Almost 100 people, mostly women and children, died as a ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year sank in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq's worst accident in years.
New Delhi: All the aspirants of Congress ticket for Dakshina Kannada constituency and district leaders took part in a meeting at AICC General Secretary and Karnataka’s AICC In-charge KC Venugopal's residence in Delhi on Thursday.
New Delhi: Several parliamentary constituencies are set to witness high-profile contest this election with the BJP announcing its first list of candidates and fielding Union minister Smriti Irani against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.
London: Four mosques in the central English city of Birmingham have been attacked overnight, with a man wielding a sledgehammer seen smashing windows at two places of worship, the police said on Thursday.
Bengaluru: Recent entrant and Congress rebel lawmaker Umesh Jadhav will take on Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge from Gulbarga as the BJP announced its list of 21 candidates for the two-phased Lok Sabha polls in the state.
San Francisco: Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking giant's employees.
Mangaluru: The BJP High Command on Thursday announced its list of candidates for the 21 constituencies of the state, while it has not named candidates who will contest from seven other constituencies.
Karkala: Illegal cash worth Rs. 3 lakh was seized on Thursday by special forces while it was being transported on a car without relevent documents, here at Sanur check post here.
Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released a list of 21 candidates who will contest from Karnataka against the Congress-JD(S) coalition in the state for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
New Delhi: The BJP Thursday fielded its President Amit Shah from Gandhinagar in place of L K Advani as its announced its first list of 184 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
