Herat: At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan gas storage facility, which triggered a massive inferno in a nearby settlement for displaced people, officials said today. It was not immediately clear whether the blasts late yesterday on the edge of the relatively peaceful western city of Herat were the […]
» Read moreKarachi: Pakistan veteran Younis Khan has no plans to retirement as he dreams of becoming the first Pakistani to score 10,000 Test runs. Younis is 1186 runs short of the 10,000-mark in Tests. “It has always been my desire to do something special for Pakistan cricket and scoring 10,000 runs in Test cricket is my dream now,” Younis, who will turn […]
» Read moreJammu: Three people were killed and 22 others were injured in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops along the International Border in RS Pura sector of Jammu today. “Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing. Initially, small arms were used but later on mortars bombs were shelled on BSF posts and civilian areas in RS Pura and Arnia sectors since midnight”, a […]
» Read moreSriharikota: Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) on Thursday cleared all doubts on its cryogenic capabilities, successfully launching the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D6), placing GSAT-6, a 2,117kg communication satellite in orbit. This marks the second successful GSLV launch using an indigenous cryogenic engine. The first launch, on April 15, 2010 was a failure, followed by the second one on January […]
» Read moreAndhra Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Raghuveera Reddy on Wednesday said the Congress cadres would register cases against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister M. Venkiah Naidu and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for cheating the people of Andhra pradesh on the issues of special category status and non implementation of several other promises made to the people. Speaking to […]
» Read moreA shocking incident, a newborn baby was bitten by rodents in the neonatal surgical ward of the Government General Hospital (GGH) in Guntur and died a few hours later on Wednesday. The baby had undergone surgery for epiperiasis, a congenital disorder, on August 20 and had been under ventilator support since then. Born to Chavali Naga Raju and Lakshmi, residents of […]
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