A global workers association has blamed poor training, dangerous working practices and inadequate regulation for the deadly ferry accident in Assam. Seventy-one bodies were recovered so far and around

Assam government on Tuesday announced compensation for victims of the boat disaster in Dhubri district and said a new ferry service would be started in the area within a week to ensure that such trage

The Malaysian authorities said Monday they had recovered the body of a Singaporean killed along with three others when a boat capsized, while the search for one more missing person continued.

Fourteen more bodies were fished out on Monday from the river Ganga, taking the toll in the boat mishap to 36, even as a search was on to trace six other missing persons.