Actress Jiah Khan commits suicide
byMumbai: Bollywood actress Nafisa alias Jiah Khan, who was seen opposite Amitabh Bachchan in “Nishabd”, committed suicide at her residence in Mumbai’s Juhu area,…
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Woman sets herself, daughters on fire in UP village
byLucknow, June 4 (IANS) A woman in an Uttar Pradesh village set herself and her five daughters on fire after she was taunted and…
Actress Jiah Khan commits suicide
byMumbai, June 4 (IANS) Bollywood actress Nafisa alias Jiah Khan committed suicide at her residence in Mumbai’s Juhu area, police said Tuesday. She was…
Egypt court convicts man for insulting president
byCairo, June 4 (IANS/AKI) A court in Cairo has found activist Ahmed Douma guilty of insulting Egypt’s Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and handed him…
Saudi Arabia launches women-only sports centre
byRiyadh, June 4 (IANS/AKI) A pioneering “women-only” sports centre has opened in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Khobar. The sports centre plans to recruit…
Swiss billionaire jailed for 18 years over workers’ deaths
byTurin, June 4 (IANS/AKI) A court in the northern Italian city of Turin has jailed Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny for 18 years for asbestos-linked…
Berlusconi defence denies sexual antics at his villa
byMilan, June 4 (IANS/AKI) Silvio Berlusconi’s defence laywer has denied that erotic soirees took place at the former prime minister’s villa near Milan and…
No guarantee that Iranian n-programme peaceful: IAEA
byVienna, June 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Iran has not provided the International Atomic Energy Agency with sufficient information to substantiate its claim that its nuclear…
RTI objectives can’t be allowed to run riot: Khurshid
byNew Delhi, June 3 (IANS) As the Central Information Commission (CIC) Monday held that political parties are answerable under the Right to Information Act,…
Minor raped, murdered in Bihar
byPatna, June 3 (IANS) A man was arrested in Bihar’s Siwan district Monday for allegedly raping and killing a minor girl, police said. The…