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Wave of bomb blasts rock Iraqi capital, killing 30
World | Oct 07, 2013, 10:41 PM ISTBaghdad: A wave of explosions rattled the Iraqi capital after sunset Monday, killing at least 30 people as al-Qaida claimed responsibility for a spate of rare suicide attacks last month in the northern, relatively peaceful
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Muslims who saw killings won't go back: Muslim leader
India | Sep 22, 2013, 03:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Muslims who saw armed gangs drag out innocents and slaughter them in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh are refusing to go back to their villages, a Muslim leader said on Sunday.Zafar Islam Khan, president
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Anti-superstition bill forces responsible for Dabholkar's killing: CM
India | Aug 22, 2013, 06:54 PM ISTMumbai: Blaming opponents of the anti-superstition bill for the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said organisations behind such acts should be be isolated and their activities stopped.Amid spontaneous public
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School-owner arrested for raping, killing two minor girls
India | Apr 27, 2013, 05:12 PM ISTBikaner, Apr 27: A private school's owner has been arrested for allegedly raping two class VIII students and poisoning them to death in Khajuwala area of the district. The accused, Rajesh Dhangad, was arrested last
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US condemns killing of five Indian peacekeepers
World | Apr 10, 2013, 11:17 AM ISTWashington, April 10: Condemning in the "strongest terms" the killing of five Indian UN peacekeepers in a rebel attack on a UN convoy in South Sudan, the US has asked it to ensure the perpetrators
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Mexican confesses he barbecued neighbour's three dogs
World | Jan 24, 2013, 04:06 PM ISTCiudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan 24: A municipal police official in northern Mexico says officers have arrested a man who confessed to killing his neighbor's three dogs and barbecuing them. Police spokesman Adrian Sanchez says the
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Army chief talks tough, reserves 'right to retaliate'
India | Jan 14, 2013, 03:49 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 14: The killing of two Indian soldiers - one of whom was beheaded - by Pakistan troops was a "gruesome and an unpardonable act", army chief General Bikram Singh said Monday while
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Pakistani landlords held for killing farmer by dogs
World | Dec 12, 2012, 12:59 PM ISTIslamabad, Dec 12: A group of landlords in Pakistan have been arrested for letting loose their dogs on their tenant farmer in a barbaric attack in Multan city of Punjab province.Mohammad Hanif, the farmer, died
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Bollywood is killing Hindustani culture, says sitar player Imrat Khan
Bollywood | Oct 07, 2012, 10:52 AM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 7: Leading sitar exponent Imrat Khan of the Etawah gharana, who is one of the few surviving players of surbahar, a variation of veena, says that India should put clamps on "sleazy
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Texas executes man who confessed to killing 5
World | Sep 21, 2012, 05:10 PM ISTHuntsville (Texas), Sep 21: An ex-con who confessed to killing five people at a car wash a week after he was fired from his job there 12 years ago was executed Thursday evening. Robert Wayne
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Gunman did not speak, he just began shooting killing 6 in US gurdwara
World | Aug 06, 2012, 10:32 PM ISTOak Creek (Wisconsin), Aug 6: As worshippers prayed and meditated at the Sikh Gurdwara of Wisconsin on Sunday morning, about a dozen women were preparing food in the temple kitchen for a meal after services
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Antony orders probe into killing of Kashmiri youth
India | Jul 26, 2012, 05:07 PM ISTNew Delhi/Srinagar, Jul 26: Overruling the Army, Defence Minister A K Antony today ordered an inquiry into the killing of a youth in Kashmir which triggered protests by locals who claimed that he was not
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Powerful blast rocks coal mining village in Meghalaya
India | Jul 12, 2012, 01:16 PM ISTShillong, Jul 12: A powerful bomb went off at a labour camp early today in a remote coal mining village in the Jaintia Hills district in Meghalaya, killing a young man and injuring nine miners.The
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Australian man convicted for killing 3 Indian-origin siblings
World | Jul 03, 2012, 10:17 PM ISTMelbourne, Jul 3: A 42-year-old Australian was today convicted for brutally killing his Indian-origin girlfriend and her two siblings in Brisbane in 2003 and faces up to 45 years behind bars.Max Sica was convicted by
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14 killed in Pakistan blast
World | Jun 16, 2012, 04:56 PM ISTIslamabad, Jun 16: A powerful explosion today ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, killing at least 14 people and injuring over 20 others, officials said.The blast occurred
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Odisha Seeks Opinion Of Police For Release Of Ghasi
India | Apr 09, 2012, 05:34 PM ISTBhubaneswar, Apr 9: With the abductors of BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka demanding release of hardcore Naxal Chenda Bhusanam alias Ghasi, an accused in the killing of at least 55 security personnel, the Odisha government has
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Odisha Policeman Killing Casts Shadow Over Italian Hostage Talks
India | Mar 23, 2012, 02:07 PM ISTBhubaneswar, Mar 23: Gunning down of a police official by Maoists in Malkangiri district has cast a shadow over talks to end the nine-day-old Italian hostage crisis with a senior official saying the killing has
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Fire At Bangkok High-Rise Hotel Kills One Foreigner
World | Mar 09, 2012, 10:38 AM ISTBangkok, Mar 9: A fire at a high-rise hotel in Bangkok's main tourist district sent smoke billowing through the upper floors, killing at least one foreigner and injuring almost two dozen other people, authorities said
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Italian Marines Remanded To Judicial Custody
India | Feb 20, 2012, 09:15 PM ISTKollam, Kerala, Feb 20: Two Italian naval guards charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast were today remanded to three-day police custody by a Judicial Magistrate at Karunagapally in this district.First
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Two UK Teenagers Held For Indian Student's Murder
World | Dec 27, 2011, 10:45 PM ISTLondon, Dec 27: The British police today arrested two teenagers in connection with the unprovoked killing of 23-year-old-Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead yesterday in what could be a hate-crime. Bidve was visiting