Washington, March 10 (IANS) An official of a California-based auction house pleaded guilty of smuggling carvings and other items made from protected wildlife worth $1 million. Joseph Chait, a senior auction administrator of the I.M….
Kiev, March 10 (IANS) A cargo plane with four Ukrainian crew members crashed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said. Two of the crew members were confirmed dead in the crash, one was…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) chairman RPS Kahlon was on Wednesday night arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.20 lakh, police said. “KoPT chairman Raj Pal Singh Kahlon and D.D. Jagtap…
Patna, March 9 (IANS) Amid the opposition’s demand for the resignation of a Bihar minister for meeting former MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in jail, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said he had asked the IG…
Chandigarh, March 9 (IANS) Two AAP MPs from Punjab on Wednesday offered to pay from their MPLADS funds the expenses borne on the deployment of paramilitary forces during a terror attack on the Pathankot Air…
Gurgaon, March 9 (IANS) The family members of a schoolboy admitted in an upscale private hospital after an accident on Wednesday accused its doctors of keeping them in the dark over his condition just to…
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, March 9 (IANS) British liquor major Diagio plc on Wednesday confirmed paying Indian industrialist Vijay Mallya $40 million (Rs.275 crore) as part of the $75 million (Rs.516 crore) agreement it entered…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Two labourers were killed and four others seriously injured when they were buried under loose soil that caved in at a construction site near AIIMS here on Wednesday, a senior…
London, March 9 (IANS) Cases of recorded child sex abuse in Britain increased by over 30 percent last year, a media report said on Wednesday. Police chiefs fear the rise is being driven by predators…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) An Indian medical student, who was in a state of coma after being attacked by unidentified miscreants in a Russian city, has…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others in a criminal defamation case filed by…
Jerusalem, March 9 (IANS) A civilian was badly injured on Wednesday when two gunmen opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attackers first opened fire at a bus in…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) At least one labourer was killed and four others were seriously injured when they were buried under the loose soil at a construction site near the AIIMS here on Wednesday,…
Canberra, March 9 (IANS) The Catholic Church of Canberra has created a separate body to handle sexual abuse complaints in a transparent manner, after the Vatican’s Finance Minister George Pell admitted paedophilia cases in Australia…
Bhubaneswar, March 9 (IANS) The bodies of six persons who went missing after a boat sank in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district were recovered by Wednesday. Personnel of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force and fire brigade…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) As many as 2,561 people remain missing five years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, the National Police Agency said. Based on data compiled as…
Patna, March 9 (IANS) The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday demanded resignation of a Bihar minister for meeting jailed former MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who is serving life imprisonment in connection with criminal cases…
Bhopal, March 9 (IANS) A Mumbai-bound Air India flight made an emergency landing here on Wednesday after a bird hit it during take-off, officials said. The flight, AI 634, with 129 passengers on board, took…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Over 12,000 aftershocks were felt in the coastal areas of Japan since a powerful earthquake struck the region in March 2011, the Meteorological Agency said. Quakes that are considered aftershocks of…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Japanese information technology company NEC has planned to sell its advanced early alert systems for earthquakes in different countries, including Latin America. The company announced in a statement on Wednesday that…