London, Sept. 14 : The crane crash at Mecca’s Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia that killed more than 100 people has exposed the dangers of careless construction boom that some Saudis complain is ruining the holy city.According to The Guardian, Mecca’s residents have lived with rampant building and development work for years as Saudi leaders […]
New Delhi, Sep 14 : The Supreme Court on Monday instructed CBI special director ML Sharma to complete probe against former agency chief Ranjit Sinha regarding his diary and submit the report within three months. Lawyer Prashant Bhushan said that CBI has been asked to investigate whether Sinha’s meeting with the people has influenced probe […]
BRISBANE : A woman was shot dead at a McDonald’s restaurant in Austrlia’s Queensland state on Thursday, a media report said. The 49-year-old was shot by a 57-year-old man, who then turned the gun on himself in the dining area of the restaurant on Gold Coast city’s Siganto Drive, ABC reported. Queensland Police Services’ Detective Mark […]
SYDNEY Australian scientists have discovered what could be a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider, after finding a large specimen living in a national park.The 50-millimetre (two-inch) spider found in Booderee National Park near Jervis Bay south of Sydney is believed to be from the Hadronyche genus, which typically lives in trees. Until now, […]
Tokyo, Sep 13 : The number of people who died in floods which devastated Japan this week reached five Sunday as rescuers continued their search for more than a dozen still missing.Police said they found the body of a 68-year-old man in Tochigi, north of Tokyo, in the early morning, the fifth located in the […]