ISLAMABAD, April 8, 2012 Over 100 Pakistani soldiers guarding the frontiers on the Siachen glacier have been trapped under heaps of snow after a massive avalanche hit a military camp early morning on Saturday. Despite daylong searches, not one of the 117 soldiers was located but the Army has not given up hope, though condolence messages have begun coming in as prospects of survivors began fading with every passing minute. Click here for a PDF version of the graphic. ...
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DHAKA, March 14, 2012 In one of the worst boat tragedies in recent times, at least 32 people, including women and children, were killed and nearly 200 missing when a ferry packed with 300 passengers capsized in a river in central Bangladesh on Tuesday after a head-on collision with an oil tanker. “Divers have recovered 32 bodies from the sunken vessel including five women and three children,” Superintendent of Police Tariqul Islam said. Rescue workers and Naval divers ...
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ROME, January 17, 2012 Italy’s cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis on Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales. The ship’s owner accused the jailed captain of causing the wreck that left at least six dead and 29 missing, saying he made an “unapproved, unauthorised manoeuvre” to ...
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Rome, January 14, 2012 (Tehelkanews) A cruise ship that ran aground off Italy’s western coast was listing 80 degrees to one side and had a 70-metre crack in its hull, reports said Saturday. Local officials amended the death toll, saying three, not six, people had been confirmed dead so far. It was unclear how many people were still missing. Rescuers searched the waters throughout the night and into the day, Ansa news agency said. Some victims died while attempting to ...
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Toronto, May 14, 2011 (AP) Ms. Parvaz hasn’t been seen or heard from since she left Al—Jazeera’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar, on April 29. On May 4, Al—Jazeera said Syrian authorities confirmed she was detained. Dorothy Parvaz called her fiancee on April 28 and told him something he didn’t want to hear- She was going to Syria to report on the uprising and the government’s ruthless efforts to quash it. The Iranian—born Al—Jazeera reporter, who spent her teen years in ...
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New Delhi, May 1, 2011 As mystery continues over the missing chopper of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, an all-out search operation is on to locate it. The Euro-copter AS350 BR, operated by Pawan Hans, was carrying Khandu, his security officer deputy superintendent of police Yeshi Choddak, the sister of Tawang MLA Tsewang Dhondup, Yeshi Lamu and the two pilots, Captain B. S. Babbar and Captain K S Malick. Government on Saturday night alerted the Department of Space ...
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Itanagar, May 1, 2011 Inclement weather on Sunday affected the aerial search to trace the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others even as the Army, SSB, ITBP and the state police launched a massive ground operations to locate it. Defence sources said 30 columns of the Indian Army comprising 2,400 personnel from Tawang and Tenga were pressed in different locations along the Indo-Bhutan border on ground search. Six ITBP teams with 25 ...
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Gangtok, April 21, 2011 An Army helicopter, with two pilots and two soldiers, on Thursday went missing while flying over north Sikkim, triggering concerns over the fate of the chopper and the personnel. The Advance Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv of the Army Aviation Corps had taken off from Sewak Road Base in Siliguri at 10.30 a.m., Army sources said. It lost radio contact at around 11.30 a.m., the sources said adding efforts are on to locate it. The Base is under the 33 Corps ...
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Mumbai: A father in Mumbai is trying to use Facebook to help find his six-year-old son. The child, Karnit Shah, has been missing for eight days; the police believes he was kidnapped from the building where the Shahs live in the suburb of Kandivali; but has made no breakthrough in the case. Anand Shah has posted a photo of Karnit on Facebook along with a message. Hundreds of users are forwarding the post to others. ...
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Feb. 11 2011 A Swiss man left a written plan that spelled out his intention to kill himself and his twin daughters, a family member said Friday. Alessia and Livia Schepp were reported missing on Jan. 30, when Matthias Kaspar Schepp failed to return them to the home in Lausanne, Switzerland, where their mother, Irina Lucidi, lived. On Feb. 3, police found Schepp's body in the southern Italian city of Cerignola. It is believed that he threw himself under a train. A subsequent ...
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Kakdwip, West Bengal: At least 18 people have drowned and over a 100 are still missing after a crowded trawler capsized in the Muriganga river near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal yesterday. The authorities fear the toll could rise. The trawler was sailing from the Hijli Sharif shrine in East Midnapore district to Kakdwip when it capsized. There were many women and children on board. The Navy has been called in to assist rescuce operations, and fifty ...
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Beijing: China mine blast took place on SaturdayFreelance Jobs Discount Shopping China Parents, are you listening?Sex 'n Sena Hockey Sex scandalBJP With the recovery of five more bodies, the death toll in the gas explosion that hit a coal mine in China's central Henan province rose to 26 today while 11 others are still trapped underground. Rescuers continue to battle thick coal dust as they attempt to reach the 11 missing but the gas leak has spread to most of the mine making ...
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LEH: As rescue and relief efforts continued on war-footing for the fourth day on Monday in cloudburst-hit Leh region, the death toll climbed to 147 while nearly 500 people, including two French nationals, remained untraceable. 147 bodies have been extricated from the rubble out of which 121 have been identified so far. Three foreigners including two French nationals are still missing while one injured Spanish national has been evacuated by IAF, official sources said. They said nearly 500 ...
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — By any measure, Saturday was a very bad day in Afghanistan for U.S. forces: a convergence of two dreaded battlefield events. Two U.S. soldiers were missing and feared captured or killed by the Taliban, military and Afghan officials said. And five other U.S. service members were killed by improvised explosive devices, which now pose a greater threat to life and limb for Western troops than at any point in the nine-year war. Details of what exactly had ...
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CHANDIGARH: India has expressed concern over Pakistan’s failure to trace a Hindu man who had disappeared along with four Sikhs in the Taliban-infested area of Khyber. While two kidnapped Sikhs were beheaded and their heads sent to a gurdwara in Peshawar, two others managed to escape following an offensive by Pakistan army against the terror force. In Chandigarh on Saturday, Preneet Kaur, minister of state for external affairs, said, "Efforts by both governments ensured that two Sikhs ...
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Mumbai: Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today said the team is missing bowling and fielding coaches, resulting in an increased workload for chief coach Gary Kirsten. Talking to reporters on the eve of the team's departure for the tri-series in Bangladesh, Dhoni said Kirsten had his plate full and the team was indeed missing bowling and fielding coaches. "To some extent, it does (affect the team). You need specialist coach to get the best out of the players. Gary looks after so ...
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