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  Parents blame pathetic healthcare facilities for deaths

  India | July 20, 2013 11:33 IST

  Patna, July 20: The pathetic state of a primary health centre in Bihar and delays in rushing them to better hospitals killed most students after they consumed mid-day meals in their school, the distraught parents

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  Three die after inhaling poisonous gas

  India | June 26, 2013 12:50 IST

  Mathura, June 26: Three villagers, including a father-son duo, allegedly died after inhaling poisonous gas when they went inside a well to fetch a utensil that had fallen into it in Tentigaon village, police said

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  Ramdev challenges UPA govt to probe deaths of Vadra's father, Shastri and others

  Politics | October 13, 2012 22:00 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 13: Yoga guru Ramdev today lashed out at the Nehru-Gandhi family  and challenged the government to probe the unnatural deaths of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Robert Vadra's father. Addressing a

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  Hollywood reacts to Richard Zanuck's death

  Hollywood | July 14, 2012 21:24 IST

  New York: Celebrities share their reactions to the death Friday of Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck:•“In 1974, Dick Zanuck and I sat in a boat off Martha's Vineyard and watched the mechanical shark sink to the

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  Two injured at Pamplona's fifth Bull Run

  World | July 11, 2012 19:02 IST

  Spain, Jul 11: Several thousand people tested their bravery Wednesday by dashing with six fighting bulls through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona in the fifth day of the famed San Fermin

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  Running of the bulls begins in Spain

  World | July 06, 2012 19:03 IST

  Pamplona, Spain, Jul 6:  Tens of thousands of revelers showered each other with sparkling wine and waved red kerchiefs Friday as the blast of a small rocket signaled the start of this year's running of

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  Assam flood situation turns worse

  India | June 27, 2012 16:48 IST

  Guwahati, Jun 27: Incessant rainfall in Assam has led to worsening of the flood situation in the state today triggering fresh inundation and landslides in 23 districts that left 10 more dead, taking the toll

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  Fresh Outbreak Of H1NI, 21 Deaths In 3 Months

  India | March 30, 2012 12:27 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 30: Fresh outbreaks of dreaded H1N1 virus have surfaced in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and some other states claiming at least 21 lives in the last three months.At least 309 cases have been reported

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  Quake Hits Central Chile, No Reports Of Deaths

  World | March 26, 2012 7:48 IST

  Santiago (Chile), Mar 26: A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Chile Sunday night, the strongest and longest that many people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated the area two years ago. Some people

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  Flash Floods Kill At Least 450 In Philippines

  World | December 18, 2011 8:09 IST

  Manila, Philippines: Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing at least 450 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy,

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  2 Dead, 800 Injured As Protests Spread To More Egyptian Cities

  World | November 20, 2011 14:17 IST

  Cairo, Nov 20: The violent clashes between thousands of demonstrators and police in Cairo and three other Egyptian cities left two people dead and about 800 others wounded, as protesters tried to occupy the iconic

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  Deaths Hit 330 As Haiti Fights To Halt Cholera Outbreak

  World | October 30, 2010 13:16 IST

  Port-au-Prince, Oct 30 : Twenty-five more fatalities have brought the toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic to 330 dead, as medical teams desperately sought to contain an outbreak that they warned could "spread like wildfire."Nearly 5,000