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SAVAR,
Monday, April 29, 2013
A Bangladesh court on Monday allowed police 15 days to interrogate the owner of a building that collapsed at Sawar in Dhaka last week and killed 382 people, even as rescuers used heavy machinery t...
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HYDERABAD,
Friday, April 26, 2013
The family of Prasad Kumar, who was killed in the blast at Gulf Oil Corporation, had planned a grand ceremony as part of his wedding in May
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Mangalore,
Saturday, April 13, 2013
A 29-year-old woman succumbed to her burns on Friday morning, taking the toll of the victims of the fire at Perne near Uppinangady to nine. According to sources in Father Muller Hospital...
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MANGALORE,
April 11, 2013
Relatives of persons injured in the fire that ravaged Perne on Tuesday after a tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas overturned, complained of lack of support from the district administration an...
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NEW DELHI,
March 5, 2013
Absence of supplier liability provisions cited as a major reason
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Islamabad,
January 23, 2013
At least five people were killed and three injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region of Orakzai Agency, Xinhua reported. Orakzai Agency is located about 60 km...
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Bhojpur/Gaya,
December 26, 2012
Bihar’s hooch tragedies point to a virtual bootlegging industry with huge turnovers
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NEW ORLEANS,
December 22, 2012
A Federal judge on Friday gave final approval to BP PLC’s settlement with businesses and people who lost money because of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP has estimated it wil...
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Bangalore,
December 12, 2012
Six children of Building Blocks Daisy kindergarten school in Whitefield were allegedly branded with a hot iron rod by a school attendant on Tuesday as a disciplinary measure. The little...
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SRIKAKULAM,
November 5, 2012
The aftermath of Cyclone ‘Nilam' continues to cause havoc in Andhra Pradesh with unprecedented damage to Srikakulam district following floods in Vamsadhara and Nagavali rivers. Bahuda and Mahendra...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,
November 1, 2012
Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 per cent of the crops in southern Haiti and caused heavy deaths of livestock, while in neighbouring Jamaica it left at least $16.5 million worth of damage in its wake,...
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September 24, 2012
Decades of experience have prompted countries like Japan and France to reduce their dependence on nuclear energy (“Sayonara nuclear power,” Sept. 22). This is a signal for us to change our choice...
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CHENNAI,
September 16, 2012
Underground pipeline was carrying fuel oil from refinery in Manali; fishermen stage protest
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KOCHI,
April 9, 2013
The site where the St. Augustine’s Church collapsed at Aroor on Monday could not have been more chaotic, a testimony to how ill-equipped Ernakulam and Alappuzha districts were in dealing with such...
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February 11, 2013
An Air India flight bound for New Delhi from Chennai made an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) on Sunday afternoon after a passenger developed health problems.<...
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Guwahati,
December 27, 2012
A police official says hundreds of tea estate workers surrounded the plantation owner’s home in Assam and set it on fire, killing him and his wife. Police recovered the charred bodies of...
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New Delhi,
December 22, 2012
A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed former IPS officer Amod Kanth’s plea to drop proceedings on framing of charges against him in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case, saying the accused has “no righ...
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Hyderabad,
December 18, 2012
Fire officials said that an electrical short circuit could be one of the causes behind the mishap
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Yangon,
November 10, 2012
A train transporting fuel to north-western Myanmar derailed and caught fire, killing 25 people and injuring 62 who were trying to pilfer the fuel, officials said on Saturday.
The train en...
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THANJAVUR/TIRUVARUR,
November 2, 2012
With let-up in rain on Thursday water started receding from inundated paddy fields in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur district.
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Beijing,
October 10, 2012
Five people were killed and one person injured when an expressway tunnel collapsed, early on Wednesday, in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
A total of seven people were wor...
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September 22, 2012
The much needed big push towards low-cost, highly-efficient, cutting-edge renewable energy technologies was lacking till recently. Even the compulsion to cut down carbon dioxide emission levels by...
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MADURAI,
September 8, 2012
The petitioner also sought for an interim direction to provide first class treatment to those injured in Sivakasi blast.
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