Agra: Ten people, including two couples and six children, were burnt alive early Saturday when the house they were living in caught fire in Sewla Jat under thana Sadar of Agra, police said. The families were living on the first floor of the house. Eyewitnesses said they heard a gas cylinder burst. The investigations were on, [...]
HYDERABAD: In a blood-curdling incident, a wife has allegedly doused her sleeping husband with petrol and burnt him alive in their home in Maruthi Nagar under the Malkajgiri police jurisdiction and bolted from the scene last night. M Raghu, 45, died on way to hospital. His wife, M Pushpa, 40, was not found when the [...]
HYDERABAD: Seven people, including four children, were roasted alive when fire broke out in a colony of thatched houses in Gundlapochampally near Medchal on the City outskirts on Saturday. The fire broke out when a gas cylinder exploded, according to initial reports. Fire tenders were pressed into service. Three of those who died are elderly. The [...]
HYDERABAD: One person was burnt alive when an iron scrap godown caught fire on the City outskirts in the early hours of Monday. According to police, a scarp godown caught fire killing a worker, Kiran, on the spot, while another person suffered severe burns at B N Reddy Colony in Cherlapally. The injured was shifted [...]
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One step forward, two steps back
There are positive signals from the G8 summit regarding the plan of action that must be pursed in Syria. Russian leader Vladmir Putin, the man who is the main hurdle to the creation of some means formidable to bringing down Assad, has hinted that he may allow removing Assad provided there is a plan for [...]
Rowhani offers softer tone, same policies
Newly elected president Hassan Rowhani struck a diplomatic chord in his first news conference but offered little real change in key policy areas, especially on the long-running dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. Concretely, he ruled out any halt to the nuclear activity that has drawn UN, EU and US sanctions, repeating a long-standing Iranian position [...]
Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
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