Manila, Philippines: A truck carrying hog feed smashed into the rear of a passenger bus on a remote downhill provincial road in the northern Philippines early Saturday, setting off a series of wrecks that left at least 20 people dead and injured 44 others, police said. The bus driver lost control of his vehicle after […]
Gandhinagar : Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday said if the party wins the general elections in 2014, he would bring about long lasting change, which the people of the country would remember for years. “If people give us an opportunity to work for five years, I will try to bring […]
Gir Somnath(Gujarat): Pakistan Maritime Security Agency personnel shot dead a fishermen from Gujarat on Saturday night while capturing six Indian fishing boats on the maritime border near Jakhau port. According to sources, the Indian fishermen had gone for fishing in high seas from Porbandar in six boats, when they were surrounded by Pakistani maritime personnel. […]
Rome: At least 12 people died after a migrant boat carrying some 250 African migrants capsized Friday in waters between Malta and Italy’s Sicily, media reported.The latest accident occurred a week after a shipwreck left more than 300 migrants dead near the Italian island of Lampedusa, Xinhua reported. According to RAI state television, about 120 […]
New Delhi: More than 20 people were killed and around 30 injured in a road accident in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab on Thursday. A group of pilgrims was returning from Chintpurni after offering prayers when their truck fell 100 feet into a gorge. The accident occurred early Thursday, when the truck, carrying pilgrims from […]
Khartoum: About 60 to70 people died during the recent protests staged in the Sudanese capital since last Sep 23 ranged between 60 and 70, a government official announced Tuesday.”The number of the people who were killed during the recent demonstrations ranges between 60 and 70. The figure has been confirmed after the Health Ministry registered […]
Kabul: At least three people were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Wardak province, officials said Tuesday. “On Monday evening, three people were killed when a bomb attached to their vehicle by militants was detonated in the provincial capital Maidan Shar,” Xinhua reported citing a provincial government statement. The victims were employees of a […]
Balasore (Odisha): India today test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile with a strike range of 350 km from a test range at Chandipur, about 15 km from here. The surface-to-surface missile was test fired from a mobile launcher in salvo mode from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at about 9.14 AM, defence […]
Dehradun: The exact number of British nationals who went missing during the mid-June flashfloods in Uttarakhand “may never be known”, country’s High Commissioner to India Sir James Bevan said today. “We don’t know how many British nationals were in Uttarakhand at the time of the tragedy. So we would never know how many of them […]
Bhubaneswar: Realising that the raw material linkage was a major hurdle for growth of the steel sector in the state, a collaboration between Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) was encouraged to help overcome the problem.“There is a lot of future prospect, if OMC and NMDC work together,” Union Steel Secretary […]
