Toronto/New Delhi: With India yet to raise a memorial to the Air India bombing victims, families of the perished crew have urged the government to commemorate the 1985 tragedy.

In a letter to the Ind

Mumbai: A massive fire broke out in an oil storage depot of the public sector Indian Oil Corporation Limited in Navi Mumbai early on Tuesday, police said.

The fire alert was received by the police ar

Mumbai: A huge fire broke out in an oil storage depot of the public sector Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) in Navi Mumbai early on Tuesday. The fire was brought under control after nearly eight

Rio de Janeiro: The number of dead in flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has reached 652.

The disaster has affected the mountainous area of the state, and worst hit are t

The threat of disease loomed Saturday over the million-plus victims of floods in Sri Lanka that have left more than 30 people dead and devastated farmland in the island's rice bowl.

Patna: World Bank president Robert B. Zoellick, who arrives on a two-day visit to Bihar on Tuesday, will sign an agreement with the state government for rebuilding areas affected by the 2008 floods th

Tehran: Seventy-two people, including 12 crew members, were killed when a plane with 105 people on board crashed in northwest Iran.

The remaining 33 people were seriously injured in the accident that

Brisbane: Flash flooding swept cars into a creek and triggered landslides Monday as heavy rains lashed Australia's swamped northeast, prompting sandbagging in Brisbane and renewed evacuations in one t

Bundaberg: Hundreds of people fled worsening floods in Australia's rural northeast on Thursday as officials warned the disaster may last for weeks, prompting fears over food shortages and disease outb

Moscow: A giant Antonov cargo plane crashed during a training exercise in central Russia, leaving all 12 military pilots aboard the aircraft missing and presumed dead, officials said on Wednesday.

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