Suicide attack on policeman`s funeral in Quetta kills 38

Last Updated: Thursday, August 8, 2013, 16:44

Pakistan has been hit by a wave of attacks since the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to power after a May election.

Mid-day meal deaths: Principal takes polygraph test

Last Updated: Thursday, August 1, 2013, 13:47

Meena Devi, the principal of a Bihar school where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last month, underwent a lie detector test Thursday.

Bihar Assembly adjourned over mid-day meal deaths

Last Updated: Monday, July 29, 2013, 12:36

The Bihar assembly was Monday adjourned following an uproar by the opposition who demanded a debate on the death of 23 children after they ate contaminated mid-day meal in their school.

Mid-day meal deaths: BJP suggests new scheme

Last Updated: Saturday, July 27, 2013, 19:45

BJP Youth wing president Anurag Thakur on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing concern over the mid-day meal deaths and suggested that a new scheme be launched.

Nitish Kumar orders probe into police firing deaths

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 14:47

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered an inquiry into the killing of six people when police opened fire to control a mob in a village in Bagha district a day ago.

Rivers receding in Calgary, 3 dead in floods

Last Updated: Sunday, June 23, 2013, 12:05

Water levels dropped, providing a measure of relief to the western Canadian city of Calgary, hit hard by floods that devastated much of southern Alberta province, causing at least three deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate.

Sri Lankan President condoles Indian flood deaths

Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 19:04

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa mourned the death and destruction due to massive flooding in north Indian states.

3 tigers found dead in Jim Corbett Park, probe on

Last Updated: Monday, June 3, 2013, 10:49

At a time when the government is taking all out efforts to increase the population of tigers in India, three tigers have been found dead in the famous Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand in the past one week.

Death toll rise to 16 in Malda infant deaths

Last Updated: Sunday, May 26, 2013, 14:28

Even as the death toll in the death of infants in Malda medical college hospital rose to 16, a three member expert team on Sunday ascertained that the casualties were caused due to malnutrition and low weight.

NHRC seeks report from UP govt on arsenic deaths

Last Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2013, 21:29

National Human Rights Commission on Thursday sought a report from UP government on allegations of large number of deaths in villages of Ballia district due to consumption of arsenic contaminated groundwater.

Eight crib deaths in West Bengal hospital

Last Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2013, 20:18

Crib deaths are back to haunt West Bengal hospitals with at least eight infants dying at the Malda Medical College Hospital (MMCH) in Malda district since Wednesday.

Daughter-in-law be treated as family member, not housemaid: SC

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 16:29

Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has said.