Shimla, Jan 18 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary B.K. Agarwal on Friday stressed the need for proper designing and earthquake-resistant construction of community halls in gram panchayats and setting up of a task force to…
Thrissur (Kerala), Jan 18 (IANS) The St Mary’s Church at Mannamangalam near here was on Friday evening put under lock and key by the District Collector following clashes between the Orthodox and Jacobite factions. Trouble…
Paris, Jan 18 (IANS) The wife of Meng Hongwei, the former Interpol chief held in China since September, has sought asylum in France for herself and her twin children. Grace Meng and the seven-year-olds live…
Moscow, Jan 18 (IANS) Two Russian Sukhoi Su-34 bombers accidentally collided over the Sea of Japan during a training exercise on Friday, with two pilots from the downed aircraft rescued from the sea in a…
Washington, Jan 18 (IANS) US Democratic leaders have reacted with fury and demanded an investigation following a news report that claimed President Donald Trump directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about…
Lucknow/New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Two women were killed in celebratory firing during a wedding in a Moradabad village in Uttar Pradesh, while a young bride in the national capital was injured in a similar…
Shillong, Jan 18 (IANS) Indian Customs law disallowed 33 Bhutanese coal-laden trucks at Dawki integrated check post (ICP) in Meghalaya to transit to Bangladesh following a Supreme Court order banning the transportation of extracted coal…
Agartala, Jan 18 (IANS) In a joint operation, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Tripura Police on Friday seized 300 kg of ganja (cannabis) valued at Rs 14.60 lakh in the international market. “Police…
Mandsaur, Jan 18 (IANS) Police here on Friday named Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manish Bairagi to be behind the murder of Mandsaur Municipal Corporation Chairman and BJP leader Prahlad Bandhwar. Bandhwar was shot at…
Chandigarh, Jan 18 (IANS) The son of Border Security Force (BSF) trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was dismissed from the force in 2017 for indiscipline, was found dead in Haryana, police said on Friday. Police…
Patna, Jan 18 (IANS) A mob vandalised a police station and set ablaze three vehicles in Bihar’s Kaimur district after a missing teenage girl’s body was found in a village of the area. According to…
Agartala, Jan 18 (IANS) The Tripura government is likely to probe “missing cash, precious ornaments and assets” deposited in the past 70 years by the devotees in the Mata Tripura Sundari Temple, an official said…
Moscow, Jan 18 (IANS) Two Russian Sukhoi Su-34 bombers accidentally collided over the Sea of Japan while performing training flights on Friday, the country’s Defence Ministry said. According to the Russian ministry’s statement, the planes…
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to alleged hawala dealer Muhammad Aslam Wani, who is accused of money-laundering. The court allowed bail plea of Wani asking him to…
Manila/Colombo, Jan 18 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has praised his Philippines counterpart Rodrigo Dutertes brutal war on drugs, which has taken thousands of lives, calling it an “example to the world”. In a…
Patna, Jan 18 (IANS) A seven-year-old boy was beaten, his jaw was broken and six of his teeth were knocked out as punishment for plucking some plums from a tree in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, police…
Bogota, Jan 18 (IANS) At least 21 people were killed in a car bomb attack at a police academy in the Colombian capital of Bogota, authorities said. An SUV laden with explosives was blown up…
Tokyo, Jan 18 (IANS) Japanese automaker Mitsubishi on Friday alleged that ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn received $8.9 million in illegal payments from a Netherlands-based joint venture between April-November 2018. Mitsubishi made the allegation in…
Srinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) Four dead bodies were recovered from the debris of an avalanche that hit Leh district of Ladakh trapping 10 people on Friday, police said. “Rescue teams recovered the bodies from the…
Vijayawada, Jan 18 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which recently began a fresh investigation into a decade-old case of an Andhra girl student’s rape and murder, on Friday questioned Satyam Babu who was…