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DHAKA - Authorities in Bangladesh have launched an investigation into a fire that raged through residential buildings, shops and a market killing nearly 100 people here, officials said Friday.
MOHALI - Yet another teacher was sacked by a school here for allegedly thrashing a Class 8 boy during an excursion, following which the student's mother died of shock.
Benazacon (Spain), June 4 (IANS/EFE) Four workers were killed and one seriously injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory here in southern Spain.
CHANDIGARH - Disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, will continue to be in jail till at least June 29, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday adjourning his bail plea and revision petition.
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