Wellington, April 18 (IANS) New Zealand’s former top attache in the US was found guilty on Thursday of planting a hidden camera in a bathroom at the country’s embassy in Washington. Alfred Keating, 59, has…
Lucknow, April 18 (IANS) BJP candidate from Bulandshahr, Bhola Singh, was placed under house arrest after a video showing him campaigning and seeking votes inside a polling station went viral on the social media. In…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) A shoe was hurled on Thursday at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and spokesperson G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, who blamed the Congress for the incident. The incident took place during a…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) A 22-year-old youth, whose father is a gram panchayat member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal’s Purulia district, was found hanging from a tree on Thursday, police said….
Islampur (West Bengal), April 18 (IANS) The car of CPI-M leader and Raiganj sitting MP Mohammad Salim was allegedly vandalised by Trinamool Congress activists in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district on Thursday in the second…
Ranchi, April 18 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas on Thursday set on fire machines used for building a bridge over the Harkatwa river in Jharkhand’s Giridih district. The Maoists, numbering 15 to 25, raided a camp office…
New York, April 18 (IANS) A US woman who worked for Air China at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport here has pleaded guilty to acting on behalf of the Chinese government by placing unscreened…
New York, April 18 (IANS) A man carrying a pair of full two-gallon cans of gasoline was arrested after entering St. Patricks Cathedral in New York, the police said. The 37-year-old entered the cathedral just…
Paris, April 18 (IANS) Prosecutors investigating the causes of the inferno that ripped through the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris have questioned construction workers and security staff, as more details have emerged about the…
Lisbon, April 18 (IANS) At least 29 people have died after a bus carrying German tourists plunged off a road and overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Another 27 were injured in the accident…
Hyderabad, April 17 (IANS) Actress Poonam Kaur on Wednesday lodged a police complaint against 36 YouTube channels for allegedly posting objectionable content defaming her. She complained with cyber crime wing of the Hyderabad police that…
Hyderabad, April 17 (IANS) Hyderabad police on Wednesday arrested three Myanmar refugees for impersonating as Indians to secure Aadhaar and other identity cards. The refugees, known as Rohingyas, also obtained voter card, ration card and…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) As many as 50 people were reportedly killed and scores others injured in thunderstorms, hail and dust-storm and rain that lashed Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana…
Paris, April 17 (IANS) France will launch an international architectural competition to renovate the roofline of iconic Notre Dame cathedral after a fire gutted the oak-beamed structure and sent its 300-foot spire crashing into the…
Jaipur, April 17 (IANS) At least 25 persons lost their lives in Rajasthan after a severe thunderstorm hit the state on Tuesday evening, officials said on Wednesday. According to Relief and Disaster Management Secretary Ashutosh…
Goma, April 17 (IANS) As many as 150 people went missing after a passenger boat sank on Monday evening in an eastern lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Felix Tshisekedi said. Details of…
Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) At least 49 people have been killed as torrential downpours wreaked havoc, damaging more than 100 houses since the beginning of April in parts of Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday. The…
Khartoum, April 17 (IANS) Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir has been moved from the presidential residence to the Kobar maximum security prison in Khartoum, days after he was deposed in a military coup, the media…
Hyderabad, April 17 (IANS) Two Telugu television actresses were killed in a car crash in Telangana’s Vikarabad district on Wednesday, police said. The actresses identified as Bhargavi (20) and Anusha Reddy (21) were returning to…
Imphal, April 17 (IANS) A fire gutted Hostel no. 2 of the College of Nursing, here on Wednesday. There was no casualty. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. “The fire broke…