Madhya Pradesh cops get remand of rapist held in Bihar
byPatna, April 24 (IANS) A Bihar court Wednesday gave Madhya Pradesh Police three-day transit remand of a 35-year-old power plant worker who allegedly raped…
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21 killed in clash between Chinese forces, terrorists
byBeijing, April 24 (IANS) A violent clash between suspected terrorists and authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region left 21 people dead, including…
50 killed in Dhaka building collapse
byDhaka, April 24 (IANS) At least 50 people were killed after an eight-storeyed building on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka collapsed Wednesday morning,…
Boston bombers self-radicalised by Afghanistan, Iraq wars
byWashington, April 24 (IANS) The Boston Marathon bombing suspect has claimed that he and his brother were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs and the…
A rebel group that is giving nightmares to Nigeria
byLagos (Nigeria), April 24 (IANS) Boko Haram, a Nigerian rebel group which battled the military over the weekend and left 185 people dead, has…
China quake: 4,000 aftershocks recorded
byBeijing, April 24 (IANS) More than 4,000 aftershocks had been recorded since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook China’s Sichuan province Saturday, authorities said Wednesday. There…
New-borns christened to remember China quake
byBeijing, April 24 (IANS) Mothers in quake-hit areas in southwest China named their new-borns with characters like “luck” and “quake” to mark their births…
Four Afghan kids killed while playing with bomb
byKabul, April 24 (IANS/EFE) Four children from the same family died Tuesday and another child was wounded when a bomb they were playing with…
Three killed in Dhaka building collapse
byDhaka, April 24 (IANS) At least three people were killed after an eight-storeyed building on the outskirts of capital Dhaka collapsed Wednesday. “Three bodies…
Mother and daughter gang-raped in Bihar
byPatna, April 24 (IANS) Three people have been arrested in Bihar for abducting and raping the mother and sister of a youth as a…