On Wednesday morning, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, along with four others — his personal security officer Vidhit Jadhav, pilot-in-command Sumit Kapur, first officer Shambhavi Pathak and cabin crew member Pinky Mali —- boarded the ill-fated VT-SSK Learjet 45 business jet to go to Ba»»»

The mother of a teenage girl killed when an explosion ripped through a service station has appealed to the Irish government to engage in "meaningful talks" with bereaved families about establishing a public inquiry into the tragedy. Donna Harper's 14-year-old daughter Leona was one of 10 people who»»»

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has started a preliminary inquiry into a crude bomb explosion in Bhubaneswar that critically injured notorious criminal Sehnawaz Malik and three others. The blast occurred during bomb assembly. While no terror link is apparent, investigators are exploring a consp»»»

0 The death of Proloy Chaki, a well-known Bangladeshi Hindu singer and political activist, has triggered fresh debate over political repression and minority safety in Bangladesh. Chaki, a musician and a leader of the Awami League, died on Sunday night while in police custody, raising serious concer»»»

Four people, including an 11-year-old boy, were injured on Sunday when an air compressor exploded at a puncture shop near Kalma Chowk in Sibi, officials said. Officials said the compressor burst due to excessive pressure at the shop on Residency Road, sending metal parts across a wide area and dama»»»

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 15 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP), Nalin Prabhat, stressed on Saturday that any speculation about the incident was unnecessary, as preliminary findings pointed to an inadvertent blast during a mandated forensic procedure.»»»

An accidental explosion at Srinagar's Nowgam police station killed six and injured 27, mostly police and forensic teams, while examining a 360 kg explosives haul linked to a 'white-collar' terror module. The blast occurred during sample extraction of chemicals brought from Faridabad, leading to a m»»»

MPs have called for costly special needs referrals to be scaled back and replaced by in-school help amid a funding crisis fuelled partly by the rise of ADHD. The Commons Education Select Committee called for reform of the ‘broken’ special needs system, which is causing long waiting lists and financ»»»

PUNE: The family members of a Kargil war veteran have alleged that a group of around 80 people affiliated to a Hindutva outfit barged into their house in Pune and demanded a proof of their Indian citizenship, accusing them of being Bangladeshis. The incident took place in Chandannagar area of the c»»»

Convicted murderer George Degiorgio has filed an urgent request to provide sworn testimony in the ongoing magisterial inquiry into the 2017 car bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Degiorgio is currently serving a 40-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to th»»»

The June 12 Air India crash in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, with 230 passengers and 12 crew members aboard is sending deep reverberations through a group of Canadians who know all too well the shock, grief and horror of losing loved ones in hauntingly similar circumstances. They are the families of t»»»

Some 140 were evacuated in the horror blast A DRUG dealer has been jailed after causing an explosion which killed a man and a seven-year-old boy sleeping in the flat above. Jason Laws, 35, and little Archie York died after an explosion ripped through six homes in Newcastle early on October 16 last »»»