya for the last 16 days. Navy divers and trucks loaded with high-power pumps made their way to the mine in a remote region in the state's East Jaintia Hills district. Rescue operations were suspended on Monday, after the low-powered pump...

Several trucks loaded with 10 heavy pumps are heading towards a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya where 15 men are trapped for three weeks. A heavy-lift transport plane of the Air Force carrying the 10 high-power pumps landed this morning at Guwahati airport. The trucks will cover a distance of 220 km to the mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills in as sh...

They carried their boats onto trucks to get there and braved the filthy, swirling waters before most other rescuers arrived. Now hundreds of fishermen are being hailed as the heroes of Kerala floods crisis.

The local charity run is the Hog Jog. The mascot for the wine festival is Pig-o-noir. October brings the Bacon & Bourbon Fest. The town museum promises the "World's Oldest Ham." The rescue truck at the volunteer fire department is named "Hamtown Heavy."

In a dramatic mission, 55 people and their cattle were rescued this morning from their trucks which were marooned in flood waters in northern Andhra Pradesh. Many parts of Srikakulam district were flooded because of heavy rain and the release of water from a river barrage.

At least 10 pilgrims, including teenagers, headed for Punyagiri or the mountain of good deeds, were killed when a speeding mini-truck rammed their group in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district this morning, police said. The driver of the truck fled after the accident.

Thirty people were killed and 74 injured when a passenger bus and truck collided in Punjab province early on Monday morning, rescue and hospital officials said.

The Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force on Sunday recovered over 1,300 Indian flapshell turtles from a truck in Kanpur as they were allegedly being taken to West Bengal for smuggling out of the country, officials said.

At least 10 people were killed and around a dozen were injured when a private bus collided with a truck on the Moradabad-Agra Highway in Uttar Pradesh this morning owing to poor visibility due to dense fog, an official said.

Altogether 750 parrots and 16 hill mynahs were rescued from a small truck in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district, a forest department official said on Wednesday.

Twentypeople are feared dead after a bus carrying 46 passengers collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district and caught fire on Friday evening. Twenty onepassengers have been rescued and taken to hospital, police said.

A truck transporting schoolchildren in Rajasthan's Dungarpur district was swept away by floods amid heavy rainfall on Sunday. Fortunately, timely intervention by local residents prevented the students from coming to any harm.

A truck driver in Agra saw a seven-foot long python crawling up the front wheel of his vehicle, and screamed for help, the police said.

The man was found in the back seat of a blue pickup truck in Upstate New York. His hands and ankles bound with duct tape; a rope was tied around his neck and attached to the headrest. Police rescued the man, Robert Brandel, a 60-year-old from North Tonawanda, and he told them what happened.

NDTV found that some freshly cut coal stocks were being loaded onto trucks from a new rat-hole mine in the same district where the rescue operations are going on. Across East Jaintia Hills, cranes and freshly mined coal left behind by miners are a common sight. The area is dotted with palatial bungalows of local coal barons.

Rescue workers are racing against time to reach the 15 men trapped inside a flooded 320-feet coal mine in Meghalaya for the last 16 days. Navy divers and trucks loaded with high-power pumps made their way to the mine in a remote region in the state's East Jaintia Hills district. Rescue operations were suspended on Monday, after the low-powered pump...

Several trucks loaded with 10 heavy pumps are heading towards a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya where 15 men are trapped for three weeks. A heavy-lift transport plane of the Air Force carrying the 10 high-power pumps landed this morning at Guwahati airport. The trucks will cover a distance of 220 km to the mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills in as sh...

They carried their boats onto trucks to get there and braved the filthy, swirling waters before most other rescuers arrived. Now hundreds of fishermen are being hailed as the heroes of Kerala floods crisis.

The local charity run is the Hog Jog. The mascot for the wine festival is Pig-o-noir. October brings the Bacon & Bourbon Fest. The town museum promises the "World's Oldest Ham." The rescue truck at the volunteer fire department is named "Hamtown Heavy."

In a dramatic mission, 55 people and their cattle were rescued this morning from their trucks which were marooned in flood waters in northern Andhra Pradesh. Many parts of Srikakulam district were flooded because of heavy rain and the release of water from a river barrage.

At least 10 pilgrims, including teenagers, headed for Punyagiri or the mountain of good deeds, were killed when a speeding mini-truck rammed their group in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district this morning, police said. The driver of the truck fled after the accident.