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Bhopal, Sep 9 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed when an overcrowded bus fell into Bagdi river in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district, police said, adding that more than 30 passengers are still missing. The accident took place late Wednesday when a private bus, on its way to Indore via Chapra from Nemawar, with around [...]

Lucknow, Sep 4 (IANS) An Italian tourist was found dead in a guesthouse in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district, police said Saturday. The body of Romano Antonio, 40, was found Friday night inside the waiting room of the Tripathi Guesthouse in Bhelupur area of Varanasi, some 300 km from Lucknow. ‘The reason of the death is [...]

Lucknow, Sep 1 (IANS) Two drug peddlers have been arrested with cocaine of over Rs.1 crore in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district, police said Wednesday. The two men, in their early 20s, were nabbed late Tuesday from Chaubeypur area, some 80 km from here. ‘The two motorcycle-borne men were arrested while they were on their way [...]

Phnom Penh, Aug 31 (DPA) Four people died and three were injured when a rocket-propelled grenade that a farmer pretended to be using as a microphone exploded, local media reported Tuesday. The Phnom Penh Post newspaper said the incident took place Sunday during a gathering of farmers in the western province of Pursat. ‘One of [...]

Lucknow, Aug 17 (IANS) At least five people were killed and eight injured early Tuesday when a speeding bus rammed into the tempo carrying them in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, police said. The accident took place in Khatauli area, about 350 km from here, where the bus of the state-owned Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport [...]

Lucknow, Aug 7 (IANS) A senior official of Punjab National Bank (PNB) belonging to Delhi was found dead in a hotel room in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, police said Saturday. Kulbhushan Sharma, 48, chief auditor of PNB, was found dead late Friday inside the Tea Rose hotel, some 300 km from Lucknow. The police found [...]

Ranchi, Aug 5 (IANS) Maoists have shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, police said Thursday. Munna Gupta was shot late Wednesday by guerrillas belonging to Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), one of the six Maoist outfits active in the state, police said. The BJP leader was surrounded by 15 to [...]

Patna, Aug 3 (IANS) Three men died after drinking spurious liquor in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, police said Tuesday. They died in Biohpur bazaar late Monday, a police officer said. A case has been lodged and no one has been arrested so far, the police officer said.

Lucknow, Aug 2 (IANS) A 38-year-old man killed his wife, two sons and mother-in-law before attempting suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, police said Monday. Gurcharan Singh attacked Mamta, 35, sons Lavi, 8, Lovely, 12, and mother-in-law Natthi, 68, with a sword at his residence in Gulawathi area, about 400 km from here, and killed [...]

Hyderabad, July 27 (ANI): Polling for by-elections to 12 assembly constituencies, including five with ballot papers, in Andhra Pradesh”s Telangana region began today. For the first time after 1998, ballot papers staged a comeback in the bypolls. With the total number of candidates exceeding the maximum limit of 64 for an electronic voting machine (EVM), [...]

Lucknow, July 23 (IANS) Samajwadi Party leader Anil Yadav, who was also the manager of a college, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district, police said Friday. Yadav, 34, was shot dead late Thursday while he was returning home after meeting some of his friends on the outskirts of the district. [...]

Ranchi July 7: (ANI) Four Maoists were killed in a gun battle between two rebel groups in the vicinity of a jungle in the Palamu region of Jharkhand. According to the district police, the firing took place between people of Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) and a newly formed rebel group headed by one Pramod Yadav. [...]

Kuala Lumpur, June 27 (ANI): A 29-year-old Malaysian businesswoman has claimed that she was made a sex slave for four days. The victim from Miri has said that she was gang-raped by three friends and was forced to sleep with at least four men before she managed to escape. She was abducted from a housing [...]

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 0915 GMT on Thursday. BAGHDAD – Two civilians were wounded when a bomb exploded outside a liquor store in Baghdad’s northern Shaab district, police said. BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb exploded as an SUV convoy passed in the northern outskirts of Baghdad, wounding two civilians, police [...]

Bangalore, June 5 (ANI): Karnataka Director General of Police (DGP) Ajai Kumar Singh on Saturday said the bullet that was fired from a country made weapon was not aimed at Art of Living (AoL) founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. “The firing was done to scare away the wild dogs,” added Singh. The Karnataka Polive quizzed [...]

Sopore (Jammu and Kashmir), June 1 (ANI): At least two Jaish-e-Mohammad militants were killed and an Army jawan was injured in an overnight encounter between the militants and security forces in Sopore town of Jammu and Kashmir”s Baramulla District. Police on Tuesday confirmed the death of the two militants. The gun battle broke out at [...]

Ropar, May 29 (IANS) A 45-year-old German national, who was staying near Himachal Pradeh’s Bhakra dam, was arrested without any passport, visa and other required documents near Punjab’s Nangal town in Ropar district, police said Saturday. Disguised as a ‘sadhu’ (ascetic) with long hair and beard, Thomas Kuehn, a resident of Hamburg in Germany, was [...]

Rajnandgaon / Dantewada, May 16 (ANI): In yet another incident of brutality on civilians the Maoists killed six innocent villagers by slitting their throats in Chhattisgarh”s Rajnandgaon District on Sunday. According to Chhattisgarh Director General of Police Vishwa Ranjan, the Maoists dumped bodies of victims in a forest area in Manpur locality in Uchapur village [...]

Karachi, May 8 (ANI): Despite the Pakistan government giving several assurances to protect minorities, several marginalized sections of society, especially the Hindus, continue to bear the brunt of the government’s apathy in the country. The fact is evident as in spite of assuring action against the murderers of prominent Hindu leader Sudhamchand Chawla, the Sindh [...]

Islamabad, Apr.16 (ANI): Three kidnappers, who were involved in the abduction of the five-year British kid Sahil Saeed, have been killed in an encounter, Pakistani police officials have said. Sahil was kidnapped at gunpoint from her grandmother’s house in Jhelum last month just hours before he was to board a flight back to London. He [...]