At least 28 people were killed and 45 injured when a suicide bomber hit a bus carrying Shiite muslim pilgrims in Pakistan’s Balochistan province Tuesday, Xinhua reported. The incident occurred as a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the pilgrims’ bus in Dareen Ghar area of Mastung district, local media reported. The bus was […]
Shot extensively in South Africa, Bengali blockbuster film “Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon)” has generated huge interest among travellers from West Bengal, said a South African tourism official. Kamaleshwar Mukherjee’s film, the most expensive Bengali celluloid outing till date, was filmed for 45 days in the ‘Rainbow Nation’. Based on author Bibhutibhushan Banerjee’s novel, […]
Delhiites woke up to a cold Wednesday morning with light rain. The minimum temperature was recorded at 12 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season’s average. Met Office has forecast a rainy day ahead. “The skies will remain overcast and parts of the city will witness light rain,” said an official of the India Meteorological […]
Former Indian-American US Treasury official Neel Kashkari, architect of the bank bailout during the 2008 financial crisis, plans to run for governor of California with a pledge to create jobs and improve public schools. “Today, the gift of a good education and the opportunity it creates are out of reach for millions of struggling Californians,” […]
Telugu cinema icon Akkineni Nageswara Rao died here early Wednesday, his family said. He was 91. The thespian, who was battling cancer for few months, breathed his last at a private hospital. Family sources said the end came at 12.10 a.m. However, the announcement was made after 2 a.m. Popularly known as ANR, he is […]
The aged care industry is working cooperatively with the NSW Government to ensure all nursing homes in the State are fitted with fire sprinkler systems, according to new results published today. New laws that came into effect 12 months ago require all NSW nursing homes to have fire sprinkler systems installed. Almost half of the […]
A controversy erupted Monday over a purported letter handed over by a Ugandan High Commission “official” to Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, with the external affairs ministry revealing that the Ugandan mission staff are not in town and “not to give credence to rumours”. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that he felt “sad […]
The Jain community was Monday granted minority status by the central government which will enable them to avail benefits in government schemes and programmes. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting here, an official release here said. The decision comes a day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took up this issue with Prime […]
Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Minister Shashi Tharoor, died due to drug overdose, says the autopsy report, adding more than a dozen injury marks were also found on her body. According to police sources, the post-mortem report submitted to Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok Sharma said Pushkar died due to drug overdose. There were more than a dozen […]
A legislator of the ruling Biju Janata Dal was booked in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district after a woman alleged that he raped her, police said Tuesday. The incident took place Jan 3 in block headquarters town of Updala, around 230 km from here, but came to light only after police registered a complaint against the legislator […]