The incident took place in the absence of most of the locals, who were attending the midnight mass at a church in a nearby village in Bandarban district.
Category: News
China approves Brahmaputra dam in Tibet, on a scale to surpass Three Gorges Dam, with security concerns for India
The dam is to be built at a huge gorge in the Himalayan reaches where the Brahmaputra river makes a huge U-turn to flow into Arunachal Pradesh in India and then to Bangladesh.
The total investment in the dam could exceed 1 trillion yuan (USD 137 billion), which would dwarf any other single infrastructure project on the planet, including China’s own Three Gorges Dam, regarded as the largest in the world, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
Rahul Gandhi condoles loss of ‘mentor and guide’ Manmohan Singh who he publicly shamed in 2013
Congress mourns death of Manmohan Singh
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he was at Yemen airport when Israeli airstrike targeted it
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was present at Yemen airport when Israeli airstrikes hit it
World leaders condole former Indian PM Manmohan Singh’s demise; Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia bids goodbye to “my mitra, my bhai, Manmohan”
Former Indian PM, who served the nation for two-terms, died at 92
WATCH: Indian man travels 290 kilometres hanging under train’s coach; caught during rolling test
It was during a rolling test, near the Jabalpur railway station, when the staff of Carriage and Wagon department found him hiding under the coach.
Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh has died: AIIMS Delhi
Singh, 92, was brought to the emergency department on December 26 evening in a critical condition after “sudden loss of consciousness”, the hospital authorities said.
Japan Airlines recovers from cyber-attack; announces resumption of flights from Dec 27
Japan Airlines said that there was no virus in its system or any customer data leaks resulting from the cyber-attack. It had first noticed the problem this morning (around 7.25am in Japan) when snags began to crop up in its luggage check-in system. Acting quickly, the carrier suspended all ticket sales — domestic and international — for the rest of the day.
Renowned Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa passes away at 86 in the US
Her novel Ice Candy Man — later adapted into the critically acclaimed film Earth by Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta — captured the horrors of the 1947 partition, a period Sidhwa personally witnessed as a child.
Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ stirs controversies, again, upon return to India after 36 years
While the book has generated significant interest from readers, publishers, and authors alike, many other bookstores have decided not to import it. This selective availability has added to the growing discussions around its release.
