A car bomb killed at least eight people in a crowded vegetable market in a Shia Muslim district of Baghdad on Monday, police and medics said. No group immediately claimed responsibility, though the Sunni Muslim militants of the Islamic State (IS) have said they carried out a string of other recent attacks in the capital. The car rigged with explosives […]
» Read moreA special CBI court on Monday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to 10 years in prison after his conviction in a 2002 rape case that triggered violence, leaving 38 dead and injuring scores of people in Haryana. CBI Judge Jagdeep Singh, who holds the court in Panchkula, near Chandigarh, pronounced the sentence in a special courtroom […]
» Read moreThe Chief Executive Officer of the Coimbatore Smart City Limited (CSCL), R. Suganya, tendered her resignation on Monday. The CSCL is the company (special purpose vehicle) that implements the Central Government’s Smart City projects in the city. Sources familiar with the development said the 28-year-old daughter of former AIADMK MLA K.P. Raju had stated in Tamil that she wished to […]
» Read moreThe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday won a significant Delhi bypoll, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar emerged victorious in Panaji and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) clinched the Nandyal seat in Andhra Pradesh.
» Read moreIranian state TV is reporting that a light, 4.9 magnitude earthquake has injured 10 people in northern Iran. The report says the pre-dawn temblor struck early today about some 600 km northwest of the capital, Tehran, at a depth of 6 kilometers. It says those hurt sustained only slight injuries and were treated on site. There were no reports of […]
» Read moreThe BJP won two key seats in the Goa bypolls, with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane winning in Panaji and Valpoi, respectively. With these results, BJP, which doesn’t have a majority on its own in the Assembly, now has 14 seats in the 40-member House, and the coalition government that it heads has the support of […]
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