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At least five people were killed and 50 injured as a passenger train derailed in the US city of Philadelphia, a media report said today

At least 41 people were killed and 20 others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a bus in Pakistan's Karachi city today

Kathmandu: A major earthquake today jolted Nepal, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 150. The fresh tremor has struck fear among the people as they barely have recovered from the devastating April 25 temblor. Police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam said that four people were killed in Chautara town in Sindhupalchowk district and […]

New Delhi: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale jolted Nepal on Tuesday, an official said here. The India Meteorological Department official told IANS that the epicentre was in Nepal and the tremors were felt in north and east India, including Delhi, Guwahati, Lucknow and Jaipur.

London: British prime minister David Cameron is scheduled to meet his new Conservative Party cabinet for the first time since the party won a majority in the House of Commons in the May 7 general election, BBC reported here on Tuesday. During the meet on May 27, Cameron is slated to introduce a bill aiming […]

Brisbane: An Indian-origin couple accused of arranging sham marriages for Indian men in Australia so that they could secure visas, yesterday faced a committal hearing in the Brisbane Magistrate’s Court. Chetan Mohanlal Mashru has been accused of 17 counts of arranging marriages for visas and 28 other charges, including influencing a Commonwealth public official, ABC […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated that the crisis of Ukraine should only be solved through political dialogue

Kathmandu: The death toll in Nepal’s devastating earthquake has touched 8,019. A statement from the home ministry put the number of injured at 17,866. The April 25 quake, the worst to hit Nepal after 1934, led to widespread destruction across the country. Kathmandu alone accounts for 1,222 fatalities. Of these, the bodies of 1,200 victims […]

London: Nigel Farage on Friday resigned as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) after having failed to gain the seat of Thanet South constituency in Thursday’s general elections. Farage served as UKIP’s leader since 2010. But Farage, who lost by almost 3,000 votes to Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay, said he would consider leadership again […]

London: Defying all predictions and speculations, Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party on Friday secured simple majority in the 650-member House of Commons, winning 326 seats in the British general elections. Ed Miliband’s Labour Party has secured 230 seats, the Scottish National Party (SNP) 56, and the Democratic Unionist Party and the Liberal Democrats are […]

Britain's Conservative Party headed by prime minister David Cameron is leading in the general elections held on Thursday, winning 292 out of the total 650 seats in the House of Commons

Britain's Conservative Party won 316 seats in the House of Commons but no party would be able to garner an overall majority in the general election, a major exit poll commissioned by the BBC, ITV News and Sky News on Thursday night predicted

Kathmandu: The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Nepal has risen to 8,413, the Nepal Red Cross Society said on Thursday. A Red Cross report put the number of injured at 17,576, adding 260 people were still missing following the 7.9 magnitude quake. The temblor, the worst to hit Nepal after 1934, has also […]

British prime minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron has insisted that his party can secure a majority vote in Thursday's elections, but at the same time opened the door for coalition strategising

Sydney: A tsunami warning was issued following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck 150 km south of Papua New Guinea today. According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 5.6 degrees south latitude and 152.1 degrees east longitude. It issued a “hazardous” alert within […]