NTR: At least 20 people were injured on Wednesday after a Telangana Road Transport Corporation (RTC) bus rear-ended a lorry on the National Highway in Jaggaiyapet mandal of Andhra Pradesh’s NTR district, officials said.
A total of 42 persons were on the bus that was on its way to Hyderabad from Vijayawada.
Upon receiving information about the accident, efforts began to take out the passengers. Rescuers also put in much effort to pull out the driver of the bus who got stuck inside the vehicle.
Travellers who sustained injuries were immediately transferred to a nearby government hospital.
Three people sustained serious injuries, police said. Nobody in the lorry was injured.
Meanwhile, a recklessly driven crane hit two bikes in which four persons, including three minors, died and one woman sustained injuries in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, a police official said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred in the Banganga area in the city last evening while the crane was moving downwards on the Banganga bridge. After crushing the bikes, the crane collided with a bus and stopped. The whole incident was also captured in the CCTV installed on the roadside.
In April, four people died while 22 others sustained injuries in an accident”>road accident on the Pune-Bengaluru Highway near the Narhe area of Pune city. The collision took place between a truck and a private bus on the Highway.
Pune: Four people were killed and 18 others injured after a truck rammed into a bus in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Sunday, police said.
The accident took place at around 2 am near a temple off the Mumbai-Bengaluru national highway, they said.
As the private passenger bus heading from Satara to Dombivli in Thane reached near the Swaminarayan temple, a truck coming from behind rammed into it, a police official said.
Three bus passengers and the truck driver were killed, while 18 passengers received injuries, he said.
Prima facie, the truck driver lost control over the vehicle and as a result it hit the bus, the official said.
After being alerted, a medical emergency services team reached the spot and provided assistance to the victims.
Thirteen injured passengers were rushed to various hospitals in Pune, including the Navale Hospital, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Sassoon Hospital. The other injured passengers were admitted to nearby hospitals, officials said.
Pune Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officer Ayush Prasad said driver fatigue was a significant issue which needed to be addressed to prevent such accidents.
“It is essential that all citizens take necessary precautions when driving during night hours. Get adequate rest before your journey, take regular breaks and be mindful of other drivers on the road,” he said.
Prasad also stressed on the importance of reporting about rash and negligent driving to police.
“If you notice someone driving in a rash manner, maintain a safe distance and call the police to report it,” he added.
Baramulla, Apr 18:A rashly driven car rammed into a roadside tree at Trumgund village of North Kashmir’s Sopore town, killing the minor girl and leaving two others on board including the driver of the vehicle injured.
According to the police, a speeding car (JK09A- 6032) was on its way to Srinagar from Baramulla. As it reached near Trumgund area, the driver lost control over the vehicle and it rammed into a road side tree. The hit was so fierce that the trunk of the big poplar tree was damaged.
The villagers informed the police about the incident and the three persons on board including the driver were rushed to Sub-District Hospital but he doctors declared one among them brought dead who has been identified as 12-year-old girl Snowbal Maqbool, a resident of Trumgund village of Sopore.
Police have registered a case under relevant sections of law and further investigation is in progress. [KNT]
Hyderabad: Three members of a family were killed when a truck rammed into their hut after the driver lost control over the vehicle on Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Hyderabad on Thursday.
The accident occurred near Kolluru in Tellapur municipality of Sangareddy district.
According to police, a rice-laden truck from Haryana, which was heading towards Gachibowli, rammed into the roadside hut at the ORR exit. The driver lost control over the vehicle after he dozed off. The truck hit the railing while coming down from ORR and rammed into a hut.
Three daily wage workers living in the hut died on the spot. The deceased were identified as Rathod (48), his wife Kamalabai (43) and their 23-year-old son. They hailed from Karnataka and were living in the hut. Families of about 30 workers were living in the huts and the family of Rathod was one of them.
Locals pulled out the bodies and informed the police. A police officer said they have registered and taken up further investigation.
Local MLA Mahipal Reddy consoled the relatives of the deceased family and promised to make arrangements to send the bodies to their native place.
The vote came after a lengthy back-and-forth on Tuesday, with Republicans repeatedly shooting down Democratic amendments meant to rein in different parts of the legislation. In a brief interview with POLITICO on the sidelines of Tuesday’s markup, McCaul said he hoped the split wasn’t the start of a broader collapse of bipartisanship on issues related to Chinese tech.
“We’ve been negotiating this for a solid month, without a whole lot of progress,” McCaul said. “The bottom line is, [Democrats are] not prepared to go forward on any measure related to TikTok. They would prefer to defer to the CFIUS process, where we want to move forward as a Congress.” McCaul was referring to a long-running security review of the risks posed by TikTok by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, has long denied any association with Beijing’s surveillance or propaganda operations. Its critics, however, point to requirements in Chinese law that require companies based in-country to comply with any and all requests from state intelligence services.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the committee’s ranking member, disputed the notion that Democrats would oppose any bill that targets TikTok. In a brief conversation with reporters on Tuesday, he said Democrats are open to “more conversation and dialogue” on a TikTok ban — but, he added, “we have to have all of the facts.”
“I don’t want to supersede CFIUS,” Meeks said. “In the meanwhile, we can be having hearings and conversations, bringing in witnesses and experts on sanctions.”
Meeks said the DATA Act was “unvetted” and had been thrust on his staff with little warning. “We could have held hearings before the markup and carefully crafted bipartisan legislation together,” Meeks said Tuesday. “Instead, my staff and I received the text of this legislation a little over a week ago, and have only had several days to review a bill that would dramatically rewrite the rules-based international economic order.”
Aside from that debate on process, Tuesday’s markup discussion revealed a widening gap in how Republicans and Democrats perceive the threat they say TikTok poses. The GOP increasingly frames the company as a willing participant in Beijing’s espionage activities — McCaul called it a “spy balloon in your phone.” But Democrats appear hesitant to ban an app that roughly 100 million Americans use each month.
“We cannot act rashly without consideration of the very real soft power, free speech and economic consequences of a ban,” Meeks said on Tuesday. He later warned his colleagues against using the tactics of “fear” to pass a TikTok ban. “I’ve seen that tactic utilized before — fear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, without evidence or proof,” he said.
In response to the Wednesday vote, TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter said that a “U.S. ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and values to the billion-plus people who use our service worldwide.”
“We’re disappointed to see this rushed piece of legislation move forward, despite its considerable negative impact on the free speech rights of millions of Americans who use and love TikTok,” Oberwetter added.
The DATA Act would alter a portion of U.S. law known as the Berman amendments — which allow for the free flow of “informational material” from hostile countries — to provide what McCaul called a “constitutional framework” that would let the president ban a foreign app. In 2020, TikTok invoked the Beman amendments as part of its successful court effort to block an attempted Trump administration ban.
The bill would also require the president to impose sanctions on companies with ties to Chinese-owned apps that are “reasonable [sic] believed to have facilitated or may be facilitating or contributing to” a broad slate of nefarious activities by Beijing.
On Tuesday, Meeks called that language “dangerously overbroad.” He warned it would inadvertently impose sanctions on a wide swath of U.S. and allied companies that do business with Chinese firms, including independent subsidiaries that operate outside the reach of Beijing.
The DATA Act has already prompted outside pushback. The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter on Monday that urged lawmakers to oppose the bill, which it called “vague and overbroad” as well as a violation of the First Amendment. On Tuesday, progressive tech group Fight for the Future launched a “#DontBanTikTok” campaign opposing the legislation.
While McCaul’s TikTok bill is the first to pass out of committee this Congress, it’s not the only legislation percolating on Capitol Hill. In January, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) unveiled their own TikTok ban bill. And in February Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla). introduced legislation to ban the app. A previous version of that bill was backed late last year by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who now chairs the new Select Committee on China.
Gavin Bade contributed to this report.
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Hyderabad: Three persons, including a child, were killed and two injured in a road accident in Telangana’s Jangaon district on Tuesday, police said.
The accident occurred when a car rammed into a stationary DCM van near Pembarthi, about 150 km from Hyderabad.
The DCM driver had stopped the vehicle after one of its tyres got punctured. As he along with the cleaner was busy repairing the puncture, a speeding car rammed into the vehicle. The DCM driver, cleaner and a six-year-old girl in the vehicle were killed.
Both occupants of the car were critically injured. They were shifted to a nearby hospital.
Police registered a case and took up investigation.
Patna: At least 50 persons were injured in a head-on collision between a speeding bus and a truck in Bihar’s Samastipur district on Monday, police said.
The accident took place at Chantchaur village under Ujiyarpur police station around 10 a.m.
The majority of the injured were bus passengers, comprising a marriage party, returning from neighbouring Khagaria district after the marriage. They have been admitted to hospitals of Ujiyarpur, Musrigharari and Dalsingsarai blocks.
As many as 10 of the victims are in critical condition.
The victims claimed that the bus was going at high speed and hit a truck coming from the opposite direction. Local villagers came to help rescue the victims.
Hyderabad: Four photographers succumbed to death while one was injured when their car hit a truck on Friday night at Yellandu town in Bhadradri Kothagudem district.
According to the Yellandu police, the group was moving from Kamalapur towards Mothugudem in AP’s East Godavari district for a photo shoot when the accident took place.
According to a report by TOI, the deceased have been identified as B Aravind, 21, and B Ramu, 32, of Kamalapur, and their associates, K Shivakoti, 31, and O Kalyan, 28, of Narsapur. Kranthi Narsampeta suffered severe injuries.
“Kranthi’s condition is critical and he was shifted from Yellandu to Khammam and from there to a hospital in Hyderabad for better treatment,” police said.
Kalyan was driving the car at the time of the accident. Due to the collision with the truck, the car in which the deceased were travelling was smashed terribly. The truck driver ran away leaving his vehicle abandoned after the incident took place. Police have launched an investigation to catch hold of the truck driver.
Hyderabad: One person was killed and another injured when a speeding tipper lorry hit a motorcycle at Kukatpally on Saturday.
According to the police, the deceased Vinod Kumar along with his relative Hemanth Kumar was going on a KTM bike when a tipper lorry driver crashed into them.
fell on road and suffered serious head injuries. Before the ambulance arrived, Vinod died while Hemanth could be shifted to a hospital for treatment. The incident took place near metro pillar number 822.
The Kukatpally police booked a case and took the tipper lorry driver into custody. The vehicle has been seized.
