Jakarta, Aug 20 (IANS) A group of 177 Indonesians were detained in the Philippines on Saturday after attempting to board a flight to Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj pilgrimage using fake Philippine passports. The…
Patna, Aug 20 (IANS) A leader of the ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was shot dead on Saturday in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, police said. Vinod Yadav, resident of Rasulpur locality, was killed by armed assailants…
Dhaka, Aug 20 (IANS) A massive fire broke out at an apparel factory in Bangladesh on Saturday. The five-storey building of Tropical Knitex at Gazipur district’s Kaliyakoir area, was engulfed in a blaze around 12.45…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (IANS) Residents of the coastal village, where at least two old women were attacked and one killed by stray dogs, have lashed out at Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (IANS) In a gruesome incident, a 65-year-old woman was attacked and partly eaten up by 50 stray dogs on Friday night barely 10 km from the state secretariat here. Victim, Sheeluamma died…
Lucknow, Aug 20 (IANS) The famous Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi has been flooded, leading to an abrupt closure of cremations, an official said on Saturday. The rising water of the Ganga has submerged the Harishchandra…
Lucknow, Aug 20 (IANS) Eleven people were killed due to massive floods across Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Saturday. Hundreds of mud houses in Bundelkhand have collapsed in one day, which killed five persons…
Los Angeles, Aug 20 (IANS) At least 96 houses were destroyed in the huge ongoing Southern California wildfire, while firefighters made more progress containing the blaze. The Blue Cut Fire started near an exit off…
Washington, Aug 20 (IANS) US police have arrested a fugitive in Massachusetts after seeing through his elaborate disguise as an elderly man. The police surrounded a house in South Yarmouth on Friday and ordered 31-year-old…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency on Friday said that it has launched a preliminary enquiry into the inflow of funds in several bank accounts in Jammu and Kashmir in the last…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) A Delhi Police constable was shot dead by unidentified armed assailants in outer Delhi on Friday evening, police said. According to a senior police officer, the incident took place at…
Berlin, Aug 19 (IANS) Some 2.6 per cent of passengers evaded tickets when taking public transport in Germany last year, a survey said on Friday. The rate of freeloaders has not changed nationwide compared with…
Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 19 (IANS) Five persons, including three women, were killed and one person injured when two cars collided in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Friday. Four persons died on the…
Chandigarh, Aug 19 (IANS) After being in a denial mode earlier to later admitting a “possibility”, the Haryana government on Friday told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that some rape incidents could have taken…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi on Friday visited the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) office here, where he was informed of India’s experience in tackling natural disasters in the…
Bengaluru, Aug 19 (IANS) The police on Friday caned about 100 Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists and took 40 of them into preventive custody for attempting to barge into Amnesty International India office here…
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim stay on the West Bengal government ordered probe into the Narada sting operation in which several leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress…
Satara (Maharashtra), Aug 19 (IANS) Self-confessed killer medico Santosh Pol on Friday revealed that the body of the sixth victim — Vanita N. Gaikwad — was also buried in his poultry farmhouse complex and not…
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) Bengali TV actress Madhumita Chakraborty on Friday approached the police seeking action against certain Bangladeshi portals for circulating news that claimed she was arrested in Goa for being involved in a…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 19 (IANS) Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja has sought a probe into an incident where surgeons at a hospital allegedly forgot a surgical instrument in the abdominal cavity of a woman during a…