One killed, nine injured in bomb blast in Meghalaya
July 12th, 2012 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, July 12 (IANS) One person has been killed and nine others injured in Meghalaya in a bomb explosion inside their makeshift camp, police said.The blast occurred around 2 a.m. ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Assam’s anti-dam activist threatens indefinite fast
May 18th, 2012 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, May 18 (IANS) Assam's farmer leader and anti-dam activist Akhil Gogoi has decided to start an indefinite hunger-strike here from Sunday to pressurize the state government to stop what ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
UAE helps 5,000 Somalians return
December 31st, 2011 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Dec 31 (IANS/WAM) Around 5,000 displaced Somalian villagers staying at a camp of around 30,000 people in the capital Mogadishu have been repatriated to their villages by the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
400 illegal migrants arrested in Moscow
August 11th, 2011 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) More than 400 illegal immigrants have been arrested near an airport in Moscow, police said Thursday."It was revealed that Tajik and Uzbek nationals have been ... Read more...
Posted in World |
19 die in Tripura refugee camp fire (Lead)
March 19th, 2011 - 7:55 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, March 19 (IANS) At least 19 people, including children and women, were Saturday burnt to death when a fire ravaged a refugee camp in Tripura home to Reang tribals ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
14 burnt to death at Tripura refugee camp
March 19th, 2011 - 6:11 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, March 19 (IANS) At least 14 people were Saturday burnt to death when a fire broke out at a refugee camp in north Tripura where Reang tribal migrants of ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Maoists torch 14 vehicles in Orissa
December 23rd, 2010 - 8:40 pm ICT by ANI
By Sarada LahangirMohana, (Orissa), Dec.23 (ANI): A group of unidentified Maoists set ablaze, 14 vehicles and damaged a mobile communication tower near Mohana village in Orissa's Gajapati District.On Wednesday, the Maoists targeted ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Chile mine rescue enters final phase (Lead)
October 12th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
Copiapo (Chile), Oct 12 (IANS/EFE) The rescue of the 33 miners trapped in a mine in northern Chile since Aug 5 will begin at midnight Tuesday, a minister has said.Mining Minister Laurence ... Read more...
Posted in World |
UAE supplies food in flood-hit Pakistan
August 22nd, 2010 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, Aug 22 (IANS/WAM) Ready-to-eat processed food has been provided to the flood-hit people in Pakistan's Punjab province by the Red Crescent Authority (RCA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an official ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Nine injured in clash over setting up of Korean steel plant in Orissa
May 16th, 2010 - 4:07 pm ICT by ANI
Jagatsinghpur (Orissa), May 16 (ANI): At least nine people, including six policemen, were injured in a clash in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur District as violence flared over a planned steel plant of South Korea's ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Meek government, belligerent rebels compound Manipur anarchy (News Analysis)
December 28th, 2009 - 11:52 am ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Imphal, Dec 28 (IANS) Manipur state in India's northeast is becoming a lawless region with militants killing government officials and Hindi-speakers, triggering explosions, kidnapping people for ransom, and ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
French government razes immigrants camp at Calais
September 22nd, 2009 - 5:44 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Sep 22 (DPA) French police moved Tuesday to raze a makeshift camp for illegal immigrants around the northern port city of Calais that once housed some 1,400 people from Afghanistan, Eritrea ... Read more...
Posted in World |
More than hundred hospitalised after gas leak in Thane district
July 24th, 2009 - 3:00 pm ICT by ANI
Khadipar (Maharashtra), July 24(ANI): Over a hundred people were hospitalised late last night in the Khadipar town of Maharashtra's Thane District following when a poisonous gas leak from an aging chemical factory. ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Angelina Jolie appeals aid for displaced Iraqis
July 24th, 2009 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 24 (ANI): Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie paid her third visit to Iraq as UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador and appealed for aid to an estimated 1.6 million displaced civilians.According ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
MSF plans emergency healthcare in Bangladesh camps
June 11th, 2009 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, June 11 (DPA) Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Thursday said that it would launch an emergency healthcare programme for Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh where tens of thousands of the Myanmar nationals ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Refugees crowd Pakistani camps as army battles Taliban
May 12th, 2009 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS
By Nadeem Sarwar
Mardan (Pakistan), May 12 (DPA) Liaquat Umar fled his home after a stray mortar shell exploded almost on his doorstep in Mingora, the main city of Pakistan's Swat ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Maoists blow up school building in Jharkhand
April 20th, 2009 - 4:52 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, April 20 (IANS) Maoists blasted a school building in Giridih district of Jharkhand as it was used as a makeshift camp by security forces, the police said Monday. No one was ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Security alert sounded in Islamabad amid terror threats (Lead)
April 10th, 2009 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 10 (DPA) Authorities enhanced security Friday in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, after sounding a security alert in the wake of renewed terrorist threats, officials said.
The US embassy temporarily suspended its ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Why NATO is not winning in Afghanistan
April 1st, 2009 - 9:44 am ICT by IANS
By Farhad Peikar
Kabul, April 1 (DPA) About midnight on a calm spring night, Toor Jan awoke to a sudden jolt and a loud, deafening blast. He stumbled out of his bed ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Mass grave unearthed in Assam, four bodies extricated
October 1st, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Oct 1 (IANS) Four decomposed bodies of youths who had gone missing earlier this year were extricated from a mass grave in a dense forest in Assam, triggering speculation that they ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Maoists’ kangaroo court finds two guilty, executed
June 27th, 2008 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, June 27 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas killed two people, including a village head, at a 'jan adalat' (kangaroo court) in a Bihar village after finding them "guilty" of helping the police, the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Two grenade attacks in Srinagar (Lead)
June 14th, 2008 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, June 14 (IANS) Separatist guerrillas tossed a grenade inside a paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp here Saturday, hours after a similar attack outside the heavily guarded civil secretariat injured ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Duped Indian workers make Singapore streets their home
March 18th, 2008 - 8:09 am ICT by admin
DPA
Singapore, March 18 (DPA) Jobless and penniless Indian workers have been living in streets here for as long as a year, according to news reports. About 50 men have turned a road ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |