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Bangkok, Mar 30: A fire on a double-decker bus carrying migrant workers killed 20 people early Friday a week after another high death toll showed the continuing dangers of Thailand's roads. The fire was reported to police around 1:30 a.m. in Tak province in western Thailand along the border with Myanmar. The bus was heading to a factory in an industrial zone near Bangkok. Local media said the

New Delhi, Mar 30: Any "bonhomie" between the judiciary and the government would sound the "death knell" for democracy, senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice J Chelameswar has told the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and urged him to convene a full court to deal with the alleged executive interference in the judiciary. In an unprecedented letter to the CJI, copies of which were also sent to 22

Authorities at the Government Medical College Hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram were forced to suspend a nursing assistant after a video clip that showed him physically harming an elderly patient went viral on social media. The video, shot on a cell phone by an unidentified person in the orthopaedic ward at the hospital, shows nursing assistant R Sunilkumar clasping an aged man's left palm

Chennai, Mar 29: Veteran actor and Makkal Neethi Mayyam founder-president Kamal Haasan on Thursday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) at the earliest. "My appeal to the prime minister is, please sir, you have the authority to create this CMB and you must do it. Please," Haasan said, addressing a news conference here. "The prime minister can do (it

Sydney, Mar 29: An emotional Steve Smith broke down repeatedly as he took full responsibility for the ball-tampering scandal, saying he is simply gutted right now and would regret the incident for the rest of his life. "I made a serious error of judgement and I now understand the consequences. It was a failure of my leadership. I will do everything I can to make up for my mistake and the damage it

Lucknow, Mar 29: The Yogi Adityanath government has decided to introduce "Ramji" as the middle name of the Father of the Constitution B R Ambedkar in all official correspondence and records, an order that has raised Opposition hackles ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. A government order to this effect was issued on Wednesday night by Principal Secretary (Admin) Jitendra Kumar, an official

New Delhi, Mar 29: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi again, going into rhyme over the series of leaks, including CBSE board papers, to say that the "chowkidar" was weak. Using Twitter as his platform to attack the government, as he has been doing with clockwork regularity lately, he also used the hashtag BasEkAurSaal, a reference to the government

Islamabad, Mar 29: Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman six years ago for advocating education for girls. Malala is widely respected internationally for her bravery and activism, but opinion is divided in Pakistan where some conservatives view her as a

Hyderabad, Mar 29: A Hyderabad-bound Indigo plane suffered a tyre-burst while landing here late on Wednesday, giving 77 persons on board anxious moments. The airline said the plane landed safely. Indigo 7117, an ATR-72 twin-turboprop, took off from Tirupati Airport around 8.50 p.m. and landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at around 10 p.m. When the flight was landing, one of the tyres

New Delhi, Mar 28: The Indian government plans to sell 76 per cent stake in Air India, according to the preliminary information memorandum released on Wednesday on strategic disinvestment of the national carrier. The civil aviation ministry has sought expression of interest (EoI) for the stake sale in the loss-making carrier and two of its subsidiaries. According to the memorandum, the government