The closure of the Torkham border for the fifth consecutive day intensified the financial and physical woes of traders, transporters and pedestrians as confusion prevailed on Thursday as Afghan authorities reopened their side of the border but Pakistani authorities insisted that they would f
Five people including a child were killed, and four more were left injured, after a car rammed into a tuck from behind in Dharwad, the police informed on Thursday.
Four people were killed, while over a dozen others were injured in a collision between a mini-truck and tractor on the National Highway-93 in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, late on Tuesday night, the police said.
"A truck carrying transformer oil in drums caught fire due to mechanical heat of the engine. The fire also spread to a car that was parked beside it, " Sangareddy District Fire Officer V Srinivas said.
The deadlock between truckers and Adani Cement Company ended on Monday with the intervention of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu who announced the freight rates after meeting transporters and company officials.
The bus which hit two other cars and a truck on the opposite track, veered off the road due to a tyre burst, while the wedding party was going back to Lahore from Islamabad, according to the police.
A vehicle, mixer truck and a JCB, which were being used for construction of a road, were set ablaze allegedly by Naxals in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, the police informed on Sunday.