Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) Two live hand grenades were found on Saturday in an unclaimed bag in the Varanasi district court premises, leading the police to cordon off the area and suspend the court’s work….
Panama city, April 23 (IANS) Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the massive leak of offshore financial data known as the ‘Panama Papers’, has denied destroying documents, claiming that bags of shredded…
By Imran Khan Jure (Nepal), April 23 (IANS) Less than two years ago, Man Bahadur Tamang was the proud owner of a homestead and farmland in this central Nepali village. But he lost all that…
Washington, April 23 (IANS) Five people were shot dead in two connected shootings in the US state of Georgia, police said. The suspected gunman is still at large. The shootings took place in Appling on…
Damascus, April 23 (IANS) The Islamic State militant group claimed on Friday it has captured the pilot of a warplane crashed southeast of Damascus, the SITE Intelligence Group quoted the group’s Amaq news agency as…
Quito, April 23 (IANS) A total of 113 people have been rescued alive since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Ecuador on April 16, the Ministry of Communication announced on Friday. However, the death toll now stands…
Washington, April 23 (IANS) At least five adults and two children were killed in a US state in what appears to be “execution-style” killings, law enforcement officials said on Friday. All of the victims were…
Patna, April 22 (IANS) At least ten people including five children and three women were burnt alive as fire swept a row of houses, including one hosting a marriage party, in a village in Bihar’s…
Peshawar, April 22 (IANS) Soran Singh, special assistant to the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on minorities affairs and a provincial assembly member, was gunned down late Friday in a targeted attack near Pir Baba in…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A day after environmentalist R.K. Pachauri ‘stepped down’ from TERI’s governing council, lawyer Vrinda Grover on Friday said he should have been asked to step down by authorities or suspended…
Islamabad, April 22 (IANS) Thirteen people died after eating poisonous sweets in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the media reported on Friday. Umar Hayat, a resident of Layyah district located in Punjab province, distributed sweets among his…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A court here on Friday granted interim bail to a man who hurled a shoe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a press conference earlier this month, as he…
Imphal, April 22 (IANS) Inclement weather continued in most of the northeastern states with a thunderstorm damaging houses and disrupting power supply, official sources said on Friday. On Thursday evening, a strong thunderstorm lashed several…
Bangkok, April 22 (IANS/EFE) Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra appeared at a Bangkok court on Friday in an ongoing trial over corruption charges related to her government’s controversial rice-pledging scheme, the media reported. Yingluck…
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), April 22 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed and many others buried under debris in a landslide that struck Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China, early Friday morning. A team of…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A court here on Friday rejected the plea on one of the accused in the Danish woman’s gang rape case for examining doctors on his potency. Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh…
Karachi, April 22 (IANS) Police and intelligence agencies have arrested in Karachi on Friday a man wanted in US journalist Daniel Pearl’s murder case. Rizvia Society police said that in a joint action with intelligence…
Patna, April 22 (IANS) Lord Hanuman has defaulted on payment property tax of Rs.4.33 lakh in a Bihar town and authorities have decided to issue notice to him to make the payment at the earliest,…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The External Affairs Ministry said on Friday the central government was committed to bringing liquor baron Vijay Mallya back in India to face justice. “The government is committed to bringing…
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), April 22 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed and many others buried under debris in a landslide that struck Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China, early Friday morning. A team of…