Police said it did not appear to be a case of a suicide attempt, adding that the explosion took place when he tried to avoid being stopped and searched at a police check-post.
October 24, 2022The car exploded near Kottai Eswaran temple in the early hours of Sunday (October 23, 2022).
October 23, 2022The 5-kg LPG cylinder is now priced at Rs 655. Earlier on April 1, the price of 19-kg commercial LPG was hiked by Rs 250 per cylinder. With this, the 19-kg commercial cooking gas will now cost Rs 2,253. The commercial LPG price was previously increased by Rs 105 on March 1.
May 1, 2022Vehicles in Pakistan's Punjab are allowed to run on gas cylinders, but the poorly maintained old vehicles often pose a danger
August 9, 2021A fire due to a leak in cooking gas cylinder in Uttar Pradesh left six persons seriously injured, police said on Monday. The incident occurred last evening when Rukmani was preparing food at home in Gosgharh village area in Shamli district, police said. The six people injured were rushed to a hospital in serious condition, …
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November 6, 2017Cooking gas (LPG) price was hiked by Rs 4.50 per cylinder, the 19th increase in rates since July 2016 when the government decided to eliminate subsidy on it by raising prices every month. Also, jet fuel or ATF price was increased by 2 per cent on firming international rates, the fourth straight increase in rates …
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November 1, 2017At least three people were killed in a gas cylinder blast that shattered a residential building in the city’s southern suburb early on Monday, a police official said. “An LPG cylinder exploded on the ground floor of a two-storeyed building sometime between 6 and 7 a.m. in Ejipura area. The building collapsed,” an official from …
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October 16, 2017The leak in a cylinder of toxic gas that affected over 450 girls from two schools on the outskirts of the Capital is another episode in the lament about myopic planning, uncontrolled urban expansion and the customary indifference to safety. Mercifully there was no repeat of the tragedy in Bhopal, with which some fanciful parallels …
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