Three army officers were killed and a junior commissioned officer was critically injured today when a Cheetah helicopter crashed at Sukna Military Camp in West Bengal. Army officials said the chopper crashed at around 11:45 AM when it was returning to the camp’s helipad at Sukna, near Silgirui, from a routine mission. While three officers died on the spot, a […]
» Read moreSenior Congress leader and three-time legislator Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra passed away at a private hospital in Gurugram on Sunday night. He was 52, and is survived by his wife and a daughter. Popularly called Lulu Mohapatra, he had been undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital for the past few weeks. The end came at 10.30 p.m. on Sunday following multiple organ […]
» Read moreAt least 13 people were on Thursday killed and 40 others injured in Pakistan after two passenger trains collided here. Three bogies of Zakaria Express were completely destroyed due to the collision in Gaddafi Town in Landhi area early on Thursday morning. The incident took place when Fareed Express collided with Zakaria Express due to wrong signal given to the […]
» Read moreUnion Minister Babul Supriyo was on Tuesday attacked with bricks allegedly by Trinamool Congress activists when he was on his way to a police station to stage a protest against the arrest of some BJP workers. “I was going to the police station to secure release of some of my partymen. I was hit with bricks and windowpanes of my […]
» Read morePope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.” Pope Francis held up Mother Teresa as the model for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find poor, wounded souls during a canonisation […]
» Read moreWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday initiated the process of return of land to the farmers of Singur, saying a notification in this regard would be issued. Speaking to journalists at the Secretariat after a meeting involving senior ministers and district officials, Ms. Banerjee said the land survey would start soon and completed in the next two weeks. […]
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