A 60-year-old Congress member was on Friday shot dead allegedly by three assailants when he was out on a morning walk here, police said. Police suspect that the victim, Ashok, could have been killed over some land dispute. “He is a Congress worker. At one time, he used to be head of Railway Road Market Association here and probably also […]
» Read moreKingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya claimed privilege in the Supreme Court from divulging details of his overseas assets to his debtor banks, saying a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) like him is not obliged to disclose riches abroad even in “Indian income tax returns”. In a 41-page affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday, Mr. Mallya said his lenders have no […]
» Read moreThe Islamic State (IS), notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be sex slaves in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul. […]
» Read moreAn 18-month-old infant, Manyatha, has been saved from a life threatening situation caused by ingesting an open safety pin. Doctors at Satish Gastro and Liver Center in the recently removed the pin from the infant’s stomach using advanced endoscopic procedure. Explaining the case of Manyatha, who hails from Nuzvid, on Wednesday, gastroenterologist J. Satish said that the child accidentally swallowed […]
» Read moreIndia ranks an abysmally low at 133 among 180 countries in the latest annual World Press Freedom Index, which says Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems “indifferent” to the threats against journalists. The 2016 ‘World Press Freedom Index’ released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is led by Finland, which retained its top spot for the sixth consecutive year, followed by the […]
» Read moreA repurposed fishing boat severely overloaded by smugglers with up to 500 Africans hoping to reach Italy from eastern Libya may have sunk, survivors told UNHCR. As many as 500 people are feared to have drowned in the southern Mediterranean last week, in what would be the deadliest migrant shipwreck in months. A repurposed fishing boat severely overloaded by smugglers […]
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