Srinagar, May 10 (IANS) Militants abducted and killed a 22-year-old Kashmiri Army officer when he had gone to attend a family wedding in Shopian district, officials said on Wednesday. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has called…
Taipei, May 10 (IANS) A senior military official who once headed Taiwan’s Air Defence Missile Command was arrested for alleged espionage in favour of China, the Taiwan Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Major General Hsieh…
Agartala, May 10 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) troopers detained four Bangladeshi nationals with $203,100 in Tripura, police said here on Wednesday. “The four Bangladeshis, aged between 22 and 48 years were detained while they…
Chennai, May 10 (IANS) Calcutta High Court Justice C.S. Karnan, sentenced to jail for six months by the Supreme Court, was not at the state guest house here where he checked in on Tuesday and…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) A fire broke out on Wednesday in Antriksh Bhawan here, following which 17 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, officials said. The fire was brought under control within an…
Hyderabad, May 10 (IANS) Son of a Cabinet Minister of Andhra Pradesh died in a road accident in Hyderabad early Wednesday, police said. Nishit Narayana (22), son of Municipal Administration Minister P. Narayana, and his…
Phnom Penh, May 10 (IANS) All three missing Cambodian UN peacekeepers ambushed in the Central African Republic (CAR) were found dead, a Defence spokesman said here on Wednesday. This has brought the death toll of…
Washington, May 10 (IANS) A section of an underground storage tunnel in a plutonium uranium extraction (PUREX) plant collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on Tuesday, prompting authorities to declare emergency at the Washington state…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Seven criminals who looted jewellery at gun points from six women returning by bus from a wedding function have been arrested, police said on Tuesday. The accused have been identified…
Guwahati, May 10 (IANS) Armed robbers looted jewellery worth several crores from a jewellery shop in here on Tuesday evening, police said. Police said that four men with their faces covered walked into the MP…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) In a bid to curb online child sexual abuse material, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday asked all internet service providers (ISPs) to prevent the distribution…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Bihar government to pay Rs 3 lakh compensation to a destitute woman suffering from HIV, who became pregnant after being raped and cannot…
Bengaluru, May 9 (IANS) Bengaluru’s former independent corporator V. Nagaraj, evading arrest since April 14 after seizure of demonetised currency from his office-cum-residence, on Tuesday offered to surrender before Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara. “My…
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) Heartbroken after one of his close friend’s death, a teenage boy allegedly committed suicide in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Tuesday. “Soumitra Dhali, 18, a resident of Nadia district’s…
Rome, May 9 (IANS/AKI) More than 1,590 migrants arrived in the Italian coastal city of Salerno on Tuesday along with the body a three-year-old child who died during the Mediterranean crossing. The toddler’s corpse arrived…
Geneva, May 9 (IANS/AKI) Two shipwrecks in recent days have brought to more than 1,300 the number of migrants who have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, the UN said on Tuesday. In…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) on Tuesday ordered the District Magistrate of Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh to apprise it of the action taken against officials accused of transferring…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Tuesday registered three FIRs against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s brother-in-law, late Surender Kumar Bansal, and senior PWD officers in connection with alleged corruption of Rs…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday asked Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and arms dealer Abhishek Verma to make their stands clear — by personal appearance or an affidavit on May 22…
London, May 9 (IANS) A brave Indian-origin shopkeeper and his teenage son in the UK fought off an knife-wielding robber using a bottle of vodka and a chair. Dramatic CCTV footage shared by shopkeeper Anil…