Badaun Gang-Rape: Fifth Accused Arrested; Two Cops Booked for Ignoring Fami...
Badaun / Uttar Pradesh – Police on Saturday arrested the fifth accused in the gang-rape and murder of two teen sisters in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. Two policemen have also been arrested for allegedly not acting soon enough on the complaint of the girls’ family. They were... read more »
45 hurt in China quake along Myanmar border
A moderately strong earthquake in southwestern China has injured 45 people and forced thousands to seek shelter in an area near the border with Myanmar, Chinese authorities said on Saturday. Residents fled buildings during Friday’s quake and students evacuated schools that had already been... read more »
4 killed, 11 injured in Jammu hotel fire
Four persons were killed and 11 injured when a fire broke out in a hotel in Jammu in the early hours on Saturday. The incident occurred in Hotel Neelam in bus stand area of Jammu city at around 02.30 a.m., police said. As the smoke started billowing out of the three-storey building, police and fire... read more »
On Naidu’s Wish List for Modi, Special Category Status for Seemandhra
When Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the capital tomorrow, he will carry with him a list of demands. Topping that wish list, said sources, is the fulfillment of the Centre’s promise that special category status will be granted to the... read more »
Five dead as magnitude-8.2 earthquake hits northern Chile
Santiago – A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off northern Chile on Tuesday night, setting off a small tsunami that forced evacuations along the country’s entire... read more »
Australia to deploy flying air traffic controller
Australia will deploy a modified Boeing 737 to act as a flying air traffic controller over the Indian Ocean to prevent a mid-air collision among the aircraft searching for the Malaysia... read more »
Musharraf’s plea to leave country for treatment abroad dismissed
The special court trying former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Monday dismissed his both petitions seeking permission to leave the country to see his ailing mother in Sharjah and... read more »
Terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar will not hang, says Supreme Court
New Delhi – A man convicted for a bomb blast in Delhi in which nine people were killed in 1993 will not hang, the Supreme Court said. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was convicted in 1993;... read more »
Kerry calls for pullback of Russian troops from Ukraine border
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Russia must pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border to deescalate the tension following Crimea’s... read more »
