Thiruvananthapuram, November 17 (BPNS ) A KSRTC bus traveling on the Sabarimala pilgrimage route caught fire early Sunday morning. The empty bus was en route from Pampa to Nilakkal to pick up Sabarimala pilgrims. The incident occurred around 5:30 a.m. at the 30th hairpin bend on the forested stretch between Chalakkayam and Nilakkal. The driver […]
Chennai, Sept 21 (BPNS) A private bus plying in Coimbatore got stuck in a pothole dug for laying drinking water pipelines. The incident occurred on Wednesday, September 21. A crane was deployed for lifting the bus up. BPNS had earlier reported of the roads in Coimbatore are being dug in almost all areas creating major […]
Chennai, Sept 18 (BPNS) Six people were killed in a gory road accident on the Salem- Chennai highway at Pethanickenpalayam on Sunday morning. The truck rammed into the Omnibus that was parked on the road. Five of those dead were passengers in the bus while the sixth person who died in the accident was the […]
Chennai, Sept 16 (BPNS) One person was killed and ten persons were grievously injured in an accident involving a bus and a lorry on Friday early morning. The accident occurred at Veerasikampatti near Dindigul. In the accident, the lorry driver, S. Madasamy died on the spot. Dindigul police said that the bus was traveling towards […]
Thiruvananthapuram, July 31 (BPNS) Even as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heavy rains in several districts of Kerala since July 31, a tourist from Tamil Nadu lost his life after he was trapped in the Kumbavaratty waterfalls as heavy water gushed into the falls sweeping him off balance and into the waters. […]
Chennai, July 29 (BPNS) Two people lost their lives when boulders and soil caved into a stone quarry in Kalpadi, Peramballur district on Friday morning. The deceased is C. Subramani (40), brother of the quarry owner, Murugesan, and a driver at the stone quarry, R. Senthil Kumar (35). According to Perambalur, Superintendent of Police who […]
Chennai, July 3 (BPNS) An IT professional, Muthumari (29) was killed and 17 other IT professionals of a private company were seriously injured when a tourist van in which they were traveling to Masinagudi in Nilgiris fell off a Kalhatti Ghat road on Sunday early morning. The IT staff were traveling for a holiday trip […]
Chennai, June 23 (BPNS) Three people were charred to death and two grievously injured in a blast at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. The gruesome incident occurred on Thursday afternoon. Police said that the firecracker manufacturing unit was functioning in a village near Capper hills. Five people were involved in the making […]
Thiruvananthapuram, June 19 (BPNS) Two people were killed instantly and five seriously injured after a pickup van lost control and barged into people standing on the roadside on Sunday morning. The incident occurred at Kannapuram in Kannur district of Kerala. Police said that the pickup van driver dozed off and lost control of the vehicle […]
Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, June 14 The Civil Aviation Department has held the pilots responsible for the helicopter crash landing incident that occurred at Kochi on April 11, 2021. The helicopter that got crash-landed on a marshy land was carrying businessman MA Yusuf Ali, his wife, and two others who then escaped unhurt. The department’s […]
