Jammu: Three people, including an infant, were killed and 12 others were injured when an SUV skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said on Saturday. The overloaded passenger vehicle met with the accident at the Hakoo village on the Gulabgarh-Machail road late Friday evening, the officials said. They said three people – Daya Krishan (36), Sabita Devi (30) and a 15-day-old boy – were killed and 12 others were injured in the accident. Four critically injured people were admitted in…
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Bengaluru Schools Receive Anonymous Bomb Threats, Triggering Widespread Panic
15 schools in Bengaluru receive bomb threat emails; Students evacuated The city police suspect that the emails are a hoax, however they are conducting a probe to rule out all possibilities. As many as 15 schools in Karnataka capital Bengaluru have received bomb threat emails on Friday morning, leading to a panic situation amongst authorities, who are leading searches in the premises of these schools to uncover evidence. The city police suspect that the emails are a hoax, however they are conducting a probe to rule out all possibilities, news…
Read MoreForty workers feared trapped as tunnel collapses in Uttarkashi
A portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on Brahmakhal-Yamunotri highway in Uttarkashi district collapsed. At least 36 workers were reportedly trapped after a portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. Police said the incident took place around 4am when a 150-metre-long portion of the four-and-a-half-kilometer-long tunnel collapsed. As soon as information about the incident was received, Uttarkashi Superintendent of Police Arpan Yaduvanshi immediately reached the spot…
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