Chennai, July 31 (IANS) There is no stepping down of search operations for the missing AN-32 plane belonging to Indian Air Force with 29 people on board on July 22 despite no signs of debris…
Ahmedabad, July 31 (IANS) A Dalit youth, who had attempted to commit suicide to protest against beating of four from the community for skinning of carcasses by cow vigilantes, died here on Sunday, officials said….
Tokyo, July 31 (IANS) Former Japanese Defence Minister Yuriko Koike will be the first woman governor of Tokyo, exit polls projected on Sunday. Japanese media forecast Koike as winning the polls after which one of…
Ahmedabad, July 31 (IANS) Gujarat Dalit leaders on Sunday asked the government to give them firearms in view of atrocities by Hindu activists as thousands of Dalits pledged not to lift carcasses from the streets….
Jammu, July 31 (IANS) Two soldiers were killed on Sunday when they accidentally stepped on a mine near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region, an army official…
Kolkata, July 31 (IANS) In the wake of the death of 17-year-old Aabesh Dasgupta, West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Sunday cautioned people against allowing their children to become too influenced by “western concepts”. “Aabesh’s…
Gurgaon, July 31 (IANS) Three men allegedly involved in the abduction of Haryana Police Inspector Surender Phogat in June have been arrested, police said on Sunday. Acting on a tip, the Gurgaon Crime Branch arrested…
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The CPI-M on Sunday blamed the Narendra Modi government for the rising number of attacks by so-called cow vigilantes on Dalits and minorities. “After the lynching of Mohd Akhlaq in…
Patna, July 31 (IANS) The flood situation in Bihar worsened on Sunday, with many rivers breaching their banks and affecting hundreds of thousands of people, officials said. More than 2.6 million people have been hit…
Houston, July 31 (IANS) A woman was killed and four others were injured on Sunday in separate shootings in the US state Texas. Two females and a male were taken to the University Medical Centre…
Thane (Maharashtra), July 31 (IANS) At least eight people were killed when a two-storey dilapidated building collapsed in Thane district’s Bhiwandi town, police said. “So far, we have recorded eight deaths, 22 have been rescued…
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Another AAP legislator, Sharad Chauhan, was arrested along with five others here on Sunday in connection with the suicide by a woman party worker, police said. The woman, Soni, committed…
Beijing, July 31 (IANS) At least 399 baby Siamese crocodiles, a protected species, were seized by the border police in China’s Guangxi Zhuang region. They were found in a rented house in Dongxing city on…
Bhubaneswar, July 31 (IANS) Pradeep Sethy, the prime accused in Rs 1,200 crore Aartha Tatwa chit fund scam, attempted to kill himself by slashing his wrist in a special jail here late on Saturday night,…
Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) The deaths among a wedding party whose bus was swept away by flash floods in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agency on Saturday, have risen to 26, an official said on Sunday morning….
Aurangabad, July 31 (IANS) The Director of the Chikhalthana Airport here was arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 10,000, an official said on Sunday. According to a complaint, Alok Varshney demanded a bribe of…
Thane (Maharashtra), July 31 (IANS) Five persons were killed and 12 injured on Sunday when a two-storied dilapidated building collapsed in Thane district’s Bhiwandi town, an official said. Another 10 persons were rescued but at…
Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) The father of a Pakistani-origin British woman who was allegedly killed for “honour” in Punjab province on July 20, has reportedly changed his statement by saying that his daughter had committed…
Islamabad, July 31 (IANS) A case was registered against two people in Pakistan’s Punjab province for uploading alleged hate posts on a social media giant Facebook. The complainant Mateeullah, said Rozi Khan and Muhammad Nadeem…
Houston, July 31 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed on Saturday morning after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed near Lockhart, a city in the central part of the US state of…