Kigali, May 9 (IANS) At least 25 people have been killed due to landslides triggered by heavy rains that hit northern Rwanda on Saturday night, local authorities said on Sunday. Local government officials, according to…
Kabul, May 9 (IANS) At least 52 people died in Afghanistan after two buses collided with a fuel tanker, causing a massive explosion, local officials said. A further 73 passengers sustained injuries. The incident took…
Chandigarh, May 8 (IANS) With jailed gangsters having a free run with posts on social media and reports of prisons being dens of drugs and crime, the Punjab Police on Sunday conducted a state-wide “major…
Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) The BSF on Sunday apprehended a man near the Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district and seized a quantity of arms and ammunition and narcotics from him, an official said….
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) An Ola cab driver was arrested and sent to 14-day judicial custody on charges of molesting a 23-year-old Belgian woman he was ferrying from Gurgaon to here. External Affairs Minister…
Chandigarh, May 8 (IANS) After the Haryana vigilance bureau booked him in a land re-allotment case, former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday termed it “revenge politics” by the state’s BJP government. “This government…
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat during his first cabinet meeting after Uttarakhand High Court set aside President’s Rule in the state, restoring him as the chief minister, nearly a month after he was ousted,…
Visakhapatnam, May 8 (IANS) Five people including three students went missing after they went for a bath in the sea off the popular R.K. Beach here on Sunday, police said. The five are suspected to…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought a report from Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on the molestation of a Belgian woman by an Ola cab driver. “I have…
Beijing, May 8 (IANS) At least 35 people were reported missing after a landslide hit China’s Fujian province on Sunday. As many as seven people were injured after the landslide hit Taining county, Xinhua news…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) An Ola cab driver was arrested on charges of molesting a 23-year-old Belgian woman he was ferrying to Gurgaon to here, police said on Sunday. The driver, identified as Raj…
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Two days ahead of the floor test in the Uttarakhand assembly, a video of a new sting operation allegedly showing a Congress…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Kartar Singh Tanwar’s car was attacked here on Sunday, leaving a friend injured, party leaders said. Unidentified men staged the attack with iron rods near…
Guwahati, May 8 (IANS) Four poachers were on Sunday arrested near the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The arrests were made by the forest department and the Special Task Force (STF) set up to check…
Karachi, May 8 (IANS) Prominent Pakistani rights activist Khurram Zaki was shot dead while having dinner with a friend at a restaurant here, and his NGO blamed “Takfiri Deobandi militants” for the killing. Zaki, 40,…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) An Ola cab driver was arrested here on charges of molesting a 23-year-old Belgian woman, police said on Sunday. The driver, identified as Raj Singh from Rajasthan, has been terminated…
Beijing, May 8 (IANS) Thirty-five people were reported missing after a landslide hit China’s Fujian province on Sunday. Rescue operations are underway, Xinhua news agency reported. The landslide occurred at about 5.00 a.m. in Taining…
Patna, May 8 (IANS) A JD-U party legislator’s son allegedly shot dead a class 12 student in Bihar’s Gaya town for overtaking his car, police said on Sunday. Aditya Sachdeva, son of a businessman, was…
Srinagar, May 8 (IANS) Militants on Sunday snatched four service rifles from police guards in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. A senior police official told IANS, “Militants snatched four service rifles including two SLRs (self-loading rifles)…
Shimla, May 8 (IANS) At least 14 people were killed and over 40 others injured in a road accident in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, officials said on Sunday. The ill-fated overcrowded Himachal Road Transport Corporation…