In the month of August, absolutely nothing seemed to be going right for Burugula Satyam Rao, called “Sattaiah” by friends. The monsoon didn’t deliver and for the third year in a row, the maize and cotton he had planted on his small farm in Telangana were dead- the maize was stunted, the cotton saplings wilted away. Debt for the 42-year-old farmer had crossed five lakhs. But what broke Sattaiah’s heart […]
The actor was also a popular singer of folk songs and had brought out several albums. Popular Malayalam actor Kalabhavan Mani died at a private hospital here on Sunday evening. He was 45. The death occurred around 7.15 p.m. Dr. Sanjeev Singh, senior medical administrator at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences here, told The Hindu that the actor was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night with haematemesis (vomiting […]
HARDA, MADHYA PRADESH: At least 27 people have died and 40 are injured after two passenger trains derailed within minutes of each other while crossing flooded tracks in Madhya Pradesh late on Tuesday night. More than 300 people were rescued overnight. Six coaches of the Kamayani Express running from Mumbai to Varanasi derailed at around 11:30 pm while crossing a culvert near the Machak river close to Harda, about 160 […]
Avian cholera is suspected in the deaths of at least 2,000 snow geese that fell dead from the sky in Idaho while migrating to nesting grounds on the northern coast of Alaska, wildlife managers said Monday. Dozens of Idaho Department of Fish and Game workers and volunteers at the weekend retrieved and incinerated carcasses of snow geese found near bodies of water and a wildlife management area in the eastern […]
Once investigators looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 decide to shift from listening for pings emanating from the floor of the Indian Ocean to poring over its terrain, they will begin drawing from a whole new set of tools. Among them will be the Bluefin-21, a probe equipped with side-scan sonar — an acoustic technology that creates pictures from the reflections of sound rather than light. “That is a piece […]
(KTVI) – The body of a missing Southern Illinois University student has been found in Carbondale, but police don’t believe there was any foul play surrounding nineteen year old Pravin Varughese’s death. The young man disappeared after leaving a party last Wednesday. He had tweeted that his knuckles were bloody and that he may have been in a fight. Police now say an altercation occurred, but it had nothing to […]
New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, found dead in a hotel in Delhi. Her dead body was found in suspicious condition in room number 345 of The Leela Palace, a hotel in Chanakyapuri area of New Delhi. The wife of Union Minister was in news yesterday due to a Twitter controversy. The couple yesterday cleared about “unseemly controversy” over some “unauthorised […]
Two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people this week terrorized the area overnight. One is dead, but the other is on the loose, police say, and he’s armed and dangerous. Police pursued two men early Friday who shot a police officer to death, stole a vehicle and threw explosives at law officers pursuing them. Authorities believe they are the same two men sought in the […]
