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India starts bullet train project with tech and 50-year loan from Japan

India on Thursday, September 14, took the first steps towards operationalising a bullet train project that would reduce an eight-hour journey time to a quarter. Read to know more.

Sep 14, 2017

Delhi cabbie rapes woman after befriending her at railway station

The cab driver had also threatened to gang rape her along with his friends if she did not co-operate with him. Read on to know more.

Sep 14, 2017

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Bullet train: After 80s' Suzuki revolution, another Japanese footprint in transport sector

In the early 1980s, it was Japan's Suzuki which had revolutionised India's automobile sector. Over three decades later, it is again Japan's Shinkansen which is set to revolutionise India's railways sector. And we can't really complain about it even if ordinary trains get derailed.

Sep 14, 2017

Polish band Decapitated arrested for kidnapping and gang-raping fan after Washington concert

Decapitated band members, identified as Michal Lysejko, 27, Waclaw Kieltyka, 35, Rafal Piotrowski, and Hubert Wiecek, 30, were arrested and charged with first-degree kidnapping.

Sep 14, 2017

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Bystanders attempt to stop a burning car rolling along a busy London street

Bystanders at the intersection of Church Hill and Hoe St in Walthamstow, London, attempted on September 12 to stop a runaway car that caught fire and began rolling down the street after the driver escaped.

Sep 14, 2017

Not a filmy plot: Actor Shahid kidnaps child with girlfriend's help to teach ex-wife a lesson

The actor and his girlfriend have been arrested after three months in the kidnapping case.

Sep 14, 2017

Talim spares Taiwan; Japan facing its fury while China gears up for twin-typhoons

Japan's Southern Ryukyu Islands have already received heavy rainfall and massive power outages have been reported. About 16,700 homes are without electricity and numerous trees were seen uprooted

Sep 14, 2017

Uttar Pradesh: 22 people drown, 10 rescued as boat capsizes in Yamuna in Baghpat

Police and rescue teams reached the spot and managed to bring 10 people to safety and admitted them to a local hospital.

Sep 14, 2017

Student opens fire at Washington state school killing classmate, injuring 3 others

The slain student was trying to convince the shooter, whose first gun had jammed, not to carry out the morning rampage when he was shot dead.

Sep 14, 2017

Malaysia fire: 23 students, 2 wardens dead in 'tahfiz' school blaze in Kuala Lumpur

The fire tore through Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, a religious school located in a Malay settlement of Datuk Keramat, just before dawn. The cause of the fire is still not known.

Sep 14, 2017

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From Irma to Katrina: Five most expensive natural disasters to hit the US

These are the 5 costliest natural disasters ever happened to the U.S.

Sep 14, 2017

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Hillary Clinton compares herself to Game of Thrones Cersei Lannister

In her much-anticipated new memoir, What Happened, the former presidential candidate likens her treatment by the Republicans during the election campaign to the humiliation experienced by Lena Headeys Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones.

Sep 13, 2017