London:  Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his wife Carole Kolar were battered to death in a lump hammer attack in their Birmingham home earlier this month for just two mobile phones and two watches, a media report today said. Suspect Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, who was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday, is believed [...]

Lucknow : A total of 273 candidates filed their nominations for fourth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh while 63 filed for the fifth phase today.   According to the state election office here, 273 candidates filed their nominations for the fourth phase in 56 assembly seats where polling will be held on February 19. [...]

Bangalore: The wife of an IAS officer was on Monday arrested for allegedly assaulting and verbally abusing a woman police inspector during the Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) T20 match here. Anu Dubey, wife of Pankaj Kumar Pandey, managing director of Hubli Electricity Supply Company, was granted interim bail till Feb six after being produced before [...]

Cairo  : A 42-year-old French tourist was killed by robbers at a currency exchange shop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Xinhua reported.  The masked gunmen robbed the shop and exchanged fire with the security forces. Two others, a German tourist and an Egyptian citizen, were injured. The French man was shot [...]

Mangalore: If Muslim girls were Burkha and black dress to cover their young bodies from greedy attention, can Christian girls be trailing? In all churches, women and girls are ordered by priests to have dress code that prohibits body language and barren limbs. As churches are religious centres of assembly for worship of God, the [...]

 Washington:  Solar radiation from a massive sun storm – the largest in nearly a decade – collided with the Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and sky watchers to seek out spectacular light displays. US carrier Delta Air Lines said it had adjusted flight routes for transpolar journeys between Asia [...]

Beijing  :  About 30 Tibetans injured after Chinese police fired into a crowd of protesters in a restive southwestern region were seeking shelter Tuesday in a monastery while military forces surrounded the building, a Tibetan monk said. Chinese authorities said Monday’s unrest was caused by a “mob” and that overseas advocacy groups were twisting the [...]

 Srinagar:  A Sub-Inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) has been killed after being swept away in an avalanche in Kupwara district along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kashmir valley. Five Army and one BSF personnel are still missing as search and rescue operations continue. The avalanche occurred at Farkiyan Gali early [...]

Imphal:  One person has died and another is critical after blast at the residence of Manipur Speaker and Congress leader I Hemochandra this evening. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was thrown at the Speaker’s residence. He was, however, not home that time. Mr Hemochandra was in his constituency Shingjamei. The police have recovered another IED [...]

Top Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, an early gold medal favorite ahead of the 2014 Olympics, died at a Utah hospital on Thursday from injuries she suffered in a training fall. She was 29. Burke, one of the top half-pipe athletes in the world and an ambassador for freestyle skiing who lobbied hard for the [...]