Gangtok, Dec 29 (IANS) As many as 2,946 tourists are stranded in Sikkim due to heavy snowfall which is hindering vehicular movement, an official said on Saturday. “Heavy snowfall occurred in the upper reaches of…
Visakhapatnam, Dec 29 (IANS) One person was killed and 10 others were injured when two huge cranes collapsed at Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada Deep Water Port on Saturday, police said. Two of the offshore cranes, used…
Chandigarh, Dec 29 (IANS) Dense fog claimed seven lives when an unidentified heavy vehicle hit two cars on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway in Haryana early on Saturday, police said. The victims belonged to Chandigarh and included…
Mexico City, Dec 29 (IANS) Seven children died in a pre-dawn fire on Friday in Iztapalapa, a populous town within Mexico City’s greater metropolitan area. The fire broke out just before 5 a.m. local time…
Cairo, Dec 29 (IANS) An explosion on Friday targeting a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists on an excursion to the Giza pyramids left four people dead and 10 others wounded, Egyptian authorities said. Three of the…
Cairo, Dec 29 (IANS) Two Vietnamese tourists were killed on Friday when a home-made bomb hit a bus carrying foreign tourists in Marioutiya area near the Giza Pyramids, Egyptian interior ministry said. In a statement,…
Ksan (Meghalaya), Dec 28 (IANS) A team of officials from Coal India Limited (CIL) on Saturday conducted a preliminary investigation on how to dewater an illegal 370-ft coal pit to rescue 15 miners trapped inside…
Shillong, Dec 28 (IANS) A 15-member diving team of the Indian Navy will join the rescue operations on Saturday to evacuate 15 miners, who are trapped inside an illegal coal mine for 16 days now…
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) The entire CBI investigation in the politically sensitive Sohrabuddin Shaikh-Tulsiram Prajapati and Kausar Bi’s alleged encounter killings case was targeted “to act upon a script” and “anyhow implicate political leaders”, the…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Victims of sexual harassment at the hands of Doordarshan (DD) officials made a plea for justice here on Friday, saying despite several complaints, the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) has failed…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) A coalition of road safety organisations on Friday called upon the Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari to take urgent steps to ensure the listing and passage of the…
Kathmandu, Dec 28 (IANS) Six Indian nationals were arrested in Nepal for duping locals on the pretext of forging new ornaments and waxing gold, the police said. The accused, all hailing from Bihar, were caught…
Gurugram, Dec 28 (IANS) Gurugram Commissioner of Police K.K. Rao on Friday said the Haryana government has given permission to further investigate the alleged land scam case registered against Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress chief…
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) A day after at least 40 passengers were injured in a Kolkata metro fire, West Bengal Fire Services department on Friday issued a notice to the metro authority for lack of…
Jammu, Dec 28 (IANS) To avoid civilian casualties during riot control operations, the Jammu and Kashmir Police are getting a host of non-lethal riot control equipment, police said on Friday. Included in the proposed gear…
Gurugram, Dec 28 (IANS) The Gurugram Commissioner of Police K.K. Rao on Friday said that properties belonging to Proclaimed Offenders (POs) in Gurugram will be attached. Rao said 782 absconding criminals have been declared POs…
Jakarta, Dec 28 (IANS) A massive evacuation was ordered from the coast along Indonesia’s western Sunda Strait on Friday after the warning of a possible second tsunami triggered by the eruption of the Anak Krakatau…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has provisionally attached properties worth Rs 42.19 crore of ABW Infrastructure Limited in connection with its ongoing investigation into the Manesar land…
Chandigarh, Dec 28 (IANS) Three headless bodies were found inside a plastic drum lying near a canal in Haryana’s Bhiwani district on Friday, police said. The bodies, which were dumped along the Bhiwani-Rohtak highway, were…
Lucknow, Dec 28 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the custodial death of a 30-year-old Dalit man in Amroha district, officials said. Taking…