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SAO PAULO: A plane crash in Brazil's northern Amazon state on Saturday has left 14 dead, the state's governor said. The accident took place in the Barcelos province, some 400 km (248 miles) from the state capital, Manaus. "I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two crew members who were victims of the plane crash in Barcelos on Saturday," said Wilson Lima, Governor of Amazonas state on X,...

NOIDA: A construction lift taking nine workers to the upper floors of a residential tower on Friday morning crashed to the ground from the 14th floor, leaving four of them dead and five others on ventilator support.The lift collapse - among the worst construction site accidents in recent years - was reported at Amrapali Dream Valley Phase 2 in Techzone 4 around 8.30am when around 7,000 workers at the...

GHAZIABAD(UP): A 26-year-old man allegedly shot dead his girlfriend before dying by suicide after consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Thursday, police said. They said Rahul Chowdhary allegedly shot dead Deepmala Yadav (24) with a countrymade pistol at her home in Ghukna village, which falls under Nandgram police station, Thursday morning when her parents had gone to a temple. He then...

PUNE: Four persons died on the spot when the compact SUV they were travelling in first hit a median before veering to the extreme left to crash into a stationary truck near the Urse toll post around 40km from Pune on the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Thursday evening.The Pune-bound traffic on the expressway disrupted for some time after the accident."The victims included architect Mauli Babasaheb Dhumal...

MONTREAL: Six people from two families -- one of Romanian descent with Canadian passports, the other from India -- were found dead in a marsh near the Canada-US border after trying to cross illegally into the United States, police said Friday. Their bodies were found Thursday near a capsized boat belonging to a missing man from the Akwesasne Mohawk community, local deputy police chief Lee-Ann O'Brien...

THANE: A constable attached to the special protection unit in Mumbai was found dead on the railway tracks between Taloja and Niljhe stations on Wednesday morning. Police suspect Vaibhav Kadam may have ended his life, however, no suicide note was found on him or near his body. An accidental death case has been registered with Thane railway police.Kadam was part of the police cover provided to former...

THANE: A constable — attached to the special protection unit in Mumbai — died hours later after he was found with serious injuries on the railway tracks between Taloja (in Raigad district) and Nilajhe (in Thane district) stations near Diva in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, Thane railway police officials said. The constable was not on duty at the time of the incident, officials said.The railway...

GUWAHATI: A Class XII student, who was appearing in the ongoing Council of Higher Secondary Examinations, Manipur, (CoHSEM), was shot dead in Kangpokpi district of the northeastern state on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. The examinations will conclude on April 1 with a paper on elective subjects.The incident assumed significance in the backdrop of the announcement made by the Centre and later by...