A terrorist gunman killed 80 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said. Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people died and 18 were in a critical condition. Many more were also wounded in […]
» Read moreThe first Indian Air Force flight C-17 carrying 156 people, who were evacuated from war-torn South Sudan’s capital city Juba, arrived here early on Friday. The evacuees also included two Nepali citizens, besides nine women and three children. The passengers from Kerala and some from Tamil Nadu disembarked after a brief halt here before leaving for Delhi. Minister of state for […]
» Read moreA church in Tumakuru city was attacked by a person yet to be identified in the wee hours of Thursday. At around 4.10 a.m., a person who had covered his face stood outside the Tomlinson Church, near Sira Gate, and hurled a lit beer bottle filled with petrol. He later hurled two more beer bottles standing outside the locked gate, […]
» Read moreTwo women – a research scholar and a professor’s wife, allegedly committed suicide separately in the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Wednesday. Police sources said P. Maheswari (34), a married post-doctoral research scholar in chemistry from Puducherry, was found hanging in the Sabarmati hostel around 4 p.m. In the other incident, G. Vijayalakshmi(47), wife of Ganesan, was found hanging in […]
» Read moreSania Mirza has revealed that while recovering from one of her surgeries in 2010 she had gone through a phase where she had cut herself off from even her family as she brooded over her future in the game. Speaking at the launch of her book Ace Against Odds by actor Shah Rukh Khan at the Falaknuma Palace here on […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi has been conducting a survey on the performance of Chief Ministers in the country after every three months. Intelligence Bureau and Private Agencies were involved in measuring how much satisfied were people with the ruling governments in their states. Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao topped the list. He was followed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh, […]
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