Death

A six-year-old rape survivor from Odisha's Salepur died on Sunday after struggling for life for more than a week at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, an official said. The minor was on ventilator support ever since she was…

Thirteen school children were killed and six others seriously injured on Thursday when a train hit their van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar, police said. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Kushinagar district,…

The security forces have recovered at least 11 more bodies of suspected Maoists from the Indravati River here early on Tuesday, official sources said. The bodies, which were bloated and have started to decompose, were found floating on…

The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday approved an ordinance on the death penalty for those convicted of raping children below the age of 12. The decision came a day after the Ministry of…

Ten persons were killed and rail, road and air traffic was disrupted in West Bengal as twin storms accompanied by rains lashed through the city on Tuesday night felling trees, uprooting electric poles and triggering house collapse.…

The Former First Lady of the US, Barbara Bush, died on Tuesday at the age of 92 after having been in failing health for some time, a family spokesperson said. "A former First Lady of the US and relentless proponent of family literacy,…

An Army porter was killed on Monday in firing by the Pakistan Army on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. Police said Khurshid Ahmed was killed in Uri sector. Reports reaching here said there was no…

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Monday acquitted all five accused in the 2007 Makkah Masjid bomb blast case. Eleven years after the powerful explosion killed nine people and injured more than 50 during the…

Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city on Thursday due to a valley-wide protest shutdown called by separatists against the killing of four civilians in a gunfight on Wednesday. The shutdown has been called by the…

At least 257 people were killed in a military plane crash near an airfield outside the Algerian capital on Wednesday, the media reported. An Ilyushin I76 troop carrier belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashed in the military airbase…