Chandigarh, March 20 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) troopers on Sunday caught two people and seized four kg of heroin on the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Amritsar sector, a senior BSF officer said. The heroin…
Kuala Lumpur, March 20 (IANS) Malaysian officials said on Sunday that two pieces of suspected debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have arrived in Australia for verification. Both pieces of debris arrived in…
Dubai, March 20 (IANS) Dubai-based low-cost carrier FlyDubai said on Sunday it will pay $20,000 per victim following the crash of its plane from Dubai to Russia. The airline said it was their priority to…
Bangkok, March 20 (IANS) A Thai anti-corruption commission will investigate police officials who were accused of mishandling a probe into a car crash that killed two students last week, the media reported on Sunday. Post-graduate…
Imphal, March 20 (IANS) An elderly teacher has been arrested on charges of molesting and attempting to rape a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Thoubal district of Manipur. The incident happened on Friday night in the hostel…
Doha, March 20 (IANS) Scores of the Indian expatriate community members mourned the death of five-year-old Adien Mathew Shaji, who was killed in a bus accident, a media report said. Adien’s body was flown to…
Toronto, March 20 (IANS) The man found dead in an accident in the Newton area of the city is an Indian-Canadian man who was allegedly involved in the local drug trade, police in the Canadian…
Brasilia, March 20 (IANS) At least seven people were killed when a plane crashed into a house in Brazil’s Sao Paulo city, the media reported on Sunday. The accident occurred on Saturday as the plane…
Beijing, March 20 (IANS) Five people died and 20 others were injured after a truck exploded on a highway on Saturday in central China’s Hunan Province, according to local authorities. The truck suspected to be…
Lagos, March 20 (IANS) The Nigerian Army will adjust deployment of troops as part of measures to end the killings in Agatu communities in central north Benue State, a top military officer said on Saturday….
Guwahati, March 19 (IANS) Police in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Saturday shot a man dead after he attacked and injured four people with a machete. Bhadra Gogoi, a resident of Kharikatia village in Bordubi area,…
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) At least 79 people were killed and 97 injured in separate rain-triggered accidents in Pakistan over the past 10 days, authorities said on Saturday. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) A 24-year-old man committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving Metro train here on Saturday, police said. The incident took place at the M.G. Road station around 11.20…
Shimla, March 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Saturday suspended one-year sentence awarded to Congress legislator Asha Kumari in a land grab case dating back to 1998. Hearing the plea of the Dalhousie…
Kochi, March 19 (IANS) A couple from near Perumbavoor in Kerala was among the 62 people killed on Saturday in a plane crash in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don city, officials said. The FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 from Dubai…
Jammu, March 19 (IANS) A woman and her daughter were washed away by the swollen waters of the Tawi river in Jammu city on Saturday, police said. “A mother and her son and daughter were…
Moscow, March 19 (IANS) A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by low cost airline FlyDubai crashed while attempting to land in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday, killing all 62 passengers, including two…
Chalakkudy (Kerala), March 19 (IANS) A day after chemical tests revealed the presence of an insecticide in the body of actor-singer Kalabhavan Mani, Kerala Police on Saturday searched his 30-acre farmhouse near Chalakkudy in Thrissur…
Hanoi, March 19 (IANS) At least four people were killed and one injured in an explosion in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Saturday. According to the Vietnamese central government’s online newspaper, the explosion took place in…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) A court on Saturday granted bail to former Delhi University professor S.A.R. Geelani, who was arrested in February on sedition charges. Additional Sessions Judge Deepak Garg granted bail to Geelani,…