The boat, with about 80 passengers onboard, mostly tourists from outside Kerala, sank after cruising five km from the boarding point from where it had set out around 4 pm.
A 11-year-old Pakistani Hindu boy has been allegedly raped and murdered at the premises of a club in Sindh province, triggering protests by people demanding justice for the family, a media report said on Sunday.
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With the arrest of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa coming as a shock to her supporters, the party today claimed that 154 sympathisers have died unable to bear the anguish.
"Eight bodies have been fished out while three to four persons are still missing and feared drowned," officials said.
At least 25 persons were drowned and several others missing on Wednesday morning after a bus fell into the Gobind Sagar reservoir at Rayian near Bilaspur, 95-km from Shimla.
Long before Resul Pookutty's Oscar blast, Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan used sound as a leitmotif in his films. For Adoor, known world over as one of the finest filmmakers ever from India, sound is as important as any other factor in a film.
According to a new report from the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an estimated 2,275 individuals drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2018.
The prime minister interacted with a number of students, teachers and parents in the second edition of "Pariksha pe Charcha".
Sixteen deaths in rain and flood-related incidents have been reported from western Maharashtra in the last seven days, while the toll in Karnataka rose to five since Sunday.
Not too much is known about the middle-aged Arifuddin who is Vavasi's major shareholder, except for the fact that he is a civil engineer from Karnataka and started the group around a decade ago.
France began dreaming of World Cup glory after a two-decade wait after Les Bleus on Tuesday defeated Belgium to reach the final
The untimely passing of 47-year-old Rajeev Motwani has left the Silicon Valley community in shock. Here, many of them remember this great man.
'In Kejriwal's re-election, we are finally seeing someone who has successfully bridged his Hindu identity with ground-level development triumphing over the BJP,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Sukanya Verma celebrates the acting legend.
Saad Khan was swimming across a lake in Bangkok with a 7 kg backpack, when he drowned.
'We have not been able to use the potential of our location in the region and the world and our strength as a nation and an economy to establish an EU-like structure in South Asia,' points out Aakar Patel.
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He attacked the dispensation over issues such as the state of the economy, the situation in Kashmir, the National Register of Citizens in Assam and action by probe agencies against opposition leaders.
At least 200 Indian students stranded at the University of Houston were being evacuated to safer places.
'We all live very intense lives. S*** goes down all the time.' 'This 'eureka moment' doesn't really happen.' 'The discipline of writing and polishing a song is way harder,' Prateek Kuhad, the singing sensation, tells Veer Arjun Singh.
The Mumbai civic body asked all schools to remain shut and to ensure that the students were sent back home safely.
The Ultraboost19 will encourage both runners and subtle style statements, writes Veer Arjun Singh.
'Krishna is sure to be a success with his US education and zest for life even at 77. He may well turn out to be the best dressed external affairs minister we ever had.'
The celebrated Stanford professor, Rajeev Motwani, known worldwide for mentoring and advising founders of the companies like Google and PayPal, has died in a freak drowning incident.
Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao and the Spanish football federation face fines over politically-motivated whistles and banners during last season's King's Cup final at the Nou Camp, the Spanish government said on Monday.
Online travel agencies are offering packages that make this summer the best season to go places. Mayur Oberoi, makemytrip.com's associate vice president, outbound tour, says they are seeing some good traction this summer season despite the slowdown. "This year we have seen short-haul destinations do considerably well in our international section, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bali, Hong Kong and Macau."
South Asians who are registered to vote could empower the entire community by flocking to polling stations in all upcoming elections, and show the importance of the South Asian ballot.
The Underwater Photography Guide has announced the winners of their 8th annual Ocean Art Underwater Photography Competition: a selection that runs the gamut between beautiful, eye popping and, in the case of the Conservation category winner, tragic and unnerving. This year's contest attracted "thousands" of entries from 78 countries across the world.
As Mumbai almost came to a halt after overnight rains, netizens and Mumbaikars took a dig at the Shiv Sena for the plight of their beloved city.
Going on a date tonight? Well, make sure that you don't treat the waiter at the restaurant badly, for a new study has found that clicking fingers at a matre d' is the biggest first date faux pas.
Using the 'Hot Balloon' technique, experts from the Indian Navy brought the launch to the surface on Sunday evening, exactly eight days after it had drowned in an attack by the rebels of the Communist Party of India-Maoist killing more than 30 Greyhound commandos and policemen.
This week we see the release of the very first underwater adventure film Blue. Director Anthony D'souza talks about his film.
Partsiban Viknesh, a member of the Indian freighter Patalztutra, fell into the sea about 40 nautical miles off Qinhuangdao on Sunday, when the ship was sailing to South Korea
Residents in Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra continue to struggle as floods leave them in a watery hell.
However, the government rejected the army's demand to implement the scheme with retrospective effect from June last year, when the Doklam face-off between Indian and Chinese armies had begun, official sources said.
The film also stars Bhamaa as the female lead.
Lack of opportunities coupled with a desire to get rich quick in the West is fueling Punjab's human trafficking problem.
Doval was seen eating food on a footpath outside closed shops and talking to locals.
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