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18 elephants in Assam may have been killed by a lightning strike: Experts
PTI |
PUBLISHED ON MAY 15, 2021 06:39 PM IST
In Assam's Nagaon, 18 elephants have been killed by a single lightning strike, experts have surmised. The freak incident happened on Wednesday night at a hill in the Kundoli proposed reserve forest in the Kathiatoli range.
In freak accident, Uttarakhand bank guard dies after gun goes off as bike rams him
Hindustan Times, Haldwani | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON OCT 28, 2020 03:21 PM IST
Police have apprehended three men who were riding the bike that hit the bank guard.
Four Odisha minors burnt to death while playing with haystack
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON FEB 23, 2020 11:02 PM IST
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced an ex-gratia of Rs four lakh each to the families of the deceased.
Speeding car claims life of motorcyclist in Ludhiana
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
PUBLISHED ON NOV 17, 2019 06:30 AM IST
The impact of the collision killed Mangat on the spot, while his son, Amrit, was rushed to a local hospital by onlookers with serious injuries.
L&T to pay Rs 20 lakh compensation to kin of woman killed in freak mishap
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
UPDATED ON SEP 23, 2019 10:13 PM IST
The woman was standing under the metro rail station at Ameerpet to avoid being drenched in heavy rain when a sharp piece of cement plastering fell on her head, killing her on the spot.
Chennai woman run over by truck after hoarding falls on her
Chennai | By M Manikandan
PUBLISHED ON SEP 13, 2019 01:02 AM IST
The accident occurred around 3 pm while Subhashree was headed for her home in Nemilicherry from her Kanthanchavadi office.
39-year-old milkman killed in freak accident on NH-48 in Gurugram
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | By Alind Chauhan
UPDATED ON SEP 12, 2019 09:55 AM IST
The police said that the drivers of the bus and truck left their vehicles and fled the spot.The victim was rushed to a hospital in the city where the doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Former WWE Women’s champion Ronda Rousey suffers horrific injury, almost chops off her finger, watch video
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON AUG 23, 2019 02:47 AM IST
The former UFC Bantamweight champion, recently, was severly injured on the sets of Fox TV’s 9-1-1 and nearly lost her finger.
Review: Dark Blossom by Neel Mullick
Hindustan Times | By Simar Bhasin
UPDATED ON JUL 27, 2019 03:24 PM IST
The writing is sharp in Dark Blossom, which features a female protagonist slowly coming to terms with an abusive past relationship
Kolkata metro leaves station with man’s hand stuck in door; he falls, dies
Kolkata | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUL 13, 2019 09:51 PM IST
Passengers told the police and the media that the man was trying to board the overcrowded AC coach but the automatic door closed while his arm was inside the train.
8-year-old Jalandhar girl hurt as hair gets caught under car during go-karting
Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUL 01, 2019 08:13 AM IST
Even 24 hours after the incident, police had no information about the identity and whereabouts of the minor girl who is said to have been undergoing treatment at a local hospital.
2-year-old leopard, stuck in power cables in Gurugram, electrocuted to death
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | By Prayag Arora-Desai
UPDATED ON JUN 21, 2019 07:48 AM IST
Locals found the animal dangling precariously from the power lines just after 6am, following which officials from the wildlife department fetched the corpse and sent it for a post-mortem examination.
3-yr-old boy electrocuted by charger cable in UP
Hindustan Times, Meerut | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON MAY 19, 2019 11:53 PM IST
The incident took place on Saturday evening, and the police were informed of it a day later, the station house officer of the Jahangeerabad police station, Akhilesh Pradhan, said.
Out of hospital, Shashi Tharoor seeks probe into temple accident
New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 16, 2019 05:29 PM IST
The Congress candidate from Thiruvananthapuram, while seeking a probe, said such incidents are unheard of. “My mother is 80 plus. She also said she has never heard of any such mishap. It is good to clear the air”, Tharoor added.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor injured during religious ceremony, hospitalised
By Ramesh Babu
UPDATED ON APR 15, 2019 03:15 PM IST
As part of Thulabharam -- a religious ritual where offering equivalent to one’s weight is made to the deity -- the Congress candidate was sitting on weighing scales at a temple in Thiruvananthapuram when it collapsed injuring his head.
Two women, one child of Indian-origin killed in accident in Iceland
London | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2018 03:04 PM IST
The family was reportedly on holiday in the Nordic island country when their hired Toyota Land Cruiser slammed through a railing while crossing a high single-lane bridge at Skeidararsandur, a vast sand plain in the southern part of the country.
Bathinda woman’s death in go-kart mishap: Husband in trauma, no headway in probe
Hindustan Times, Panchkula | By Vivek Gupta, Panchkula
UPDATED ON MAR 14, 2018 01:35 PM IST
Sources in the department, familiar with the probe, said the investigation has not progressed as the three-member team could not record the statement of the victim’s husband, Amardeep Singh.