Lisbon, Aug 12 (IANS) Wildfires killed three people on Portugal’s Madeira island and resulted in an economic loss of at least 55 million euros ($61.27 million), local media reported on Thursday. Two people were severely…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 12 (IANS) Members of Brazil’s elite FNS police force, deployed here to provide additional security for the 2016 Olympic Games, surrounded a pair of Rio shantytowns after one of their comrades…
Panaji, Aug 11 (IANS) The Goa government ordered a probe after a businessman on Thursday accused IGP Sunil Garg of demanding and accepting Rs 5.5 lakh in bribe for registering a First Information Report in…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A milk supplier has been arrested for hitting a 32-year-old man with his autorickshaw leading to his death, police said on Thursday. The deceased identified as Matbool was lying unattended…
New York, Aug 11 (IANS) Federal prosecutors are demanding a prison sentence for 83-year-old father of the embattled Indian American Congressman, Amerish Ami Bera, in an election funding fraud case, even though other officials have…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A milk supplier has been arrested here for hitting a 32-year-old man with his autorickshaw leading to his death, Delhi police said on Thursday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Pushpendra Kumar…
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) Faulty design, sub-standard raw materials, and inadequate supervision caused the under-construction Vivekananda Road flyover at a crowded marketplace here to come apart, claiming 26 human lives and injuring over 100 persons,…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Dubbing the increasing incidents of atrocities on the Dalits as a “challenge before Indian society”, the Union government on Thursday voiced its committment to prevent such crime by empowering the…
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) A rights body on Thursday said at least 36 Bangladeshi children were illegally detained at a home in West Bengal and sought National Human Rights Commission’s intervention to free them. In…
Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) In the wake of the kidney racket unearthed at its medical facility, Hiranandani Hopital, Powai, will conduct a forensic audit of the transplant cases there, an official said here late on…
Ahmedabad, Aug 11 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram at Wardha has offered the Dalit victims of Una to shift to its premises in Maharashtra after they expressed fear for their lives at their native village…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 11 (IANS) Battling strong currents and crocodiles, Indian Navy divers on Thursday located two pieces of wreckage of one of the two ill-fated State Transport buses which were washed away on August…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Delhi Police on Thursday prohibited the movement of sub-conventional aerial platforms like paragliders and microlights in the national capital from August 12 to October 10. The order, under Section 144…
Panaji, Aug 11 (IANS) A Goa-based businessman on Thursday accused Inspector General of Police Sunil Garg of demanding and accepting Rs 5.5 lakh in bribes for registering a First Information Report in a cheating case….
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday urged against politicise the issue of atrocities on the Dalits and said society must take it as a challenge to end such incidents….
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair and others for causing a loss of Rs 578 crore to the…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 11 (IANS) Former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair, who has been chargesheeted in the Antrix-Devas deal by the CBI, said on Thursdathat there was nothing wrong in the deal on Thursday. “There was…
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) Dengue cases in West Bengal have crossed the 2,000-mark this year while the official death count so far is at 14, a Health Department official said here on Thursday. Two more…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Delhi Police on Thursday filed a chargesheet in the murder case of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Estate Officer M.M. Khan in a court here. Khan was shot dead…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A 40-year-old school teacher of an MCD school has been booked for allegedly sexually molesting a class V girl in outer Delhi’s Kirari area, police said on Thursday. A senior…