At least two persons have been killed and one other injured when an old shell exploded at a metal scrap shop in Mamun Cantonment area of Pathankot today.
The shop owner, dealing in discarded junk of army, and his employees were extracting metal out of the shell when the blast occurred at around 2.30 pm.
According to [...]
Around six member of a marriage part have been killed and 27 others were injured in a head-on collision between two private buses near Mamugoia village between Jalalabad and Guru Harsahai in the Ferozepur district tonight.
Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav said both the buses were carrying ‘Baratis’. While one was on its way to Abohar, [...]
Around two tigers have been found dead at Timarpur area of Ranthambore National Park.
According to an official spokesman the carcasses of two male big cats-aged around two years-were found in the Northern part of sanctuary near the Sawai Madhopur-Karauli interdistrict border by the Forest and Wildlife Department patrol party this morning.
The two young tigers [...]
Lakhs of students today appeared for the CBSE Class X and XII examinations at over 5,300 centres across the country.
Around 6.99 lakh candidates took their Class XII examination for physics while a number of students out of a total of 9.02 lakh candidates in Class X took their exam in music.
According to CBSE, the number [...]
A Surya Kiran aircraft of the Indian Navy on Wednesday crashed into a residential area during an air show in Hyderabad. The plane crashed near the Begumpet airport of Hyderabad.
The Kiran MK-II plane, which was part of the ‘Sagar Pawan’ aerobatic team participating in a display at the India Aviation show, crashed into a building, [...]
Around two people have been killed after protests in Karnataka over the publication of a translated version of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s article in a Kannada daily turned violent Monday, police said.
Curfew has been clamped in Shimoga city, about 280 km from Bangalore, and prohibitory orders imposed in Hassan district, around 200 km from Bangalore, [...]
Shivendra Singh of Indian Hockey team has been suspended for three matches for hitting Pakistan’s Fareed Ahmed at the men’s field hockey World Cup.
Tournament Director Ken Read said Monday he noticed Singh’s actions on video after the conclusion of Sunday’s Pool B match, won 4-1 by India over Pakistan.
The director further said that Singh “lifted [...]
The Shimla Police has on Sunday arrested Gaurav Verma, a student of IIT-Roorkee, for the murder of IIT-Delhi girl Pragati Tibberwal. The police said after the murder, Verma – who is from Manikapur in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh – had attempted suicide twice.
The two had reached Shimla early on Friday morning and checked in at Hotel [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the Union Budget for 2010-11 in Parliament, said the Indian economy has weathered the financial crisis, but key challenges remain which have to be tackled by the government.
Quickly reverting to the high GDP growth rate of 9 percent and crossing the double-digit growth barrier is a major challenge, said [...]
The Punjab Government has declared public holiday on March 1, 2010 on the eve of “Holi”. A spokesman of the Punjab government disclosed this today in Chandigarh.
The spokesman said that Punjab Government partially amended its first notification and declared public holiday (Holi) on March 1, 2010 instead of February 28, 2010.