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Two Eurofighter jets collide over northern Germany
Two Eurofighter jets of the German Airforce collided mid-air on Monday over country's northern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.The collision took place shortly before 2:00 am (local time) over the Mueritz region, about 100 kilometres north of country's capital Berlin. The pilots of both the jets managed to eject, reported Xinhua news agency.One pilot has been found alive while the search for the other is still underway, the German Ministry of Defence said.A forest fire has been reported at the crash site.Further details are awaited.
Universal Smart Card Driving License on the anvil
Universal smart card driving licences are on the anvil, the government said Monday. "The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ... has decided to modify the format of driving licences to laminated card without chip or smart card type driving licences," Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. The ministry has prescribed a common standard format and design of the driving licence for whole of the country which includes the placement of information and standardisation of fonts, he said. This ministry through its flagship application called SARATHI (for driving licence) developed by NIC (National Informatics Centre) have a common countrywide database of all driving licence holders. "Almost 15 crore driving licence records are available in its central repository (National Registry). The SARATHI application has the feature to identify duplicate records in real-time online basis and access information about the challans if any, which ...
7 projects awarded under Bharatmala's Border Roads & Int'l Connectivity Roads component till Mar
Seven road projects with an aggregate length of about 1,042 kms have been awarded under the Border Roads and International Connectivity Roads component of Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I till March 2019, Parliament was informed Monday. Under the Coastal Roads and Port Connectivity roads component of the same programme, five road projects with a total length of about 163 kms have been awarded till March, 2019 in the entire country, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase-I was approved at an estimated outlay of Rs 5,35,000 crore. "Under Border Roads and International Connectivity Roads component of Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I, 7 nos. of road projects with an aggregate length of about 1,042 kms and total cost as Rs 4,916 crore (approx.) have been awarded till March, 2019 in entire country," Gadkari said, adding that the progress of all the projects is monitored electronically for ensuring completion .
Ebola death toll breaks 1,500 mark in DRC
More than 1,500 people have died in a nearly 10-month-old outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said Monday. As of Sunday, 1,506 people have died out of 2,239 recorded cases, it said. Earlier this month, the virus claimed two lives in neighbouring Uganda among a family who had travelled to the DRC. Nearly 141,000 people have been vaccinated in the affected eastern DRC provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, the epicentre of the outbreak. Ebola spreads among humans through close contact with the blood, body fluids, secretions or organs of an infected person, or objects contaminated by such fluids. The current outbreak in the DRC is the worst on record after an epidemic that struck mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone between 2014-2016, killing more than 11,300 people. Chronic violence and militia activity in Ituri and North Kivu as well as hostility to medical teams among local people have hampered the response. The United Nations in May nominated .
Two children killed in lightning in UP's Shahjahanpur
Two children died on Monday after they were struck by lightning when they had gone to pick mangoes in a village here, police said. The incident occurred in Sikatia village, where Sunny (14) and Khushboo (12) took shelter under a tree during rain, the Station House Officer of Mirzapur Police Station, Sudhakar Pandey, said. The children died on the spot after lightning hit them, he said.
Coal India supplies 491 MT coal to Tamil Nadu in 2018-19
State-owned Coal India (CIL) has supplied 491.54 million tonnes (MT) coal to power plants in Tamil Nadu in 2018-19, Parliament was informed Monday. "In the year 2018-19, Coal India supplied 491.54 MT coal to power plants which was 8.2 per cent more than the coal supplied in 2017-18," Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) supplied 55.3 MT coal to power plants in 2018-19, a growth of 3.6 per cent over the same period of previous year, he said. "This has led to creation of a coal stock of 30.95 MT at the power plants as on March 31, 2019 which was sufficient for 18 days requirement," the minister said. In 2018-19, CIL's coal supply to power plants of Tangedco in Tamil Nadu rose 3.5 per cent to 23.26 MT, compared to 22.49 MT in 2017-18. As on June 16, 2019, he said, power plants in Tamil Nadu have coal stock of 9.67 lakh tonnes, which is sufficient for 12 days requirement. The minister further said .
HP Transport Minister should have resigned after Kullu Bus Accident: Congress
Himachal Pradesh Congress president Kuldeep Singh Rathore said State Transport Minister Govind Thakur should have resigned in the wake of the Kullu bus tragedy in which 45 persons were killed and 33 injured. Speaking to mediapersons here Monday, Rathore said, "I have been told by the injured and other eye witnesses during my visit to Mandi and Kullu on Saturday that the conditions of the road and the bus were very bad." Besides the bus was overloaded and around 80 passengers were travelling in it though it had a capacity of 42 seats, he added. Instead of conducting a fair magisterial inquiry, the transport minister gave a clean chit to the private bus owner, Rathore said. The Congress leader alleged Thakur was trying to shield the bus operator, saying the bus driver, conductor and the police could be faulted but the bus owner could not be held responsible for overloading. The Jai Ram Thakur-led BJP government had not made public the inquiry report and action taken report in the Nurpur
Reports: 2 fighter jets collide over northeastern Germany
German media are reporting that two air force jets have collided in the northeast of the country. The dpa news agency quoted the interior ministry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state as confirming the crash of two Eurofighter jets Monday. Local radio station Ostseewelle reports that the aircraft collided shortly before 2 pm (1200 GMT) near Lake Mueritz. There was conflicting information about whether the pilots ejected. A video posted online shortly after the crash showed two plumes of smoke rising from the ground. Germany's air force couldn't immediately confirm the incident.
RPF constable saves life of train passenger
A Railway Protection Force constable has saved the life of a passenger who had fallen between platform and train while getting down from the train at Bhubaneswar railway station, an official said Monday. A train passenger identified as Nazir Malik (24) while getting down from running Bhadrak-Bhubaneswar MEMU, had fallen between platform and train at Bhubaneswar Railway station. Malik was lifted immediately by an on duty RPF constable N B Rao on Sunday evening, the official said. "Due to the bravery and instant alertness on duty, the RPF constable has been praised by one and all, for exemplary presence of mind and passenger safety consciousness," a senior railway official said. The entire incident has been captured on CCTV. Few days ago, in a similar incident, a Railway Telecom Engineer, Tapas Ranjan Barik, had also saved the life of an elderly woman passenger, who was trying to get down from a running train at Cuttack Railway Station. The East Coast Railway has appealed ..
Munitions depot blasts prompt evacuation of Kazakh town
A series of explosions at a southern Kazakh munitions depot Monday led authorities to evacuate a nearby town of 40,000 people and saw dozens reportedly hospitalised. The blasts near the town of Arys were caused by "a fire, which led to the explosion of some of the ammunition (at the depot)," Kazakhstan's defence ministry said in a statement. Social media users shared videos of people fleeing the area with huge plumes of smoke rising towards the sky in the backdrop. The defence ministry said there had been no deaths or injuries recorded. But Radio Free Europe's Kazakh service reported over 50 hospitalised, citing sources at two hospitals in the south of the country. Three people in a hospital in Shymkent, a city of one million, were in a serious condition, RFE reported. The head of the administrative region where Arys is located said that the town would be evacuated "completely" on Monday. "Given the scale of what is happening, we see that we need to evacuate the city as a whole," ...
Bodies of 7 mountaineers to be brought to Nanda Devi camp, snowfall halts search for 8th missing
Dead bodies of the seven mountaineers found in an avalanche site in Nanda Devi is set to be brought to base camp in two days time, said a government official on Monday.Also, ITBP officials said that due to snowfall and poor visibility in the Nanda Devi area since morning, the team which is searching for the eighth missing mountaineer has halted its efforts and is likely to begin the search tomorrow depending on weather conditions.Speaking to ANI, Pithoragarh District Magistrate (DM), Vijay Kumar Jogdande said, "The dead bodies have been retrieved from avalanche site which is at an altitude of 5,800 meters. The ITBP has made an advance camp and kept the dead bodies there. From the advance camp, the dead bodies will be brought to Nanda Devi base camp which might take two to three days.""The dead bodies will be brought here with helicopters from the base camp. Thereafter post-mortem will be conducted and only then the dead bodies will be handed over to family members," he said.Kumar ...
UBM India Announces the SAFE South India and OSH South India Exhibitions in Hyderabad
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Two survivors pulled from collapsed Cambodia building
Two men were pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed Cambodian building on Monday, more than two days after the construction site accident that left at least 25 dead. Hopes that more survivors may be found under the debris had been fading, and the prime minister ordered inspections of all construction sites at the beach town which is undergoing a Chinese-bankrolled development boom. But against the odds two people were cut free from the tangled wreckage alive on Monday, carried out by rescuers who had all but given up hope of finding anyone alive. The seven-storey Chinese-owned building folded in on itself before dawn on Saturday as scores of workers slept on the under-construction floors. Grim processions of stretchers carrying bodies have punctuated the two days since, as workers claw back the twisted metal and concrete debris. A grim-faced Cambodian premier Hun Sen visited the scene of the collapse in Sihanoukville before daybreak on Monday. He ordered inspections of all ...
HAL integral part of global supply chain, proud of the partnership: Boeing
HAL celebrated a milestone with Boeing with the delivery of the 150th gun bay door for the F/A-18 Super Hornet
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Bihar: Fire reported in Sapt Kranti Express near Muzaffarpur doused
A fire was reported in Sapt Kranti Express that left for Anand Vihar Terminus from Muzaffarpur railway station at 11.35 am on Monday."After leaving from the originating station, at around 11.50 am smoke started billowing out of the locomotive near Kaparpura station," CPRO, East Central Railway said."At 12.15 pm, the fire was doused away by using a fire extinguisher in the locomotive," he added.The train was sent back at 1 pm to Muzaffarpur and would leave for its destination after attaching a different locomotive."The reason of fire is estimated to be a short circuit in the capacitor bank of the locomotive," said the CPRO.
Fire breaks out at hotel in south east Delhi
A minor fire broke out at a hotel in south east Delhi's Jamia Nagar area Monday, officials said. No one was injured in the incident, the Delhi Fire Service said. The fire department said they received a call about the blaze at 12.45 pm, following which five fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The fire was brought under control by 1.25 pm, a senior fire official said. "A fire broke out in the kitchen of the hotel," he said, adding that the kitchen was situated on the ground floor. The cause of the fire is being ascertained, the official said.
Smoke noticed in Delhi-bound Sapt Kranti Express; delays departure
Passengers on board the Delhi-bound Sapt Kranti Express train had a close shave on Monday when barely 15 minutes after leaving the Muzzafarpur station, smoke was seen billowing out of its locomotive. The train had left Muzaffarpur in Bihar at 11:50 am and as it reached the Kaparpura station, smoke started coming out of its locomotive. By 12.15 pm, the smoke was cleared with the help of the fire extinguisher present in the locomotive, East Central Railway Spokesperson Rajesh Kumar said, adding, "By 1 pm, the train was sent back to Muzaffarpur. It reached Muzaffarpur at around 1.15 pm. The locomotive will be changed there and the train will be on its way to the Anand Vihar terminal." All passengers were safe, Kumar said. A short-circuit in the capacitor bank of the locomotive might be the reason behind the smoke, officials said, adding that a probe was underway.
5 killed in Bangladesh train crash, probe ordered
At least five people were killed and 67 others were injured after an intercity train derailed in Moulvibazar district late on Sunday.Police and railway officials said that five coaches of Dhaka-bound Upaban Express train, coming from Sylhet veered off the tracks at around 11:40 pm (local time), after a culvert over the Barochhara Canal broke down, Dhaka Tribune reported.Two of the coaches fell into the canal and one of them overturned, authorities said.In the wake of the accident, train services between Sylhet and the rest of the country have been suspended.The number of casualties is expected to rise as rescue and search operation is underway.A four-member committee has been formed to investigate the mishap. "Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer Md Mizanur Rahman will lead the probe committee," Secretary of Railway Ministry Mofazzel Hossain said on Monday.The committee has been asked by the government to submit a report within three working days.Out of the five deceased persons, three ..
Wall collapses killing six street children in Uganda
Six street children who were sleeping in a storm drain next to an elite school in the Ugandan capital have been killed after a wall fell on them, police said Monday. "Due to a heavy downpour part of the perimeter wall of the school gave way, collapsed on the kids, killing six of them on the spot and two were injured," Kampala's deputy police spokesman Luke Owoyesigire told AFP. "The police rescue team is on the scene to check if any person is buried under the debris." The spokesman said police were trying to establish the identities of the children and track down their families, adding that they had been sleeping in the storm drain for a while. According to Owoyesigire, it was the second such incident recently, after five family members were killed last month as they slept in a mud and wattle house when a wall collapsed on them.
Mum-Ahd bullet train project to affect 54k mangroves on 13 ha
As many as 54,000 mangroves spread over 13.36 hectares will be affected because of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor, commonly called the bullet train project, state transport minister Diwakar Raote said Monday. He was replying to a question raised by Shiv Sena legislator Maneesha Kayande in the state Legislative Council. "There will be no chopping of trees and there will no threat of flooding to some parts of Navi Mumbai. The pillars (of the project) will be high and hence will not damage the environment much," he added. Raote said the state government has proposed to plant five plants for each one that will be cut for the multi- billion dollar project. "As per my information, farmers are keen on handing over their land for appropriate remuneration," Raote informed in his written reply. The project, expected to cost over Rs 1 lakh crore, is funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Replying to another question raised by Congress MLC Sharad
