Beijing, Jan 17 (IANS) Baidu, China’s top search engine, is facing punishment over forums containing pornography, libelous posts, and adverts for unlicensed hospitals. The State Internet Information Office summoned Baidu executives for a grilling on…
Pune, Jan 16 (PTI) Anna Hazare has received an anonymous letter which threatens that the social activist would be killed on January 26, police said today. The sender has also alleged that the anti-graft crusader…
Panaji, Jan 16 (IANS) A team of US consular officials arrived in Goa on Saturday to enquire into the circumstances which led to the death of a 30-year-old US national in a marshy paddy field…
Patna, Jan 16 (IANS) A man was blinded and badly beaten up allegedly by his rivals in a Bihar village in a fight for supremacy, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night…
Kadapa (AP), Jan 14 (PTI) Forest officials today seized red sandalwood logs, estimated at Rs three crore, from a container truck and nabbed its driver at Balapalli check post in the district. “The truck container…
Panaji, Jan 14 (IANS) US national Caitanya Lila Holt – who died mysteriously in north Goa’s Korgao village – was alive when pulled out of a marshy paddy field but died moments after his rescue,…
Vizianagaram (AP), Jan 13 (PTI) A couple was allegedly beaten to death by local residents of a village in the district on suspicion of practising witchcraft, police said today. The incident took place under Makkuva…
Palermo (Italy), Jan 13 (IANS/AKI) The Sicilian mafia intended to blow up prosecutor Nino Di Matteo and bought 200 kg of the explosive TNT to do so, according to an informant, police said. The order…
Washington, Jan 13 (AP) Just months after reports that someone was hacking CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email, a US intelligence official is confirming that online personal accounts linked to Director of National Intelligence James…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for one and a half years used an SIM card sold in Delhi to contact its moles in India, police sources said. The ISI…
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 9, 2016 (Xinhua) — Soldiers escort Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo”, upon his arrival to the hangar of the Attorney General’s Office, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on Jan. 8,…
Madurai, Jan 10 (PTI) In two separate incidents, crude bombs were today hurled at the offices of Tamil Nadu minister Sellur K Raju and the ruling AIADMK here but no one was injured, police said….
Thane, Jan 10 (PTI) A 45-year-old divorcee from Dombivli in the district was allegedly duped of Rs 66.33 lakh by a 53-year-old man she came in contact with through a popular matrimonial portal, police said…
Berlin, Jan 10 (AFP) German police raided an asylum seeker shelter where they said the man who sought to attack a Paris police station on Thursday had lived. Police found no indications that other attacks…
Philadelphia, Jan 10 (AP) A man who investigators say claimed he shot and wounded a Philadelphia police officer in the name of Islam has been charged with attempted murder. Edward Archer also was charged with…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) A suspected jewellery thief was arrested in a village in Massachusetts after police found him wearing the same ‘selfie’ hat that he wore during a robbery. Police arrested James Anderson,…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) A Philadelphia police officer was shot and seriously injured by an assailant who said he had acted in the name of Islam, authorities said. Edward Archer, 30, was arrested soon after…
Mexico City, Jan 8 (AFP) Mexican authorities have recaptured fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, six months after his prison break, President Enrique Pena Nieto said today. “Mission accomplished: We got him. I want…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) A man, in his late 40s, allegedly attempted suicide by consuming poisonous substance outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Friday, police said. The man, identified…
Patna, Jan 8 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a woman was killed and another seriously injured when some unidentified people threw them off a running train in Bihar’s West Champaran district, police said on Friday….