Twelve fishermen were injured and 20 boats damaged when they were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan naval personnel for fishing in their territorial waters. One of the boats was sunk and the four fishermen in it jumped into another boat to save themselves, Sahayaraj, president of the local fishermen’s association said. He alleged that Lankan naval personnel came to the […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: Adani Enterprises, the flagship firm of Adani Group, has inked a pact with the Chhattisgarh government to invest over Rs 25,000 crore for setting up urea and power project as well as rice bran oil extraction plant in the state. “Adani Group on Monday signed a MoU with the government of Chhattisgarh to develop two critical projects in the […]
» Read moreTyphoon Goni killed at least 26 people in landslides and floods in the Philippines, officials said Monday, as the storm bore down on Japan. Rescue teams clawed away at a mountainside near the remote mining town of Mankayan in the country’s north, after recovering the bodies of 13 miners buried by a landslide that struck the area two days earlier. […]
» Read moreFive people died in a freak accident near Madakasira village of the district when a truck carrying a granite boulder rammed into the Nanded bound Bangalore-Nanded express train at around 2:30 AM today. While five including the truck’s cleaner, who is yet to be identified, have been pronounced dead by doctors at the Hindupur government general hospital, more than 30, […]
» Read moreGuwahti: Ahead of assembly elections in Assam next year, the BJP managed to poach a prominent Congress leader Himanta Biswa Sarma. Sarma, who will be joining the BJP, is a former health and education minister in the state. The party working on the deal for a while now. Sarma, a dissident for some time now has been bargaining with both […]
» Read moreA moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.0 has struck 15 kilometres south-east of Kodari in Nepal. Nepal was hit by a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake on April 25 which resulted in widespread devastation and killed over 8,000 people. Whole villages were destroyed in the quake while large parts of Kathmandu were destroyed, leaving nearly 18,000 people injured and tens of thousands […]
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