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Washington: A US Marine Corps helicopter carrying out earthquake relief in Nepal was reported missing today with eight personnel on board, officials said. "The incident occurred near Charikot, Nepal while the aircraft was conducting…
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Beirut: Syrian government helicopters have dropped a barrel bomb in a neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo, hitting a busy bus depot and killing at least 28 people, activists said. The attack on the Jisr al-Haj neighbourhood…
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Lahore: A Pakistani court has set free 97 Hindus, including women and children, who had been kept as bonded labourers at a brick kiln in Pakistan's Punjab province for the last four years. Lahore High Court Justice Atir Mehmood yesterday…
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Washington: With the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden spending several years in a mansion in Abbottabad, it is impossible to believe that none in Pakistan's security establishment knew about this hideout of the al-Qaeda chief,…
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New Delhi: A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on richter scale epicentred in Nepal shook West Bengal, Delhi and several parts of north India today, less than three weeks after the region was struck by a devastating temblor. "The quake…
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Dhaka: Suspected Islamists today hacked to death a secular blogger near his home in northeastern Bangladesh, the third such deadly attack since February in the Muslim-majority nation. Ananta Bijoy Das died instantly after a gang of masked…
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Washington: In a major victory for the petroleum industry, the US has given conditional approval for oil and natural gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean. America's conditional approval to Royal Dutch Shell to drill in the Arctic Ocean this…
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Washington: The White House has rejected a revelation by a prominent US journalist who claimed that an ISI operative revealed the hideout of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden who was later killed in a raid by American commandos. A media…
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Washington: With Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage, the terror group's shura council is to elect a stand-in leader this week to handle day-to-day affairs, according to a media report.…
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Guwahati: The FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), North East Chapter in association with the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has organised a mobilisation exercise of relief materials for the earthquake survivors of Nepal. Essential items like rice,…
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