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Bolivian Police in La Paz join 'mutiny' against President, abandon posts outside presidential palace; Evo Morales urges them to 'preserve security' of country

Police guards outside Bolivia's presidential palace abandoned their posts Saturday, increasing pressure on President Evo Morales as he seeks to curb nationwide unrest after a disputed election.

Indian-origin tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre, abducted from California home, found dead in BMW

The 50-year-old, who owns a digital marketing company Atre Net Inc, was abducted from his California residence around 3 am Tuesday "during a crime"

Skymet predicts more rain for Mumbai over next 2-3 days; temperatures between 24 and 32 degree Celsius

The financial capital of India- Mumbai has observed rainfall in some parts during the last 24 hours

Bolivia has lost 1.7 million hectares of forests and grasslands to wildfires since May, say government officials

Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), officials said Wednesday, amid an $11 million effort by the government to contain them

Mumbai Rains: Central, Western Railways running late; Congress MLA blames Shiv Sena-led 'corrupt' BMC for water-logging in city

After a delay of several days, the first spell of heavy rains lashed the metropolis and its outskirts Friday morning, slowing down road and rail traffic

Andheri, Santacruz witness light showers; monsoon will gain strength with widespread rainfall in Mumbai, Goa, Konkan till 29 June, predicts IMD

Light showers were witnessed in Mumbai on Wednesday morning in areas like Andheri and Santacruz, a day after onset of the south-west monsoon was announced in Maharashtra.

In North Goa, a local community is fighting to conserve a century-old lake

Local Goa community actively pursues conservation of the Bondov Lake, which is on a high-value real estate area. Their efforts have yielded a consultation that will potentially declare area a wetland.

Astronomers find an exoplanet with a cloud-free atmosphere that's larger than Jupiter and has Saturn's mass

The spectrum of WASP-96b shows the complete fingerprint of sodium, which can only be observed for an atmosphere free of clouds,

Facebook planning to launch Oculus Go, its standalone VR headset at F8 developers conference in May

Unlike the company's pricier Oculus Rift headset, Oculus Go does not use any positional tracking technology

Mumbai Police arrests 36 MNS workers for trying to evict hawkers near city's railway stations

Thirty-six activists of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were on Monday arrested by police for allegedly beating up and driving away hawkers from near the railway stations in Mumbai and Thane