Tokyo, Feb 29 (IANS) Japanese prosecutors on Monday charged three former directors of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) — that operates the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant — in the first criminal trial linked to the…
Jakarta, Feb 29 (IANS) The Indonesian government on Monday deployed 5,000 police personnel to demolish hundreds of buildings in north Jakarta’s red light district of Kalijodo after residents were evicted from the area last week….
Toronto, Feb 29 (IANS) The trial of two Indo-Canadians, who were charged with first-degree murder and manslaughter, would start on March 1, a media report said. Gurjinder “Gary” Dhaliwal was charged with first-degree murder of…
London, Feb 29 (IANS) A Sikh group in Britain has urged the media and politicians to stop describing the Rotherham grooming gang, which was handed combined sentence of more than 100 years for sexual assault…
Toronto, Feb 29 (IANS) An Indo-Canadian Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer from the Canadian city of Burnaby has been charged with two counts of impaired driving, a media report said. Burnaby RCMP detachment said…
Washington, Feb 29 (IANS) Four people, including two children, were killed in a plane crash on Sunday in Navasota, a city southeast of College Station in the US state of Texas. The plane, a single-engine…
Hyderabad, Feb 28 (IANS) Police in Telangana on Sunday held three accused including two juveniles for gangrape of a tribal girl, who was preparing for an exam to join the police force. The shocking incident…
Hyderabad, Feb 28 (IANS) A FIR charging vice president Raul Gandhi, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechuri, Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal and others with sedition was registered at a police station here on Sunday. On the…
Chandigarh, Feb 28 (IANS) Two youth who allegedly shot dead a school teacher who resisted their lewd remarks and attempt to molest her at a wedding function in Punjab’s Batala town were arrested on Sunday,…
Chandigarh, Feb 28 (IANS) The Haryana Police on Sunday registered a case of gang rape after a woman from Delhi’s Narela area filed a complaint, even as a senior police officer said she could not…
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) Five people were killed when a speeding truck ploughed into several shops in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on Sunday. Three others were critically injured in the accident…
Thane (Maharashtra), Feb 28 (IANS) In yet another tragedy, a cameraman of a television news channel suffered a heart attack while covering the grisly killings of a 14-member family and died soon after, police said…
Patna, Feb 28 (IANS) The house of Rajballabh Yadav, a Rashtriya Janta Dal legislator absconding after he was booked for allegedly raping a minor, was attached on Sunday, police said. The police move to attach…
Moscow, Feb 28 (IANS) At least 26 miners were feared dead in a coal mine blast in Russia’s Komi republic with the country’s Emergency Situations Ministry declaring on Sunday that there were no chances of…
Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi addresses during annual press conference in New Delhi on Jan.3, 2014. (Photo: IANS) By Ashish Mishra and Rajnish Singh New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Known as “App commissioner” in…
London, Feb 28 (IANS) Women who prefer physically formidable and dominant mates (PPFDM) have a tendency to feel more at risk of crime regardless of the situation or risk factors present, suggests a new research….
Tokyo, Feb 28 (IANS) Japan’s weather agency on Sunday issued an alert for the possible eruption of a volcano in the southwest of the country. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said that following an increase…
Santiago, Feb 28 (IANS) Six years after a devastating earthquake shook Chile on February 27, 2010 and claimed over 500 lives, the Chilean government is close to completing reconstruction of infrastructure essential for restoring public…
Srinagar, Feb 28 (IANS) The Indian army on Sunday rescued a Russian skier from the Gulmarg ski resort in Jammu and Kashmir after he lost control and fell into a gorge at the Apharwat skiing…
Thane, Feb 28 (IANS) A 32-year old man killed 14 members of his family, including seven children, and later hanged himself in a house here on Sunday, police said. The gory incident took place in…