Heavy rains claim 31 lives across Punjab
Dawn.com, Lahore :At least 31 people have been killed in rain-related incidents across Punjab since Wednesday night, police and rescue sources said.Fifteen deaths were reported...
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Flood kills 11 in Kashmir
IANS, Srinagar :The toll in the Jammu and Kashmir floods rose to 11 Thursday as incessant rain, which is likely to continue till Saturday, wreaked...
Ebola death toll passes 1,900: WHO
BBC Online :More than 1,900 people have now died in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.There have been 3,500 confirmed or...
IS governing NE Syria
Reuters, Beirut :In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has insinuated itself into...
Journo beheading ‘won’t intimidate US’: Obama
BBC Online :President Obama on IS: “Americans are repulsed by their barbarism, we will not be intimidated, their horrific acts only unite us”President Barack Obama...
US sending 350 more troops to Iraq
Agency :President Obama on Tuesday authorized sending some 350 additional US military personnel to protect diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad.The troops will not play...
Teen raped, murdered by orders of Kangaroo Court
TNN, Kolkata :A teenage school girl was brutally gang raped and murdered allegedly by Trinamool Congress goons in Jalpaiguri’s Dhupguri late on Monday, and later...
Sonia attacks Modi’s ‘100-day govt’ on price rise
PTI, New Delhi :Sonia Gandhi has sharply criticized the Narendra Modi government, which completes 100 days in power on Wednesday, on price rise.“Why don’t you...
Iceland volcano spews more lava
Reuters, Reykjavik :Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano poured out more lava on Wednesday but no ash was emerging from the eruption, authorities said.The ash warning for aviation...
Ukraine agrees ‘ceasefire process’ with Russia
BBC Online :Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko says he has agreed with Russian President Putin by phone on a “ceasefire process” for the east.His office initially...
US men found innocent after 3 decades in jail
BBC Online :Two US men who spent three decades in prison for rape and murder, one of them on death row, have been released after...