Cattle Run Over

The Madhya Pradesh electricity department's drive to seize defaulters' motorbikes, cattle or tractors has run into trouble.

The Railways will build 1,000 km of boundary walls over the next six months in sections of its network where maximum cases of cattle being run over by trains are recorded, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said today.

Cattle run overs affected 200 trains in the first nine days of October and over 4,000 trains so far this year, official data has shown.

Two more persons were arrested for allegedly being involved in an incident, in which a woman police officer was mowed down in Jharkhand's Ranchi district by a pickup van, police said on Sunday.

A breach in an artificial pond that stored toxic residue from a coal power plant run by the state-owned NTPC has contaminated farmland in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli, villagers have alleged. The district collector said no one was injured and the ash spillage happened inside the boundary wall of the power plant.

A Patna-bound train was stranded for nearly three hours between Tundla and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh after it ran over cattle, the railways said on Monday.

Vande Bharat Express, India's fastest train, broke down this morning, a day after its launch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi. The train, on the way back from Varanasi and travelling at a much slower speed than usual, reached Delhi in the afternoon.

A 22-year-old man who was home from Dubai was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by villagers who suspected that he had stolen a buffalo. The incident was reported from Bholapur Hindoliya village in Bareilly district late on Tuesday night. According to the police, the villagers called them and told them that Shahrukh Khan and three of his ...

Cattle herders killed 82 people and wounded 25 in a village in central Nigeria over grazing rights, police said today, less than two weeks before a national election in which political and ethnic tensions are running high.

"You are keeping them like animals. Are they cattle? There cannot be worse kind of human rights violations than this", an angry Delhi High Court bench slammed the city government and an NGO over the "inhuman" condition at a home run by them for mentally-challenged people.

The Madhya Pradesh electricity department's drive to seize defaulters' motorbikes, cattle or tractors has run into trouble.

The Railways will build 1,000 km of boundary walls over the next six months in sections of its network where maximum cases of cattle being run over by trains are recorded, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said today.

Cattle run overs affected 200 trains in the first nine days of October and over 4,000 trains so far this year, official data has shown.

Two more persons were arrested for allegedly being involved in an incident, in which a woman police officer was mowed down in Jharkhand's Ranchi district by a pickup van, police said on Sunday.

A breach in an artificial pond that stored toxic residue from a coal power plant run by the state-owned NTPC has contaminated farmland in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli, villagers have alleged. The district collector said no one was injured and the ash spillage happened inside the boundary wall of the power plant.

A Patna-bound train was stranded for nearly three hours between Tundla and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh after it ran over cattle, the railways said on Monday.

Vande Bharat Express, India's fastest train, broke down this morning, a day after its launch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi. The train, on the way back from Varanasi and travelling at a much slower speed than usual, reached Delhi in the afternoon.

A 22-year-old man who was home from Dubai was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by villagers who suspected that he had stolen a buffalo. The incident was reported from Bholapur Hindoliya village in Bareilly district late on Tuesday night. According to the police, the villagers called them and told them that Shahrukh Khan and three of his ...

Cattle herders killed 82 people and wounded 25 in a village in central Nigeria over grazing rights, police said today, less than two weeks before a national election in which political and ethnic tensions are running high.

"You are keeping them like animals. Are they cattle? There cannot be worse kind of human rights violations than this", an angry Delhi High Court bench slammed the city government and an NGO over the "inhuman" condition at a home run by them for mentally-challenged people.