Islamabad: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into the headquarters of the Pakistan Rangers, a paramilitary force, in the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring 14 others, police and witnesses said.
The attacker rammed the truck into the gate of the Pakistan Rangers office in North Nazimabad [...]
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party’s YS Vijayamma on Thursday night alleged that the Congress-TDP nexus has come to the fore with the Enforcement Directorate issuing orders attaching the assets of Sakshi media house.
The move came on the eve of YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s bail petition coming up for hearing in the Supreme [...]
Nairobi: A cabinet minister was roughed up and three people were killed in an attack by machete-wielding militiamen in Kenya, Xinhua reported.
The attack took place Thursday in the coastal town of Kilifi.
Police said the three men were killed after a mob disrupted a meeting addressed by Fisheries Minister Amason Kingi in Mtwapa in Kilifi county.
The [...]
Mumbai: The Mumbai police have registered an FIR in the death case of a three-month-old girl, who was hospitalised at a civic-run hospital with multiple injuries on September 24.
Aahuti Joshi, who succumbed to injuries on October 01, was admitted to central Mumbai’s KEM hospital with a skull fracture by her parents Kalpesh and Dharmishtha., who [...]
Washington: Influential BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the party would announce its prime ministerial candidate at an appropriate time as he ruled out any differences in the party on the issue.
Responding to questions, Chouhan said that the name of prime ministerial candidate would be announced at an appropriate [...]
Melbourne: Australia has decided to close down three vocational colleges for non-compliance of training standards, a move that will impact more than 500 Indian students enrolled in these institutes.
However, Australian High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese on Wednesday assured that Indian students affected by college closures will be protected.
He was commenting on the move by [...]
New Delhi: Following a goof-up leading to an assault on Lt Gen (retd) Kuldip Singh Brar, one of the main strategists of Operation Bluestar undertaken in 1984 to flush out militants from the Golden Temple, the Union Home Ministry has asked the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to do a complete audit of his security along with [...]
Shimla: On the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, October 1, miscreants in Shimla strung empty beer bottles together and “garlanded” a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the heart of the hill town of Shimla. A case has been registered, an inquiry ordered and a police constable, who was on duty in the famous Ridge area where [...]
Colombo: Notwithstanding stiff opposition from political parties in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka on Wednesday asserted that it was “very firm” on continuing the training programme of its defence personnel in India and ruled out sending them to countries like China.
Sri Lanka’s powerful Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, also the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said [...]
Kanpur: A petition was filed on Wednesday against Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal for his comments on women, a report said.
The report in ANI, a news agency, came a day after Jaiswal apologised for the derogatory comments he had made on women, but said he had been quoted out of context.
“I apologise if people are upset, [...]
Gwalior: At least 50,000 landless people from at least 25 states are expected to begin a march 350 kilometeres from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh to New Delhi.
Under the banner of Ekta Parishad, a non-violent social movement working on land and forest rights, the marchers representing different rural communities, especially tribal, landless and small farmers.
They hope [...]
Chennai: Three people have been arrested in connection with the death of a 20-year-old air hostess at an amusement park.
The cause of death was being probed, police said. Three people, including the amusement park’s facility manager and operator of the ride, have been arrested.
On Tuesday, Afia Magh, an air hostess working for a private airline, [...]
Abuja: Nearly 150 people have died in rain-triggered floods in Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross Society said Tuesday.
Twenty-one states have been affected and some 64,000 people have become homeless due to the flooding, Umar Mairiga, the head of the Red Cross’ disaster management said. Heavy rains in recent weeks caused widespread destruction and forced many [...]
Washington: The White House has said that it has experienced a “spear phishing attack against an unclassified network” but asserted that there was never any impact or attempted breach of any classified system.
“This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network. These types of attacks are not infrequent and we have mitigation measures in [...]
Kathmandu: Oscar-nominated Himalaya opened up the remote, pristine villages of the world’s tallest mountain range to the West.
But while the director Eric Valli and co-stars have gone on to land lucrative work in film and television, the movie’s ageing star is penniless and struggling to survive in one of the poorest and harshest landscapes on [...]