A S Kashyap A massive fire broke out inside the Goenka College of Commerce in Kolkata’s Bowbazar area on Tuesday.
Eight fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to douse the flames.
Further details are awaited. (ANI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his shock at the sinking of a cruise ship in the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei Province.
“Shocked to learn of the sinking of a cruise ship in the Yangtze River. I pray for the safety and wellbeing of those on board,” he said.
As per reports, five people have died and hundreds are missing after the cruise ship capsized on the Yangtze River. (ANI)
Accompanied by a high-level delegation, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will arrive in Visakhapatnam today on a three-day visit to India.
This would be Carter’s first visit to India as Defense Secretary.
He had earlier visited India in September 2013 and July 2012 as Deputy Defense Secretary.
A group of people staged a protest near the Myanmar embassy in New Delhi on Monday demanding restoration of citizenship rights to minority community in the country.
The protesters demanded that Muslims be rehabilitated and accommodated as citizens of Myanmar.
“Our demand is that Muslims should be accommodated soon. Myanmar has revoked their citizenship and it should be restored and they should be recalled,” said protester, Abdul Nashir, protestor.
The police prevented the protesters from advancing towards the embassy by blocking the roads with barricades and standing before it.
Bangladesh authorities have confirmed that they will be filing murder charges against those involved in the 2013 garment factory, Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1100 people.
The charges will be filed against the building’s owner Sohel Rana and 40 others, including Rana’s parents and more than a dozen government officials for their role behind the deaths of 1137 people, said the lead investigator, Bijoy Krishna Kar, reported Stuff.co.nz.
The Kaspersky Lab statistics has shown that a total of 23,095 DDoS attacks were carried out on web resources located in 76 countries in the first quarter of 2015.
Servers in the USA, Canada and China were most frequently targeted, while the top 10 victims also included resources in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
The study also finds that the greatest number of attacks on a single web resource in Q1 2015 was 21, compared to 16 in Q4 2014, and the most prolonged botnet attack occurred for almost six days.
Doctors in India has successfully treated a 12 year old swine flu patient using the artificial heart lung machine.
Apollo Children’s Hospitals, Chennai’s leading pediatric hospital and the only hospital in Chennai to house an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machine exclusively for children with successful outcomes, has helped a critical H1N1 12 year old Soubhashree survive.
The entire treatment regime could cost about Rs 10-45 lakhs in India and could cost Rs 1 crore or more abroad. (ANI)
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard has urged Myanmar to give citizenship to Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution there, saying that resettling them in a third country was not an answer to the “swelling tide” of boat people in South East Asia.
While wrapping up a three-day visit to Malaysia, Richard said the solution to the migrant crisis was “peace and stability” and added that resettling refugees in the U.S. will entice others to leave their homeland, The New York Times reports.
Almost 2,600 people have been killed in Egypt in the 18-month-long period after the deposition of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, a state-sanctioned rights body has said.
The Guardian quoted Mohammed Fayeq, head of the National Council for Human Rights, as saying that about 700 police officers and 550 civilians were among those killed in the period between 30 June, 2013 and 31 December, 2014. He added that Morsi’s supporters constituted half the total number.
Bangladesh police has reportedly charged 42 people, including the owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, in two cases filed over the building’s collapse in 2013, which killed 1,135 people, mostly garment workers.
Bijoy Krishna Kar, assistant superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department, submitted two charge-sheets before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Dhaka: one for murder and another for violating building code, reported The Daily Star.
The newly developed Zero Energy Furniture (ZEF) table could be a new way cut down on energy costs.
The table contains a special phase-changing material that absorbs and releases heat to keep room temperature around 71 degree F, CNN News reported.
The science behind the climate control table wasn’t new, according to the Parisian duo behind the invention, designer Jean-Sebastien Lagrange and engineer Raphael Menard.
Lagrange said that the application to everyday objects could possibly address climate and energy issues on a furniture scale.
Yaya Toure has confirmed that he will stay on at Manchester City after chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak told him that the club would not consider selling him amid interest from Inter Milan.
Toure said he would definitely stay at the club and the fans need not worry, the Mirror reported.
The Ivorian also said that his target this year was to try to do everything possible to make this team improve well and he was sure with his experience, with the players coming in a couple of weeks, a couple of months, definitely it would be a strong City next year.
Former India cricketers on Monday hailed the BCCI’s decision to appoint retired legends Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly in its cricket advisory committee, terming it a “step in the right direction.”
Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman were today inducted into the BCCI’s newly-constituted cricket advisory committee to guide the Board and the national team on various “progressive steps” needed for future challenges.
Sri Lanka’s former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa was on Monday grilled by police over alleged corruption in an NGO which she ran during her husband Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency, the latest in a series of questioning of his family members.
She was questioned by the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) at a location outside the headquarters for over two hours, sources said. She was summoned for an inquiry over alleged corruption in connection with a bank account of the ‘Carlton Siriliya Saviya’ Foundation, a non-governmental organisation.
Volvo Auto India has appointed Tom von Bonsdorff as the Managing Director of the company with immediate effect.
Bonsdorff, who has been with Volvo Cars for 17 years in various operational and managerial positions, will replace Tomas Ernberg who is moving back to Sweden in a new role, Volvo Auto India said in a statement.
During his career at Volvo Cars, Bonsdorff has worked in US, Sweden, Finland and in his current position – as a Market Area Director for Asia.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will on Tuesday inaugurate the party’s year-round celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar with the exercise being seen as an attempt by it to reach out to the Dalit community.
The observances by Congress to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Ambedkar — the architect of the Indian Constitution — will be held across the country after Gandhi flags off the commemoration at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. Mhow is the birthplace of Ambedkar while June 2 marks the centenary of Ambedkar’s graduation from Columbia University in the USA.
N.K. Kalia, the father of martyred Captain Saurabh Kalia, on Monday expressed the hope that the Supreme Court would direct the central government to take up his son’s case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
“It is sad and unfortunate that the Government of India is not taking concrete steps in this direction. This case is pending with the Supreme Court. I’m optimistic that the honorable court will take appropriate and suitable action and direct the Government of India to take up this matter with Pakistan and the ICJ,” N.K. Kalia told ANI.
A new book has claimed that American singer Judy Garland once stripped to her underwear from her hotel balcony to a group of hooting dockers.
Stevie Phillips, an ex-assistant to the troubled star, asserted that she was paid extra to travel to the Bahamas with Garland in 1963, but the visit turned into “hell” because of the actress’s demands, the Mirror has reported.
Hollywood actor Jean-Claude Van Damme seems to have a change of heart as he is no longer divorcing his wife Gladys Portugues.
The ‘Kickboxer’ star explained the reason for the reconciliation in a video where he said that they are not divorcing for the benefit of their kids, TMZ.com reported.
The 54-year-old actor then got poetic about his love for wife Portugues, who filed divorce documents back in March.
Damme and Portugues were married before between 1987 and 1992 and remarried in 1999. (ANI)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the country is ready to send troops to conflict-stricken parts of the world under the support of the United Nations Security Council Mandate.
According to The Daily Star, Hasina also said all necessary steps would be taken to improve the armed forces and police so that they could respond to the UN call with all necessary equipment more effectively.
She also said that Bangladesh had received an offer for some major appointments at the UN headquarters in New York and other field missions.
‘True Blood’ star Alexander Skarsgard and Alexa Chung are reportedly going out.
According to Us magazine, the relationship between 38-year-old Swedish hunk and the TV personality have “heated up” and they were both having fun even though they were busy with their work.
The couple was spotted getiing cozying under a tree in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Prospect Park, and Chung, 31, had also shared a snap of herself taken by Skarsgard on her Instagram account, writing, “O rose, thou are sick!” (ANI)
Chinese engineers are working on an ATM, which will for the very first time have the feature of facial recognition.
According to the reports, Beijing’s Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based security company Tzekwan Technology have come up with a prototype, with the aim to cut crime rates committed using the machines, News.com.au has reported.
CEO Gu Zikun said that until now, Chinese ATMs had depended entirely on foreign technology but they will now have access to an exclusively domestic system.
William Fichtner has hopped aboard Fox’s ‘Independence Day 2’ as a top general.
The news comes after the 58-year-old actor joined the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ franchise, and it is said he will go on to play an even larger role in the two films that will follow., Deadline.com has reported.
The film is being directed by Roland Emmerich and his former creative partner Dean Devlin. (ANI)
A musical soiree was recently organized at the Rabindra Centenary Hall here on the occasion of the 116th birth
anniversary of revolutionary poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Tripura’s Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, Cultural Minister Bhanulal Saha and Higher Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty were among those present during the programme held on May 25. They paid floral tributes to the poet along with hundreds of school students and teachers.
A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on an application filed against Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani for allegedly furnishing wrong information about her educational qualification in affidavits filed with the Election Commission till June 24.
The verdict on whether the cognizance of the application should be taken or not will be pronounced on June 24.
Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain had earlier adjourned the matter till June 1 after imposing a fine on the complainant for non appearance.