New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Despite best efforts by a team of medical experts, Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad could not be saved as his brain activity ceased a few hours before his death, a senior…
Mumbai, Feb 11 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities like Lata Mangeshkar, Anupam and Kirron Kher, Rishi Kapoor among others mourned soldier Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad’s death on Thursday. While actor Anupam Kher saluted him for his sacrifice,…
Lance Naik Hanamanthapp Koppad, who was dug out alive after being buried under ice for six days in the Siachen glacier, died on Thursday, Feb 11, 2016. (File Photo: IANS/DPRO) New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS)…
Moscow, Feb 11 (IANS) Soviet football legend Anatoly Ilyin died at the age of 84 here on Thursday. Striker Ilyin was capped 31 times by the then Soviet Russia (the USSR) between 1952-59 and scored…
Lance Naik Hanamanthapp Koppad, who was dug out alive after being buried under ice for six days in the Siachen glacier, died on Thursday Feb 11, 2016. (File Photo: IANS/DPRO) New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS)…
Lucknow, Feb 9 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh minister Kailash Yadav passed away on Tuesday at Medanta hospital in Gurgaon after suffering a massive cardiac arrest, the state government said. The minister of state for panchayati raj,…
Siachen: Rescue operation underway on the seventh day at Siachen on Feb 8, 2016. (Photo: IANS/DPRO) By Anjali Ojha New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) A thick ice sheet as hard as concrete was cut through…
Siachen: Rescue operation underway on the seventh day at Siachen on Feb 8, 2016. (Photo: IANS/DPRO) Jammu, Feb 9 (IANS) The army on Tuesday said the bodies of nine soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer,…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) A student of a residential school in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district died on Tuesday after allegedly being beaten by teachers for indiscipline. Two teachers were arrested in this connection, police said….
Kathmandu, Feb 9 (IANS) Former prime minister and president of the Nepali Congress (NC), Sushil Koirala died here of Pneumonia early on Tuesday. He was 80 years old. Koirala died at his residence in Kathmandu’s…
Siachen: Rescue operation underway on the sixth day at Siachen on Feb 8, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Jammu, Feb 9 (IANS) One of the ten army soldiers buried alive under an avalanche in Siachen glacier area…
Mumbai, Feb 8 (IANS) Condolences poured in for noted Hindi and Urdu poet Nida Fazli, who died here on Monday. He was in his late 70s. Fazli’s daughter confirmed the poet’s demise, a member of…
Beijing, Feb 8 (IANS) A second survivor was rescued on Monday from under the debris of a collapsed residential building some 56 hours after a 6.7 magnitude quake struck Taiwan. The man, identified as Li…
Bengaluru, Feb 7 (IANS) A male leopard was on Sunday tranquilized and trapped after it quietly entered a private school in the city and injured five people, a wildlife official said. “We bolted the room…
Hyderabad, Feb 8 (IANS) Four workers were charred to death when a reactor exploded in manufacturing unit of a pharmaceutical firm in Maheswaram on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Monday, police said. Two others were…
Chennai, Feb 5 (IANS) One person was killed and three others were injured in a yet unexplained blast on Saturday in the garden of an engineering college in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, around 170…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Well-known cartoonist Sudhir Tailang, who was suffering from a brain tumour passed away on Saturday, his family said. He would have turned 56 on February 26. Tailang’s daughter Aditi told…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, a module pilot on Apollo 14 mission that touched down the lunar surface on February 5, 1971, died in Florida this week on the eve of the 45th…
Los Angeles, Feb 6 (AP) Two small planes collided in midair and plunged into the ocean off of Los Angeles harbor. There was no immediate word of any survivors, authorities have said. The planes collided…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker and Congress veteran Balram Jakhar died here on Wednesday morning, his son Sunil Jakhar said. He was 92. He breathed his last around 7 a.m. at…