Karachi, Aug 6 (IANS) At least 10 persons died and six others were injured in separate rain-related incidents in Pakistan’s Karachi city, which was also hit by massive power outages due to the downpour. According…
Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) The West Bengal Police on Saturday recovered a rocket launcher, a rocket and an AK-47 rifle which it suspects could be part of the arms dropped from a foreign aircraft in…
Dhaka, Aug 6 (IANS) Forest officials of India and Bangladesh are planning to tranquilise an elephant that was washed across the border a month ago and transport it back to northeast India via the land…
Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) The police in Chicago on Friday released a video showing the moments before and after the death of an unarmed African American teenager by its officers on July 28, the media…
Paris, Aug 6 (IANS) At least 13 people were killed and six injured when fire broke out on Saturday night during a birthday party at a bar in French city of Rouen, Interior Minister Bernard…
Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) At least 42 people were injured on Friday night after a fence collapsed as fans spilled over the ledge during rapper Snoop Dogg’s concert in New Jersey, authorities said. The incident…
Jammu, Aug 6 (IANS) At least four people — three pilgrims and one Ponywallah were killed and eight injured on Saturday morning in a landslide on old track to Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu…
Paris, Aug 6 (IANS) At least 13 people have died after a fire ravaged and destroyed a bar in Rouen, the capital of the French region of Normandy, a local newspaper reports. Most of the…
London, Aug 6 (IANS) London Metropolitan Police announced on Friday that Zakaria Bulhan, the man suspected of killing US tourist Darlene Horton in a stabbing rampage in central London, has been charged with murder. According…
New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Police have rescued two people from a hostage situation in US city of New Jersey, at a warehouse near the Newark International Airport. SWAT teams surrounded the building at 451…
Bologna (Italy), Aug 6 (IANS/AKI) An eight-year-old boy bled to death in northern Italy on Friday in what appears to have been tragic accident when he was alone at the family apartment. The boy’s mother…
Paris, Aug 6 (IANS) The iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris has been evacuated, according to reports on social media. Visitors have been posting pictures online of police cordoning off the entrance area. Witnesses say that…
New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Police have rescued two people from a hostage situation in a US city, right outside the Newark International Airport. The suspect was still inside the building, local media report. Swat…
Islamabad, Aug 6 (IANS) In yet another attack on miniorities in Pakistan, a 56-year old doctor belonging to the Hindu community was shot dead in Karachi, it was reported on Friday. “Pireetam Das was sitting…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The conviction of Mahmood Farooqui, co-director of Hindi film “Peepli Live” for rape is unjust, says his wife Anusha Rizvi. She says they will appeal the judgment and hope to…
Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) The West Bengal government is approaching the central government seeking to take over the probe of theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medallion, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. “If…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 5 (IANS) Moroccan boxer Hassan Saada has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing two female cleaners in the Olympic Village, authorities said on Friday. The athlete was arrested on Thursday night…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) An Uttar Pradesh resident was arrested and 19 countrymade firearms meant for supply to local gangsters seized from him, Delhi Police said on Friday. Asad Ali alias Pahalwan, 27, a…
Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) The CBI on Friday filed a supplementary chargesheet against extradited mafia don Chhota Rajan Nikhalje and another person for the 2011 killing of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, an official said here. The…
Imphal, Aug 5 (IANS) Two persons — a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a two-year-old baby — were seriously wounded after a powerful bomb exploded near the State Museum, adjacent to Raj Bhavan…