According to aljazeera.com , a search has begun for a plane carrying three Canadian crew members that went missing in bad weather on a flight over Antarctica. New Zealand rescue authorities said the emergency beacon of the Twin Otter aircraft was activated while on its way to the Italian Antarctic base on Wednesday. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand said the beacon was transmitting from the Queen Alexandra Range, which lies in New Zealand’s rescue zone, and RCCNZ was co-ordinating the search with co-op
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According to muscatdaily.com, “An Indian expatriate was charred to death in a fire at a labour camp in Al Khuwayr…victim has been identified as 30 year old Sohan Nishad. Nishad, a watchman at the camp was the only person there sleeping after a night shift.” Read Article
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As reported by mangaloreinformation.com, “A foreign tourist was arrested by Ullal police on Friday January 18 for not possessing visa and passport.” Read Article
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As reported by dailybhaskar.com, “Two people have been arrested by the Noida Cyber Crime Cell for allegedly filming couples in hotels and uploading the videos on pornographic sites.” Read Article
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According to indiatimes.com, ” Chennai tourist Madanji, 25, holidaying in Goa was allegedly killed in a beach shack at Colva on Sunday night following a scuffle between him and bouncers (security personnel) employed at the shack.” Read Article
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As reported by jaipur.co, “A USA tourist committed suicide on Tuesday midnight by jumping from fourth floor of hotel Paradise in Vidyadhar nagar area. He jumped after breaking the window glass of his room, he died on the spot.” Police send the body to SMS hospital mortuary for post-mortem and also informed USA embassy about […]
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CALANGUTE: A tourist from Thane, Mumbai, was injured after he came in contact with broken bottle pieces on Baga beach on Thursday afternoon. Lifeguards said Shantanu Santan, 16, was in knee-deep water when he got hurt and was bleeding at the knee and toes. Many tourists visiting the beach at Calangute end up smashing the […]
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Around twenty persons were injured after a bus rear-ended a lorry at the INTUC junction at Nettoor here on Monday. The Fire and Rescue officials said that the injured were stuck inside the bus for one hour, as it lacked emergency exit facility. “After the accident, the doors of the bus which carried around fifty […]
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Japanese Encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease, has killed at least 24 kids in Odisha’s Malkangiri district, an official said Saturday. Waking up to the situation, a team of experts visited the affected area a few days ago and collected nearly 70 samples after the children, aged between two and five years, died in five villages of […]
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New Delhi, Nov 6 — An alert air traffic control (ATC) system averted a collision at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, officials said Tuesday. According to a civil aviation ministry official, a small aircraft had entered the active runway zone by mistake around 7.00 p.m. Monday. Read article
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