At least 14 people were killed and 30 others injured when an over-speeding passenger van collided head-on with a bus in the Mustang area of Balochistan province on Saturday, police and hospital authorities said. Police and rescue officials said that the death toll could rise as the condition of at least six injured was said to be serious. The driver […]
» Read moreDefence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made an aerial survey of the Doklam-Nathula area on the India-China border, a day after the government said the status quo at the site has not changed since the disengagement on August 28. Sikkim government officials said the Defence Minister also made a survey of the new Pakyong Airport in East Sikkim and neighbouring […]
» Read moreKabbadi coach Sunil Dabas has alleged that there was an attempt to run her over with a car, after she prevented a group of people from breaking the gate of her colony, ANI reported. Police responded very late to her call for help, and arrived only after 30 minutes, the news agency quoted her as saying. Police then took her […]
» Read moreAt least 13 people were killed and 27 other were injured in a suicide attack at a shrine in Jhal Magsi town in Balochistan. Senior Superintendent of Police Jhal Magsi Mohammed Iqbal said a suicide attacker exploded himself at the gate of Fatehpur dargah when police guards spotted him and tried to stop him from going inside. “Most of the […]
» Read moreThe Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history stockpiled weapons and ammunition over decades, and meticulously planned the attack, authorities believe. But what led Stephen Paddock, 64, to unleash the carnage he did remains largely a mystery. “What we know is that Stephen Paddock is a man who spent […]
» Read moreBritish author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel The Remains of the Day, won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize on October 5, the Swedish Academy said. Mr. Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,” the Academy wrote. Sixty four-year-old Mr. Ishiguro was born in Japan and […]
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