Kerala adventure tourism turns nightmare as glider gets entangled, 3 held

Varkala, 8/2: Adventure tourism at Varkala beach turned a harrowing experience for a tourist from Tamil Nadu on Tuesday afternoon after she and her paragliding instructor got entangled on a more than 50-metre tall high-mast lamp pole and were left hanging from it for nearly two hours before being rescued. Three people were arrested on…

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14 killed, over 100 injured as explosion rocks seven-storey building in Bangladesh’s capital

Dhaka, 7/3: At least 14 people were killed and over 100 others injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a seven-storey building here in Bangladesh’s capital, police said.     Several firefighting units were rushed to the spot after the blast, which occurred around 4:50 pm (local time), the bdnews24 news portal reported, citing the…

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Three elephants electrocuted in TN, farm owner arrested for illegal electric fence

Tamilnadu, 7/3:Three female elephants were electrocuted in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu during the early hours of Tuesday.     The elephants, according to forest department officials, were electrocuted after coming in contact with an illegal electric wire at a farmland at Marandahalli in the district.   The forest officials came to know of…

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6.0-magnitude earthquake rocks southern Philippines

Philippines, 7/3: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with local authorities warning of aftershocks and possible damage.     The shallow quake struck at about 2:00 pm (0600 GMT), a few kilometres from Maragusan municipality in the mountainous gold-mining province of Davao de Oro on Mindanao island….

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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan likely to be arrested today: Report

Islamabad, 5/3: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is likely to be arrested in Toshakhana case on Sunday as the Islamabad police reached Lahore with the deposed premier’s arrest warrant, local media reported. A non-bailable arrest warrant had been issued against Khan by a district and sessions court in the federal capital on February 28….

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OMAG calls upon WHO and government to end Covid-19-induced restrictions

New Delhi, 5/3: More than three years after it broke out, a professional umbrella organisation of doctors on Sunday has called upon the World Health Organisation and Indian government to officially announce the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and the withdrawal of all restrictions. The Organised Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG), the apex federation of 15…

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