Beijing, Sep 3 – A 64-year-old man who was building an underground house for his family has become a subject of a probe by authorities in China’s Henan province. Chen Xinnian is now anxiously waiting for the results of the probe. He has been working on the house for about four years, China Daily reported [...]
Beijing, Sep 3 – A traffic jam more than 100 km long has formed in China just one week after gridlock led to tailbacks lasting 10 days northwest of Beijing. ‘The motorway is blocked again,’ a spokeswoman from the highways authority in Jining in Inner Mongolia told DPA Friday. Traffic has mostly come to a [...]
Dushanbe, Sep 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A police officer was killed and 30 people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Tajikistan, officials said. Earlier reports said 25 people were injured when a GAZ-24 car exploded after crashing into the main building in the yard of a police station [...]
Beijing, Sep 3 – China Friday marked the 65th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and paid homage to soldiers who died fighting during the Second World War, Xinhua reported. At the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and other officials presented [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 76 people were killed and more than 160 injured in three powerful explosions in Pakistani cities Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35 people. This is the largest number of killings in a day after 117 people died in a [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 73 people were killed and more than 150 injured in a blast that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community near Meezan chowk in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, media reports said. Bomb disposal squad officials confirmed that the blast was caused by a suicide [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – The banned radical group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Friday claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide bomb attack in Quetta city, Xinhua reported. At least 54 people were killed and over 100 injured in the attack. The Punjab-based Sunni group, founded in 1996, also revealed the identity of the bomber, named Rashid Moaawia, 22. He [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 54 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a blast that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community near Meezan chowk in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, media reports said. Bomb disposal squad officials confirmed that the blast was caused by a suicide [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack in Quetta city that left 40 people dead and over 100 injured. Gilani ordered an immediate probe into the attack, Xinhua reported. Quetta is the capital city of southwestern Balochistan province. The bomber blew himself up among thousands [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 43 people were killed in powerful explosions in three different cities in Pakistan Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35 people. In Quetta, capital of Balochistan provice, at least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a powerful blast ripped through a Shia procession in Pakistan’s Quetta city Friday, two days after a similar attack killed 35 people in Lahore. Panic gripped Quetta after the blast as rescue workers shifted the dead and injured to [...]
Dushanbe, Sep 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Twenty-five people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a police building in Tajikistan, an interior ministry spokesman said. The attack took place at 8.10 a.m. in the country’s second largest city of Khujand. ‘A car packed with explosives crashed through the right part of the building,’ [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 13 people were killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community in Pakistan’s Quetta city Friday, media reports said. The blast took place near Meezan Chowk in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. Initial reports confirmed 13 people were killed and over [...]
Beijing, Sep 3 – Four people were killed after a bloody altercation took place over a 1 yuan (US 15 cents) parking charge in China’s Yangpu district. Shanghai police have detained a suspect after four men were stabbed to death Wednesday night at a residential complex in Yangpu district, Shanghai Daily reported Friday. The dead [...]
Tehran, Sep 3 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that this week’s Mideast peace talks as well as Israel itself were ‘doomed to collapse’ as millions of Iranians were expected to turn out for state-organised anti-Israel rallies. Iran marks the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan as Quds Day, during which the [...]
Beijing, Sep 3 – Over 150,000 rampaging wild boars in a province in eastern China are giving sleepless nights to farmers who have been forced to maintain round-the-clock vigil to save their crops. The boars have trampled standing crops in many counties in Zhejiang province, and the crop yield this year has been reduced by [...]
Beijing, Sep 3 – Married people in a Chinese city who have children outside their marriage will now face heavy fines up to 250,000 yuan ($36,725). The Family Planning Commission in Chongqing city has passed a new regulation that says married people who produce offspring outside their marriage will face fines, China Daily reported Friday [...]
Peshawar, Sep 3 – Two people were killed Friday in a powerful bomb blast in a shrine for a minority community in northwest Pakistan, while another explosion ripped through a police van leaving a policeman dead in Peshawar, media reports said. Six people were injured in the blast that took place at a place of [...]
Dhaka, Sep 3 – Croatian Robert Rubcic has been named as the chief coach of Bangladesh’s national football team for the Asian Games to be held in November. The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) confirmed his appointment Thursday saying that he would also be involved in setting up a national football academy. Rubcic would coach the [...]
Dhaka, Sep 3 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who heads the National Population Council that resumed work after 14 years, has called for ‘a balanced approach’ to curb Bangladesh’s population growth that is projected to reach 170 million by 2020. Registration of couples in the reproductive age, a bunch of incentives for those who keep [...]
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