Wellington, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) New Zealand’s total retail card spending fell NZ$113 million ($69.15 million), or 1.7 per cent, in May year-on-year, according to the statistics department Stats NZ on Monday. Card spending fell across…
Srinagar, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Officials of the Juvenile Justice Board and the local police on Monday rescued many children forced into begging in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district. “A team of Juvenile Justice Board and…
Lucknow, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Drones are now being used by the Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) to check power theft through air surveillance. This is the first time that drones are being used to identify…
Tokyo, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Monday started test run of the equipment to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific amid fierce opposition from home and…
Houston, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Thousands of dead fish have washed ashore on a beach along the Gulf Coast of the US state of Texas, local media reported. The dead fish were found at the far…
Kolkata, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) West Bengal Police on Monday filed four FIRs against some central armed force personnel in connection to the protests that Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee faced in Thakurnagar by…
Guwahati, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) An 8-year-old child was killed and his parents injured in an attack by wild elephants in Assam’s Golaghat district, officials said, adding that around 50 houses were damaged. According to a…
Chennai, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday released water from Mettur dam for irrigation of Cauvery Delta belt. About 17.37 lakh acres in 12 delta districts namely Salem, Namakkal, Karur,…
Patna, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A woman in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district tied her husband to a tree, poured kerosene oil and set him on fire, an official said on Monday. The incident happened in a village…
Dubai, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 28-year-old Indian expat in Abu Dhabi, who recently won Dh 20,000 (Rs 4,48,885) in a lottery, has pledged to donate an amount from his winnings to the victims of the…
Hyderabad, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Police in Telangana’s Vikarabad district are questioning a few suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a trainee nurse. The victim’s brother-in-law, who had beaten her up, was also being…
Patna, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 50 people have fallen ill after consuming food at a marriage function in Bihar’s Aurangabad district. The incident occurred on Sunday night in Majhauli village under the Pauthu police…
Bhopal, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Upset over their daughter marrying a man from different religion, her parents in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur performed last rites and disowned her. The Jabalpur family performed ‘pind-dan’ and ‘mrityu bhoj’ in…
Chennai, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A fire broke out at a famous shopping mall in the Sowcarpet area of Chennai on Monday. Firemen from Sowcarpet, High Court unit and Esplanade reached the spot and put out…
New Delhi, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Gujarat’s Saurashtra and Kutch coasts as cyclone Biparjoy has intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm and is expected…
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), June 12 (AINS) A 40-year-old man shot dead his wife who had secured bail for him about a fortnight ago. The accused suspected his wife of cheating on him. Accused Krishnapal Lodhi…
Beirut, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health has announced the end of the cholera outbreak in Lebanon as the country has not recorded any cases since the end of February. “More than 12…
Colombo, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nearly 25 per cent of Sri Lanka’s dengue patients are school children, a health official said. Nalin Ariyaratne, the director of the National Dengue Control Unit, said on Sunday that there…
Tehran, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Iran has sent 101 Afghan convicts back to their home country under a bilateral prisoner transfer agreement. Askar Jalalian, Deputy Justice Minister For Human Rights And International Affairs, announced the move…
Bengaluru, June 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Women in Karnataka celebrated the launch of the free bus travel scheme for them from Sunday. The scheme has been inaugurated in all district headquarters and women are being issued pink…