20 Jan 2025 – On the morning of January 6, when Babul Chandra Das from Tezpur, saw the news on TV, about an accident in a rat-hole mine near Umrangso in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, he became anxious. That’s where his wife’s elder brother Sanjit Sarkar, 35, had gone to work. Das and…
February 28, 2025 – In a life-and-death race against time, teams from the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police are working to save 24 workers who are feared trapped beneath the ice after a devastating glacier avalanche hit a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) project site at Mana village in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district at around…
January 29, As many as 30 people died while 90 were left injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj early on Wednesday. The mishap occurred when devotees thronged to the Sangam area of the Maha Kumbh to take a holy dip on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya. DIG Mahakumbh, Vaibhav Krishna,…
Jan 24, 2025 – Maharashtra blast: At least eight people were killed and seven others injured after a blast took place at the ordnance factory in the Jawahar Nagar area of Maharashtra’s Bhandara district on Friday morning. Rescue teams including firefighters and ambulances were deployed to the site. The explosion caused the roof of the…
On July 30, 2024, at approximately 02:17 AM, a catastrophic landslide struck Mundakki, near Chooralmala in Vellarimala Village, Wayanad District, following continuous heavy to extremely severe rainfall. This disaster buried around 700 homes and businesses under tons of debris, leading to a devastating impact on the local community. As of the latest reports from the…
In early September 2024, Vijayawada, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India, faced unprecedented flooding due to exceptionally heavy rainfall that commenced on August 31. This disaster claimed at least 35 lives in the NTR district and severely affected around 645,000 individuals across multiple districts, with approximately 270,000 impacted directly in Vijayawada alone. The city recorded…
On July 2, 2024, a tragic incident unfolded in the small village of Mughal Garhi in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, India, leaving the nation in mourning. A crowd crush occurred at the conclusion of a satsang, a religious event organized by a self-styled godman, Suraj Pal, also known as Bhole Baba. The event,…
On July 6, 2024, the outskirts of Surat, Gujarat, witnessed a heart-wrenching tragedy as a six-storey residential building crumbled under the relentless force of heavy rains, claiming the lives of seven individuals and leaving over 15 others injured. The incident, which occurred around 2:30 p.m. IST, has raised serious concerns about the structural integrity of…
On August 21, 2024, the tranquil afternoon at the Escientia Advanced Sciences pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Atchutapuram Special Economic Zone (SEZ), located in Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, was shattered by a catastrophic explosion. The incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. IST, reportedly triggered by an electrical fire. The aftermath of this devastating explosion has left at…
Cyclone Asna emerged as a formidable tropical cyclone, impacting the states of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in India from August 25 to September 2, 2024. This rare meteorological event began as a low-pressure system in the northwest Bay of Bengal around August 16, gathering momentum as it moved inland. By August 26, the Indian Meteorological…
