Four people died and 10 others suffered burn injuries during a Moharram procession in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand on Saturday after the Tazia touched high tension wire.
Officials said that a procession (chowki) was taken out in the area on Friday morning a day before Muharram. A pipe and bamboo stick carried by mourners came in contact with a high-tension wire, leaving the participants injured.
The villagers in Meerut staged a protest after six kanwariyas were electrocuted to death when their vehicle they were travelling in came in contact with an high-tension overhead wire in the Bhagwanpur area.
According to officials, the incident took place in Bhawanpur's Rali Chauhan village in Meerut district when the vehicle of Kanwariyas came in contact with a low-hanging high-tension power line.
A paragliding pilot and a woman passenger were in the paraglider when it crashed into high-tension electric wires near a newly built bypass on Sakarva road in Goverdhan area of Mathura district.
Taipei [Taiwan], August 5 (ANI): Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said that China initiated live-fire military exercises around Taiwan undermine the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, encroach upon the island nation's sovereignty and create high tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.
Beijing [China], July 31 (ANI): Amid high tensions over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's potential visit to Taiwan, the Chinese military announced holding live-fire naval exercises in the Taiwan Strait, media reports said.
Satya Sai (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 30 (ANI): At least five people died and four others sustained injuries due to electrocution when a high-tension electric wire accidentally came in contact with a passenger auto in Andhra Pradesh's Satya Sai district on Thursday morning.
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 6 (ANI): An elephant died on Sunday after getting in contact with the 11,000 high tension line in the Mohand Range of Saharanpur's Shivalik Forest Division.
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): Two brothers in their twenties died of electrocution from high tension wires at their home in Delhi's Chattarpur on Tuesday afternoon, Delhi Police informed.
Washington [US], November 14 (ANI): A recent research collaboration has discovered that cancer invasion and migration can be suppressed in mice by manipulating the stiffness of the cell membrane. The membranes of cancer cells are more pliant than the membranes of normal cells.