Sao Paulo, March 12 (IANS/EFE) A rainstorm that struck the Sao Paulo metropolitan area has left at least 21 people dead, a dozen injured and several cities flooded, official sources reported on Friday. Four people…
Sao Paulo, March 12 (IANS/EFE) A rainstorm that lashed this Brazilian metropolis and its suburbs left at least 15 dead, a dozen injured and several cities flooded, authorities announced on Friday. Four people died in…
Panaji, March 11 (IANS) The Goa Police’s Crime Branch on Friday filed a charge sheet against a ruling BJP legislator Michael Lobo and three others for allegedly cheating and forging documents related to CRZ clearances…
Rome, March 11 (IANS/AKI) The Italian police on Friday arrested 19 officials, road contractors and a lawyer amid a widening probe into alleged corruption at the state-owned road construction agency ANAS. A finance police statement…
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) A city court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Sambia Sohrab, the prime accused in the hit-and-run case that killed an IAF officer but granted the relief to two others…
Taipei, March 11 (IANS) Two people were killed and another was in critical condition when a rescue helicopter with five people on board plunged into waters off New Taipei City in northern Taiwan on Friday…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) As many as 164 ponzi, or chit fund, companies are currently being probed by central agencies for duping customers across the country, parliament was told on Friday. Cases relating to…
Gurgaon, March 11 (IANS) A court here on Friday remanded ex-servicemen C.K. Sharma, 75, in one-day police custody in a case of alleged misappropriation of funds of a society that organised the ‘One Rank One…
Sagar (Madhya Pradesh), March 11 (IANS) Eight people, including five members of a family, were killed and as many injured in two separate accidents in Madhya Pradesh on Friday. At least five people were killed…
Chennai, March 11 (IANS) The first atomic power unit at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) was shut down on Friday morning following a leakage in the reactor’s coolant system, said the sectoral regulator, adding there…
Ranchi, March 11 (IANS) A woman was allegedly dragged out from a train in Deoghar district of Jharkhand by six youths on Friday and gang raped, a police officer said. The woman was sleeping in…
Manali, March 11 (IANS) Eight trekkers, mostly from Punjab, who were on their way to Chanderkhani peak in the Manali region lost contact due to inclement weather, an official said on Friday, adding that a…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking to quash a criminal case against Gujarat Police personnel involved in the Ishrat Jahan shoot-out case in view of…
Bhopal, March 11 (IANS) A child died and five others fell ill after consuming the mid-day meal at an anganwadi centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district, officials said on Friday. The children fell ill on…
Patna, March 11 (IANS) A day after ruling RJD legislator Raj Ballabh Yadav, accused of raping a schoolgirl, surrendered in a court and was sent to judicial custody in Bihar, the rape victim on Friday…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Expressing sympathy for the affected people of Japan on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan earthquake, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Japanese people’s resilience was…
Tel Aviv, March 11 (IANS) Israeli police on Friday said 177 “illegal” Palestinian workers were arrested overnight, on the third day of a crackdown following a fatal terror attack. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the…
Chandigarh, March 11 (IANS) Two army officers sustained minor injuries when an Indian Army helicopter made an emergency landing in agricultural fields on Friday at Mailli village in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, police said. Police officials…
Bhopal, March 11 (IANS) A 24-year-old labourer was killed in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district when a dumper dumped soil over him while he was sleeping. According to police, Jairam, who worked at the Pench dam…
Patna, March 11 (IANS) The Bihar School Examination Board is employing strict measures against cheating, including CCTV cameras and prohibitory orders against ‘unlawful assembly’, in conducting class 10 exams that started on Friday. Anyone found…