Dhaka: Fire broke out on Sunday in a garment factory that collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, complicating attempts to find any survivors of a disaster that has killed 377 people. Fire service officials said the blaze had been started by sparks from cutting equipment used by rescuers. Police said the owner of the factory, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested on Sunday trying to flee to India, as hopes of finding...
06:56 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Shimla: State unit of BJP has criticised the government for steep hike in power tariff, saying it has burdened 18 lakh domestic consumers with over Rs 500 crore. "For the first time, power tariff has been hiked by 70 paise per unit and even domestic consumers have not been spared," party spokesman Ganesh Dutt said. He accused the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) of unilaterally announcing the tariff order without...
01:15 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Rome: A man was arrested on Sunday after shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Italian prime minister's office in central Rome, police said. One of the wounded law enforcers had been shot in the neck and was in a serious condition, a police official said. The shootings took place as Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new cabinet was being sworn in at the president's palace around one kilometre away....
03:42 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Every single day auto makers thrive hard to make the automobile more efficient and powerful. And to differentiate their offerings in a crowded market place, car makers also come up with a host of new comfort features. BMW is one such auto maker that continues to add more features and this is particularly true for its flagship sedan, the 7 Series. And now there's a new one on sale. Now,...
01:29 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Washington: Researchers have developed a new device which helps users track gunfire with their smartphones, popping a map of the neighbourhood on its screen pointing in the direction the shot came from. Computer engineers from Vanderbilt University's Institute of Software Integrated Systems have made such a scenario possible by developing an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. The...
03:58 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Moscow: A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, including two nurses, emergency officials said. A third nurse managed to save two patients and they were the only three thought to have survived, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the Health Ministry. Police said the fire, which broke out at about 2 am local time (7 pm Eastern, 2300 GMT) in the...
08:06 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Ghaziabad: A deputy manager of a private bank in Ghaziabad was arrested on Thursday on charges of raping his colleague for past five years on the pretext of marrying her, police said. The victim (in her 30's), working as a customer care officer in the bank has accused deputy manager Balwant Singh Negi of sexually exploiting her for past five years, SP (City) Shiv Shanker Yadav said. The victim, a...
08:13 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Coimbatore: A fire at Axis Bank in Avinashi near Coimbatore has left four people dead. All four dead were women employees of the bank. The bank was on the third floor and there was no emergency exit at the bank. The fire has been doused and the situation was brought under control. The cause of the fire is not known yet, but a short circuit is suspected. ...
12:52 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Chennai: As many as 10 Indian films, including those in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali, will be screened at the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival, starting in South Korea on Thursday. Nine films, including Tamil movies 'Neerparavai' and 'Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai', three Hindi movies, Hansal Mehta's 'Shahid', Ajay Bahl's 'B A Pass' and Ashim Ahluwalia's 'Miss Lovely', one Malayalam film 'Color of Sky', directed by Bijukuma Damodaran and one Bengali...
12:33 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Washington: Two US officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard. Authorities originally said they had exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for more than one hour on Friday evening before they were able to subdue him. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing...
06:18 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: A traffic constable escaped unhurt after he was fired upon when he tried to stop three people who were riding a motorcycle without wearing helmets on Wednesday evening, police said. "The incident happened at Preet Vihar in east Delhi. Traffic constable Monu was manning a traffic signal when he saw the motorcyclists, with no helmets and riding three to a motorcycle. He tried to stop them, but they...
05:55 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Actress Kangna Ranaut during the shoot of her upcoming film 'Rajjo' at Raigad in Maharashtra recently. PTI Photo. ...
11:33 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday made a series of announcements to strengthen the state police. The announcements include annual recruitment of personnel for police and fire services departments, construction for their housing, creation of youth brigade, extension of closed user group telephony facility to family members, residential school for children and others measures. Jayalalithaa also announced hike in food allowances to Rs 200 from Rs 85...
05:58 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Hyderabad: The body of a Andhra Pradesh Police officer killed by Maoists in the forests of Chhattisgarh following a gunfight on Tuesday was brought to the state's Khammam district on Saturday night. The body of Vara Prasad, reserve inspector of Greyhounds, the elite anti-Maoist force of Andhra Pradesh Police was brought to Cherla police station near the border with Chhattisgarh. The officer's body, which had decomposed beyond recognition, was secured...
02:59 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Islamabad: Four persons, including two children, were killed and several others injured in two separate incidents of violence in Pakistan s restive northwest on Friday, officials said. A tribesman was killed and 14 more were injured when militants fired four rockets at an election rally in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan tribal region, officials of the local political administration said. Two of the rockets landed near the venue...
01:08 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Police on Friday said that one of two suspects (Black Hat) in the shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was dead and a massive manhunt was underway for another (White Hat). The two suspects are also believed to be involved in the Boston Marathon bombing, confirmed the police. Describing the suspect 2 (White Hat) as armed and dangerous, the police asked the residents of Watertown to...
02:13 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Watertown: There were reports of gunfire and explosions as a manhunt was on for the killer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in the Watertown area near Boston in the United States early on Friday morning. A massive police operation was on in the area following the reports of shooting at MIT campus. The chaos in Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, occurred just hours after a...
11:34 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Live updates from the the second day of the first Test between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh being played at the Harare Sports Complex. Bangladesh first innings: End of over No.13, Bangladesh 55 for 1: After getting off to a good start to their innings, Bangladesh lost Shahriar Nafees for 29 off Kyle Jarvis bowling. Trying to work the ball on the leg side, Nafees bat face closed early and he gets...
01:29 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: With a chugging train trailing a plume of smoke in a backdrop of palm trees and what looks like a palace with domes and minarets, Google on Tuesday posted a doodle to celebrated India's first passenger train journey. On April 16, 1853, the first railway on the Indian subcontinent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane in what is now Maharashtra state. Three steam...
10:57 AM, Apr 16, 2013
