Tokyo: Nearly 80 people are believed to be dead in Japan after three days of torrential rain made rivers burst their banks, an Al Jazeera report said on Sunday. The government put the number of victims at 48 with 28 others presumed dead as it issued new disaster warnings on Kyushu and Shikoku islands on […]
ANKARA: Turkey on Sunday sacks 18,000 civil servants, half of which were from the police force, ahead of this month’s expected lifting of a two-year-old state of emergency, media reports said. The emergency was earlier imposed after an attempted coup in July 2016. The decree follows President Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in last month’s presidential election […]
Japan: At least 27 people were killed and over 47 people were missing as torrential rain pounds western and central Japan on Saturday, media reports said. Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued special weather warnings across four prefectures in the west of Japan’s main island of Honshu, urging vigilance against landslides, rising rivers and strong winds amid […]
New Delhi: BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav today rejected reports that his party was working to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir with rebel PDP MLAs and said that it was for continuing with Governor’s rule in the state in the interest of peace, governance and development. His comments on Twitter came after former […]
Delhi: A 13-year-old in Bihar was allegedly raped by eighteen people, including her school principal and two teachers, for seven months. The teenager has alleged that she was raped by 15 students of the school too, during this period. The principal and a teacher were arrested on Friday. Two students of the school have been detained. […]
Islamabad: In a major setback to Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the accountability court today dismissed his petition seeking to delay by a week the announcement of the verdict in one of the four corruption cases against him. The court said that the verdict in the avenfield corruption case — pertaining to the ownership of […]
New Delhi: For the first time perhaps, a senior BJP leader Ram Madhav on Friday came out in defence of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj against the series of trolls against her over the passport row. “…..the obscenities like calling her (External Affairs Minister) Begum Sushma or worse commenting on her health and kidney — or […]
Patna: Two people were killed and six others injured in collision between two cars near Sukulpur village under Deedarganj police station area in the district today. Police said that two cars collided near the village leaving 8 people injured. Sources said that the injured were admitted to Nalanda Medical College and Hospital where two of […]
Agartal: Continue to the effort against cracking down narcotic rackets in Tripura, the state government last night suspended a Tripura Police Service (TPS) officer for his alleged nexus with the drug paddling gang. The suspended police officer Tapas Deb was posted at Teliamura of Khowai district in West Tripura as Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO). […]
Delhi: Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a case related to the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. Additional Sessions Judge Arvind Kumar allowed his anticipatory bail plea asking him to furnish a bond of Rs 1 lakh. Delhi Police has opposed Tharoor’s plea. On June 5, the court […]
