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300 yaks starve to death after heavy snowfall in Sikkim, biggest 'tragedy' in 20 years

Yaks die every year when the region is hit by snowstorms, but the death toll this year was unexpected.

May 13, 2019

Who is behind attacks on oil tankers of UAE and Saudi Arabia?

Both the American allies and Iran are voicing concerns over the region's safety and stability in the aftermath of the attacks near the Strait of Hormuz.

May 13, 2019

BJP women netas don't want their husbands to meet PM: Mayawati takes potshot at Modi

BSP supremo Mayawati alleged that women legislators in the Bharatiya Janata Party fear that if Modi meets their husbands, they will leave their wives as PM did.

May 13, 2019

Clouds could have interfered with bomb sensors, says IAF officer on PM Modi's radar theory

The IAF officer said that one of the Mirage 2000 planes could not even drop the payload due to bad weather in Balakot on February 26.

May 13, 2019

Manipur's Iron Lady Irom Sharmila gives birth to twins on Mother's Day in Bengaluru

Irom Sharmila gave birth to twin girls on Mother's Day in Bengaluru. The delivery happened at Malleshwaram branch of the Cloudnine hospital.

May 13, 2019

How to watch Thrissur Pooram 2019 online; all you need to know

Thrissur Pooram was introduced by 17th-century ruler of the Kingdom of Cochin King Rama Varma, commonly known as Sakthan Thampuran.

May 13, 2019

Watch | Polling agent from Faridabad arrested for influencing voters. Video goes viral

A polling agent was arrested from a polling booth in Prithla assembly constituency of Asawati village in Faridabad after he tried to influence three women voters on Sunday.

May 13, 2019

Watch | Myanmar plane fails to deploy landing gear, pilot lands without front wheels

A Myanmar Airlines flight UB-103 (Embraer-190 model) carrying 89 people faced some issue after the landing gear of the aircraft failed to deploy and the pilot had to do an emergency landing without the front wheels.

May 13, 2019

Sri Lanka blocks social media platforms after Muslim shops, mosques attacked

Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on the west coast on Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook.

May 13, 2019

Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-II: How credence became victim of truth, byword for fraud

From the very beginning, it was all about credence, convoluted and flawed for the Kochhar-Advani enterprise. And then, of course, the triangle remains incomplete without the emergence of the ubiquitous Videocon and Venugopal Dhoot.

May 13, 2019

Kashmir's own 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' turns into a scam; family loses entire savings to become a millionaire

A daily wager, Abdul Majeed sold his land, house to give Rs 23 lakh to fraudster under the garb of KBC.

May 13, 2019

Gunmen kill six in church attack in Burkina Faso

Congregants were leaving church around 9 am in the town of Dablo in the Central North region when about twenty men encircled them and shot six dead.

May 13, 2019

Bishen Singh Bedi faces 'humiliation' at polling booth, claims officials too busy taking selfies to help him

Former India captain says when he went to vote in Delhi during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls, he had great troubles due to apathy of officials.

May 12, 2019

India frees Pakistani prisoner arrested in 2009 for espionage

Mohammed Waqas has been in India for 10 years in Bithoor police station in Kanpur after he went missing in 2005 when he visited the country reportedly for a cricket match.

May 12, 2019

PM Modi targets Mayawati over Alwar gang rape, questions BSP's support to Congress in Rajasthan

Addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked BSP leader Mayawati over the gang rape of a Dalit woman in Rajasthan.

May 12, 2019