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…
Los Angeles, Dec 28 (IANS) Singer Chris Brown has been charged with owning a restricted species, a capuchin monkey, without a permit. The Los Angeles City Attorney charged the “Don’t judge me” hitmaker with two…
Dhaka, Dec 28 (IANS) A house belonging to a Hindu family in Bangladesh was allegedly set on fire, making it the third such recent incident targeting the religious minority, ahead of the general election on…
By Arun Kumar Das New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Mowing down 61 people on the tracks on Dussehra, among a spate of accidents; rolling out the first indigenously-built Trainset and inauguration of the long-awaited Bogibeel…
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) The Mumbai Police has effected a massive drugs haul, valued at Rs 1,000 crore and arrested four drug-peddlers, a top official said here on Friday. The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) swooped on…
New York, Dec 28 (IANS) A transformer explosion at a power plant in Queens temporarily lit up the New York skyline in bright blue and caused a frenzy in the city, with many on the…
Washington, Dec 28 (IANS) Gun violence on campuses across the US in 2018 reached records unseen in the past 20 years in terms of both the number of incidents and the degree of devastation, the…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The CBI on Friday said that it has registered a case against five persons including a woman from Punjab for trying to traffic minors to the United States for an…
Shillong, Dec 28 (IANS) The Central government on Friday rushed an additional National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team to Meghalaya to assist the state in evacuating 15 miners who are trapped inside an illegal coal…
Jakarta, Dec 28 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia’s Papua Barat province on Friday, officials said. There was, however, no report of any casualty. The earthquake had an epicentre of…
Dehradun, Dec 28 (IANS) Three youngsters were killed in Tehri on Thursday night after their vehicle lost way due to heavy fog and fell into a gorge, police said on Friday. The incident happened on…
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) At least three labourers were killed and two others injured when part of a coal mine collapsed in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Thursday, officials said. The miners were working in…
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) At least five senior citizens were killed and two more, including one fireman, injured in a major fire that engulfed the top floors of a residential building, here on Thursday, officials…
Mumbai, Dec 27 (IANS) At least three senior citizens were killed and one more injured in a major fire that engulfed the top floors of a residential building, here on Thursday, officials said. The fire…
Lucknow, Dec 27 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday claimed to have arrested the prime accused in the killing of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was shot dead during mob violence in Bulandshahar…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Calling the Triple Talaq Bill passed by the Lok Sabha as “arbitrary, excessive, and violative of fundamental rights”, rights activists and organisations on Thursday appealed to Rajya Sabha members to…
Shillong, Dec 27 (IANS) A senior leader of the ruling National People’s Party in Meghalaya, an accused in the murderous attack on two women rights activists fighting against illegal mining of coal in the state,…
Chandigarh, Dec 27 (IANS) The Border Security Force on Thursday recovered 5.6 kg of heroin along the international border with Pakistan in the Amritsar sector, a BSF spokesman said. The recovery was made following a…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) At least 40 people were injured after an air-conditioned rake of a metro train in Kolkata caught fire on Thursday evening disrupting metro services partially for four hours. However, no casualties…