Voicing regret over the shooting incident at a Wisconsin gurdwara that killed six Sikh worshippers, Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi briefed Indian envoy to the United States Nirupama Rao, about the measures he would put in place to upgrade the security at the shrine.
A major American news network mistakenly aired the map of Punjab while announcing that Indian-origin South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley would be a key speaker during the Republican National Convention in Tampa later in August. The CNN made this error in the midst of it covering the shooting incident at a gurudwara in Wisconsin. Haley's parents are from Punjab.
Benjamin called 911 on Thursday night and told the police he had just shot his brother, Nicholas, at their home, an arrest report said.
-- The gunman live-streamed the mass shooting inside the Al Noor Mosque -- Witnesses have said they saw 'blood everywhere' -- Four people are in custody after the shootings, including one woman and three men -- New Zealand Prime Minister said the shootings were 'an unprecedented act of violence, an act that has absolutely no place in New Zealand. This is not who we are'.
Images from the UEFA Champions League group matches played on Tuesday night.
'Aren't you guys modern?' 'Aren't you guys up to date?'
The 65-year-old head of the small United States town gurudwara turned out an unlikely hero of the Wisconsin shooting incident as he confronted the 'neo-Nazi' gunman with his kirpan to save dozens of women, children and other worshippers from being shot down.
A day after the tragic shooting incident at a gurudwara, a mosque in the United States was burned to the ground for the second time in little more than a month in a suspected arson attack.
A gunman on Tuesday opened fire inside a library at the University of Texas in United States, before shooting and killing himself.
The police said they have seized three mobile phones, including two iPhones, over the course of its ongoing probe in the case.
A 21-year-old youth accused of firing shots at the White House last year has been formally charged by a federal grand jury with attempting to assassinate United States President Barack Obama.
It would be better if the Supreme Court takes cognisance of this 'extremely serious and worrisome' incident, which is being discussed across the country, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track down the assailants but no arrests have been made so far, the officials said on Monday.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday described the shooting in a Colorado theater this week that claimed 12 lives as an "act of evil", as he visited Aurora -- the city of tragic incident -- to meet the victims' families.
Odisha's Health Minister Naba Kishore Das, a confidant of the chief minister, was shot and grievously injured when he got out of his car on Sunday, allegedly by a police officer who was captured, officials said.
'I would like to feel that he had a special place in his heart for me as I do in my heart to this day.'
Lashing out at both the opposition and ruling fronts led by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said that neither dukandar nor chowkidar opens their mouths when Muslims are oppressed.
The United States on Wednesday expressed its gratitude to the families of two Pakistani men gunned down by Central Intelligence Agency contractor Raymond Davis for pardoning him and said the Department of Justice was investigating the shooting incident.
A shooting incident on a military bus at the Frankfurt airport, in which two American soldiers were killed and two others wounded, may have been a terrorist attack, German security authorities have said.
Pakistani authorities have rejected the demand of the United States to release an American diplomat who shot dead two youths in Lahore, saying the matter would be handled in court according to the country's laws. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told a TV news channel on Sunday that the matter was already in court and the Punjab police were investigating the shooting incident in Lahore on Thursday. "It would not be appropriate to publicly talk on this issue," he said.
The homeless man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police on Sunday has outraged civil rights activists and fellow skid row residents.
Police on Sunday arrested a 27-year old co-actor of television and film actress Tunisha Sharma on the charge of abetting her suicide in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said.
An Instagram model from California, United States says she's lucky to be alive after she was attacked by a shark during a photo shoot. Model and nursing student Katarina Zarutskie (@katarinazarutskie) was swimming in Staniel Cay in the Bahamas when she was bit on the wrist by a shark -- and her lucky escape was all captured on camera.
Though the two shooters, held for the south Mumbai shooting incident, have claimed that fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar was not their target, the picture would be clear only after the arrest of the "mediator" who gave them the killing contract, a senior police official said on Friday.
Two persons, including a security guard, were killed and as many injured in an exchange of fire between two rival gangs in a hospital in Rohtak district in Haryana, police said on Thursday. Praveen, 35, a member of one of the two gangs who was undergoing treatment at the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak, died in the shooting incident along with the guard, Tejveer, Rohtak's Superintendent of Police B Satish Balan said.
An army jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at Mehdipatnam Garrison area in Hyderabad on Monday, the police said. Appala Raju, Lance Naik, shot himself with his service rifle at around 4 am, a senior police officer attached to Special Branch of Hyderabad city police said.
A rattled Australia on Monday warned that there is a 'high risk of terrorism' in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games, while New Zealand also expressed concerns about security arrangements for the event after a shooting incident in the Indian capital left two foreigners injured.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was hurt during a film shoot in suburban Mumbai two days back, has sustained a fracture in right shoulder and an injury on his knee and has been advised bed rest for two-three weeks, sources said.
'Without ever losing hope, I survived in Mumbai with the hope of becoming a good actor.'
During his first day in police custody, Sheezan told Waliv police that he ended the relationship with Tunisha after seeing repercussions emerging from the Shraddha Walkar case and told his former paramour that belonging to a different community stands in their way as did their age gap.
US President Barack Obama on Thursday did not rule out the possibility that the California shooting that killed 14 people was a terrorist act.
On March 28, the apex court had dismissed Ahmad's plea for protection and observed that the Uttar Pradesh state machinery would take care of his protection in case of a threat to his life.
'Killed #terrorist identified as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of #Pulwama (A category). He initially worked for HM #terror outfit, nowadays he had been working with TRF. #Killer of late Sanjay Sharma #neutralised,' Kumar tweeted.
Against the backdrop of violent protests by lawyers, the Tamil government on Friday night issued shoot-at-sight orders against those trying to damage public properties and create disturbance to general public.
A White House official said 'no one within or associated with the White House was injured, and everyone in the White House is safe and accounted for'.
The militants accosted Prasanta Kumar, shot him, tortured him and then dumped his body at Tangla area.
'There have been equal or more casualties on the Chinese side.' 'Our soldiers are hardy and strong and far superior than the Chinese.'
The 25-year-old actress was found hanging from the fan with a piece of cloth and the police were called immediately, according to the hotel staff.
The Election Commission shunted out Delhi's southeast Deputy Commissioner of Police Chinmoy Biswal and directed Additional DCP (southeast) Kumar Gyanesh to take charge.
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