A suicide bomber blew himself up near the prince while he met members of the public in connection with the festival of Ramzan, the Islamic month of fasting, according to the report. Reports suggested that the suicide bomber was a wanted militant who said he wanted to meet the prince, to announce his surrender.
A 61-year-old cardiac patient Virender Rai, who was being flown to Delhi, has been rushed to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon immediately after the incident.
This is the second major building collapse in the city in just over a month.
Twenty-five people, including several top police officers, were killed when a suicide bomber targeted the funeral of a slain policeman in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Thursday.
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'Cow slaughtering will incite people and hurt their sentiments, which will lead to some incidents'
Police used batons and teargas shells to disperse the violent mob, but denied firing at them.
Security forces faced stone-pelting during the operation but exercised maximum restraint.
A massive manhunt has been launched for the four terrorists
Interpol issued international warrants on Friday for the arrest of two key accused in the multi-crore kidney transplant racket in Haryana as they are suspected to have escaped from the country shortly before the police conducted raids. The 'red corner' notices against alleged kingpin Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan were issued following request from the Central Bureau of Investigation after Haryana Police discovered an illegal hospital at a house in Gurgaon.
DHD (Jewel) militants opened fire at a CRPF patrol party at Maibong in Karbi Anglong district at around 0730 hours, killing two CRPF jawans and injuring four others.
At least 22 security personnel were killed and 38 others injured when the Pakistani Taliban attacked a military convoy in the country's restive northwest on Sunday.
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The incident took place around 11.45 pm on Friday when the man, M T Olivia had a heated argument with a group of three persons at Kishangadh locality in Vasant Kunj.
Jaitley gathered a group of people and burnt an effigy of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, making him, in his own words, the 'first satyagrahi' against the Emergency.
'India had done the right thing to go for a nationwide lockdown, but the major problem for the country could surface when the monsoon season arises as people's immunity levels go down.'
'Revisit old footage, perhaps: Your favourite Messi goal, your most memorable Tendulkar century, your dearest Manchester United comeback.' 'Only then will we be able to grasp the lost meaning of why we watch sport, why we love it so much,' notes Dhruv Munjal.
Convicts at a prison in Argentina's second largest city Cordobaturned violent during family visiting hours and took several people hostage to protest overcrowding.
'I had to convince myself that I was steely enough to operate on a cold-blooded killer.' 'For all my medical experience, this was something I had never done!' 'If something happened to Charles, I knew my fate was sealed for me.' 'I would be called Doctor Death until I breathed my last.' 'Success was my only hope of escaping that fate.' A fascinating excerpt from heart surgeon Dr Raamesh Koirala's Charles Sobhraj, Inside The Heart Of The Bikini Killer.
A Delhi court on Friday issued fresh death warrants for February 1, 6 am against the four convicts. Earlier in the day, President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected Mukesh's mercy plea.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The coronavirus has infected 1.2 million Americans and killed more than 73,000.
Terming as "unacceptable" the incident where an Indian woman's hand was chopped off by her employer in Saudi Arabia, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday said the matter has been taken up with Saudi authorities.
The army had to had to aim at the crowd when jawans claimed to have been fired upon from the other side.
The fire broke out shortly after midnight on the third floor of the four-storeyed building on Senapati Bapat Marg, a commercial hub of the city, a civic official said.
There was no casualty and all passengers were taken to Thrissur for their onward journey. Railway ordered a probe.
Thirty-eight people, including three top police officers, were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide bomber targeted the funeral of a slain policeman in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Thursday.
A special jersey which batting great Sachin Tendulkar donned for his farewell 200th Test has fetched a whopping Rs 6 lakhs.
Other London properties, aircraft & offshore accounts are yet to catch the attention of regulators.
Suspected militants on Monday night shot at and critically injured a sarpanch who joined Peoples Democratic Party earlier in the day in the second attack on a village head in Shopian district of Kashmir Valley in as many days.
Just months before the deadly gas leak in Bhopal killed 15,000 people, journalist Rajkumar Keswani -- who passed into the ages on Friday, May 21, 2021 -- had warned that the 'city stood on the edge of a volcano'.
The bomb, planted on a tree-top, exploded as the crowded bus passed by in the Vavuniya district, 250 km north of Colombo, a police official in the area said over telephone.
Tarishi, according to the minister, was 19-years-old. She passed out from American School Dhaka. Presently, she was a student at Berkeley.
Devidas Desphande brings forth the story of a miraculous survival of a young mother who endured pain for 24 hours to save her three-months-old son under the rubble of the massive landslide in Pune district.
The official said five civilians received bullet injuries in the cross-firing near the gunfight site.
A curative petition is the last and final judicial remedy available to a person convicted by courts of law.
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in suburban Goregaon in Mumbai by four of her friends, police said on Monday.
Survivors of the Hirakhand Express mishap on Sunday recounted their horrific experience when the trains nine bogies and the engine jumped off the track near Kuneru in Andhra Pradesh.
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