City man held for making hoax bomb threat call to control room in Chennai
5 hour agoChina explosion in barbecue restaurant leaves 1 dead and 10 injured
8 hour agoFloods, landslides claimed 67 dead and more than 50,000 displaced in #Kerala in India. Authorities describe these floods (due to the monsoon) as the worst since 1924. Local and international press photos.
U.S. Treasury announces sanctions against entities based in Russia, China, and Singapore for illicit shipments and services to North Korea
11 hour agoHeavy rain and flooding situation: East Coast Railway cancels 19 trains including Rayagada-Sambalpur Express, Koraput-Rourkela Express, Sambalpur-Koraput Passenger on Titlagarh-Rayagada and Rayagada-Koraput sections; 9 trains partially cancelled, 4 trains diverted Odisha
11 hour agoGwalior: 11 youth drowned in Sultan Garh Waterfalls after water level increased due to release of water from a dam. Some youth reported missing. 30-40 people still stranded at the spot. Police present at the site. #MadhyaPradesh
Police till now arrest 97 people, file 51 cases since the student protests in Dhaka demanding safe roads began
Nanjing Massacre survivor Zhu Sizi died at the age of 98 on August 15, the day that marks the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
UIU student abducted, ransom sought Suspected kidnappers abducts a private university student from Dhaka and demands Tk 10 lakh ransom from his family for his release.
11 hour agoDelhi: 3 people who went to J&K y'day to hoist the tricolour at Srinagar's Lal Chowkandwere allegedly attacked,returned today,say 'Wanted to spread message of peace in Kashmir.When we took out the tricolourandchanted 'Bharat Mata ki Jai',locals attacked us.Soldiers and police rescued us'
Bureaucrat shot dead in Patna
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 7km SSE of Jiaokui, China
MFA Russia spox Zakharova: We're following the situation in the Afghanistan province of Ghazni with concern. Tensions in the northern provinces are escalating, including due to Taliban attacks on an Afghan army base in the Ghormach District, Faryab Province
14 hour agoPresident Duterte meets with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister Shiekh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-thani in Malacañang.
Nalanda: Four children injured after a bomb exploded at a house in Rahui. Three more live bomb recovered from the house. Bihar
Eight drug suspects arrested in Quezon City
Kremlin: We still don't have final confirmation Kim Jong-un will come to Vladivostok to meet Putin in September.
15 hour agoEx PMA comptroller Ltc. Hector Maraña, who was ordered by the court to serve 6-12 yrs of imprisonment, will be detained at New Bilibid Prison. He is currently under custody @ Camp Aguinaldo. President Duterte dismissed him for misusing P15M worth of cadets' allowance
Quotareform protest leader detained in Sirajganj.
17 hour agoKeralafloods: Flights from UAE affected as all Cochin Airport flight operations suspended for 4 days
17 hour agoChina stock mkt plunges >2% as Yuan keeps falling. China's currency drops to 15mth low, in striking distance of key 7 per Dollar.
17 hour agoKazakhs expect Tenge to hit 380 against USD
Maritime patrol aircraft US Navy P-8A Poseidon LX-N90459
Truck helper killed in Lalmonirhat road crash
Abe government likely to delay Henoko base landfill work until after the Okinawa gubernatorial elections on September 30. This is only so that it doesn't hurt the electoral prospects of the pro-Abe candidate, Atsushi Sakima.
US military Osprey aircraft continue to fall out of the skies and make emergency landings. There were two separate incidents yesterday alone, one in Kagoshima Prefecture and one in Okinawa Prefecture. No injuries reported.
Thailand Chon Buri monk arrested, defrocked for abusing 'ice'
HongKong police investigating exile tycoon critical of Chinese govt, Guo Wengui, for "money laundering"
KCNA: "Let us adopt the declaration on ending war, build a peace mechanism to make durable peace. Let us not insist on 'denuclearization first' only and never pardon the unreasonable act of the U.S. forcing the north to make a unilateral concession."
KCNA: "The situation demands that the unwarranted moves of the U.S. resorting to old hostile policy toward the north and the sanctions and pressure on it indifferent to the desire of the Korean nation and those moves of the authorities kowtowing to the U.S. be rejected."
KCNA: "South-north relations that had once been utterly frozen under the conservative government have greeted its thawing season and a strong trend for national reconciliation, reunification and prosperity has been created, a proud fruition of the Panmunjom declaration."
23 hour agoKarachi: Woman killed in motorcycle, dumper collision
The Japanese government has created a nationwide television broadcast advising civilians on how to protect themselves in the event of a North Korean missile attack.
