Serial blasts in Karachi killed 1
At least one person killed & 50 persons have been injured in a series of six bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday. The explosions, which occurred in busy commercial & residential areas, caused widespread panic in the bustling city of about 16 million people.
These series of blasts in Karachi were of low intensity and they have not caused any damage to property. Police & paramilitary Pakistan Rangers were ….
Earthquake struck Andaman islands
An Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 struck some parts of Andaman islands on Monday. The earthquake struck at around 3:30 pm & the epicentre was located at of a latitude 10.7 degrees North & a longitude of 91.6 degrees East.
The quake was of moderate intensity, it said & there were no immediate reports of any damage or casualty.
Congress Govt falls in J&K, Azad resigns
Jammu & Kashmir’s CM Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned after losing the floor test. The Azad government was reduced to a minority after PDP withdrew support on June 28. Ahead of the confidence vote, Azad, along with state Congress president Saif-ud-din Soz, met Governor N N Vohra last night. The meeting lasted more than two hours.
PDP patron & MLA from Pahalgham Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is currently in the United States on a private visit. There are reports stating that it ….
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife in hospital after suicide attempt in Patiala
Cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife Navjot kaur has on Saturday attempted to commit suicide at her residence in Patiala. She has been admitted in Intensive care unit in Sadbhavna medical & heart hospital in Patiala. The doctors however said it is a case of food poisoning, a private news agency reported.
Navjot Singh Sidhu who was in Amritsar rushed to Patiala & visited her wife in the hospital but he refused to talk to media. It is learnt that ….
Three opposition MLAs join BJP in Karnataka
The ruling BJP in Karnataka got a boost on Saturday when two JD(S) & one Congress legislators quit their parties to join it. The two JD(S) MLAs — Balachandra Laxman Rao Jarkiholi & K Shivanna Gouda Naik — & a Congress legislator Anand Vasant Asnotikar submitted their resignation letters to speaker Jagadish Shettar, who has accepted them. The three legislators have not given any reason for quitting the assembly membership & the parties.
Later, they went to the BJP office where ….
Bomb blast in Yemen killed five
At least five people have been killed on Sunday in an explosion in central Saada, a town in northwest Yemen at the focus of a Shiite revolt. Rescue services evacuated the casualties as security forces sealed off the area.
Yemen’s mountainous Saada province on the border with Saudi Arabia has been the heartland of an on-off uprising launched by Zaidi Shiite rebels in 2004 in which thousands of people have died. Preliminary investigations indicate that the explosion resulted from a bomb ….
Earthquake struck Arunachal borders
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter Scale struck the Arunachal Pradesh border early on Saturday morning. The earthquake hit Eastern Xizang on the Arunachal borders at 03:05 a.m..
There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualty. The epicentre of this earthquake was located at a latitude of 29.4 degree North & a longitude of 96.4 degree East.
Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom
U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. & other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips. Judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips & when.
The data would not be publicly released but disclosed only to the ….
Major fire in Mumbai Mahalaxmi racecourse
A major fire has been broke out at the Mahalaxmi racecourse in central Mumbai on Thursday evening. Seven fire engines & eight water tankers have been rushed to the spot.
Fire broke out in the kitchen of a restaurant at the racecourse. There were no immediate reports of any casualties.
3 killed in Jerusalem bulldozer rampage
At least three people have been killed 44 others injured on Wednesday afternoon (local time) when a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem. Police has said that the driver plowed his vehicle into two public buses, toppling them over, & slammed into several cars. The driver was shot dead by an elite policeman. He said that the incident was a terror attack.
Police emphasized that the terrorist was carrying an ….
Sikhs protest attack on girl whose hair was chopped off in New York
Sikh community has took out protest march in New York against an attack on a 12 years old girl who had her long hair cut off by a fellow student. Sikhs are demanding actions to stop such cases. Gurprit Kaur’s hair was cut by a fellow student on June 9 in a school in Flushing in Queens suburb of New York City, five days after one Jagmohan Singh Premi was punched on the face in another school by a fellow ….
Read More: Sikhs protest attack on girl whose hair was chopped off in New YorkMan killed 5 officers, sets fire at police station
A man wielding a knife broke into a Shanghai-area police station on Tuesday & killed five police officers & injured four others. He also set fire to the building’s main gate. Police identified the 28-year-old suspect only by his surname, Yang.
The unemployed resident of Beijing was reportedly unhappy with the punishment he received after being convicted of stealing a bicycle, when he launched his attack on the station. He was arrested at the scene.
UP MLA Pandit held for abducting reporter
Shribhagwan Verma alias Guddu Pandit, BSP MLA, has been arrested on Sunday for allegedly “abducting” a woman television reporter three days back. Pandit has been charged under various Sections of Indian Penal Code by the Uttar Pradesh government. He was summoned by Chief Minister Mayawati at her residence in Delhi after the reporter lodged a complaint with her of his misbehavior.
The victim - Sheetal told the Chief Minister that Pandit had allegedly forced him to travel with him from one ….
Haryana govt restricts Ram Rahim’s movement
The Haryana government has imposed an informal ban on the movement of Dera Sachcha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim outside the Dera Sacha Sauda campus in Sirsa. This comes a day after the Maharashtra government talked about its plan to ban the Dera chief’s entry into the state for about one year.
A senior Haryana home department official said the Dera head had been asked not to venture out as apart from the danger ….
CBI: Rajkumar confesses to involvement in Aarushi’s murder
Ghaziabad special court has on Saturday sent Rajkumar to CBI custody for fourteen days. During the court hearing on Saturday, the CBI has said that Durrani’s servant, Rajkumar had confessed to his involvement in Aarushi & Hemraj’s murder. For the first time the CBI told the court as to what happened to Aarushi’s mobile. Rajkumar confirmed that he had switched off her mobile and then eventually destroyed it.
In his statement to the CBI under 161 of Code of Criminal Procedure, ….
Police arrested three Pak-Trained Terrorists
The Punjab Police has claimed to arrest three Pakistan-trained terrorists on Saturday with 34.5 kg of RDX explosive from Kaunke village in Jagraon. The Inspector General said that Amrik Singh, Daljit Singh & Sarvjit Singh alias Sokhu, all of them hailing from Moga, were working at the instance of one Surjit Singh Mahal of Jalandhar & intelligence agencies across the border. Mahal is now based in Hamburg, Germany.
According to the police officer, the arrests followed information that some terrorists were ….
Gunmen kill six police officers in northern Mexico
The attorney general’s office has on Saturday said that the gunmen killed six police officers in an ambush in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. The six officers had stopped at a red light in a police vehicle in Culiacan when they were shot by unidentified men in a white truck.
It was the third such attack against police this week. Drug cartels have stepped up attacks on police as they lash back at a nationwide crackdown on trafficking.
Earthquake struck Chennai & Andaman, No casualties reported
Two earthquakes of magnitude 6.7 & 6.1 struck India’s Andaman & Nicobar Islands & some parts of Chennai on Friday. The epicentre of the earthquake was 115 kilometres southwest from capital Port Blair & 45 km below the sea. There are no reports of any damage & casualties. The earthquake occurred at 17:10 p.m.
Areas from the North Andaman to the Great Nicobar Island experienced the tremor sending people scurrying out of ….
R R Patil: Maharashtra govt may ban Ram Rahim for a year
Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has on Friday announced that the Maharashtra government is considering to ban Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim from entering the state for one year. The decision may be fuelled by Sikhs apprehension that Baba Ram Rahim will try to disrupt an event at Nanded to mark the 300th death anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in October-November this year. The event is expected to draw 25-30 lakh Sikhs from all over India. ….
Read More: R R Patil: Maharashtra govt may ban Ram Rahim for a yearAarushi murder case: Rajkumar arrested
CBI has on Friday arrested Rajkumar, Anita Durrani’s servant, in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. Joint Director of CBI Arun Kumar has said that Rajkumar was subjected to lie-detector test, psychological assessment, brain mapping & narco-analysis tests at Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Gandhinagar in Gujarat from June 23 to June 26.
Arun Kumr said that Rajkumar’s arrest was effected after report from forensic experts of a washed white colour t-shirt seized from his house opined that it “contains human blood”.
14 years old Noida ….