Man arrested after climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney, June 17 (IANS) A man was arrested on Friday after he got out of his taxi and started climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Footage from a news helicopter showed the man sitting on one…
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Novel model to help track IS activities on social media
Washington, June 17 (IANS) Applying some physics to study how terrorist groups grow online, a team of researchers has developed a model to identify behavioural patterns among Islamic State (IS) supporters, providing law enforcement agencies…
11 sentenced to life in Gulberg massacre
Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) A special court here on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment 11 persons, of the 24 convicted for the Gulberg Society massacre of 2002. One of the convicts was sentenced to 10…
Ecuador renews state of emergency for another 30 days
Quito, June 17 (IANS) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced that the government has renewed a state of emergency which was declared following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16 for another 30 days. The president renewed…
Obama tells Orlando families they have inspired the nation
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Orlando, June 17 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Thursday told relatives of those killed or wounded in last Sunday’s shooting in Orlando that their stories have…
Crashed EgyptAir flight’s cockpit voice recorder recovered, found damaged
Cairo, June 17 (IANS) The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said on Thursday that the cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been recovered but found damaged. “The device has been recovered in…
British MP dies after gun, knife attack
London, June 16 (IANS) British Labour MP Jo Cox died after she was shot and stabbed in an attack in her constituency on Thursday, reported the BBC. The attack took place near a public library…
18 more bodies recovered from Meghalaya accident site
Shillong, June 16 (IANS) Eighteen more dead bodies were recovered on Thursday from the 500-feet deep gorge, taking to 25 the death toll in a bus accident in Meghalaya, police said. “A total of 25…
Centre wilfully disobeying SC order on drought-hit states: Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav on Thursday accused the Centre of “wilfully disobeying” a Supreme Court order on the 13 drought-hit states in the country. “Universal access to foodgrain in…
Yet another woman gang-raped in car in Delhi, three held
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) A 25-year-old woman returning home after watching a movie was abducted and gang-raped in a moving car here by three men, police said on Thursday. All three accused have been…
Plane on rescue mission goes missing
Hanoi, June 16 (IANS) An aircraft with nine people aboard lost contact on Thursday while carrying out a rescue mission in Vietnam, an official said. The CASA aircraft lost contact when it was flying over…
ED attaches Rs 51 crore fixed deposits of Farouk Irani
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Two days after the arrest of Farouk Irani, former managing director of a Chennai-based First Leasing Company of India Limited (FLCIL), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday attached over Rs…
Jung clears probe against Sheila Dikshit in water tanker scam
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) In what could turn out an embarrassment for the Congress party, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday cleared a probe against former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the alleged…
Man arrested after British MP shot at
London, June 16 (IANS) A man has been arrested after a British Labour MP was shot at in Birstall in West Yorkshire, police said on Thursday. The injured woman is said to be Jo Cox,…
Dozens of migrants die of thirst in Niger desert
Niamey (Niger), June 16 (IANS/AKI) The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, thought to have died of thirst have been found in the Sahara desert near the Niger’s border with Algeria, Niger’s Interior Minister…
Crashed EgyptAir flight’s cockpit voice recorder recovered
Cairo, June 16 (IANS) The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said on Thursday that the cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been recovered but found damaged. “The device has been recovered in…
Fire at ancillary unit of Tata Nano plant in Gujarat, none hurt
Ahmedabad, June 16 (IANS) A major fire broke out in an ancillary unit at the Tata Nano plant in Gujarat on Thursday. No one was injured, officials said, though the damage could run into lakhs…
Family hopeful of Judith’s release from Afghan abductors
Kolkata: Judith D’Souza, the Indian female aid worker who has been abducted by suspected militants. D’Souza in Afghanistan, 40, was working as a senior technical advisor on gender with the Aga Khan Developmental Network in…
Assamese man nabbed in murder of Kerala Dalit woman
Kochi/Aluva (Kerala), June 16 (IANS) A 23-year-old Assamese man has been arrested in the rape-murder of a Dalit woman law student in Kerala that grabbed national headlines for the sheer brutality of the April 28…
Four run over by train in Jharkhand
Ranchi, June 16 (IANS) Four members of a family died when they were run over by a goods train in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Thursday, police said. According to police, a woman along with her…