Married Romeo paraded in undergarments by women
Guntur: 25-year-old Narasimha was paraded around town in his undergarments, wearing a garland of slippers. He attempted to take off the slipper-garland but it was put right back by the angry crowd following him on the roads of Vinukonda town in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Following him were two women and a mob of their supporters. Narasimha More...
Odisha hostage crisis: Deadline over, standoff continues
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha hostage crisis remains unresolved even as the deadline set by the two Maoist groups expired yesterday. The leader of the Odisha Maoist unit, Sabyasachi Panda, who is holding Italian national More...
Grand jury cancellation leaves Zimmerman case in limbo
Sanford, Florida — Now that the grand jury that was scheduled to convene Tuesday in the Trayvon Martin case has been canceled many are wondering when a decision will be made. The special prosecutor assigned More...
Bahrain denies man on hunger strike is critically ill
Bahrain on Tuesday denied reports that a detained activist on a hunger strike has serious medical problems, saying he is taking fluids orally and intravenously. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, 52, was arrested a year ago More...
Deadline passes for Syrian forces to pull out from cities
A deadline for Syrian troops to withdraw from cities came and went Tuesday morning, but opposition activists say the regime’s onslaught rages on. At least 12 people, including three children, were killed in More...
Over 100 people executed in Syria, says Rights Group
New York: A new report by the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that Syrian forces have summarily executed more than a hundred people, most of them civilians. Tom Porteous, deputy program More...
Service chiefs to explain defence preparedness to MPs on April 20
New Delhi: The three service chiefs will meet a cross-section of MPs on April 20 to explain their troops’ preparedness. Their appointment with the standing committee on Defence comes weeks after a letter More...
Odisha hostage crisis: Deadline ends today; govt talks tough
Bhubaneswar: With the deadline given by Maoists in Odisha for the release of two hostages, Italian national Paolo Bosusco and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Jhina Hikaka set to end today, the state government has toughened More...
IAEA: Iran agrees to nuclear talks
Nuclear talks will resume this week in Turkey between Iran and six world powers, the U.N. nuclear watchdog reported Monday. “We have agreed with Iran to launch a new round of talks in Istanbul on 14 April,” More...
Turkish officials: Violence in Syria spills across border
Hopes for a cease-fire in Syria this week have apparently fizzled, despite reports of an earlier promise by the Syrian government to withdraw its forces from cities by Tuesday. Mounting deaths, a fresh demand by More...
