Dehradun, July 19 (IANS) Fourteen persons were killed and 17 injured when a state-run bus fell into a deep gorge in Tehri in Uttarakhand on Thursday, police said. The disaster occurred on the Rishikesh-Gangotri highway…
Ranchi, July 19 (IANS) A contractor has been beaten to death and three others were injured by Maoist guerrillas in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, police said on Thursday. On Wednesday night, the guerrillas belonging to Tritiya…
Kabul, July 19 (IANS) At least 17 insurgents were killed and over a dozen others injured after Afghan security forces repulsed Taliban attacks on security checkpoints in Kunduz province on Thursday, police said. “A big…
Thiruvalla (Kerala) July 19 (IANS) A magisterial court near here on Thursday denied bail to the two jailed Malankara Orthodox Church priests named in a case for sexually abusing of a woman parishioner. Of the…
Kochi, July 19 (IANS) A Malayalam television channel on Thursday broadcast an audio purpotedly revealing that the head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Cardinal has lied about not knowing that a nun had been sexually…
Seoul, July 19 (IANS) A North Korean defector has been arrested in the South Korean capital on charges of selling classified military information from South Korea to a third country, prosecutors said on Thursday. The…
Chandigarh, July 19 (IANS) Punjab Police arrested a priest and self-styled healer from the Delhi international airport following a complaint from a woman in Zirakpur that he had raped her, said an official on Thursday….
Bangkok, July 19 (IANS) Police in Malaysia have arrested seven people for alleged links with the Islamic State (IS) terror organisation, including a man who threatened to assassinate the Malaysian King and the Prime Minister,…
San Francisco, July 19 (IANS) Accused of helping to spur violence in countries like Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, Facebook has said it will begin removing misinformation that leads to violence and physical harm. Currently,…
Greater Noida, July 19 (IANS) The death toll in the twin-building collapse here in Uttar Pradesh climbed to nine on Thursday, with five more bodies pulled out from the rubble of the residential apartments early…
Kathmandu, July 19 (IANS) Seven people were killed and four others injured as a passenger jeep met an accident in Rukum district in the mid-western region of Nepal on Wednesday, police said here. Deputy Superintendent…
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) Bodies of two of the 19 missing fishermen were found in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday by rescuers, an official said. Efforts were on to fish out the two corpses,…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Two men were arrested for opening fire in a market area here, leaving three people injured, police said on Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Northeast, Atul Kumar Thakur said that…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) A 28-year-old man, riding on his two-wheeler with his family, was injured after two unidentified men on a bike opened fire at him, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Northeast,…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) Two days after a makeshift canopy collapsed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally site in West Bengal’s Midnapore town, a team of Union Home Ministry officials on Wednesday visited the rally…
Ahmedabad, July 18 (IANS) A Special CBI Court here on Wednesday reserved its verdict for August 4 on the discharge pleas of two retired police officers D.G. Vanzara and N.K. Amin in the 2004 Ishrat…
Ranchi, July 18 (IANS) Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Wednesday alleged that the brutal attack on him in Jharkhand was “pre-planned” and sought a judicial probe into it while a state Minister dubbed him a…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi termed the tabling of anti-human trafficking Bill on Wednesday a “resounding victory”, saying that if passed, it will be one of the most comprehensive anti-trafficking laws…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday was irked with Centre and state governments for their “lethargic approach” in dealing with large number of pending criminal appeals and failure to appoint ad-hoc…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) People living in the Shahberi village in Greater Noida saw a dark dust cloud in the sky on Tuesday evening as they ran out of their houses thinking that it…