Israel has killed Ahmed Jabari, a top military commander of the Hamas, in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip, bringing the two sides to the brink of a possible new war.
Two persons were charred to death and seven others suffered severe burns when a bogie of Solapur-bound passenger train from Hyderabad caught fire during its halt at the station in Gulbarga on Tuesday, the police said.
While some people congratulated the police and raised slogans in favour of them like 'Telangana police zindabad', others distributed sweets to police personnel.
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The couple was first lynched in a village in Gaya district of Bihar and then set on fire by the enraged villagers.
At least 10 people were charred to death and another 12 got injured when a gas tanker caught fire and exploded after being hit by a truck on a highway near Beelpur village, 35 kilometres from Jaipur, late Saturday night.
"63 pilgrims travelling in the private bus that was returning from Jai Gurudev Ashram in Mathura have been killed in the mishap that occurred on Tuesday evening," district magistrate, Firozabad, Amit Gupta said.
The harrowing tragedy struck Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday just a day before Eid celebrations when a tanker carrying 40,000 litres of petrol overturned and burst into flames as hundreds of villagers had gathered to collect the fuel spilled over on the highway at the Ahmedpur Sharqia area of the Bahawalpur district, some 400 km from Lahore.
The wife and two children of general manager of Taj Hotel Karambir Kang were killed in the terrorist attack.
The fire engulfed a cluster of jhuggis at Biman Nagar under the jurisdiction of Yerawada police station.
The five passengers, who escaped with burn injuries, are undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad.
No untoward incident has been reported from the district over the past three days.
A person was arrested in connection with the massive fire that killed ten Indians and a Bangladeshi in Dubai, as focus shifted on the illegal practices that had led to the disaster.The agent who had rented out the villa illegally has been arrested and the police is searching for another person who was involved in sub-letting the complex, sources said. However, there was no independent confirmation of the arrest.
Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias 'Mohd Bhai, an electrician with a graduate degree and a resident of Pulwama, arranged the vehicle and explosives used in the terror strike.
Through the night, private vehicles and ambulances ferried the wounded and dead to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Aga Khan University Hospital and others where utter chaos prevailed as doctors struggled to attend to the hundreds of victims.
Hospital authorities said of the deceased at the GTB, at least nine received gun shots. One of the deceased is also a woman, they said.
Eight persons were charred to death and three others seriously injured in a fire that broke out in three timber scrap godowns in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi near Thane, police and fire officials said.
There where nearly 15 guests staying in the hotel at the time of the mishap.
The three men -- aged 30, 24 and 22 -- were unable to escape from the front bedroom as the blaze spread quickly and there was little the fire fighters could do to save them, Fire Brigade authorities said.
Villagers from Pandharwada and Lunavada were also among the co-accused for participating in the matter.
'Half of China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, which are among the most populous countries in the world, are dependent on the rivers and glaciers of the Himalayas for sustenance.'
Three bodies were found in the cracker shop, while two more were recovered from neighbouring shops.
The CM has announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh each to the kin of those killed.
The intensity of fire and explosions at central ammunition depot at Pulgaon in Wardha district was such that seven of the victims were blown to pieces, a top police official said.
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As many as 18 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
An army truck patrolling the area was targeted and eight soldiers were killed in the attack.
Terming the incident "unfortunate", the Bangladesh home minister said the director general of both the forces should ideally sit together and solve the issue.
Almost all the deceased were migrant labourers hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Thirteen others were hurt when three coaches of the Amritsar-bound train caught fire and were completely gutted.
The extremists armed with guns and explosives stormed Dalori and began shooting indiscriminately and set fire to homes.
A pall of gloom has descended on the temple town of Kumbakonam where 90 lives were snuffed out in a devastating fire in a school complex yesterday
The PIA plane PK-661 with 48 people, including famous pop singer-turned-Islamic preacher Junaid Jamshed, his wife and Deputy Commissioner Chitral Osama Warraich, on board crashed on Wednesday in Saddha Batolni village near Havelian while en route to Islamabad from Chitral in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The tanker exploded after fuel leaking from its damaged container caught fire.
Eleven people were killed and seven others seriously injured in an explosion at a fire cracker manufacturing unit at Vakatippa village in coastal East Godavari district on Monday.
'I think there must be some sort of a nexus between the rioters and a section of police officials which resulted in gruesome killings and arson'
The blaze started on the second floor of the Arpit Palace Hotel in the heart of the national capital around 3.30 am, trapping many guests who were in deep sleep.
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