Nagpur : Naxals have called for a ‘bandh’ in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on May 19 to protest the killings of two fellow women in an encounter last month, police said. Naxals had put up banners in some villages in Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli on Wednesday night, in which […]
Muzaffarnagar : A revenue official was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 here, police said Friday. Lekhpal Sunil Kumar was arrested Thursday after he was caught accepting the bribe from an IAF personnel for measurement of a disputed land, they said. The IAF personnel had complained […]
Chennai : Actor-politician Kamal Haasan, who is at the centre of a raging row over his Hindu extremist remarks, Friday said “every religion has its own terrorists” and that no one claim to be sanctimonious. The Makkal Needhi Maiam chief also said that he was not afraid of being […]
Bhopal : BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate and Malegaon blast accused Pragya Singh Thakur Thursday kicked up a row as she called Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a “patriot”, but apologised for it hours later and withdrew the statement. The BJP distanced itself from her statement saying it […]
KATHMANDU – Two Indian climbers died near the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal and a Chilean mountaineer was missing on the world’s third highest mountain, their hiking company said on Thursday. Kanchenjunga is popular with climbers who visit Nepal for the spring climbing season which ends this […]
AMARAVTHI, India – A loan waiver programme for farmers and privatisation of air and sea ports will be among the post-election priorities if India’s opposition parties pull off an unexpected victory in the national vote, Telugu Desam Party leader N. Chandrababu Naidu told Reuters. Most political analysts expect […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has extended airspace restrictions until the end of May, a civil aviation official said on Thursday, forcing foreign carriers to take costly detours since the country’s standoff with rival India. Pakistan closed its airspace in February after a suicide bomber from Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e- […]
SRINAGAR – Indian troops and separatist militants clashed in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday and five people were killed including a civilian, officials said, the latest casualties in a new phase of violence in the 30-year insurgency. Tension in Muslim-majority Kashmir has been high since a Feb. 14 suicide […]
NEW DELHI – Five days after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF personnel in February in the Kashmir Valley, playwright and director Abhishek Majumdar was forced to cancel a play looking at the behaviour of Indian security forces in the disputed region. The play, which was scheduled to […]
Puducherry, May 16: A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl at her house in a village near here Thursday, police said. The man, a Puducherry government electricity department employee, was noting down the power consumption details at the nine-year-old girl’s house when the […]
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