Two powerful bombs explode near Imphal

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 10:03

Two powerful bombs exploded in Shingjamei area near here, police said.

Envelope explodes when opened in Naples office

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 21:02

An envelope addressed to an Interior Ministry official in Naples has exploded while being opened, slightly injuring a secretary in the prefect`s office.

Six killed in fireworks unit blast in China

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 15:07

Five workers and an elderly person were killed when a blast ripped through an illegal fireworks unit in central China`s Hunan Province, media report said.

Element essential for life found in supernova remains

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 14:33

Scientists have for the first time discovered phosphorous as one of the essential elements for life in the cosmic leftovers from a supernova explosion.

Six killed in China coal mine explosion

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 16:50

Six people were confirmed dead and one injured after a coal mine gas blast in southwest China`s Guizhou province, local authorities said.

Syria regime raining death on Aleppo: HRW

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 19:24

Syrian regime forces are raining death on Aleppo, killing hundreds of people in air strikes that were either "criminally" indiscriminate or "deliberately" aimed at civilians, a rights group said on Saturday.

Suspected grenade attack on Kenyan bus kills four

Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 23:36

A suspected grenade attack on a minibus in Kenya`s capital on Saturday killed at least four people near a Somali-dominated area of the city, police said, an incident that mirrors explosions last year that were blamed on Somali militants.

Bombings, shooting kill 6 people in Iraqi capital

Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 17:28

Iraqi authorities say bombings and a shooting have killed six people around the capital.

Indonesia: Commuter train slams into fuel tanker in Jakarta, 10 killed

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 17:49

A crowded commuter train crashed into a fuel tanker on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday, killing at least 10 people in a huge explosion and injuring scores.

Security stepped up at KNPP; anti-N protesters booked

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 16:49

A day after an explosion at a village near Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant here claimed six lives, police formed a team to probe it and stepped up security even as two live bombs were recovered from the area.

Six killed, 2 injured in bomb blast in village near KNPP

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 23:50

Six people were killed and two injured when a country-made bomb exploded Tuesday in a coastal village near the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

18,000 evacuated after pipeline explosion in China kills 47

Last Updated: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 00:44

Around 18,000 people were evacuated from a district in east China where an oil pipeline explosion killed 47 people as the largest oil refiner on Saturday apologised for one of the country`s worst industrial accidents.