The rescue teams Sunday continued to rummage through the debris of an under-construction five-storeyed building, which collapsed Saturday afternoon at Canacona, 80 km from here, killing 14 onsite labourers. Police said a portion of the building, Ruby Residency, located in the Chawdi ward of Canacona, collapsed burying labourers working at the site. While nine labourers […]
Former Bayern Munich and Real Madrid midfielder Ze Roberto is being pursued by Brazilian top-flight club Santos, according to local media reports. The 39-year-old former Brazil international would be the latest in a series of high profile signings for Santos ahead of the 2014 season, Xinhua reported. Selecao striker Leandro Damiao joined the club from […]
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has requested the US Coast Guard’s icebreaker Polar Star to assist the Russian vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy and the Chinese vessel Xue Long (Snow Dragon) which are stuck by ice in Antarctica, Xinhua reported. AMSA has identified the Polar Star as a vessel capable of assisting the trapped vessels. […]
Late pop star Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris doesn’t want to return to her boarding school in Utah. She spent Christmas holidays with her brother, Prince Michael, 16, half-brother Blanket, 11, and natural mother Debbie Rowe, in Hawaii and California. Now she doesn’t want to return to her $14,000-per-month therapeutic private school, where she is recovering […]
The Supreme Court has said that courts must carefully examine the evidence of a rape victim to ascertain its trustworthiness as it alone was sufficient to convict a rape accused and sentence him to life imprisonment. Holding that the rape victim’s evidence is placed on such a high pedestal that it alone was sufficient to […]
Days after clashes between the Karbi and Naga militants led to killing of four Naga villagers, Nagaland Police Saturday said they have discovered a mass grave containing nine bodies – with gunshot wounds – near the state’s commercial hub Dimapur. One of the nine bodies recovered from the grave found Friday night was identified as […]
Major buyers of LNG in Asia should come together to demand a fair pricing mechanism for gas being imported from outside the continent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. He was speaking after dedicating the Rs.4,200 crore Petronet LNG’s Kochi terminal to the nation. “Asia has been the driver of the global LNG demand in […]
Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday demanded that Darjeeling be accorded the status of a union territory. Jaswant Singh, the MP from Darjeeling, said the residents of the district are “in no way Bengalis” and the authorities in Delhi and Kolkata must take cognisance of the fact. “It is very important for the authorities in […]
A complaint was lodged with police here Saturday against a MP from Telangana for threatening to shoot Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s helicopter if he visited Karimnagar district. Mala Mahanadu president Karam Shivaji lodged a complaint against Ponnam Prabhakar at S. R. Nagar police station in Hyderabad. Shivaji is also leader of […]
World No.8 Stanislas Wawrinka and Eduard Roger-Vasselin survived close semi-final matches here Saturday to make it to the title round of the Aircel Chennai Open. The 28-year-old Swiss Wawrinka, winner here in 2011, looked relieved when Canadian World No.32 Vasek Pospisil conceded the match due to a sore lower back at 5-5 in the second […]