A man who robbed almost 50 houses by scaling the outside of the buildings faced court in Australian on Monday.


Australia Spiderman burglar brought to justice


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Two Amarnath pilgrims were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district on Monday while they were transporting the body of their dead friend on a motorcycle without informing the police.


Two bikers transporting friend's body arrested


Polish people participated in the "Day without cell phone" campaign on Sunday, an informal action encouraging people to put away their mobiles and strive to consolidate direct ties with friends and family members.


Polish people take part in 'Day without cell phone'


Israeli consumption of plastic bags decreased by 80 per cent in 2017 than the year before, according to Israeli Environment Ministry on Sunday.


Plastic bags consumption reduces by 80% in Israel


Some 17.58 million babies were born in China last year, according to figures released on Sunday.


Over 17mn babies born in China in 2017


Malvika Iyer was a charming 13-year-old girl in 2002 when a grenade accidentally blew up in her hands, ripping her forearm and paralysing her legs, in Bikaner, Rajasthan, where she lived with her parents. An accident that could have ended her life completely changed her perspective, and even though it took years for her to overcome the trauma, she came out stronger and not only found a way to get her life back on track, but also became a harbinger of change for the disabled.


How a woman grenade blast survivor overcame disability to inspire change (IANS Special Series)


Over the last few days, the word formalin or formaldehyde, a powerful carcinogenic disinfectant used to preserve dead bodies in mortuaries, is on the lips of most fish-loving Goans, after the state Food and Drugs Administration cracked down on consignments of fish from other states laced with the chemical.


Feni, fish and formalin: Morgue preservative in seafood provokes outrage, acrid humour


She is an acknowledged authority on the Kama Sutra, and her recent book, "The Arts of Seduction", is billed as a guide to having great sex in the 21st century. London-based mythologist and narrative practitioner Kamadevika Seema Anand laments that people are not having "great sex" these days, and that it has been reduced to an "act of instant gratification".


Once a poetic experience, sex has now become an unfulfilling encounter: Writer Seema Anand (IANS Interview)


More than 30 passengers on a Ryanair flight, some bleeding from their ears, were reportedly taken to hospital after the cabin became depressurised and the plane had to make an emergency landing in Frankfurt.


Dozens injured as Ryanair flight loses cabin pressure


A bereaved Indian family in Kerala, grappling with the untimely demise of their relative in the UAE capital, has received someone else's body in a shocking mix up.


Indian family receives wrong body after mix-up in UAE


Mount Fanjingshan, China's latest entry on the Unesco World Heritage List, has been asked to limit visitors in an effort to protect the site.


China's new world heritage site limits visitors


The UN has come up with a compact incorporating key provisions for smoother pathways to legal migration and safeguarding migrants that are of particular relevance to India, which contributes the world's largest migrant population.


UN finalises global compact aimed at aiding legal migration


Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday and Sunday where he will unveil and lay the foundation stone of various projects.


PM to visit Uttar Pradesh to unveil various projects


A cave complex in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their football coach were trapped for more than two weeks is set to be turned into a museum, a media report said on Thursday.


Thai cave to be turned into museum


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasised on  empowering women to make them "bulwarks" against social evils.


Empower women to fight social evils: Modi


A Thai medical team said on Wednesday that the 12 boys and their coach rescued from a cave in northern Thailand have lost approximately two kg of weight each after spending more than two weeks trapped underground.


13 rescued from Thai cave lost 2 kg weight: Medics


Actress Celina Jaitly says justice to the Indian LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community is long overdue, and that the law must put an end to the legal platform that segregates the community from others.


Justice to Indian LGBT long overdue: Celina Jaitly


All the 12 boys and their football coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand after being trapped for 18 days, bringing an end to the ordeal that prompted a huge international rescue effort.


All 12 boys, football coach rescued from flooded Thailand cave


US-based Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Wild Seve programme, which helps farmers living around Karnataka's two national parks recoup  crops or livestock losses caused by wildlife, this week filed its 10,000th claim since the launch of the programme in July 2015, it was announced on Tuesday.


10,000th wildlife conflict claim in Karnataka


Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has urged Finance Minister Piyush Goyal to make amendments to the Income Tax Act so that gifts to wives or daughters-in-law are not taxed.


Don't tax gifts to wives, daughters-in-law: Maneka


A police dog helped crack within hours a double murder case in Churu district of Rajasthan by leading investigators to the two dead women's relative who has been arrested, police said on Monday.

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