NEW DELHI: A pilot project to identify the problems faced by truck drivers and to take corrective steps across six states — Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu — found that over half of them suffered from compromised vision; over 44% had borderline or above Body Mass Index (BMI) and around…
Four men who had hitched a ride on a loaded truck died after heavy metal plates fell on them while they were sleeping in the vehicle’s cargo section on Tuesday morning. The plates, weighing a few hundred kg each, were dislodged when truck braked suddenly. Source link
Indian national Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, on Thursday was sentenced to eight years for an attempted attack on the White House with a rented truck on May 22, 2023. The attack aimed to overthrow the democratically elected American government in order to replace it with a dictatorship fuelled by Nazi ideology, the Department of Justice…
Heads of states and political leaders with influence will be a part of US-President elect Donald Trump’s inaugural ceremony on January 20. But there will be another special guest, who will remind many of Trump’s Wisconsin rally in October — the garbage truck. The truck had stickers of the Trump campaign and was a response…
NEW DELHI: Eight people died, and several others were injured after a tempo and a truck collided late on Sunday at Dwarka Circle in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, news agency PTI reported. The accident happened near an Ayyappa temple at 7:30pm. “There were 16 passengers in the tempo, which was on its way to the CIDCO…
The deceased siblings were identified as Yasir Imtiyaz Khan and Danish Imtiyaz Khan from Chijhama in Baramulla’s Rafiabad district. JAMMU: Two brothers from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district died when a truck plunged into a gorge in Ramban district late Thursday.The deceased siblings were identified as Yasir Imtiyaz Khan and Danish Imtiyaz Khan from Chijhama…
SAMBALPUR: Two local BJP functionaries were killed and two others injured after a speeding tipper truck rear-ended their car thrice on NH-53 in Odisha’s Sambalpur early Sunday, raising suspicions of a pre-planned murder.“Police are probing whether it was an accident or a pre-planned murder,” said Sambalpur SP Mukesh Bhamoo.The deceased – Debendra Nayak, BJP’s mandal…
The New Orleans attacker had planted remotely operated explosives inside coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before driving a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating New Year’s Day, US President Joe Biden said. The ISIS-inspired attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had a “remote detonator” in…
A US Army veteran, flying an ISIS flag from his truck, ploughed into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter on New Year’s Day and opened fire, killing 15 people. The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from Texas who had previously served as a Marine in Afghanistan, was also killed in a…
One person died and seven others were injured Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck that appeared to be carrying fireworks caught fire and exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, authorities said. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials told a news conference that a person died inside the futuristic-looking pickup truck…