Dushanbe, Aug 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Twenty-five inmates escaped from a prison in Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe overnight, killing six security personnel in a dramatic jail break, a police source said Monday.
SHIMLA - An Indian Army officer, allegedly caught selling diesel from the army's stocks in Himachal Pradesh, was interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) here Monday, a CBI official said here.
MANILA - Seven people were killed Monday in the Philippines when a sacked police officer seized a tourist bus and opened fire at his hostages before he was killed by police.
Floatplane with 4 on board missing in SW Alaska
NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Monday contributed Rs.1 lakh towards the prime minister's national relief fund for the rehabilitation of the victims of the Aug 6 cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region.
More News
- Telugu film actresses arrested for prostitution, released
- 3.5 kg heroin seized in UAE
- Robbers loot gold worth Rs.2.5 crore in Bhopal
- Madan Tamang murder accused yet to be traced
- Flooding closes NY roads, strands motorists; homes evacuated as waterways reach flood stages
- Russian border guard killed, another missing in volatile south
- Coast Guard hearings to find cause of BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico begin in Houston
- Romania, Bulgaria health systems are sick from underfunding, understaffing and corruption
- Six Chinese survive Philippine hostage crisis (Fourth Lead)
- 3 bombings in Pakistan’s north kill at least 36 people
- Probe into lynching of boys begins in Pakistan
- Philippine hostage crisis ends
- Violence erupts in Philippine hostage-taking (Second lead)
- Two attacked with acid in Punjab
- Chile Mine Trapped Workers Alive
- Staying sane now the toughest challenge for 33 trapped Chilean miners still months from rescue
- 2 bombings in Pakistan’s tribal regions kill 33 people
- Poor woman jumps into well with three kids in Jharkhand
- Despite intense fighting, Afghan capital begins removing blast walls that protect, but impede
- Nepali woman arrested for human trafficking
- Two Punjab teachers attacked with acid
- Exotic animal owner whose bear killed caretaker says no changes needed in safety methods
- 4 foreign troops killed by bombs, ambush in Afghanistan, raising month’s death toll to 46
- 2 bombings in Pakistan’s tribal regions kill 23 people
- Floods destroy crops in Pakistan
- 15 killed as floodwaters overturn bus in Pakistan
- Floods surging into southern Pakistan test city defenses; 13 die as bus plunges into ravine
- Goa Medical College forms panel to probe ragging
- Investigation of Boston warehouse blaze begins; officials calling it biggest fire in decades
- Man dies as police, villagers clash in Orissa
- Hurricane Katrina Reigning In Children’s Mind
- Pakistan issues ‘last warning’ as flood waters rise in Sindh
- Captain, caught selling army’s diesel, dodges CBI
- Yamuna flows above danger mark, over 900 evacuated
- Cricket betting racket busted, three held
- Bomb kills 7 during tribal elders’ meeting in Pakistan’s remote northwest
- Iraqi officials say late night, morning attacks in Baghdad kill 3, wound 20 people
- Warnings extended as Tropical Storm Frank swirls of Mexico’s coast; Danielle strengthens
- Girl attempts suicide after boy circulates MMS
- Man kills son for refusing to beg
- Two killed in explosion at scrap dealer’s shop
- Floods surging into southern Pakistan test city’s defenses; 13 die as bus plunges into ravine
- Sex cult smashed in China
- Tropical Storm Danielle Gains Momentum
- Italian mafia clans contact jailed mobsters via TV show
- Telugu film actresses among nine held for prostitution
- Iraqi officials say late night bombings in Baghdad kill 1, wound 17 people
- Four killed in Congress-CPI-M clashes in West Bengal
- Policeman commits suicide in Bihar
- Southern farmers say disaster aid program tailored to Midwest needs fix to work elsewhere
- 40 years after bombing at UW-Madison, last of Vietnam protest fugitives remains ‘a ghost’
- Dismissed police officer seizes tourist bus in Philippines
- Roadside bombs kill 2 foreign troops in Afghanistan, raising month’s toll to 44
- Floods surge into southern Pakistan, testing defenses in one city
- Unidentified gunmen kill three in Kashmir
- Staying sane may be toughest challenge for 33 trapped Chilean miners months away from rescue
- 3 Malaysian Indians killed in car crash
- Fire in Uttar Pradesh warehouse
- Malaysian Indian MP arrested during protest meet
- Dismissed cop seizes tourist bus in Philippines
- Officials asked to check epidemic in flood-hit China
- Official: South Korea has no plans to resume food aid to North Korea
- Oil rises above $74 in Asia amid risks to Gulf of Mexico production in the hurricane season
- 7 people reported missing and feared dead by landslide in northern Vietnam
- Storm with 75 mph winds leaves 12,000 Utah homes without electricity, forces highway closures
- River in north China overflows; 250,000 people evacuated from flooded city
- Small plane with 3 rangers, 1 other person aboard missing in southwest Alaska
- 33 trapped Chile miners found alive after 17 days, but it could take 4 months to get them out
- Rescuers say 33 Chilean miners found alive after 17 days trapped underground
- Tropical Storm Danielle forms in the Atlantic far from US; Frank develops in Pacific
- Chief of Gulf oil spill damage claims says it was his idea to bar recipients from suing BP
- Rescuers: 33 Chilean miners found alive after 17 days trapped underground
- Gulf Coast claims pay czar says his idea to include no-sue requirement to get final settlement
- Touched by tragedy, relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims are married in New Jersey
- Jay Leno raises $100,000, including his own donation, for Gulf recovery with benefit show
- Four bandits gunned down in Madhya Pradesh
- Man posing as tax official to extort money held
- Major train collision averted in West Bengal
- 250,000 evacuated due to China floods
- Train accident averted in West Bengal
- Tropical Storm Frank forms in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico; warnings issued along the coast
- Mechanic dies after falling into Gurgaon drain
- Staying Behind: Thousands choose to stay in Pakistan’s floods to protect their homes
- Six die in China factory blast
- Pakistan flood aid tops $800 mn
- UAE supplies food in flood-hit Pakistan
- 10 Africans arrested in Hyderabad
- 4 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan; former mujahedeen leader killed by roadside bomb
- Driver, conductor drown as bus washed away in flood
- Here’s a switch: Murkowski talks up Senate seniority in bid for another term from Alaska
- Four JVM-P workers killed in accident
- Madan Tamang murder accused flees custody
- 2 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan; former mujahedeen leader killed by roadside bomb
- Video of mob beating 2 brothers to death as police watch sparks anger, anguish in Pakistan
- Over Rs.2 lakh withdrawn using cloned ATM cards
