Dhaka, Sep 2 (IANS) Bangladesh war criminal and death row convict Mir Quasem Ali has decided not to seek presidential clemency, the last option to avoid the gallows. The 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader and business tycoon…
Gurgaon, Sep 2 (IANS) Thirty-three persons across the Millennium City were arrested for gambling through computer casino and six illegal casinos were seized, police said on Friday. Six casinos in Arjun Nagar, Surya Vihar, Tikona…
Palakkad (Kerala), Sep 2 (IANS) Malayalam film actor Sreejith Ravi, who was arrested on Friday on the complaint of a group of school girls that he exposed himself before them, has secured conditional bail. A…
Shimla, Sep 2 (IANS) Six pilgrims were killed and four injured when an overcrowded jeep rolled into a 200-feet deep gorge in Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh on Friday, police said. The victims were going…
Patna, Sep 2 (IANS) The flood-hit people of Bihar’s Bhagalpur district on Friday pasted posters of their local Lok Sabha MP as “Missing” and announced a reward of Rs 500 in cash to those who…
Gurgaon, Sep 2 (IANS) Gurgaon gangster Sandeep Gadoli, who was allegedly killed in a staged gun fight by Haryana Police crime branch team in Mumbai on February 7, was cremated on Friday in his native…
Pune, Sep 2 (IANS) In a shocking incident, some unidentified persons barged into a college campus and brutally stabbed a student at Talegaon, on the outskirts of the city, on Friday morning, an official said….
Hyderabad, Sep 2 (IANS) Excise officials on Friday raided a liquor chocolate manufacturing facility in Hyderabad and seized liquor bottles. Acting on a complaint that liquor chocolates are being manufactured in violation of rules, the…
Hyderabad, Sep 2 (IANS) The Hyderabad High Court on Friday granted an interim stay on a lower court’s order for an investigation against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in a cash-for-vote case. The…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) In view of heavy rainfall in the Barak river basin in Assam, the Central Water Commission (CWC) on Friday warned of possible floods and advised three districts to take precautionary…
Imphal, Sep 2 (IANS) Five BJP workers in Manipur were injured in a police action on Friday when they tried to storm the state assembly building to protest the ongoing police recruitment examination in the…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned those with black money to declare it before the given deadline of September 30, adding that stern action might be taken after that. “The…
New York, Sep 2 (IANS) A 60-year-old Bangladeshi woman was stabbed to death about a block and a half away from her home in Queens, New York, in a suspected hate crime, media reports said…
Hyderabad, Sep 2 (IANS) The Hyderabad High Court on Friday granted interim stay on a lower court’s order for an investigation against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in a cash-for-vote case. The court…
Palakkad (Kerala), Sep 2 (IANS) Malayalam film actor Sreejith Ravi was arrested on Friday on complaints of a group of school girls that he exposed himself before them. Ravi denied the allegations. The Kerala Police…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) Facebook’s mission to spread the internet across sub-Saharan Africa received a major setback after the rocket due to launch the communication satellite exploded in routine tests. The launch, which had been…
Wellington, Sep 2 (IANS) A tsunami warning was issued after an earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, hit Zealand’s North Island on Friday, the media reported. The quake hit around 100 km northeast of…
Palakkad (Kerala), Sep 1 (IANS) Upcoming Malayalam film actor Sreejith Ravi has been taken into custody by the Ottapalam police following complaints from a few school girls of misbehaviour. Speaking to IANS, an official attached…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) A 25-year old jilted lover on Thursday tried to strangulate his married girlfriend and thinking she was dead committed suicide by hanging himself in east Delhi’s Ghazipur area, police said….
Chandigarh, Sep 1 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized eight kg heroin at the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Abohar sector, an official said on Thursday. The heroin, which is valued at Rs 40…