Imphal, March 3 (IANS) An indefinite blockade of National Highway 102 linking Manipur capital Imphal with Myanmar crippled movement of vehicular traffic on Thursday. A Joint Action Committee (JAC), formed for justice to Thongkhogin Haokip,…
Brasilia, March 3 (IANS) The Brazilian government and mining firm Samarco have signed a billion-dollar agreement providing indemnification for last year’s toxic dam spill. As part of the deal signed on Wednesday, the company commits…
Hyderabad, March 3 (IANS) A software engineer was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, on Thursday, police said. Four people, who came in a car, attacked Sanjay Junge,…
London, March 3 (IANS) Diego Dzodan, Facebook’s vice-president for Latin America who was arrested by Brazilian police for not complying with previous judicial decisions, was released on Wednesday. Facebook spokesman Matt Steinfeld confirmed to technology…
Canberra, March 3 (IANS) Airplane debris suspected to be of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight found off the coast of Mozambique, would be transferred to Australia for examination. Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport…
Lucknow, March 3 (IANS) A police inspector in Uttar Pradesh has been suspended for torturing two men suspected of carrying out a series of thefts in Bahraich district, an official said on Thursday. According to…
Jakarta, March 3 (IANS) A shallow aftershock, measuring 5.8 magnitude, jolted West Sumatra in Indonesia on Thursday morning, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here. The quake came at 07:10 a.m. Jakarta time with epicentre…
Maputo, March 3 (IANS) Mozambican aviation authorities on Wednesday confirmed the finding of a piece of an airplane off the coast of Mozambique, but considered it “premature” to relate it with a Boeing 777 aircraft….
Lucknow, March 2 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday claimed to have cracked murder case of the Ritz restaurant’s owner Bobby Khanna, with the arrest of two sharpshooters from Azamgarh. Senior Superintendent of the Special…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) Enraged over bursting of crackers, a police officer in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district allegedly opened fire at a mob on Wednesday, leaving a man injured. The incident occurred in Egra…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University erupted in joy on Wednesday at Parliament Street, soon after Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was granted six-month interim bail by the Delhi High Court….
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) A woman has been apprehended from near the international border in West Bengal for allegedly smuggling in over eight lakh Bangladeshi taka, the Bangladeshi currency, the Border Security Force said on…
Jammu/New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The army on Wednesday recovered the body of a porter who died after slipping into a 200-foot deep crevasse in Jammu and Kashmir’s Siachen Glacier. Three crevasses opened up in…
Kuala Lumpur, March 2 (IANS) An object which could be debris from the missing plane MH370 was found off the coast of Mozambique, media reported. The debris from a Boeing 777 jet was being examined…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The issue of a privilege motion moved by the Congress against HRD Minister Smriti Irani and corruption charges against former home minister P. Chidambaram and his son Karti rocked parliament…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The Delhi government has suspended a Public Works Department chief engineer for alleged misuse of power, an official statement said here on Wednesday. An inquiry was ordered over the allegations…
Jakarta, March 2 (IANS) Indonesian authorities issued the tsunami warning in Padang, capital of West Sumatra province, following a major earthquake which is feared to trigger tsunami. The warning has prompted people to evacuate to…
Hyderabad, March 2 (IANS) Bodies of six out of eight Maoists killed in a gun battle with police on the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border have been identified on Wednesday, police said here. Bodies of four Maoists have…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted a six-month interim bail to JNU Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges. Justice Pratibha Rani ordered the bail after asking…
Mumbai, March 2 (IANS) CBI Director Anil Sinha on Wednesday gave an earful to chiefs of top banks and financial institutions for the crises and scams plaguing the country’s banking and financial sectors. In a…