Nearly 200 kg cocaine seized in Italy port
September 8th, 2012 - 6:37 am ICT by IANS
Rome, Sep 8 (IANS/AKI) Police in Italy have impounded 176 kg of cocaine in the southern port of Gioia Tauro aboard a container ship from Chile.The seized cocaine has been ... Read more...
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Earthquake shakes China’s Yunnan province
September 7th, 2012 - 7:46 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Beijing, Sept 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) At least 20 people have been confirmed dead when a series of devastating earthquakes hit the southwest of china. One of the earthquakes is said to have ... Read more...
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Two killed in Delhi car crash
August 15th, 2012 - 11:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Two property dealers were killed after their car hit a scooter rider and then rammed into a pile of bricks on the roadside here early ... Read more...
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Delhi cop attacked for honking
July 12th, 2012 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) A 30-year-old constable was attacked here with bricks by three men for honking his bike's horn while trying to go past their stalled vehicle, police ... Read more...
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Bangladesh garment workers demand wage hike
June 13th, 2012 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, June 13 (IANS) Dozens of people were injured Wednesday when striking garment workers clashed with police on the outskirts of Dhaka.Golam Rouf Khan, director of industrial police, told Xinhua ... Read more...
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630 kg cocaine seized in Italy
June 9th, 2012 - 5:51 am ICT by IANS
Rome, June 9 (IANS/AKI) Police in Italy Friday seized 630 kg of cocaine smuggled aboard a cargo ship from Brasil.The bust in Gioia Tauro in the southern Calabria region was ... Read more...
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Four held for attack on Delhi judges
May 18th, 2012 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Four people have been arrested for the attack on three judges and their driver here in an incident of road rage, police said Friday.Anil Raj, ... Read more...
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Attack on judges: Delhi lawyers observe strike
May 18th, 2012 - 4:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Protesting the attack on three judges by bike-borne men in yet another incident of road rage in the capital, lawyers in all the six district ... Read more...
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Attack on judges: Lawyers threaten strike Friday
May 17th, 2012 - 11:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) To protest an attack on three Delhi judges by four bikers in a road rage incident in south Delhi, lawyers at the Saket district courts ... Read more...
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Road rage: Three judges attacked in Delhi (Lead)
May 17th, 2012 - 10:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) In yet another case of road rage in the capital, four young men on two motorbikes Thursday viciously attacked three judges, leaving one of them ... Read more...
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Some recent road-rage incidents (To go with On Delhi roads, tempers rise with temperatures)
April 6th, 2012 - 5:36 pm ICT by IANS
Some of the prominent road rage incidents in recent times in the capital were:March 23, 2012: In a shocking incident, Rajesh Kumar, a 40-year-old autorickshaw driver, was brutally beaten to ... Read more...
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Dikshit expresses shock over auto driver’s murder (Third Lead)
March 23rd, 2012 - 10:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Expressing shock over an autorickshaw driver being beaten to death after his three-wheeler nicked an Innova car, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit Friday said the ... Read more...
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Auto driver beaten to death in road rage (Lead)
March 23rd, 2012 - 7:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) In another incident of road rage in the national capital, an autorickshaw driver was beaten to death after his three-wheeler nicked an Innova car, leading ... Read more...
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Man accused of killing CPI-M leader murdered
March 10th, 2012 - 5:21 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, March 10 (IANS) Mantu Paswan, the main accused in the murder of a CPI-M leader, was beaten to death in Bihar Saturday after he attacked the brother and mother ... Read more...
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Tim Barter is now recovering from head injury
February 29th, 2012 - 9:02 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Feb 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Doctors have successfully reconstructed the head of a man who was hit by bricks. The man was left with a badly damaged head and skull after falling ... Read more...
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Police to act against erring officers in Ramdev case (Lead)
February 23rd, 2012 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Delhi Police Thursday said that disciplinary action would be taken against its erring officers as well as Baba Ramdev's supporters in view of the Supreme ... Read more...
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Marijuana worth $2 mn seized in Colombia
January 23rd, 2012 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
Bogota, Jan 23 (IANS) The Colombian police have confiscated 1.7 tonnes of marijuana with an estimated worth of 3.5 billion Colombian pesos (about $2 million) from a rural area in ... Read more...
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Man kills woman, lynched by mob
October 27th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Oct 27 (IANS) Mob justice ruled in a small town of Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district Thursday when a man was lynched by locals after he shot dead a woman ... Read more...
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Speeding truck crushes biker
October 18th, 2011 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) A 30-year-old motorcyclist was crushed by a speeding truck in east Delhi, police said Tuesday.The incident occurred Monday night around 10.15 p.m., when Shiv Dhalla, ... Read more...
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Three children injured in blast
August 15th, 2011 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) Three boys were seriously injured in a minor blast in the Barrackpore area of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district Monday, police said.Aged between six and ... Read more...
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Stone-pelting in Britain: Kashmiris are all eyes
August 10th, 2011 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Aug 10 (IANS) As recurring television images of hooded men who have been hurling stones at police in British cities played out, a Kashmiri police officer said: "Being ... Read more...
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London violence spirals, over 560 held (Fourth Lead)
August 10th, 2011 - 1:42 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 10 (IANS) Hooded rioters looted shops, set buildings alight and clashed with the police as arson spread from London to other cities of Britain Tuesday. At least ... Read more...
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450 held as riots spread across Britain (Second Lead)
August 9th, 2011 - 2:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 9 (IANS) Rioting and arson Tuesday spread from London to other cities in Britain, including Birmingham and Manchester, with 450 people arrested for the spiralling violence in ... Read more...
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Postage stamp on Rashtrapati Bhavan released
August 5th, 2011 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Marking the 80th anniversary of the commissioning of Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Pratibha Patil Friday released a commemorative stamp on the historical building."The postage stamp ... Read more...
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Suspected thief lynched in Bihar
July 10th, 2011 - 12:03 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, July 10 (IANS) A suspected thief was lynched by a mob in Bihar early Sunday, police said.The unidentified man in his mid 20s was beaten to death in Shivganj ... Read more...
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Tata Motors for status quo on Singur land (Lead)
June 24th, 2011 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) The proceedings in the Singur land case before the Calcutta High Court were adjourned till Monday after the petitioner Tata Motors Ltd (TML) sought status quo ... Read more...
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50 injured in Bangladesh clash
June 12th, 2011 - 10:38 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, June 12 (IANS) At least 50 people, including four policemen, were injured in a clash Sunday between activists of the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in ... Read more...
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Ramdev’s supporters created chaos: Delhi Police
June 5th, 2011 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Refuting allegations that it baton charged thousands of Baba Ramdev's followers to evict them from the Ramlila Ground in a post-midnight raid, the Delhi Police ... Read more...
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‘A burning plane, a thunderous sound’ - all hell broke loose
May 26th, 2011 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
Faridabad, May 26 (IANS) Staring at the mangled remains of the aircraft and the pile of bricks that once was a house, the nightmare seemed far from over for shocked ... Read more...
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Man shot dead by cousin over sharing of bricks
April 19th, 2011 - 11:51 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida, April 19 (IANS) A 23-year-old man was shot dead by his own cousin brothers in the Bisrakh area of Greater Noida Tuesday morning over sharing of bricks, police ... Read more...
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Man puts toilet in yard to protest about upcoming duplex
April 15th, 2011 - 11:33 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Denver, April 15 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A man registered his displeasure for a proposed construction of a duplex in his neighborhood by building series of toilets in front of his house. Anthony Cooper ... Read more...
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Two held for attacking cop with bricks in Chandigarh
April 15th, 2011 - 2:02 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, April 15 (IANS) Two youths have been arrested for attacking a police official with bricks and hitting his head several times on the wall after he stopped them from ... Read more...
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Shakira lays foundation of Colombian school
April 13th, 2011 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 13 (IANS) Pop singer Shakira laid the first brick of a new school construction project in conjunction with her education charity in Colombia.Dailystar.co.uk reports that Shakira was ... Read more...
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Potential therapeutic target for breast cancer identified
April 6th, 2011 - 6:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 6 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a protein that alters nutrition of breast cancer cells, which can be a potential therapeutic target in the development of effective therapies for the disease.They ... Read more...
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2,000-year-old archeological remains found in Nepal
April 4th, 2011 - 4:54 am ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 4 (IANS) Ruins of 2,000-year-old buildings have been discovered in eastern Nepal, Xinhua reported.They were found during an excavation in Kichakbadhsthal in Jhapa district. Remains of walls made ... Read more...
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