The toddler's death brought to the fore the lack of awareness on sealing unused borewells and public apathy towards taking safety measures.
Officials said the the boy identified as Md Tanveer was apprehended by the Border Security Force on Sunday evening at the Dona Telu Mal border post in Punjab.
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'This is for the first time that a strong, solid evidence-based investigation has happened.' 'It can meet international standards and put the onus on the Pakistanis.'
At least 20 other persons are feared trapped under the debris of the building in Navi Vasti locality.
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The area has been hit by continuous rains for the past three days.
The blast occurred in the remote Hub region in Lasbela district where devotees were attending a Sufi dance called "dhamaal" at Dargah Shah Noorani shrine.
Rescue efforts were on for the third day on Tuesday to pull out a six-year-old boy trapped in an abandoned borewell at a farm in Sulikeri village in Bagalkot in Karnataka, even as his father pleaded for stopping the operation, fearing the worst for his son.
Seven people, including a six-year-old boy, were seriously injured in a bomb blast carried out by suspected militants in Manipur's Imphal West district on Saturday.
Four persons were killed while scores of others were rescued when avalanches struck the Kashmir Valley after unprecedented snowfall.
The killing was a grim reminder of the murder of a seven-year-old student in Gurgaon last year.
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On being challenged by the army's patrol party, the boy immediately surrendered.
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The former IAS officer said the main reason for not contesting the polls was to focus more on the mass contact programme.
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The former India football captain said the onus is on the strikers to deliver against Bangladesh on October 15 in Kolkata.
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A police official said the accused revealed during questioning that he committed the crime because he wanted to "defame" the school after being scolded by teachers three days before the incident for passing off someone else's homework as his own.
The terror siege on a shopping mall in an upscale neighbourhood in Nairobi, Kenya entered its fourth day today.
An Italian city has banned cricket in parks after a two-year-old boy was struck by a ball while he was on the balcony of his home, dealing a blow to the cricket-loving Afghan and Pakistani migrants there, media reports said.
Royals are more affected than Sunrisers with the absence of Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Joffra Archer, who have left for England to join the World Cup camp.
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Boston marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to all charges in his first appearance in a federal courtroom on Wednesday.
Six Pakistani nationals languishing in Indian prisons, including an 11-year-old boy, were Monday repatriated to their country through the Indo-Pak Wagah joint check post.
The first wave of floods in Assam has claimed one life, affected nearly 68,000 people, submerged rhino habitats at Kaziranga and Pobitora and overrun vast tracks of human habitation and farm land.
The court impleaded the civic authorities and directed them to produce details on the action taken against violators who had failed to comply with the conditions stipulated for digging borewells and tubewells.
A Supreme Court-appointed committee probing six cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur informed the court on Thursday that these were not genuine encounters and the victims, including a 12-year-old boy, did not have any criminal records.
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Targetting those spearheading protests over killings due to security forces in the valley, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today strongly condemned the gunning down of 17-year old boy from Sopore, saying terrorists chased and killed him inside the Mosque.
pak lodged a 'strong protest over alleged unprovoked firing by Indian forces'.
The father of a nine year-old boy, who drove a Ferrari F 430 recently with his five-year-brother along side, causing widespread outrage, was arrested on Monday and released on bail.
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