Agra, May 22 (IANS) A 17-year-old boy in this district of Uttar Pradesh committed suicide after failing to perform to the desired level in the CBSE Class 12 examination, police said on Sunday. Gopal Agarwal…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The CBI issued a fresh summons to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat to appear for questioning on Tuesday in a corruption case filed after a “sting” video allegedly showed him…
Ujjain, May 22 (IANS) Three people were killed and two seriously injured in this district of Madhya Pradesh when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with an oncoming bus, police said on Sunday. The…
Vienna, May 22 (IANS) At least two people were killed and 11 injured as a gunmen opened fire in a concert in western Austria before committing suicide, the media reported on Sunday. The shooting followed…
Colombo, May 22 (IANS) The toll from Sri Lanka’s floods and landslides reached 82 on Sunday while 500,000 people have been affected, the country’s Disaster Management Centre said. While heavy rains continued to lash several…
Amritsar, May 22 (IANS) At least nine people were killed on Sunday morning in the Amritsar district of Punjab when the jeep in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary truck, police said. At…
Dhaka, May 22 (IANS) At least 24 people were killed as tropical cyclone Roanu lashed the coast of Bangladesh with heavy winds and torrential rains, also forcing the evacuation of half a million residents, authorities…
Cairo, May 22 (IANS) Egypt’s military on Saturday released images of wreckage and personal belongings as search continued for flight data and cockpit voice recorders belonging to an EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean…
Cairo, May 22 (IANS) The Egyptian investigation committee said on Saturday that it’s “too early” to make judgments over the reason behind the recent EgyptAir plane crash. “We are looking at all information that is…
Shillong, May 21 (IANS) Former Union Minister and senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday attacked the Narendra Modi-led BJP government for its alleged failure to fulfil its poll promises of bringing black money back to…
Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh), May 21 (IANS) At least nine persons were killed when their jeep collided with a truck while returning from Ujjain’s Simhasta Kumbh Mela on Saturday. The deceased included five women, two men…
Gurgaon, May 21 (IANS) A woman was sentenced to five years in jail on Saturday for abetting the suicide of her mother-in-law here. A person named Mani Chhabra had lodged an FIR at DLF Police…
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The CBI on Saturday filed a case against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others regarding the allotment of 14 industrial plots during the previous Congress rule in…
Dhaka, May 21 (IANS) At least 20 people have died since cyclone “Roanu” hit the Bangladesh coast, an official of Bangladesh’s National Disaster Response Coordination Centre (NDRCC) said on Saturday. Eleven people died in Chittagong,…
Imphal, May 21 (IANS) A motorist was killed even as a 38-hour shutdown paralysed normal life across Manipur for the second day on Saturday. The shutdown that began at 4 a.m. on Friday and ended…
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The government on Saturday released Rs.600 crore more to Odisha after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik discussed the drought and water scarcity in parts of…
Cairo, May 21 (IANS) The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has slammed CNN’s coverage of an EgyptAir plane crash as “disrespectful”. “It’s disrespectful that CNN insinuates pilot suicide in #EgyptAirMS804 tragedy while families are mourning,” ministry spokesman…
Gurgaon, May 21 (IANS) A case was registered on the complaint of a 23-year-old woman who said her father-in-law raped her, police said here on Saturday. The woman, who hails from Rewari district of Haryana,…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Since its victory in the West Bengal assembly polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress has been spearheading attacks on Left supporters to eliminate the opposition, CPI-M state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra said…
Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) The AAP on Saturday claimed that Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse got several calls on his mobile from mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s Karachi residence. Khadse promptly dismissed the allegation by…