London, May 2 (IANS) The Italian data protection authority has ordered social networking site Facebook to hand over personal data of an Italian user that was hacked and used on his fake account by a…
Jakarta, May 2 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale hit the western Lampung province on Sumatra Island on Monday, Xinhua news agency cited the Indonesian meteorology and geophysics agency as saying.
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Protest against a Supreme Court decision to ban diesel taxis in the national capital, cab drivers on Monday locked traffic in Delhi’s border areas connecting Gurgaon and Noida. The taxi…
Islamabad, May 2 (IANS) Five employees of a transport company and the owner of a bus terminal were booked under blasphemy law for desecrating a Sikh passenger’s turban in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the media reported…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) In a bid to protest against a Supreme Court decision to ban diesel taxis in the national capital, cab drivers on Monday blocked traffic in west Delhi’s Rajokri area. The…
Lucknow, May 2 (IANS) Clearing of the tracks and removing eight derailed coaches of the Delhi-Faizabad 14206 Padmavat Express began on Monday morning, police said. The train had derailed between Kakather and Gadhmukteshwar in Hapur…
Dhaka, May 2 (IANS) A massive blaze broke out in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar, one of the largest wholesale marketplaces in the city on Sunday night. The fire broke out at about 8.00 p.m….
Washington, May 2 (IANS) Leaks of hazardous material have been sealed from a freight train derailing early on Sunday morning in northeastern Washington, local media reported. No injuries were reported and no evacuation ordered. It…
Hyderabad, May 1 (IANS) At least seven members of a marriage party were electrocuted when a high-tension wire fell on a truck they were in Telangana’s Medak district on Sunday, police said. Fifteen others were…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Over 54 crore people living in 13 states in India are in the grip of drought, but official figures fail to recognise those affected even after over six months of…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) The union home ministry on Sunday sent a four-member expert team to Uttarakhand to look into the forest fires in the state and submit its report within a week after…
Kolkata, May 1 (IANS) A seven-year-old girl was beaten up allegedly by miscreants allied to West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress after her grandfather – a CPI-M supporter – voted in the fifth phase of assembly…
Chandigarh, May 1 (IANS) A diamond jewellery store was allegedly looted at gunpoint in the shopping hub of Sector 17 here on Sunday by three unidentified people, police said. Police sources said that diamonds and…
Agra, May 1 (IANS) A pregnant woman and her nine-month-old daughter were crushed to death and the woman’s husband was seriously injured when they were hit by a speeding truck here on Sunday afternoon, police…
Hyderabad, May 1 (IANS) In a tragedy on May Day, two workers died while cleaning a manhole here, police said. The sanitation workers died of suffocation in the manhole in Koti area of the city….
Washington, May 1 (IANS) A freight train derailed on Sunday near a metro station in Washington, leaving several cars overturned and leading to a possible leak of hazardous substance. Officials said they were trying to…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) A 32-year-old auto-rickshaw driver died after falling from a flyover when his vehicle was hit by a speeding car here on Sunday morning, police said. Mohd. Shakil, a resident of…
Ghaziabad, May 1 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Police should learn from its mistakes to become a better force, a senior officer told his colleagues on Sunday. “We should learn from the faults committed during encounters,”…
Ghaziabad, May 1 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Police here on Sunday introduced a criminal tracking app which is hoped to offer help, especially to the office going women who commute by auto rickshaws. Launching the app…
Dehradun, May 1 (IANS) Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters sprayed water in a bid to control forest fires raging in Uttarakhand, union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday. A team of 40 National Disaster Rescue…