Nearly 100 people have been killed and 50 others injured, some of them who jumped out of windows to save their lives, in a deadly fire in a three-storey garment factory in Pakistan's financial hub Karachi.
The Bharatiya Janata Party took a dig at the Congress over its stand off with NCP saying it did not know how to run a coalition and was busy placating allies while completely forgetting the 'aam aadmi'.
There was a half hour firefight between the Maoists and the police on Friday night at a jungle under Sorada police station area bordering Kandhamal district, before the ultras fled, a senior police official who took part in the operation told PTI.
The deadly fire has claimed at least 85 lives.
Recent statistics show that the situation is no different across the country with several hospitals lacking the infrastructure to manage a breakout of a blaze.
The new jobs - created both directly and indirectly - will be across industries, including IT, skill development, content creation, retail, logistics, and manufacturing.
The collection of mostly small and medium sized businesses is a hotchpotch of ventures and include design schools, schools, villas for hire in Goa and a country club in Gurgaon.
Analysts say that PMC Bank case is only going to make matters worse for HDIL and the Wadhawans.
Foggy conditions led to a 100-car pile-up near the Incheon airport
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said officials of Indian consulate in Jeddah are rushing to Najran following the incident.
The Northern Hemisphere is sizzling like an ant under a magnifying glass.
The footage, however, does not give a clear picture of whether the aircraft burst into flames mid-air or whether it blew up on impact of the crash, an official said.
This was the second ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the past 24 hours.
Powerful explosions tore through a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals in north China's major port city, killing at least 50 people and injuring over 700 others as the twin blasts sent fireballs, cars and containers raining down on panic-stricken residents.
Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was unarmed when United States Navy commandoes shot him dead during a special operation in Pakistan though he did offer resistance, the White House said on Wednesday.
The gunbattle took place at a forest in Kistaram area bordering Telangana
Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said that number 'may increase' further and that the 'significant' recovery operation is likely to take weeks.
The brazen Taliban attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul was similar to the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike, according to an American security analyst.
Japanese engineers on Saturday inched closer to connecting power at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plants, north of the Japanese capital, so as to restore the damaged cooling system to the dangerously overheated nuclear fuel.
The City of Love has become a scenic winter wonderland after seven inches of snow fell in Paris. Iconic landmarks such as the Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower are blanketed in snow, making the city look even lovelier than it was (if that's even possible). Here's a glimpse of Paris right now.
The gun-battle between militants and security forces in Kulgam district of South Kashmir intensified on Saturday morning. The exchange of fire between the two sides began on Friday evening.The firefight broke out in Rampora-Qaimoh village, 80 kms from Srinagar, when the police, assisted by security forces, cordoned the village. They were acting on specific information that three to four militants were hiding in a house in the village.
The blaze at the Oil India Ltd's oil well is so massive that it can be seen from a distance of more than two kilometres, eyewitnesses said.
An encounter broke out on Wednesday between militants and security forces in Awanitpora area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district but no casualties have been reported so far.
A Mangaluru-bound Jet Airways flight with 65 passengers and four crew members on board on Wednesday returned to the Bengaluru airport shortly after departure as smoke was detected in the cabin.
"Altogether 176 persons, including three firemen, are now being treated in city hospitals," an official said.
Four militants were trapped in a cordon put in place by security forces in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday night, police officials said.
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has advised people not to venture into the sea, as the city would witness high tides measuring about 4.70 metres till June 17.
An earlier package proposed in March of $657 million was rejected by judge Alvin Hellerstein as inadequate who described the workers as 'heroes'.
An Indian soldier on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in strife-torn Congo was killed during a firefight between the Congolese Army and armed assailants.
An explosion on Friday ripped through a Hare Krishna temple in Leicester in central England, causing fire inside the complex and trapping several worshippers. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but the firefighters say one-third of the terraced property on Thoresby Street has been destroyed and is too unstable for crews to enter.
A fresh gunbattle broke out between the Maoists and the joint forces in Salboni area on Saturday, while the police remained tightlipped over reports that top leader Kishenji was injured in Thursday's encounter at Hatiloth forest in West Midnapore district.
Rediff.com takes a look at the major aviation disasters of recent times.
Pakistani-Canadian Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay has pleaded guilty to war crimes, including murder of an American army personnel in Afghanistan in 2002.
Almost all the deceased were migrant labourers hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) has said it will leave no stone unturned in its attempt to make next year's World Twenty20 a grand success.
'Air Superiority that we held from the Second Day of Operation 'Cactus Lily' helped our Armed Forces to speed up operation 'Jackpot' to seize East Pakistan and force Gen Niazi and the Pakistani Army to lay down their arms on 16 December.'
Eight more bodies were recovered from the 150-year-old heritage building in upscale Park Street, raising the toll in the devastating fire that swept the building on Tuesday to 24, fire brigade sources said on Wednesday.
Eight more bodies were recovered from the 150-year-old heritage building in upscale Park Street, raising the toll in the devastating fire that swept the building on Tuesday to 24, fire brigade sources said on Wednesday.
Twenty years ago, over 50 days in the summer of 1999, the Indian Army fought some of the toughest battles in the annals of military history to evict the Pakistan army from Kargil. The battle to recapture Tiger Hill was a major turning point in the Operation Vijay campaign, points out Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
While the situation Sitharaman finds herself in may not be that good, how does it stack up against her three immediate predecessors Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram and the late Arun Jaitley?
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