Beijing, May 8 (IANS) The toll in storms in southern China has risen to 65, officials said.
About 2.55 million people and 100,000 hectares of land were affected. At least 14 people were missing and 9,900 buildings have been damaged, Xinhua cited a statement released Friday by the state flood control
Jalandhar, May 7 (IANS) The Indian Army Friday ordered a court of inquiry into a fire incident in Hoshiarpur district in which an officer was charred to death and another sustained serious injuries, said officials.
According to defence officials, Captain N. Anand was killed and Major Sudhir Parmar was badly injured
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Ranchi/New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) A Jharkhand court Friday directed the state police to lodge a first information report (FIR) against Priyabhanshu Ranjan, boyfriend of Delhi scribe Nirupama Pathak who died under mysterious circumstances at her home in Jharkhand April 29. He was later questioned in New Delhi.
In Ranchi, Chief
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Raipur, May 7 (IANS) Rescuers failed to trace six workers who have been missing since a blast Thursday in an underground coal mine in Chhattisgarh's Koriya district, officials said Friday.
The toll in the accident rose to six Friday with two workers succumbing to injuries in a hospital. At least 30
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Lucknow, May 7 (IANS) Five men were arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district and over 700 gram cocaine, worth Rs.30 lakh, was seized from them, an official said Friday.
'The five men were arrested late Thursday night from the Charra area in Aligarh. Acting on a tip-off, a team of
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New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) A gang supplying narcotics in the capital was busted with the arrest of four people, police said Friday.
According to police, Abdul Hafiz, 36, Atik ur Rahman, 38, Nabi Khan, 36, and Abdul Hamid, 28, were arrested in the city's north-east area and over one kg
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New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) A man was arrested for circulating counterfeit currency, police said Friday.
According to police, Rajuddin is a proclaimed offender in cases of murder, rape, kidnapping and circulation of fake Indian currency, a police official said.
'We received a secret information that Rajuddin was dealing in fake
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Chongqing (China), May 7 (IANS) The toll from a storm in southwest China has risen to 31, officials said Friday.
The storm hit the Chongqing municipality Wednesday.
Twenty-one people were killed in Dianjiang county, six in Liangping county and four in Peiling district after gales destroyed their homes, Xinhua reported.
The gales and
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Around 300 Naga students and activists pelted stones at Manipur Bhavan in the national capital Friday evening and tried to storm it to protest the Manipur government's refusal to allow Naga separatist leader T. Muivah to visit the state.
'Around 300 of them arrived in buses.
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New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Two young men were arrested Friday on charges of cheating people and duping them of their valuables in Delhi, police said.
Narad Mehto, 25, and Ajay Kumar, 19, would 'tell victims that they have found huge amounts of money but they do not have a
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