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Thousands of Indian truck drivers in California have launched a legal challenge against the state after being told their commercial driving licences will be cancelled. Drivers say the move threatens their livelihoods and has left their families in limbo. The lawsuit follows decisions by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to revoke licences issued to…
James Cameron has officially joined Hollywood’s most exclusive club – the Billionaire’s club. The director, who is awaiting the release of his film, ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’, has a networth estimated at USD 1.1 billion, Forbes reports. As per the report, the director is one of the few in the entertainment industry, who has made…
NEW DELHI: At least two labourers were killed after a truck carrying 22 workers fell into a deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday.The accident occurred between Hayuliang and Chakla, located in the remote Chaglagam circle under Anjaw district, located at the India-China border road.Meanwhile, the Indian Army has launched a major Search and Rescue…
KOLKATA: A key witness in CBI and ED land-grab cases against Sandeshkhali gang-rape accused Sheikh Shahjahan narrowly escaped death after a 10-wheeler truck bludgeoned his car into a roadside ditch while he was on his way to testify in court in a land-grab case against the former Trinamool strongman on Wednesday morning.Bholanath Ghosh, 64, escaped…
NEW DELHI: One of the prime witnesses in the Sandeshkhali attack case, Bholanath Ghosh, was critically injured on Wednesday after a truck collided with his car in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.Local eyewitnesses claimed that the truck, moving in the opposite direction of the car, rammed into the private vehicle at breakneck speed, crushed…
JAIPUR: A traffic cop trying to stop an errant truck driver inside a no-entry zone in Jaipur clung to the speeding vehicle’s bonnet for nearly 500 metres as the offender accelerated and swerved multiple times in a bid to throw him off, leaving witnesses bracing for the worst. The nerve-wracking scene, which unfolded around 8.30am…
Another Indian-origin truck driver in the US, Sukhjinder Singh, has been taken into ICE custody for possible deportation, months after he caused a fatal crash and then pleaded guilty to the vehicular manslaughter that took place earlier this year in West Virginia. Singh was sentenced to the maximum of one year in jail after he…
NEW DELHI: Six people were killed and at least eight others were injured in a road accident near Navale Bridge on the Pune–Bengaluru Highway on Thursday evening. According to officials, a container truck lost control and rammed into multiple vehicles. Two to three heavy vehicles caught fire following the collision.Videos from the scene showed a…
At least 37 people were killed in Peru on Wednesday after a bus fell into a ravine, after colliding with a truck, according to authorities quoted by multiple media outlets. The crash occurred early in the day along a section of the Panamericana Sur highway linking Peru and Chile. “We have a figure of 37…
BHOPAL: Two Indian Navy kayakers, including an Asia Cup gold medallist, were killed after a speeding truck rammed into their motorcycle and dragged it for nearly 20 metres in Bhopal early Sunday, reports Ramendra Singh. The deceased – chief petty officer Vishnu Raghunathan, 27, and petty officer Ananth Krishnan, 18, both from Kerala – were…
