At least 14 people were killed and 55 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital Baghdad Monday, a police source said. Two car bombs went off in Doura district in the southern part of Baghdad Monday afternoon, killing six people and wounding 15 others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. […]
A senior Communist Party school official in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has been dismissed from his post and expelled from the party over a sex scandal, a local anti-graft agency said Monday. The punishment came after an official investigation into Qin Guogang, vice-president of the party school of the Shaanxi committee of the Communist Party […]
Sitting undeterred under the open winter sky, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said the protest would not hamper the functioning of the Delhi government in any way. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Kejriwal said: “The work and functioning of the Delhi government will not be affected due to this protest.” “We will be functioning the way […]
The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack grabbed global headlines and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) succeeded in everything it wanted to do, said an author who has written on the savagery. Asked why the terrorists chose to kill people instead of kidnapping them in Mumbai, Adrian Levy, co-author of “The Siege: Three Days of Terror Inside the Taj”, […]
The Delhi High Court Monday refused to quash a notification on the criteria for nursery admissions in the city, saying any “interference at this stage would create confusion”. A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw dismissed the plea of unaided private schools challenging notification of Lt. Governor (LG) Najeeb […]
A group of women journalists Sunday lodged a protest with Delhi Metro against an advertisement featuring a nude woman at the Rajiv Chowk station. The advertisement shows a woman with only a duct tape covering her body, one of the journalists, Akansha Kumari, told IANS. “What does this advertisement mean? That women are on sale?” […]
Pakistani Taliban Sunday gave their nod for peace talks with the government shortly after their suicide bomber killed 22 soldiers and injured 30 others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement that a bomber used an explosives-laden vehicle to target the security forces in Bannu’s army area and killed […]
The Delhi Police Sunday lodged an FIR against “unknown” people for creating ruckus during last week’s midnight raid by state Law Minister Somnath Bharti at a house where some African people live. The minister denied the charge. “A FIR has been registered against unknown accused in Malviya Nagar police station under various charges dealing with […]
After a poor showing in the Constituent Assembly elections, Nepal’s once powerful Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, is under pressure to give up his leadership. Holding him responsible for the results, several party leaders, including second-in-command and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, have sought his exit as chairman of the Unified Communist Party […]
In continued attacks for the third consecutive day Sunday by the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), one person was killed and another injured, police said. According to police, two fresh incidents took place Sunday morning in Kokrajhar and in Sonitpur districts. While one body was recovered from Kokrajhar district, the […]