A suicide bomber driving a car and gunmen disguised as police killed at least 33 people in Iraq's Kirkuk on February 3 when they tried to storm a city police headquarters, police sources said. Kirkuk, a religiously and ethnically mixed area of Arabs, Kurds and Turkman, is at the heart of a dispute over oil and land between Baghdad's central government and the autonomous Kurdistan enclave in the north. ...
01:50 PM, Feb 03, 2013
A Turkish leftist group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on the US embassy and accused Washington of using Turkey as its "slave", according to a statement posted on the internet. ...
11:39 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Dozens of heavily-armed Taliban militants attacked a security forces check post in Pakistan's restive northwest on February 2, triggering fierce fighting that killed 30 people, including six paramilitary personnel and 12 civilians. Security forces foiled the raid on the isolated check post, located at Serai Norang area in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, after an intense gun battle that continued for over three years. ...
04:38 PM, Feb 02, 2013
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside the US embassy in Turkey's capital Ankara on Friday. Initial reports suggest that three people have been killed in the blast. ...
05:45 PM, Feb 01, 2013
A class 9 student hanged herself in Bankura district of West Bengal on Thursday. She also left behind a note in which she blamed a boy for sexual harassing her. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A woman threw her three daughters into a river killing them and later jumped to death in Daund town in Pune, the police said on Thursday. ...
01:11 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Singer Asha Bhosle will soon be seen making her acting debut, playing the role of a mother in 'Mai'. Asha says it brought back memories of losing her own daughter Varsha last year. ...
08:57 AM, Jan 31, 2013
An engineering student, allegedly committed suicide for the cause of a separate Telangana state at Pavanpuri Colony in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the police said. The body of N Dinesh Chandra, a third-year B Tech student in a private college, was found hanging in his room they said, adding that a death note was also found in the room. ...
05:32 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Two terror suspects, who allegedly plotted suicide bombings in Britain, have been accused of travelling to Pakistan for terrorist training, making suicide videos and buying chemicals to make home-made bombs. Al-Qaeda suspects Irfan Naseer and Irfan Khalid from Birmingham were under surveillance by MI5 for weeks before their arrest in September 2011 and were heard discussing their plans in bugged conversations, a jury was told during their ongoing trial at...
11:35 PM, Jan 26, 2013
A gangrape survivor on Wednesday attempted suicide by consuming a poisonous substance in the premises of metropolitan court in Ahmedabad. The survivor had alleged delay in justice as the reason for her action, police officials said. ...
09:10 PM, Jan 23, 2013
A class seven student of an upper primary school in Odisha's Ganjam district allegedly committed suicide due to his parent's failure to pay contribution for his school picnic, police said on Monday. Balaram Nayak (12) allegedly committed suicide by hanging in the house at Gobara under Gangapur police station limit, about 70-km from Berhampur after returning from the school on Saturday as his parents could not pay the required money...
12:35 PM, Jan 21, 2013
An Indian student in Germany, who was found hanging in his apartment on January 8, had not complained of any ragging by seniors, officials of the Indian consulate have found. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin, in a tweet, said that officials of the Indian consulate in Frankfurt had spoken to Likhith Shashidhar's apartment friends in Kreuztal town and police, and "no allegations of ragging" were made to them....
07:30 PM, Jan 19, 2013
A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly killing his wife in a five-star hotel in Noida in Uttar Pradesh. He also allegedly tried to write a note to pass off the murder as a suicide. ...
07:52 AM, Jan 19, 2013
In a tragic case in UK, a paralysed wheelchair-bound mother saw her 12-year old son hang himself to death before her eyes and she couldn't reach up to save him. ...
03:42 PM, Jan 18, 2013
A 25-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife in Amber area in Jaipur. The body of Sunil Bunkar was found hanging in his rented house on Thursday, police said, adding that his 22-year-old wife Sita was lying in a pool of blood. ...
04:47 AM, Jan 18, 2013
A big car bomb exploded near the gate of an intelligence agency in Kabul on Monday. Several passerby were injured in the attack. ...
03:48 PM, Jan 16, 2013
A car bomb exploded in front of the gates of the Afghan intelligence agency on Wednesday near heavily barricaded government buildings and Western embassies. Shopkeepers and passersby were injured in the blast, which took place at noon, but it was not immediately clear if anyone had been killed. ...
02:14 PM, Jan 16, 2013
A powerful suicide car bomb struck the local headquarters for the party of a key Kurdish leader early Wednesday in the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least four and wounding dozens, according to officials. The blast outside the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party caused widespread damage, mangling cars and tearing apart storefronts. ...
01:32 PM, Jan 16, 2013
An Assistant Commandant undergoing training at the Border Security Force (BSF) centre in Gandhinagar was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly abetting his wife's suicide. Jawan Sunil Kumar's wife, Preeti Kumar (26), who was a Sub-Inspector with Delhi police, committed suicide by hanging herself on Saturday after alleged torture by her husband and other family members for dowry, Chiloda Police Inspector (PI) BC Thakkar said. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Upset over his daughter's illness, a peon in the Labour Ministry on Tuesday committed suicide by hanging himself in the office, police said. The body of Kanhaiya Lal, 50, was found hanging from the ceiling in an office in Yojana Bhavan. ...
11:37 PM, Jan 15, 2013
