Buenos Aires, June 13 (IANS) At least three people were killed and 55 others injured, five of them critically, in a train collision which occurred 30 km from the Argentine capital Thursday, local media reported. According to initial reports, the accident occurred when a passenger train rammed into the rear [...]

Ranchi, June 13 (IANS) Jharkhand Police chief Rajeev Kumar Thursday said an official involved in investigation of a cash-for-vote scam surrounding the mayor poll here would not be transferred. P.N. Singh, Ranchi city deputy superintendent of police, investigating the case, was transferred last week when the state government effected a [...]

Dubai, June 13 (IANS) The family of an Indian man, who died mysteriously during the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain two years ago, has received 60,000 Bahraini dinars (about $159,000) as compensation. Stephen Abraham, working as a security officer in the Almoayyed Group, was sitting in the canteen of Awal Dairy [...]

Chandigarh: Police in Punjab’s Ludhiana today booked Punjabi singer Nachhatar Gill following a complaint by an aspiring model that he and his accomplices had raped her on the pretext of casting her in music videos and films. The case against Gill and his three accomplices has been registered by police following [...]

Dubai, June 13 (IANS) Two Indian men have been put on trial for trying to steal power cables worth over 143,000 dirhams (about $38,900) by breaking into an electricity station here. The court of first instance in Dubai has charged the men, both aged 30, with attempted robbery by using [...]

New Delhi/Patna, June 13 (IANS) In an audacious daylight attack, suspected Maoists attacked a passenger train in Bihar’s Jamui district Thursday afternoon, killing a railway police personnel and two passengers, said police and the railway ministry. “Three people including a constable of RPF (Railway Protection Force) and two passengers were [...]

New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) A 14-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by two people in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun, police said Thursday. The girl has been rescued and one of the rapists arrested. The girl went missing from her house at Neb Sarai area since June 5. Delhi Police managed [...]

Guwahati, June 13 (IANS) Three people were arrested Thursday and a cache of arms and ammunition, suspected to be meant for the Meghalaya-based militant outfit Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), was seized here, Assam Police said. The consignment was recovered from the Inter State Bus Terminus at Gorchuk area in [...]

London, June 13 (IANS) A Chinese farmer has been jailed after posting photographs of him posing with an ‘alien’ which he claimed to have electrocuted after its UFO crash-landed on his farm. Li’s photos, standing next to a crude looking extraterrestrial made from rubber, sparked a frenzy of speculation on [...]

New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) A Delhi police sub-inspector was placed under suspension here for dereliction of duty, an officer said Thursday. He is also facing allegations of rape. “Uttam Kumar, posted at I.P. Estate police station has been suspended as he was found involved in a criminal case in [...]