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According to some reports, The identity of the gunmen was not immediately known, though jihadists have targetted hotels in West Africa before, CNN reports.
21:25
Grand-Bassam is located in the south-east of Ivory Coast, lying 40km from the main city of Abidjan. In 2012 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
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A beach resort in the Ivory Coast has come under attack from gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs, according to reports.A number of people have been killed as as a result of the assault on a hotel in the coastal city Grand-Bassam, it is reported.Dramatic footage showed people running away from the...
21:09
Militants this evening shot at and seriously wounded a civilian in south Kashmir's Pulwama district. A senior police officer said militants fired at Jehangir Ahmad Bhat near his house in Kreemabad village of south Kashmir Pulwama district.Jehangir was evacuated to hospital for treatment. The...
20:48
The liquor baron on Sunday issued a statement refuting all media reports.Here's the full text of the statement:The past few few days have witnessed a near hysterical campaign in the media directed against me.Recognising that the media was indulging in sensationalism, I thought it was best to let...
20:40
Attacking Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for his remarks drawing a parallel between RSS and terror outfit ISIS, VHP today said the Congress leader has crossed all limits in his party's bid to woo Muslims for its vote bank politics. Azad has insulted Muslims by questioning their patriotism,...
19:57
Sri Lanka today witnessed its third nationwide electricity blackout within six months due to technical problem which disrupted the water supply to many parts of the island nation.Power and Renewable Energy Ministry Secretary Suren Batagoda said the cause of the island-wide power failure could be...
19:53
Pakistan will release 86 Indian fishermen languishing in a Karachi prison on March 21, a Gujarat government official said today. These fishermen had been apprehended by the Pakistan Marine Security Agency for allegedly violating International Maritime Boundary Line between the two countries...
18:39
JUST IN: All 8 trekkers who went missing are safe, 6 have been rescued. Rescue efforts are on. This was conformed by Hans Raj Chauhan, Kullu deputy commissioner.Five teams comprising 50 Indo Tibetan Border Police Force personnel were on Sunday pressed into service to locate and rescue eight...
18:33
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump dons made-in-China shirts and ties, the US media reported on the controversial real estate tycoon who has blamed the Communist country and India for taking away American jobs. Trump's signature line of men's suits, dress shirts and ties are...
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Amid a raging controversy over UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya leaving the country, the Rajya Sabha attendance data today showed that the liquor baron was present on only one day during the current Budget session.He reportedly last attended the Rajya Sabha on March 1.The attendance data showed...
17:11
An earthquake of 4.3 magnitude in the Richter scale today rocked Assam at around 4.04 pm. The Met office here said that the tremor was of slight intensity.The epicentre of the quake was located at latitude 26.5 degree North and longitude 92.3 degree East in the region of Darrang in Assam. The...
16:57
As many as 56 Naxals, including twenty five women, surrendered before the police in Odisha's Malkangiri district.Around 56 Maoists belonging to the Odisha -- Chhattisgarh Naxal Darava division -- including 17 Maoists belonging to the Odisha cadre, surrendered before Chhattisgarh Bastar IG on...
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A Naxal was today gunned down in an exchange of fire with security forces in Maoist-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, the police said. The face-off between ultras and a composite squad of District Reserve Group and Special Task Force took place in the forest axis of Misiguda and Bendre...
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As a controversy rages on over Vijay Mallya leaving the country despite huge unpaid loans by his group, the beleaguered businessman today said he was being hunted down by media in UK but they did not look in the obvious place. A miffed Mallya, who is reportedly in the UK and has been...
16:08
An avalanche warning was again issued today for higher areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, advising people not to venture into these places over the next 24 hours. The advisory was issued by the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment, part of the Defence Research...
15:52
Backing Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's statement that cricket matches with Pakistan should not be allowed to continue while bombs are being hurled at the security forces at the border, BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy on Sunday said that it was a big mistake on the part of the Indian Government...
15:33
BJP MP Varun Gandhi today escaped unhurt after a makeshift stage, overcrowded with his supporters, collapsed at a party function in Moradabad. Gandhi, who was on his way to interact with farmers in Chhajlet, had made a brief halt at Peeli Kothi Chowk on the Moradabad-Haridwar Highway, where...
15:19
Three Indian students in the UAE were killed on the spot in a horrific car accident in Sharjah, police said. The incident took place on Al Dhaid-Al Madam Road in Sharjah in the wee hours yesterday.Ashmid Ashraf, 20, Muhammad Shifam, 20 and Mohammad Shounoub, 21 were returning to Dubai after a...
15:11
Five militants who were plotting to target government offices in Pakistan's Punjab province were killed today in a gun battle with security forces and a huge quantity of explosives was seized from them. The Counter Terrorism Department killed the militants in a raid at a house in Shahkot...
15:11
Five militants who were plotting to target government offices in Pakistan's Punjab province were killed today in a gun battle with security forces and a huge quantity of explosives was seized from them. The Counter Terrorism Department killed the militants in a raid at a house in Shahkot...
14:38
Creating history in the regional film industry Chaali Polilu, a Tulu movie released on October 31, 2014, today completed its 500th day in a theatre in Mangaluru. The comedy film, directed by Veerendra Shetty Kavoor and produced by Prakash Pandeshwar under the banner of Jaya Kirana films, is...
14:33
Fifty-three people were executed by Maoists after 'kangaroo courts' found them 'guilty' in the five worst Naxal-hit states of the country in the last three years. According to Home Ministry statistics, 18 people were killed following the directives of 'kangaroo courts' or 'Jan...
13:47
In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court has held that legal heirs of a deceased convict are liable to pay fines and compensation, imposed by the trial courts, from the properties left behind by him. The judgement was delivered by Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi, who observed that...
13:29
With seven trekkers having gone missing in Parvati Valley of Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel have launched a massive search operation to rescue the stranded victims in the Chandrakhani pass.The missing people, including one guide and seven trekkers,...
13:12
A protester tried to storm the stage while Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in the US state of Ohio but the Republican presidential front-runner brushed aside the latest incident of chaos at his events saying the man was probably an ISIS supporter.The incident that took place yesterday in...
12:56
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's trademark khaki shorts will soon make way for dark khaki trousers. A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the Sangh's highest decision-making body, in Nagaur on Sunday.We have decided to replace khaki shorts...
12:29
The Indian Space Research Organisation intends to more than double its launches a year, and get on board industries to build entire satellites and partner in rocket integration by taking bigger stakes, its Chairman A S Kiran Kumar has said.India currently has 34 satellites in space but this...
11:38
Indian boxing star Vijender Singh has dedicated his fourth successive professional triumph to the Indian Armed Forces personnel who were martyred in the Pathankot terror attack. The 30-year-old from Haryana put up another dominating show to knock out Hungary's Alexander Horvath in...
11:23
A Hyderabad Court has issued non-bailable warrants against Vijay Mallya and defunct company Kingfisher Airlines' Chief Financial Officer A Raghunath and directed that the duo should be produced before the court on April 13.The decision in this regard was pronounced by 14th Additional Chief...
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A Syrian Islamist rebel group on today shot down a regime warplane over a village in central Hama province, a monitoring group said.A pro-government Facebook acknowledged that a MiG-21 warplane went down over Kafr Nabuda but said it was due to technical difficulties, denying it had been shot...
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On the eve of regional elections set to show her Christian Democrats losing support, Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that refugees had a duty to integrate themselves into German society.We expect refugees to accept these offers (of integration). It is a duty and not just a possibility, said...
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Indian-origin journalist heckled, detained at Trump rallyArt of Living won't pay fine but will support Yamuna restoration, says Sri SriNo 'Modi Modi ' chants, says PM Modi during Nitish's speech
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