Paris: A Muslim prayer hall was set on fire in Ajaccio, the capital of French island of Corsica, in the early hours of Saturday morning, President Francois Hollande’s office said on Saturday. “An investigation was immediately opened. It should determine as soon as possible the causes of the disaster,” theContinue Reading
Mumbai: A three-storey building collapsed in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon, killing six people and trapping many others, civic officials said. Five people were rescued from the debris of the building in Kamathipura area of Grant Road, which caved in at around 2pm, a fire brigade official said. Two of theContinue Reading
Agra: Jeenat and Kajal of Aamor village in Madanpur block of Firozabad district could well be the new poster girls for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign as they have refused to have the ‘nikah’ ceremony with their fiances till their families construct toilets in their homes. Engaged toContinue Reading
Raiganj: Bishop Alphonsus Flavian D’Souza SJ of Raiganj diocese died this afternoon, April 30, 2016 at around 12.35 pm due to massive heart attack at the Presbytery of the Cathedral in Raiganj. He was 77 years old. Bishop Alphonsus was born on July 4, 1939, in Kattingere (Moodubelle), Udupi DistrictContinue Reading
Indore: Last year, a 13 year old, 4th class girl went to the school in Kalyanpura area of Jhabua district with a bottle of poison to end her life as she was unable to bear the agony of alleged sexual harassment by a school teacher. This was not a singleContinue Reading
New Delhi: Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi told the Lok Sabha on Friday that an analysis of statistics from the years 2012 to 2014 showed that at least 20 women were killed for dowry every day, adding up to 25,000 women murdered or driven to suicide by dowry-demandingContinue Reading
Itanagar: Atleast 2 people were killed when a massive cyclone lashed at Chakma inhabited area of Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday. The deceased people included an infant who was barely one-year old and a 17-year old girl named Kalasogi Chakma from Avoipur village under Diyun circle. More thanContinue Reading
Kochi: A young woman in southern India is painting her body black to protest against what she calls the growing intolerance in the country against the low-caste Dalit community, writes Ashraf Padanna in Kerala. One could run into 26-year-old Jaya PS anywhere in the southern port city of Cochin –Continue Reading
Washington: A US woman was sentenced to 100 years in prison for cutting a woman’s baby from her womb. In a crime that shocked the nation, Dynel Lane was found guilty in February of seven counts against her, including attempted murder and unlawful pregnancy termination, Xinhua news agency reported. Friday’sContinue Reading
Vatican City: Italian police arrested four people and issued arrest warrants for two more on Thursday on suspicion of conspiring with the Islamic State terrorist group. One of the arrested suspects was reportedly plotting an attack on the Vatican and the Israeli embassy in Rome. Authorities said suspect Abderrahim MoutahrrickContinue Reading