Boat Tragedy

At least 20 people, who were on their way to attend a funeral on a makeshift raft, fell into a river in Bihar's Purnia. The group of people had created the makeshift raft with bamboo sticks to cross the river due to the absence of a bridge.

At least 15 migrants have died and dozens are missing after their boat capsized off Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and local sources said Wednesday, the latest in a string of migrant tragedies off the coast of West Afr

The incident took place at Simlitola in Rongjuli police station area when the boat with around 20 people on board was returning after the cremation of a person in a nearby isolated location.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday provided a compensation relief of Rs 5 lakh each to the next family of the victims of the boat capsize tragedy.

Twins Tanvir and Muzamil Ahmad were being taken by their mother to school as usual this morning. But they never made it to the school. The boat carrying them overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday.

A four-year-old child died and two persons were reported missing after a boat capsized in the Brahmaputra river in South Salmara-Mankachar district, amid heavy rain and hailstorm across Assam, a senior official said on Monday.

Gujarat Police has arrested one more accused, who is the contractor of Kotia Projects, in connection with the boat capsize incident, which claimed 14 lives, including 12 children and injured several, police said.

The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to submit an action taken report on the death of students and teachers in a recent boat tragedy, observing that it has "shocked the conscience" of the public.

The investigation into the Vadodara boat capsize tragedy has revealed that the firm managing the lake recreation zone had sub-let the contract for boating activities to another company, a senior officer said on Saturday.

Twelve students and two teachers drowned after a boat overturned in a lake on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat on Thursday, officials said.

At least 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya's coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday, in the latest such tragedy off North Africa.

Two bodies were found as the search operation continued on Friday morning for the people who went missing in the boat capsize in Bagmati river in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, officials said.

Eleven children are still missing after a boat carrying more than 30 people, including kids on their way to school, overturned near the Madhupur Patti Ghat on the Bagmati River inBihar's Muzaffarpur district on Thursday morning.

At least 17 people drowned when a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state broke up at sea this week, rescuers said Thursday.

A fisherman lost his life and three others went missing after their boat capsized in the seas off the Kerala coast in the wee hours of Monday.

At least 20 people, who were on their way to attend a funeral on a makeshift raft, fell into a river in Bihar's Purnia. The group of people had created the makeshift raft with bamboo sticks to cross the river due to the absence of a bridge.

At least 15 migrants have died and dozens are missing after their boat capsized off Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and local sources said Wednesday, the latest in a string of migrant tragedies off the coast of West Afr

The incident took place at Simlitola in Rongjuli police station area when the boat with around 20 people on board was returning after the cremation of a person in a nearby isolated location.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday provided a compensation relief of Rs 5 lakh each to the next family of the victims of the boat capsize tragedy.

Twins Tanvir and Muzamil Ahmad were being taken by their mother to school as usual this morning. But they never made it to the school. The boat carrying them overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday.

A four-year-old child died and two persons were reported missing after a boat capsized in the Brahmaputra river in South Salmara-Mankachar district, amid heavy rain and hailstorm across Assam, a senior official said on Monday.

Gujarat Police has arrested one more accused, who is the contractor of Kotia Projects, in connection with the boat capsize incident, which claimed 14 lives, including 12 children and injured several, police said.

The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to submit an action taken report on the death of students and teachers in a recent boat tragedy, observing that it has "shocked the conscience" of the public.

The investigation into the Vadodara boat capsize tragedy has revealed that the firm managing the lake recreation zone had sub-let the contract for boating activities to another company, a senior officer said on Saturday.

Twelve students and two teachers drowned after a boat overturned in a lake on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat on Thursday, officials said.

At least 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya's coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday, in the latest such tragedy off North Africa.

Two bodies were found as the search operation continued on Friday morning for the people who went missing in the boat capsize in Bagmati river in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, officials said.

Eleven children are still missing after a boat carrying more than 30 people, including kids on their way to school, overturned near the Madhupur Patti Ghat on the Bagmati River inBihar's Muzaffarpur district on Thursday morning.

At least 17 people drowned when a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state broke up at sea this week, rescuers said Thursday.

A fisherman lost his life and three others went missing after their boat capsized in the seas off the Kerala coast in the wee hours of Monday.