An earthquake shookIndonesia's main island of Java on Monday, killing at least 46 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety.
“There are 46 dead people at the Cianjur regional hospital and around 700 injured people. Many were hurt because they were hit by collapsed buildings,” National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief Suharyanto said.
The police have established the identity of the passenger who was travelling in the autorickshaw when the low-intensity blast occurred near Naguri in Kankanady Town Police Station limits in Mangaluru on Saturday evening after the family members on Monday confirmed him as Mohammed Shariq.
Shariq is influenced and inspired by a terror organisation which has global presence, said ADGP Alok Kumar to mediapersons in Mangaluru.
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An ex-lover has been arrested in the killing of a woman whose chopped body was found in a well here, officials said on Sunday.
Prince Yadav was hit by a bullet in a gunfire encounter with the police on Sunday when he was taken to a spot for the recovery of the head of the woman, police said in a statement.
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The captains of England, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark have backed down on wearing 'OneLove' armbands at the World Cup under pressure from FIFA, the associations said in a joint statement on Monday.
FIFA has threatened to issue yellow cards to any player wearing the multi-coloured armband which was introduced to show solidarity with the LGBT community.
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Russia for the first time became the biggest fertiliser supplier to India in the first half of the 2022/23 fiscal year by offering discounts over prevailing global prices, cornering more than a fifth of the market share.
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From Mohamed Salah, and Lionel Messi to Cristiano Ronaldo, here we list the top ten football payers who feature in Forbes's list of highest-paid footballers.
The BJP Monday released a sting video shot purportedly by a former Aam Aadmi Party volunteer from northwest Delhi's Rohini to allege the AAP sold tickets for MCD polls.
AAP MLA Dilip Pandey rejected the sting video as "fake".
Congress will file a plea in the Supreme Court this week challenging its decision to release the six convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, party sources said on Monday.
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Muslim marriages under personal law are not excluded from the POCSO Act and sexual intercourse with a child, even if it is under the guise of marriage, is an offence, the Kerala High Court said.
At least seven children were dead and several others feared to be injured in a tragic road accident in the Mehnar area of Vaishali, Bihar on November 20 night.
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