Guwahati, Nov 1 (IANS) Assam saw a spate of abductions over the weekend. While a civil engineer was kidnapped by suspected militants of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), another abducted engineer was rescued and security forces foiled an attempt to kidnap a third engineer.
Two kidnapped forest guards were also released after they were severely beaten up.
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Five people of Indian origin are on a journey to India to visit the villages that their ancestors left over a hundred years ago to work on sugar plantations in Caribbean colonies.
Imphal, Nov 1 (IANS) Seven separatists were killed in a pre-dawn encounter with security forces Sunday in the northeastern state of Manipur, police said.
A police spokesperson said the encounter took place between a group of heavily armed militants and a column of the paramilitary Assam Rifles near village Sanapat in Imphal East district, about 30 km southeast of Manipur’s capital Imphal.
Washington, November 1 (ANI): Alexandra Burke has revealed that she would love to have a huge gay fan base, adding that she only trusts gay men.
Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): There is a need for biomedical research and new interventions to eradicate malaria worldwide, say scientists at National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
New York, Nov 1 (ANI): Canadian model Gabriel Aubry has been roped in as the new face of Louis Vuitton.
New York, Nov 1 (ANI): American model/actress Molly Sims showed prostitutes how to use condoms during a charity trip to Haiti.
Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): A new study has revealed that targeted immunotherapy has been found effective in treating lymphoma associated with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV-lymphoma) in patients who have received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).
Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): Scientists from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have suggested a gene therapy that is capable of stalling the development of Huntington’s disease.
Vladivostok, Nov 1 (RIA Novosti) A Russian interior ministry plane with 11 crewmembers on board crashed several minutes after taking off in Yakutia, authorities said Sunday.
“All 11 people died in the air crash,” a spokesman for the ministry’s regional centre said.