Indian-American cardiologist Suresh Gadasalli was shot dead last week at the Healthy Heart Centre in Odessa, Texas by a patient and business associate who then killed himself, according to police. Witnesses said 60-year-old Ayyasamy Thangam shot the 53-year-old Gadasalli multiple times on Thursday afternoon, according to an Odessa Police Department news release. Thangam then closed […]
Agra Even as measures — some of them knee-jerk — are being taken to stop the majestic TajMahal from turning yellow, the exact causes for the monument’s discoloration are yet to be ascertained, a recent analysis shows. The analysis was undertaken by science and environment fortnightly ‘Down To Earth’. “We will not be able to […]
Strange are the ways of life as is evident in this commercial capital of the state: a Keralite family is weeping as one of its members was shot dead in Afghanistan, while in a nearby hospital, an Afghan national is elated as he has got a new pair of hands from a brain-dead Keralite. The […]
A small group of students here learning Sanskrit has endured over 15 days of tough, testing and frightening conditions in the aftermath of the April 25 earthquake. A fortnight after the devastating temblor, these small boys aged 10-15 years have lived in their hostel, next to their school building, whose foundations have been shaken by […]
An elephant that had strayed from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district into neighbouring Bangladesh was allegedly gunned down by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a forest official said on Tuesday. “We have been told by the BSF that a male elephant which had strayed across the border into Bangladesh was gunned down by the BGB,” State […]
A teenager was killed in Kashmir during firing by security forces who battled stone pelting protesters on Saturday, the day hardliner separatist Yasin Malik and social activist Swami Agnivesh were taken into preventive custody as they headed to the village where violence broke out. Kashmir was on the boil for the second day on Saturday. […]
Volunteers from Tangaroa Blue will hit the coast around Yeppoon over the next four days to clean-up marine debris in the area following cyclone Marcia. The severe tropical cyclone crossed the coast at Shoalwater Bay, just north of Yeppoon, in February. Two months on litter, plastics and other refuse has made its way from the […]
A 14-year-old boy shot himself dead in Allahabad on Thursday after his father reprimanded him for chatting too often on social networking site Facebook, police said. The incident took place in Parasnagar locality of Naini in Allahabad. The boy, a student of Class 9, was chatting on Facebook on Wednesday night on his mobile phone. […]
Islamabad, March 15 Two powerful explosions rocked two churches in Pakistan’s Lahore city on Sunday killing at least 15 people and triggering violence, media said. Jamatul Ahrar, an offshoot of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, news web sites said. At least 78 people were hurt in the explosions at the Catholic Church […]
Patna, March 6 A rescue and rehabilitation centre has opened in Bihar to protect and conserve the Garuda, an endangered species of the stork family. The first-of-its-kind centre opened this week in Bhagalpur district, said Sanjay Sinha, a divisional forest officer. Nearly eight years after these endangered birds started nesting and breeding in Bhagalpur, their […]