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Seven girls were swept away while bathing in Ganga ghat; two dead

Seven girls were swept away while bathing in Ganga ghat; two dead

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A tragic incident occurred on Monday, August 17, at Ranisarai Ganga Ghat in Patna’s Bakhtiyarpur block when seven girls from the same family got caught in the strong current while bathing in the Ganga River.  As per IANS, three were rescued by locals, while four others went missing. The incident occurred at around 7:30 am. According to local residents, the girls, who were cousins, had gone to the ghat to bathe.  Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

MP: Nine killed after van carrying 11 people swept away by strong current

MP: Nine killed after van carrying 11 people swept away by strong current

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Nine people, including a girl, were killed after a van carrying 11 passengers was swept away by strong currents while attempting to cross a swollen drain amid heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh‘s Rajgarh district on Monday, police said, reported the PTI. The incident took place at around 9 am near Sarangpur town, when the driver attempted to cross the Padana bypass culvert despite the water flowing strongly through the drain. According to officials, the van was carrying 11 people when it entered the flooded stretch. Eyewitnesses said local administration officials and villagers at the spot had warned the driver against proceeding through the water. However, the driver continued driving, following which the strong current swept the vehicle into the drain, according to the PTI. The van was submerged within moments, officials said. Villagers launch rescue operation After the incident, villagers joined the rescue effort and risked their own lives to save those trapped inside the vehicle. They reportedly tied ropes and entered the area to pull passengers out of the water. Two occupants of the …

Two killed in Uttarakhand truck accident; search on for boy swept away in Ganga

Two killed in Uttarakhand truck accident; search on for boy swept away in Ganga

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Two people were killed after a truck plunged into a 100-metre-deep gorge in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district, while rescue teams on Friday intensified the search for a 16-year-old boy swept away by the Ganga in Haridwar, police said. A truck accident in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag killed two people, as rescue teams searched for a teenager swept away by the Ganga in Haridwar. The district control room in Rudraprayag received information late on Thursday night that a truck had met with an accident near Tarsali, according to State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) officers. A joint rescue operation involving the SDRF, district police, Fire Service and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was launched at the accident site. Police identified the deceased as Sanjay Rana (45) and Mohan (36). Officers said the team descended nearly 100 metres into the gorge using rope rescue techniques and located the crashed truck. The two men were brought out and handed over to the 108 ambulance service. Doctors declared them dead on arrival. In a separate incident, the SDRF on Friday intensified its …

Five Telangana tourists rescued after being swept into sea at Visakhapatnam’s RK Beach

Five Telangana tourists rescued after being swept into sea at Visakhapatnam’s RK Beach

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A police constable runs to rescue tourists swept into the water at RK Beach in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. Screengrab | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Five tourists from Telangana were rescued from drowning by the Coastal Security Police (Marine) in coordination with community guards, after they were swept into the sea by strong waves at RK Beach in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday (July 15, 2026). According to Coastal Security Police Visakhapatnam Inspector S. Ramesh, the incident occurred at around 10.30 a.m., when the tourists, all from Mushampalli in Nalgonda district of Telangana, went into the sea for a bath. They struggled to return to shore after being suddenly pulled deeper into the water by powerful shore waves. Coastal Security Police rescue five Telangana tourists swept into the sea at RK Beach in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. Video: Special Arrangement pic.twitter.com/JAakuXP3NB — The Hindu – Andhra Pradesh (@THAndhra) July 15, 2026 Alert marine police personnel on duty at the beach noticed the situation and immediately launched a rescue operation. They swiftly entered the water and safely brought all five …

Total surrender by India in England, Shreyas Iyer’s team swept 4-0 | Cricket News

Total surrender by India in England, Shreyas Iyer’s team swept 4-0 | Cricket News

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4 min readMumbaiJul 12, 2026 12:08 AM IST For India’s T20 team, the start of a new era was supposed to bring fresh possibilities. Taking the captaincy from Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer was supposed to usher the team into a new direction after the T20 World Cup triumph. The regime change was supposed to be smooth. It has been anything but. Six completed games into Iyer’s captaincy across Ireland and England, India remain without a win, slipping to another defeat, this time by 56 runs in Southampton. With this loss, they have also lost their No. 1 ranking to England. Chasing 258 for a consolation win in the fifth T20I, India needed one of their best batting efforts of the series to avoid a 4-0 defeat. The drama began even before a ball was bowled. Sanju Samson was surprisingly recalled to the playing XI after missing the last three games. He showed his compatriots how to counter the short ball by pulling Josh Tongue twice into the stands in the second over. India needed much …

Two tourists rescued after rental car swept away near Lonavala

Two tourists rescued after rental car swept away near Lonavala

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During the incident, one of the tourists was briefly carried away by the floodwaters and was left stranded on the opposite side of the bridge. The second tourist managed to reach a nearby area close to a madrasa, where local residents had gathered, and alerted them to the emergency Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

BJP rattled as Congress swept Himachal’s rural, urban local body polls, says Negi

BJP rattled as Congress swept Himachal’s rural, urban local body polls, says Negi

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Himachal Revenue Minister Jagat Singh Negi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu In Himachal Pradesh, where the political fate of the State is largely decided in its villages, the election of nearly 2,400 Congress-aligned Pradhans (village heads) and 2,600 Deputy Pradhans across 3,754 Panchayats is a testament to the faith people have reposed in the Congress government’s positive developmental style of governance, said Revenue Minister Jagat Singh Negi on Thursday (June 4, 2026). Mr. Negi said the trend in favour of the Congress continued in urban areas as well, with Congress-backed candidates winning 29 out of 53 urban local bodies across the State. “In Kangra district, Congress swept all six municipal bodies without conceding a single one to the BJP. Mandi district, too, witnessed a complete collapse of the BJP’s urban support base,” he said at a press conference in Shimla. Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he accused the party of attempting to distract the public from pressing concerns such as spiralling petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices by falsely projecting itself …

At least nine dead in China after vehicle swept into flooded river during heavy rain

At least nine dead in China after vehicle swept into flooded river during heavy rain

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At least nine people died after a pickup truck carrying 15 passengers fell into a flooded river in China’s southwestern region of Guangxi amid heavy rain, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday. First responders inspect damaged buildings in Guangxi after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit the region (AFP) The passengers were returning from planting sweet potatoes on Saturday and the truck fell into the river while crossing a bridge whose deck was submerged by rising water levels, CCTV previously reported. More downpours are expected after heavy rain drenched central and eastern China on the weekend, lashing provinces such as Jiangxi and Hunan, weather authorities said. In separate incidents, two magnitude 5.2 earthquakes hit Guangxi‘s Liuzhou city on Monday. The quake in the early morning killed two people and forced more than 7,000 to evacuate. Also Read: 6 people go missing in China after truck falls into flooded river in heavy rain, rescue ops begin Authorities said that they had allocated 15,000 items of relief supplies for Guangxi’s earthquake and flood relief. The rains would gradually move …

Fabiano Caruana on cheating in chess: ‘Swept under rug in online events… never seen it in over-the-board events’ | Chess News

Fabiano Caruana on cheating in chess: ‘Swept under rug in online events… never seen it in over-the-board events’ | Chess News

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3 min readFeb 26, 2026 10:34 PM IST A day after world champion D Gukesh spoke about cheating in chess and opined that the issue was “being made bigger than it actually is”, Fabiano Caruana has also weighed in on the issue. The American grandmaster said that he had “never seen it happen in tournaments that he had played in”. “Over-the-board cheating—it’s not really talked about too often, right? Because usually the focus is on the potential for online cheating, which must be a bigger problem, in terms of volume, because it’s just easier. So, I don’t know what the level of cheating is over the board versus online, but whatever it is, there must be more online because it’s easier. Just logically, there has to be more,” Caruana said on his C Squared Podcast. While comparing online cheating with cheating in over-the-board events, Caruana pointed out how in online chess, instances of wrongdoing were “swept under the rug” with the perpetrators never outed openly but banned secretly. “But the question is: how much is …

Aditya Dhar addresses Dhruv Rathee’s Dhurandhar criticism as film crosses Rs 900 cr mark: ‘A video maker got swept away by criticism’ | Bollywood News

Aditya Dhar addresses Dhruv Rathee’s Dhurandhar criticism as film crosses Rs 900 cr mark: ‘A video maker got swept away by criticism’ | Bollywood News

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As Dhurandhar crossed the Rs 900 crore mark at the global box office within just 19 days of its release, filmmaker-writer-producer Aditya Dhar took pride in the film’s success by resharing multiple Instagram stories praising his work. One such note also referenced a recent video by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, who described the film as “well-made propaganda” and said it was dangerous precisely because of how engaging it is. He had compared Dhar and director Vivek Agnihotri’s cinema. While Aditya did not directly respond to Rathee’s statements, his resharing of the note appeared to be a cryptic dig at the YouTuber. Aditya reshared several stories on Instagram, one of which read: “History is being rewritten in Indian cinema. By men and women who have fire in their hearts and love for their country. They wanted to tell a story to their country people. The best part of the box office success of Dhurandhar is that it’s organic. All those crying ‘corporate bookings’ in the week of release have suddenly become silent now.” Aditya Dhar’s Instagram Story. …