Police on Saturday said Pune's multi-millionaire Datta D. Phuge was beaten to death by his son's friends after luring him to a fake birthday party because Phuge reportedly owed them Rs.150,000. ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Saturday he was in command of Turkey after thousands of civilians took on army units that had staged a coup, leaving 161 people dead and the country shaken....
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday cracked down on all Urdu and English newspapers published from here and blocked cable TV, creating an information blackout amid continuous tight security restrictions for the ninth day in the restive Kashmir Valley. As a result of the crackdown, most Srinagar-based newspapers couldnâ...
IUML legislator K.M. Shaji said he has reported 10 cases of threats that were made to him for the strongly progressive stand he has been taking against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Kerala. "There are 10 cases that I myself have given on the threats that I have received. I have even given the telephone numbers from which ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the country's internal security cannot be strengthened until the states and the Centres focus on sharing intelligence. Modi made the appeal while inaugurating a meeting of the Inter-State Council (ISC) after a gap of 10 years. "The internal security of the country cannot be strengthened until we f...
Congress legislator Pema Khandu, son of former Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, is all set to become the next Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh after incumbent Nabam Tuki resigned. Tuki and Khandu met Governor Tathagata Roy on Saturday. Tuki tendered his resignation as the Chief Minister. Raj Bhavan spokesperson Atum Potom said the Governor had ac...
The Islamic State (IS) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the terror attack in the French city Nice that left 84 people dead. The IS issued a statement to press agency Amaq, BFMTV reported. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who ran over the victims in Nice with a truck, was described as a "soldier" of the IS. The attack was in response to the g...
India on Saturday said Pakistan was violating the Indus Waters Treaty by deciding to move the Court of Arbitration over construction of two dams. External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said Pakistan was breaching provisions of the 1960 pact by rushing to a third party without trying to resolve the issue bilaterally. He said this was made...
The death toll in Turkey's attempted military coup has risen to 90 with the number of injured going up to 1,154, state-run Anadolu News Agency said on Saturday. A prosecutor said 42 people were killed in capital Ankara's Golbasi district. The coup plotters killed 17 policemen in an attack on the Gölbasi Special Forces Department headquarters. Two employ...
Popular social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, also a model and actor, was strangled to death by her brother in yet another "honour killing" in Pakistan, police said on Saturday. Qandeel, known for posting bold videos and statements on Facebook, was killed by her own brother at the family home on the outskirts of Multan in Punjab, media reports said...
