Mumbai, May 5
An 85-year-old convict in 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, whose seven years’ sentence was enhanced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court recently, passed away today after a prolonged illne...
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Bikhiwind (Punjab), May 3
The mortal remains of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died after being brutally assaulted in a Pakistani jail, were today consigned to flames in his village with full state honours.
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New Delhi, May 2
Asserting that the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh has “hurt” people-to-people ties between India and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today hoped that the tragedy will...
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New Delhi, May 2
The Indian Government has demanded that the Pakistan Government conduct a "thorough investigation" to identify those who were responsible for the attack on Sarabjit Singh in Kot Lakhpat...
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Lahore/Islamabad, May 2
Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours today after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by other inmates of a...
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Howrah (WB), April 25
Trinamool Congress MP Ambica Banerjee died at a private hospital in Kolkata today.
86-year-old Banerjee is survived by his wife and two daughters.
The MP from Howrah constituency...
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New Delhi, April 24
To this day, play the remix version of the song Kajra Mohabbat Wala, and kids, youngsters and the elderly start swinging to it in tandem. Such is the energy and passion with which the song wa...
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Bangalore, April 21
Legendary Mathematics wizard Shakuntala Devi, dubbed as the world’s fastest ‘human computer’ and who made complex mental calculations as a child prodigy, died at a hospital here today following re...
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Paradise Valley (Arizona), May 6
The creator of Orajel, a medicine aimed at fighting toothaches that was later also used for mouth sores, has died, family members has said.
David Morris Kern was 103.
Allan Kern,...
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Kolkata, May 3
In the sixth case of suicide in connection with the collapsed chit fund company Saradha, a depositor, who had invested his money in the scam--ridden company on Friday committed suicide in South 24...
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Islamabad, May 2
A state prosecutor in a trial concerning the 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was shot dead on Friday, police said. Chaudhry Zulfiqar suffered multip...
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Lahore/Islamabad, May 2
Pakistan today said the body of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault in jail, will be handed over to Indian authorities after “the early co...
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New Delhi, May 2
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today condoled the death of Sarabjit Singh, hailing him as a “brave son of India”, and attacked Pakistan for not heeding to pleas for taking a humanitarian view on th...
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Nagpur, April 30
The mother of the five-year-old girl, who died after being brutally raped at Ghansaur town in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, today said the accused should be given a “harsh punishment” so that...
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Dhaka, April 25
Rescuers in Bangladesh had recovered at least 142 bodies by early Thursday from the rubble of a collapsed eight-storey building that housed mostly garment factories, media reports said.
M...
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New Delhi, April 23
Former Chief Justice of India J.S Verma, who headed a panel to frame a tough law to combat crimes against women in the wake of the Delhi gangrape incident, died of multi-organ failure here yesterd...
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Beijing, Apr 21
The death toll in the powerful earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province climbed to nearly 200 today with over 10,000 injured in the disaster, as rescue operations were carried out on a war foo...
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