Accra, April 1 (IANS) At least 13 people who claimed to be Islamic missionaries from Pakistan were arrested while preaching in Ghana’s Assin Foso district. All 13, who claimed to be Ahmadiya missionaries and said…
Shimla, April 1 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the state government’s status report on jaundice outbreak and directed the chief secretary to file another report on the steps taken…
Lucknow, April 1 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a petition filed over the three-month extension granted to Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan. Hearing…
Bhubaneswar, April 1 (IANS) As Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik hailed the Odisha Police for its drive against the mafia and anti-social elements, the Congress state unit on Friday accused certain ruling BJD leaders of having…
Paris, April 1 (IANS) At least 17 people were injured, one critically, on Friday when a gas unit exploded in a building in the heart of Paris, the authorities said. Six of the injured were…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A sessions court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing a woman neighbour he was obsessed with after her marriage was fixed elsewhere. Convicting Rohit, in…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the where a part of a portion of Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) With West Bengal’s ruling…
Kolkata: The site where a part of a portion of Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) Even as hundreds in Kolkata did their best to rescue…
Kolkata: Rescue operations underway at the site where a part of a portion of Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, April 1 (IANS) A team of Kolkata police is…
Chennai, April 1 (IANS) A special court here has convicted including Indian Bank’s former chairman and managing director M.Gopalakrishnan and five others in a fraud case and sentenced them to two years rigorous imprisonment, a…
Paris, April 1 (IANS) An explosion in a building in central Paris on Friday left five people injured, the media reported. The cause of the blast, at sixth district of Paris, was a gas explosion,…
Paris, April 1 (IANS) An explosion occurred in a building in central Paris on Friday leaving numerous casualties, Daily Mail reported. The cause of the blast may have been a gas explosion, it said. The…
Kolkata: Rescue operations underway at the site where a part of a portion of Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, April 1 (IANS) Hyderabad-based IVRCL, the firm building the…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The construction firm that was building the now collapsed Kolkata flyover on Friday denied it had used substandard material in it. The flyover crash has claimed 24 lives. “The work…
Kolkata: Rescue operations underway at the site where a part of a portion of Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, April 1 (IANS) A string of sports stars and…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) A petition was filed on Friday at the Calcutta High Court for a court-monitored probe into the flyover tragedy here that has claimed 24 lives so far. Filed before the bench…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) Calling the Kolkata flyover tragedy an “act of fraud protected by the West Bengal government”, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sought a CBI inquiry into the incident. Addressing mediapersons…
Lucknow, April 1 (IANS) A goods train derailed on Friday on the Ballia-Varanasi network in Uttar Pradesh, disrupting rail traffic, officials said. The train split up and ran off the tracks near Sagarpali railway station….
By Vivek Singh Chauhan New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) On a hot summer day 11 years ago, 16-year-old Laxmi was passing by the Khan Market bus stand in central Delhi when a spurned lover threw…
Manila, April 1 (IANS) Philippine authorities recovered $4.6 million, which were robbed from the Bangladeshi central bank and were on the way to being laundered in the country’s casinos, the media reported on Friday. The…