Rome, Aug 5 (IANS) A cargo plane crashed on to a road in Italy on Friday after overshooting the runway. The Serio International Airport in Italy’s Lombardy region was temporarily closed after the accident which…
By Chaitanya Mallapur Forty-one military aircraft — including trainers and helicopters — have crashed between April 1, 2012 and July 2016, killing 65 defence personnel and civilians Thirty-six defence personnel were killed in 39 crashes,…
Imphal, Aug 5 (IANS) Suspected Kuki militants in Manipur, who are signatories to the suspension of operations (SOO), stormed a village and killed a person and injured the village chieftain critically, officials said on Friday….
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) African-American activist DeRay Mckesson has filed a suit against the police and city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over mass arrests during protests against police killings. Mckesson was among nearly 200 protesters…
Islamabad, Aug 5 (IANS) An Indian prisoner was injured after being attacked by a Pakistani prisoner in a Pakistani jail, a media report said on Friday. Hamid Nehal Ansari was attacked twice in the Peshawar…
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, while denying his role in the July 15 coup attempt, has dismissed an arrest warrant issued against him by a court in Istanbul. “It is well-documented…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 5 (IANS) A Brazilian court has sentenced a former head of the state nuclear company Eletronuclear to 43 years in prison for corruption. The sentence imposed on Thursday on Othon Luiz…
Singapore, Aug 5 (IANS) Singapore has formed a new bureau to conduct investigations into air and marine accidents since August, said a Ministry of Transport (MOT) statement on Friday. The new Transport Safety Investigation Bureau…
Islamabad, Aug 5 (IANS) Key suspect in the 2008 Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks has been arrested by security agencies in Pakistan, it was announced late on Thursday. The terror which evoked world condemnation the claimed…
Bengaluru, Aug 4 (IANS) In a shocking case, Karnataka wildlife officials found poachers used “explosive device” to hunt after finding a critically injured sloth bear from outskirts of the state capital on Thursday, officials said….
Ghaziabad, Aug 4 (IANS) Ghaziabad District Magistrate Nidhi Kesarwani has recommended the suspension of certain police officers and punitive action against at least one civil officer for their alleged lapses during an Aam Aadmi Party…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday condoled the loss of lives in a bridge collapse on the Mumbai-Goa Highway in Maharashtra. In a message to Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao, the…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 4 (IANS) At least 42 people are missing in Wednesday’s Mahad bridge collapse tragedy on the raging Savitri River, in which two state transport buses and four-five private vehicles were washed away,…
Ahmedabad, Aug 4 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court on Thursday sentenced, to life terms, all 11 persons convicted of burning a man and his daughter to death in Mehsana district during the 2002 communal riots….
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 4 (IANS) Maharashtra Housing Minister Prakash Mehta on Thursday faced flak for clicking a selfie near a bridge that collapsed in the flood in Savitri river and later misbehaving with media persons…
Kolkata, Aug 4 (IANS) Describing the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medallion as a shame, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said given a chance, she could endeavour to retrieve the stolen…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) A court here on Thursday sentenced Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of acclaimed 2010 Hindi film “Peepli Live”, to seven years’ jail after finding him guilty of raping an American woman….
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) A 22-year-old cab driver was arrested for killing his girlfriend here after a verbal spat, police said on Thursday. The police said Ajay Hooda strangled Sapna, 23, on August 3…
Rome, Aug 4 (IANS/AKI) Rescuers found the bodies of two 13-year-old boys at the bottom of a mountain precipice in northern Italian Trentino region after they vanished on Wednesday. Fabio Battocchi and his friend Federico…
Tehran, Aug 4 (IANS/AKI) Iranian authorities executed 20 Sunni prisoners at the Rajai Shahr Prison near here in a single day, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said. The prisoners were executed on Tuesday after an…