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GUWAHATI (India) — An elephant named “ Osama bin Laden” that has killed 27 people in Assam, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal. The 10-feet tall male elephant had been >> >>
 

27 women, kids killed in Wedding stampede

MULTAN—The death toll in a wedding ceremony due to a fir triggering a stampede and wall collapse near the city of Dera Ghazi Khan, on Saturday night has risen to 27, a police officer said Sunday. At least 27 women and children were killed when they crushed out of a wedding ceremony due to a fire triggering a stampede and wall collapse near the city of Dera Ghazi Khan, a police officer said Sunday. An electric wire fell on a house where a large number of women and children were celebrating a wedding >> >>


 

30 Taliban killed in NATO Afghan raid

KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) — A NATO-led airstrike in southern Afghanistan this week killed up to 30 Taliban fighters including two commanders, the governor of the troubled Kandahar province said. Warplanes from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) bombed a compound serving as a Taliban command post in the Panjwayi district of the volatile Kandahar province on Wednesday. The alliance at the time did not provide information on >> >>

 

• ‘Govt taking every step for preservation, conservation of rich Cultural Heritage’
• Minorities given special attention for their welfare
• Re-polling of election of SC Bar Association today
• Increase of 23% recorded in exports in November: Dr. Salman
• ‘Education vital to check growing population’
• `Interfaith harmony must for peace: Rashid
• Govt making efforts to resolve provincial autonomy issue: Saifullah
• 13,816 new Sui gas connections provided to consumers in Capital
• Ban impose on sale, purchase of land in three sector
• Notices issued for evacuation of CDA’s land at F-12

• Top actors lift Painted Veil
• Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ is You
• Bollywood set to end 2006 on a big high
• Publisher behind O.J Simpson book fired
• Lyonne turns herself in at NY court

      SPORTS NEWS 

• Inzi retained captain for SA tour, World Cup
• Bangladesh thrash Scotland to clinch ODI series
• McGrath wickets rock England in Ashes Test
• Lashly outlasts five Extremists, won the “ December to Dismember Title"
• Controversy hits South African cricket