A small bomb struck a Bangkok military hospital on Monday wounding more than 20 people, police said, three years to the day since the army seized power in the politically unstable kingdom. “From the initial report it was a bomb… there are more than 20 people injured,” Deputy National Police Chief General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul told reporters.
» Read moreDemonetised currency notes valued at ₹90 lakh were recovered from two persons, who have been arrested, police said on Sunday. Mohammed Rishad and Subeir were arrested on Sunday from the Koyambedu bus terminus based on information, police said. They were found carrying the now demonetised high value currency of ₹500 and ₹1000, police said adding a case has been filed […]
» Read moreBengaluru on Saturday night received torrential pre-monsoon rain coupled with high speed squall winds. According to Indian Meteorological Centre, Bengaluru recorded a heavy rainfall of over 4 cm in less than an hour leading to heavy damages. IMD recorded 40.8 mm rains in city, 52.4 mm in GKVK, near Hebbal. The rain started at 8:40 p.m. and subsided by 9:30 […]
» Read moreUnited States First Lady Melania Trump did not cover her head on Saturday when they arrived in Saudi Arabia on the opening leg of his first international tour since taking office. Two years ago, then-citizen Mr. Trump criticized then-first lady Michelle Obama’s decision to go bare-headed on a January 2015 visit with her husband. “Many people are saying it was […]
» Read moreIran says incumbent President Hassan Rouhani is ahead of his nearest competitor in an initial count of votes in the Presidential election. Interior Ministry deputy minister Ali Asghar Ahmadi told journalists in a televised news conference Saturday morning that over 40 million Iranians voted in Friday’s election. That puts turnout above 70 %. Mr. Ahmadi says the initial vote count […]
» Read moreBangladesh has arrested 29 people from an LGBT gathering here, a rare crackdown on gay men in the conservative Muslim-majority country where homosexuality is prohibited, officials said on Friday. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite police unit that made the arrests, said those arrested, mostly students aged between 20-30 years, had travelled from across the country and were picked […]
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