Mexico pipeline blast toll reaches 100
Mexico City, Jan 25 (IANS) The death toll from the explosion of a gasoline pipeline last week in Mexico’s Hidalgo state, has increased to 100 an official said. The toll was confirmed on Thursday night…
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Fifa urges Thailand to stop Bahraini footballer’s deportation
Bangkok, Jan 25 (IANS) Fifa has contacted the Thailand government over the detention of Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi here. The footballer holds refugee status in Australia, is being held in a Bangkok prison on an…
Jammu-Srinagar highway off limits for 5th day
Jammu, Jan 25 (IANS) The Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed on Friday for the fifth consecutive day due to landslides in Ramban district. “Fresh snowfall has occurred on both sides of the Jawahar Tunnel today and…
Delhi Law Department examining charges against Kanhaiya Kumar: Kejriwal
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the state government’s Law Department was looking into whether sanction can be given to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya…
Youth stabbed to death in Delhi
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) A 28-year-old youth who worked as a delivery boy with online food chain Zomato, was stabbed to death by unknown assailants here, a police officer said on Thursday. The police…
Police complaint against actress Bhanupriya in Andhra
Hyderabad, Jan 24 (IANS) A woman in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday lodged a police complaint against actress Bhanupriya for allegedly taking her 14-year-old daughter to Chennai as domestic help and harassing her, but the actress…
Navy retrieves body of dead miner, no word on other 14 trapped miners
Shillong, Jan 24 (IANS) A Navy team on Thursday pulled out a body from a 370-ft deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where no official is willing to confirm the fate…
How Chanda Kochhar defrauded ICICI? CBI FIR deconstructs fiddle
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) The law has finally caught up with the big fish — high-profile banker Chanda Kochhar and industrialist Venugopal Dhoot. On Thursday, both, along with Chanda’s husband Deepak Kochhar, were named…
MP government moves in to stem irregularities in loan waiver
Bhopal, Jan 24 (IANS) In the wake of around 25,000 cases of irregularities surfacing in Madhya Pradesh’s “Jai Kisan Fasal Rinn Mafi Yojana” (loan waiver scheme for farmers), the government on Thursday decided to take…
Maoist carrying Rs. 1 lakh reward surrenders in Jharkhand
Ranchi, Jan 24 (IANS) A Maoist carrying a reward of Rs. 1 lakh on his head surrendered before police in Jharkhand’s Dumka district on Thursday, police said. According to a police statement, Mahasay Baski alias…
9 police officials suspended for financial irregularities in Patna
Patna, Jan 24 (IANS) The Bihar police suspended nine police officials including three clerks in connection with financial irregularities of Rs. 66 lakh, officials said. Patna range DIG Rajesh Kumar told the media here on…
Gujarat police nab 2 in Bhanushali murder case
Gandhinagar, Jan 24 (IANS) The Gujarat Police on Thursday arrested two wanted criminals from Bhuj in Kutch District in the murder case of former BJP MLA Jayanti Bhanushali. Ashish Bhatia, Additional Director-General of Police, (CID…
CBI arrests Bengal film producer in Rose Valley case
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) Bengal film producer Shrikant Mohta was on Thursday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the multi-crore rupee Rose Valley Chit Fund scam, an official said. “Mohta…
CBI hot on Chanda Kochhar trail
Mumbai, Jan 24 (IANS) On Thursday, India’s premier anti-corruption agency CBI registered a case against the then MD and CEO of ICICI Bank, the once high-profile Chanda Kochhar, two Managing Directors of separate private companies,…
The fall of Chanda Kochhar: How it began from whistleblower’s complaint
Mumbai, Jan 24 (IANS) The FIR lodged by the CBI on Thursday against ex-ICICI Bank MD and Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and industrialist V.N. Dhoot besides four companies and the investigation…
Rs 2,000 fine for boozing, cooking on Goa beaches: Minister
Panaji, Jan 24 (IANS) Drinking alcohol or cooking in public on Goa’s beaches will now attract a fine of Rs 2,000 or imprisonment for up to three months, according to an amendment to the Registration…
7 dead in building collapse
Gurugram, Jan 24 (IANS) At least seven people died after a four-storey under construction building collapsed in a village here on Thursday morning, fire officials said. Haryana Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced a…
2 Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists planning terror strikes in Delhi held
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) A possible terror attack has been thwarted with the arrest of two Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists who were planning to carry out attacks in the national capital ahead of the Republic Day…
Death toll in Indonesia floods reaches 30
Jakarta, Jan 24 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Thursday raised the number of people killed due to floods on Sulawesi island to 30, while 25 people were missing. Another 47 people were injured and 3,321 people…
Arrested ‘activist’ pictures with Congress leaders emerge on social media
Bhopal, Jan 24 (IANS) Pictures of social media activist Abhishek Mishra, who was arrested in Bhopal over complaints of hurting religious sentiments, emerged on Thursday suggesting links with Congress leaders even as the party denied…