Driver blamed for Tamil Nadu train crash, 10 dead
Railway officials probing Tuesday night's Tamil Nadu train mishap, which has claimed at least 10 lives and injured over 80, have hinted at driver error as the cause of the crash.
Tuesday's crash saw
Inquiry team set up on Tamil Nadu accident
The Southern Railway has announced setting up of an inquiry team to probe the Tuesday night's Tamil Nadu train accident which has claimed 10 lives.
The Chennai Beach-Vellore electric multiple unit (E
19 killed in Indonesia road smash: police
A horrific smash between a bus and an overloaded minibus killed 19 people in Indonesia's east Java province on Monday with police saying they suspected the drivers were speeding.
Mojokerto police chi
More than 100 dead in Kenyan pipeline fire
More than 100 people burned to death when a fuel pipeline burst into flames in a slum area in the Kenyan capital, police said on Monday.
"We are putting the number of dead at over 100, we are waiting
Radioactive risk after France nuclear site blast
There is a risk of a radioactive leak after an explosion on Monday at the Marcoule nuclear site near the city of Nimes in the south of France, emergency services said.
Reports claim one person has be
1,200 on sunk Tanzania boat: Witnesses, officials
Official and survivor counts indicate that nearly 1,200 people may have been aboard a crowded ferry that sank off Tanzania's coast.
Survivor Issa Hemeid said on Monday some 150 people were likely tr
Fighter jet crashes in Punjab, pilot ejects
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet crashed near here in Punjab, on Tuesday morning, police said.
The accident happened near the Shumbu barrier, 10 km from Rajpura town.
The pilot ejected out of
Mumbai airport runway reopens after four days
After remaining shut for four days, the main runway of the Mumbai airport was today reopened after a team of engineers towed away a Turkish Airways' Airbus 340 aircraft, which got stuck in the mud wh
Chile air force plane with 21 aboard crashes
A Chilean air force plane with 21 people aboard, including a popular local television host, crashed in the ocean near the Juan Fernandez islands off the country's Pacific coast, authorities said.
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4 bodies found after Chile air force plane crashes
Four bodies have so far been found in the Pacific Ocean from a Chilean air force plane carrying 21 people that disappeared on its way to a remote archipelago, the military said Saturday.
"So far we h