A MiG-27 fighter aircraft crashed in a residential area close to the Jodhpur Air Base on Monday. The aircraft, which was on a routine training mission, went down about 5 km from the base and the pilot ejected safely, sources in the Air Force said. The pilot had reported a technical problem and sought priority landing. However, as the engine […]
» Read moreOmar Mateen, the Afghan-origin gunman who killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in U.S.’ deadliest mass shooting incident, pledged allegiance to ISIS in a phone call to emergency number 911 during the attack. Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard who was born in New York to Afghan parents, called 911 after his initial assault on the […]
» Read moreThe ruling Bharatiya Janata Party maximised its gains in Saturday’s Rajya Sabha polls, winning 11 seats on its symbol, while ensuring that one more candidate, media baron Subhash Chandra, an Independent who was backed by the party, defeated a Congress-INLD backed Independent in Haryana. For the Congress, the news should have been good too, as four of the six seats […]
» Read moreA 23-year-old woman has alleged that she was abducted and gang raped in a moving car and then dropped near a flyover in southeast Delhi’s Sunlight Colony, not very far from Delhi Police headquarters, in the wee hours on Saturday. In her complaint, the woman said that she had gone to an eatery in Nizamuddin area when the three accused […]
» Read morePolice lodged the first ‘e-FIR’ in Uttar Pradesh with a software engineer registering the complaint of his stolen mobile phone through email. A copy of the FIR, registered at Kalyanpur police station, has also been sent to the complainant over email, Kanpur SSP Shalabh Mathur said here on Saturday. Mathur said Chandra Prakash when returning home yesterday was atacked two […]
» Read moreThe Enforcement Directorate on Saturday provisionally attached movable and immovable properties having market value of Rs.1,411 crore of businessman Vijay Mallya and United Breweries (Holding) Limited, of which he is the chairman, in connection with a money laundering case against him. The attachment has been done as part of investigations into the alleged Rs.900-crore IDBI Bank loan default case. “During […]
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