Patna, Aug 23 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide assistance to Bihar in dealing with the “worst” floods in decades. “Flood situation in Bihar…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday recorded the statement of a 28-year-old PhD student who has filed a complaint of rape against a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student. During in-camera proceedings,…
Junagadh, Aug 23 (IANS) Unidentified assailants barged into the Junagadh office of leading Gujarati daily Jai Hind on Monday night and stabbed to death its bureau chief Kishore Dave, police said. Dave, 53, was alone…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) A three-and-half-year-old boy was killed here on Tuesday when he was run over by his school van that had dropped him home, police said. The incident occurred around 2 p.m….
Shimla, Aug 23 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday informed the assembly that the child who was missing for over two years was murdered for ransom. The missing child’s skeleton was recovered…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) A fire broke out on Tuesday in a commercial building here destroying a number of motorcycles displayed in a showroom, an official said adding that no one was injured in…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) The national capital’s power utility BSES on Tuesday said the discoms have been able to drastically cut transmission losses by coming down heavily on the menace of power theft. Special…
Lucknow, Aug 23 (IANS) A Lucknow court on Tuesday rejected the final police report in a case pertaining to an alleged telephonic threat issued to senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur by Samajwadi Party (SP) chief…
Agartala, Aug 23 (IANS) At least 20 people were injured, a few seriously, here after activists of a tribal party attacked civilians and traders without any provocation, police said on Tuesday. Tension erupted after hundreds…
Rajkot, Aug 23 (IANS) A group of self-styled cow vigilantes thrashed two Dalits in a village in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region for allegedly refusing to dispose the carcass of a calf. Police said seven people roughed…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here to apprise him of the flood situation in the state which has affected at least one million…
Shimla, Aug 23 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh assembly witnessed pandemonium on Tuesday with the opposition BJP demanding that Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh respond to media reports on finalisation of a CBI chargesheet against him and…
Bangkok, Aug 23 (IANS) Malaysian Police announced on Tuesday that it will seek help from Interpol to track down three Taiwanese artistes who appeared in a video of Malaysian rapper Namewee, who has been detained…
Hisar, Aug 23 (IANS) At least four people were killed and nearly 20 others injured in Haryana’s Hisar district when a tree fell on a mini-truck carrying pilgrims to a religious shrine in Rajasthan, police…
Manila, Aug 23 (IANS) Philippine National Police Director General Ronald de la Rosa on Tuesday said that 1,916 drug suspects were killed in the war on illicit drugs since July 1. The figure is 137…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 23 (IANS) The Kerala government has decided to cull all “ferocious dogs” after 50 strays killed a 65-year-old woman here last week, a minister said on Tuesday. Minister for Local Self Government K.T….
Lucknow, Aug 23 (IANS) Two persons drowned in the Yamuna in Allahabad on Tuesday after a car was swept away in the river, police said. Three friends, including the manager of a Christian school, had…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Diamond jewellery worth Rs 3 crore was robbed from the house of an airline executive’s daughter here when she went out to attend a wedding, police said on Tuesday. The…
Tokyo, Aug 23 (IANS) Researchers at Kyoto University have developed a new technique that uses a simple cotton swab sample to accurately confirm relatedness between two individuals as distant as second cousins. With more DNA…
Tokyo, Aug 23 (IANS) Japanese authorities have warned of extensive flooding and issued evacuation orders for 9,000 persons in Hokkaido prefacture on Tuesday as typhoon Mindulle lashed northern Japan. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency…