At least 18 people were killed, and over 60 others as portion of a flyover that was under construction collapsed on a congested road intersection in Burrabazar area of Kolkata. The police said that 18 persons have died in the incident. State administration officials said 62 people have been injured and taken to hospital, while several others were feared trapped […]
» Read moreAt least 40 people, mostly from Pakistan’s minority Hindu community, have died and dozens were taken to hospital after drinking tainted liquor days ahead of a major festival, police said on Wednesday. Most of the victims were from the Hindu Kohli community who had been drinking on Monday ahead of Thursday’s Holi festival, which marks the beginning of spring, Irfan […]
» Read moreIn another sensational claim, Pakistani-American terrorist and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley told a court that after he was arrested by the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 1997, the agency instructed him to visit Pakistan and had sponsored the trip as well. Headley, who was made an approver in the Mumbai 26/11 trial, made this claim on […]
» Read moreSenior Congress leader and TNCC president EVKS Elangovan, who has been hospitalised here as he had not been keeping well, will be discharged soon, the party said on Thursday. The 67-year-old former Union Minister had not been keeping well and had been admitted to a private hospital here for the past three days, party sources said. He will be discharged […]
» Read moreDenmark took the top spot as the ‘happiest country’ in the world, displacing Switzerland, according to The World Happiness Report 2016, published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative of the United Nations. India was ranked 118th in the list, down one slot from last year on the index. The report takes into account the GDP per […]
» Read moreThe Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday carried out searches against 33 private firms and group of companies across five States in connection with two cases of alleged chit fund scams involving hundreds of crores. The searches were conducted at 82 locations in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. “In connection with the ongoing investigation in two cases […]
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