Kolkata, May 14 In the wake of violence surrounding the West Bengal rural polls, a CPI-M activist and his wife were burnt to death in their house allegedly by a group of miscreants backed by the Trinamool Congress in South 24 Parganas district's Namkhana, the Left party said on Monday. Police also confirmed that the couple died in...
After a hectic fight between the lawyers backed by the BJP and the CPI-M, the advocates supported by the saffron party for the first time won the majority seats in the 15-member Tripura Bar Association (TBA), an official said here on Monday. "Of the 382 voters, 343 voted on Sunday to elect a new 15-member Tripura Bar Association. Lawyers supported by...
Two bike-borne militants blew themselves up at an Indonesian police headquarters in Surabaya city on Monday, police said. However they did not divulge the number of fatalities....
Dust storm, hail and lightning have claimed as many as 53 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi, said Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday. As per the MHA report, 39 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh on the intervening night of May 13-14 due to lightening and thunderstorm while in Andhra Pradesh nine lives were lost. In W...
Sporadic violence and clashes between opposing political groups marred the initial hours of West Bengal panchayat polls on Monday. The polling for electing 38,616 representatives across three tiers of state (rural) bodies started at 7 a.m. and would continue till 5 p.m. According to the State Election Commission (SEC), 12.2 per cent votes wer...
At least seven Maoists were gunned down in separate encounters with security personnel in Odisha's Kandhamal and Balangir districts in last two days, said an official on Monday. "Five Maoists were killed during a combing operation at Sudukumpa forest in Kandhamal's Golanki village. "While two were killed in Dudkamal village of Balangir district," said Add...
Shia rivals of Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi have made big gains in the May 12 parliamentary elections, partial results suggest. With most votes counted, a bloc headed by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and another led by a militia leader are ahead, the BBC quoted poll officials as saying. The Election Commission said Al-Abadi's governing alliance i...
Dust storm, hail and lightning have claimed as many as 23 lives in the last 12 hours in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Monday. The storm hit Etawah, Banda, Auriyya, Meerut, Kanpur rural, Kannauj, Farukkhabad and Orai districts. Late on Sunday gusty winds, followed by dust storm had brought life to a standstill in many parts of the state. Many houses wer...
The BJP on Sunday targeted former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and his family's "undeclared assets in foreign countries", after which the Congress hit back by saying that the BJP had no moral right to ask questions and should instead give answers on various issues. ...
At least two people were killed and 18 others injured as a severe dust storm hit Delhi on Sunday evening, while air traffic and Metro service too was disrupted due to strong winds and accompanying rain, officials said....
