Rae Bareli/Lucknow, March 20 At least 32 people were killed when the engine and three coaches of a passenger train derailed near Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh after the driver overshot a signal on Friday. Northern Railway spokesman Neeraj Sharma said in New Delhi that nearly 50 people were warded in hospitals. Doctors in Lucknow […]
All general retail shops in the Perth metropolitan area will be allowed to open from 8am until 6pm on Easter Monday, April 6, and the Anzac Day public holiday, April 27. Commerce Minister Michael Mischin said the decision provided more flexibility for retailers, who previously were only allowed to open between 11am to 5pm […]
Dhaka, March 20 Customs officials at the Shah Amanat Airport in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong seized 16 gold bars weighing around two kg from a United Arab Emirates (UAE) flyer, media reported. The passenger, Jahangir Alam, landed at the airport on an Air Arabia flight from Ras al Khaimah in the UAE around on […]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive David Richardson today issued the following statement following comments about the match officials in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 quarter-final between Bangladesh and India in Melbourne on Thursday. “The ICC has noted Mr Mustafa Kamal’s comments, which are very unfortunate but made in his personal capacity. […]
Chennai, March 19 India is likely to put into orbit its fourth regional navigation satellite on March 28, with the country’s space agency now in the process of loading the rocket with the satellite, an official said on Thursday. “The process of integrating the IRNSS-1D (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) is underway and it is […]
Panaji, March 19 LGBTs are suffering from “psychological” disorders caused by following American lifestyle, and a health and medicine expo organised jointly by Goa and the central government and an RSS-linked NGO will have “counselling centres to cure such maladies”, organisers said on Thursday. The three-day expo will begin on March 27. Speaking to reporters […]
New Delhi, March 19 Over 200 representatives of Panchayati Raj institutions and urban local bodies on Thursday urged the government to ensure people’s right to water and sanitation with the present context to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet initiative — Clean India Campaign. They said that though the government has set a target of making […]
Aden, March 19 A fighter jet that took off from Yemen’s capital Sanaa bombed the republican palace where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi stays in the southern port city of Aden on Thursday afternoon, a government official based in Aden told Xinhua news agency. “The military warplane fired one rocket on a building inside the republican […]
Mandalay, March 19 The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a solar-powered aircraft on a mission to fly around the globe without a drop of fuel, has landed here on Thursday, completing the fourth leg of its historic flight, according to media reports. The aircraft, piloted by the Swiss project chairman Bertrand Piccard, had taken off from […]
New Delhi, March 19 The Congress asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to “apologise” to farmers and to “withdraw” the land acquisition ordinance, calling it a “sinister attempt” to kill the spirit of the 2013 Land Act brought when the UPA was in power. In response to a letter from union Transport Minister Nitin […]