Silver Scorpio – International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News

Mansehra (Pakistan), Sep. 14 (ANI): At least 14 policemen were injured, three of them critically, in a remote control bomb blast near Central Jail here on Monday.

The Nation quoted the District Police Officer Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur, as saying that the bomb placed alongside the road, went off when a police van was passing [...]

New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI): Malaysian High Commissioner to India has advised his fellow countrymen to take extra precaution as the spate of fatal Indian road accidents involving them is worrying.

High Commissioner Tan Seng Sung said recent accidents, where Malaysians lost their lives showed that travellers need to be more careful when planning their [...]

Washington, August 22 (ANI): An indigenous family living in a mountainous area of Malaysian Borneo has helped Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists to discover information about genetic mutations associated with acromegaly, a form of gigantism that often results in enlarged hands, feet, and facial features.

The information could lead to better screening [...]

London, August 19 (ANI): The SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) telescope has produced its first scientific results, but unfortunately it’s still waiting for a response from the aliens.

The project, called the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) after benefactor and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, went live in 2007.

It was designed to scan for broadcasts from [...]

Melbourne, Aug 9 (ANI): Forget polishing resume to find a suitable job, for your looks are more than enough to do the trick, suggests a new study, which has found that new employees are hired on the basis of their [...]

Washington, July 14 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new water desalination and filtration system that helps cut costs and time in producing clean water.

The new mini-mobile-modular (M3) “smart” water desalination and filtration system has been made by researchers at the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

In designing [...]

Bhopal, July 12 (ANI): Officials at the Van Vihar National Park, the zoological gardens in Bhopal are a delighted lot since a little hyena cub has been brought here from the jungles.

The little female cub has become a cynosure of all eyes here.

Forest rangers overseeing the jungles in Satna region, about 377 kilometres [...]

New Delhi, July 6 (ANI): Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the ‘Harry Potter’ film franchise, says that he doesn’t know what to do with all his money.

Grint, 20, only realised how rich he was when he was featured in Forbes’ list of top earning young superstars in 2007, reports the China [...]

Ghaziabad (UP), July 4 (ANI): At least seven persons, including a driver and a guard, were injured when a Delhi-bound passenger train hit a goods train loaded with petrol near the Ghaziabad railway station on Saturday.

A railway official the 310 Ambala Saharanpur Nizammuddin passenger train was on its way to the Nizammuddin railway station [...]

Colombo, May 27 (ANI): Slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran’s body was identified by his two former aides with the help of certain scars and birth marks.

The Tiger supremo’s body was identified by federal minister [...]

New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): Jennifer Aniston’s dog Norman has its own director’s chair on the sets of her new movie.

The ‘Friends’ star is so fond of her pooch that she brings him to set when she is shooting ‘The Baster’, reports the China Daily.

“Norman is important in Jennifer’s life, but the crew is fed [...]

Ahmedabad (Gujarat) May 25 (ANI): In a unique initiative aimed at making health care benefits available to the masses, Shri Krishna hospital in Ahmedabad has launched Krupa Arogya Suraksha (KAS), a social security scheme, wherein a poor family can get insurance cover by paying a minimum fee of Rs. 90 or 9 kilograms of food [...]

Ahmedabad, May 24 (ANI): Villagers in Anand and Kheda in Gujarat can now avail medical benefits of up to Rs.5000 at Rs.90 or ten kilograms of food grains.

The Shri Krishna Hospital is promoting this unique initiative called the Krupa Arogya Suraksha (KAS) social security scheme.

The insurance cover will increase [...]

Washington, May 17 (ANI): An endangered bird found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, has been provided an exclusive stretch of sand as a protected nesting area, where it can lay eggs.

The bird in question is the maleo, a chicken-sized bird that lays its [...]

Melbourne, May 8 (ANI): Australian tennis star Jelena Dokic has expressed distress over the arrest of her father, Damir in Serbia, after he allegedly threatened to kill Australia’s ambassador to Serbia.

Damir Dokic faces three years in prison for threatening to fire a rocket at the Australian ambassador to Belgrade and for illegally possessing explosive devices.

Damir [...]

Srinagar, May 6 (ANI): Police seized five kilograms of explosives in Srinagar on Wednesday, a day before citizens of the area cast their votes during the fourth phase of general elctions.

Police sources said the explosives were retrieved from a gas cylinder lodged inside a stationary van on one of the city’s streets.

The recovery of the [...]

Melbourne, May 6 (ANI): Australia cricket’s top dogs Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke will be rewarded with a million-plus dollar contracts in the next fortnight.

They will also receive 12,750 dollars a Test, 5100 dollars for a one-day international and 3835 dollars for a Twenty20 International.

Ponting also has several lucrative advertising, television and newspaper deals, [...]

Kuala Lumpur, May 5 (ANI): A secretary reportedly bit off her boss’ penis accidentally while performing oral sex in a car.

According to Sin Chew Daily and China Press, the 30-year-old woman was performing the sex act when the car, she and her boss were in, [...]

London, May 5 (ANI): Even though American singer Bob Dylan is very well known as a music legend, and for being one of the most influential songwriters, not much is known about his life behind the scenes.

Dylan, 67, who has just become the oldest musician to have a No. 1 album in the UK, when [...]

Pretoria (ANI): A smashing half century from Mahela Jayawardene of Punjab Kings XI cost sixth straight defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders at Port Elizabeth on Sunday.

Needing seven from the last over off Ajit Agarkar, Jayawardene got a crucial boundary away and left Irfan Pathan facing the final ball needing one. But Pathan got the ball [...]