France church attackers 'smiled' and spoke of Koran
One of the jihadists who murdered an elderly French priest smiled as he carried out the attack, and nuns who witnessed the grisly murder said the killers spoke about a holy book. The two nuns who were in the church when Father Jacques Hamel was killed, his throat slit on the...
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3 Sufi Muslims attacked in B'desh
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Killing of Hizbul's Wani accidental: J&K Dy CM
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2 Pak sisters killed in 'honour killing'
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2 infiltrators killed, 2 soldiers martyred in Kupwara
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2 'Saudi' nationals among 3 killed as inmates clash in Manipur jail
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Taliban capture dist in Helmand
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Plan afoot to fight viral hepatitis as 60 million suffer from disease
31 July 2016 | PNS
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‘Up to 16 feared dead in Texas balloon crash’ Washington: Up to 16 people are feared dead after a large hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in Texas on Saturday, US media reported. 26 killed as floods hit van in Pakistan Peshawar: At least 26 people, including children and women, were killed...
Frequent disruption of RS proceedings concerns Ansari
Expressing concern over frequent disruptions of Parliament proceedings, Vice President and Chairman Rajya Sabha Hamid Ansari said on Saturday such acts amounted to holding the House to "ransom." He also said the two Houses of Parliament are equal adding the Upper House was a chamber to check "haste, cool passion...
AIADMK, DMK MPs fight it out at airport
AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa and DMK MP Tiruchi Siva reportedly engaged in a face-off at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Saturday. Pushpa, on her arrival in Chennai, told The Pioneer that the fighting between them was a result of Siva blaming the AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa. "I will...
Cars, small vehicles exempted from toll tax in Gujarat from Aug 15
In a great relief to the vehicle owners in the State, Gujarat Government on Saturday decided not to take toll tax from cars and small vehicles. "Happy to announce that from August 15, cars and small vehicles will be exempted from paying toll tax in Gujarat," Anandiben Patel she tweeted. In fact...
Cong a party without ideology: Shah
As against the BJP which "remained rooted to its basic ideology" and received people's "acceptance and mandate" at the Centre and ten States, the Congress, socialists and communists in the country, "without an ideology", have "disintegrated" and virtually turned into "dynastic" , "casteist" or "personality based " parties, emerging increasingly...
Work on longest railway tunnel begins in Manipur
Union Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on Saturday formally announced commencement of the work of the longest tunnel of Indian Railway on the Jiribam–Tupul–Imphal new broad gauge railway line and laid the foundation stone of the proposed Imphal Railway Station at Yurembam village, located 8 km from Manipur’s Capital,...
BJP contradicts, says forces were aware of Burhan Wani's presence
Contradicting Mehbooba Mufti's stand, BJP on Saturday said security forces had the knowledge of Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani's presence at the encounter site. Terming the killing of Wani as a “success”, Jammu & Kashmir BJP chief Sat Sharma said identity of the terrorist “doesn't matter” in such operations. “As far as the...
