Paris, Oct 2 (IANS) A helicopter crash in Doubs, eastern France, killed five people Thursday, media reported. The EC130 helicopter, with seven Swiss passengers on board, fell minutes after taking off from Lausanne en route to Montbeliard, Xinhua reported citing BFMTV news channel. Five people were killed and two others were wounded, one of them seriously, […]
Bangkok, Oct 2 (IANS/EFE) Thai scientists Thursday announced the discovery of a new antibody against the Ebola virus and claimed that it is “more effective” than those that now exist. However, the new cure is still awaiting animal and human trials. “We are proud to have created a new antibody treatment for Ebola fever,” Udom Kachintorn, […]
Hong Kong, Oct 2 (IANS) Pro-democracy protests continued in Hong Kong for the fifth day Thursday with students threatening to take over government buildings unless the territory’s chief executive, Leung Chung-ying, resigns by the end of the day. The “Umbrella Revolution”, as the protest has come to be called, continued to attract thousands of demonstrators in […]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Forget the ice bucket challenge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday started a similar chain, nominating actors Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and industrialist Anil Ambani among nine people to spread the message of Clean India. Modi, launching the Clean India Campaign Thursday, nominated nine eminent personalities to take […]
Bangalore, Oct 1 (IANS) Indian-born Stanford University professor Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj and Indian techie Himanshu Asnani, pursuing research in mathematics at Stanford, will be honoured in Washington DC Thursday by the US-based Marconi Society. Paulraj, 69, is the winner of the Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday expressed strong displeasure at the government’s inaction on its order to the environment ministry to get tested samples of “contaminated” water in a green forest area in Tughlakabad due to which birds are allegedly dying. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul […]
Gaza, Oct 1 (IANS) The Islamic Hamas movement Wednesday denied media reports about its plan to form a “Popular Army” in the Gaza Strip. The group said in an emailed press statement that Hamas has an armed wing, known as al-Qassam Brigades, and “anything reported on the plans to form an army in the Gaza Strip […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the CBI on a plea complaining that former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala has started campaigning for the upcoming state elections without the court’s consent and misused the bail granted by it. Chautala has been out on bail after being sentenced to […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Tihar jail authorities Wednesday submitted a medical report of ex-parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh’s wife Jagriti Singh, accused in a case of maid torture, which says that she is having gall stones and has only one kidney. Jagriti’s counsel P.K. Dubey, while seeking interim bail, had told the court that she was suffering […]
Chandigarh, Oct 1 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) troopers recovered five kg of heroin following a gunfight with smugglers from the Pakistan side in Punjab’s Ferozepur sector, BSF officials said Wednesday. “Border Security Force personnel have successfully seized five packets of contraband Heroin and one mobile phone and three Pakistani SIM cards today (Wednesday) in the […]