Bus crash kills 10

Jodhpur, Aug. 31 (PTI): Ten pilgrims were killed and 34 injured when a bus carrying them collided head-on with a truck in Rajasthan’s Pali district today.

The bus carrying 45 passengers from different villages of Udaipur was returning from a shrine near Pokhran, Pali district magistrate Rohit Gupta said. The accident took place apparently as the driver of one of the vehicles dozed off at the wheel. The truck driver is missing while the bus driver died in the crash.

Boman call

Mumbai (PTI): Actor Boman Irani has been provided police protection after he allegedly received a threat call from fugitive underworld don Ravi Pujari. Irani’s movie Happy New Year, in which he co-stars with Shah Rukh Khan, is scheduled for release in October.

Sop for cops

Indore (PTI): Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has assured policemen in the state that his government will soon implement a scheme to provide assistance to their children for higher education. He also said the state government has decided to reserve 30 per cent posts for women in the police force.

Goa beaches

Panaji (PTI): The Goa state tourism department has hired a private agency for cleaning beaches from Monday. The agency will clean a beach belt of around 60km, out of a 105km stretch, state tourism minister Dilip Parulekar said.

Teachers held

Palghar (PTI): Two teachers of a private school in Maharashtra’s Palghar have been arrested for allegedly beating students. Three children had committed suicide after they were subjected to corporal punishment, police said. The teachers were released on bail later. Two other teachers had been arrested on Thursday.

Chopper case

New Delhi: (PTI): Italian defence firm Finmeccannica, facing a CBI probe in India, has claimed that a court in Italy hearing the VVIP chopper scam has accepted its “request for monetary measures” in the case against its subsidiary company AgustaWestland and imposed a fine of over Rs 62 crore on it.