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London: London Mayor Boris Johnson has proposed a new Commonwealth work visa for Indian students which will allow them to work for two years after graduating from a British university. This, the Mayor hopes, will help address the sharp decline in foreign students coming to study in the United Kingdom. ... Read more
Moscow: A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia's FSB security service said Tuesday, telling Russian President Vladimir Putin it's now clear the bombing that killed 224 people was a "terrorist" act. ... Read more
Dhaka: India and Bangladesh today agreed to share information on militants as home secretaries of the two neighbours concluded their talks here reviewing internal security and other cross-border issues. ... Read more
Islamabad: The Islamic State (IS) is very much present in Pakistan, said a leading daily, contradicting official claims that the group has no presence in the country. ... Read more
Manila: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Manila on Tuesday to attend the 23rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit to be held during November 18 and 19. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan pockets billions in US aid and takes in tonnes of military hardware even as it continues to patronise proxy groups, a top American expert on South Asia has said while emphasising on this "dysfunctional dynamic" in the bilateral relationship. ... Read more
Islamabad: Everyone wants a share in India with the country being projected as the next global power, said a Pakistani daily which noted that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Britain was "as much about showmanship as it was about diplomacy". ... Read more
Washington: After the Paris terrorist attacks, governors of at least 24 US states, all but one of them Republican, including Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal, have announced they will not accept Syrian refugees. ... Read more
PETERBOROUGH, Canada: Police said Monday they are treating a fire that was deliberately set at an Ontario mosque as a hate crime. ... Read more
Antalya: Describing the Islamic State as "the face of evil", US President Barack Obama has admitted that deadly attacks in Paris were a "terrible and sickening setback" in the fight against the dreaded outfit but ruled out sending American troops into Syria for ground combat. ... Read more
Paris: France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned. ... Read more
Nay Pyi Taw: Myanmar's opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has won 880 parliamentary seats (77.3 percent) out of a total of 1,139 in the elections, Union Election Commission said on Monday. ... Read more
Washington: The US and France have agreed on "concrete steps" to further intensify their military cooperation on fighting the Islamic State terrorist group in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, the Pentagon said on Sunday. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Invoking the Panchsheel principles, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli today called on India to immediately lift the “undeclared blockade” imposed on Nepal to help boost bilateral ties amid the recent political crisis over the country’s new Constitution. ... Read more
Baghdad: Senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group of imminent assaults by the militant organization just one day before last week's deadly attacks in Paris killed 129 people, The Associated Press has learned. ... Read more
Paris: There was a moment — just a moment — when the concert hall was eerily quiet. The rock band had stopped playing, and people had dived to the floor after realizing the sudden explosions hadn't been part of the show. Everything was silent. ... Read more
Paris: French military jets on Sunday bombarded a stronghold of the Islamic State terrorist group in Raqqa, Syria, French Defence ministry said. ... Read more
Paris: The terror attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead and over 300 injured aren't "one off" and similar deadly attacks are likely to occur again, an expert on terrorism has said. ... Read more
Antalya: India today announced conclusion of a civil nuclear deal for buying uranium from Australia to increase conventional fuel supplies to overcome chronic shortages. ... Read more
Antalya, Turkey: President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held an informal meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit in Turkey. ... Read more
La Garenne-Colombes,France: In 2008, Philippe Juvin worked for several months as an anesthesiologist with French troops in Afghanistan. Nothing he handled there was as difficult as his night in Paris when terror attacks killed at least 129 people. ... Read more
Ankara: Four Turkish police officers were wounded when an Islamic State suicide bomber exploded in the country's south, Xinhua reported on Sunday. ... Read more
Antalya: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today termed the BRICS as 'Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions', which will be the theme of the 5-nation group when India assumes its presidency next year. ... Read more
Antalya, Turkey: President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to redouble U.S. efforts eliminate the Islamic State and end the Syrian civil war that has fueled its rise, denouncing the extremist group's horrifying terror spree in Paris as "an attack on the civilized world." ... Read more
Antalya: India will guide the BRICS nations' USD 50 billion New Development Bank - a rival to the World Bank - to finance "inclusive and responsive" needs of particularly emerging economies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. ... Read more
Paris: The attackers worked in three synchronized teams, wearing matching suicide vests and carrying the same weapons. In an excruciating half-hour, they unleashed their terror. One suicide bombing after another at the national stadium, sprays of gunfire in the crowded restaurants and streets of central Paris, and finally a hostage standoff that drenched a 19th century dance hall with the blood of dozens of young people out for a night of rock music. ... Read more
Islamabad: A Pakistani newspaper said on Sunday that there were "eerie similarities" between the Mumbai, Peshawar and Paris terror attacks. ... Read more
Antalya: Thousands of security personnel and high-tech surveillance systems dotted every nook and corner of this Turkish resort town as leaders of the world’s 20 top economies, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, congregated here for the two-day G20 Summit beginning today. ... Read more
Washington: Taking the stage a day after the deadly terrorist strike in Paris, Hillary Clinton in direct contrast with President Barack Obama asserted that ISIS "cannot be contained" but instead must be "defeated." ... Read more
Beaumont: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says the terror attacks in Paris would have been "a much, much different situation" had the victims been armed with guns. ... Read more
New York: The Islamic State group on Saturday expressed fury at France's recently launched airstrikes against it in Syria as it claimed responsibility for Friday's attacks in Paris. ... Read more
Rome: Soldiers and paramilitary troops toting semi-automatic rifles patrolled outside the Colosseum and inside St. Peter's Square, as Italy joined the rest of Europe in beefing up security a day after terrorist attacks killed 129 people in Paris ... Read more
London: Britain’s second busiest airport Gatwick was today evacuated after a ‘suspect package’ was found amid fears of more terror strikes as the dreaded ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. ... Read more
London: Describing the terror assaults in France as an “attack on humanity”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked the UN to define terrorism before it is too late so that the world knows who is backing terror and who is against it. ... Read more
Paris: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Paris that killed over 120 people. ... Read more
Washington: Drawing parallels between the Paris and the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in terms of low-cost and level of sophistication, security experts today said that the mayhem will be a “game changer” for how the West looks at the threat posed by terrorism. ... Read more
Paris: French police are hunting possible accomplices of eight assailants who struck Paris concert-goers, cafe diners and soccer fans in the country’s deadliest peacetime attacks, a succession of blasts and shootings that cast a dark shadow over this luminous tourist destination. ... Read more
Paris: A journalist at the Bataclan theatre, one of the multiple sites in Paris which was attacked on Friday night, said the terrorists blindly fired at the crowd for 10-15 minutes, BBC reported. ... Read more
Paris: There is no report yet of any Indian killed or wounded in the deadly Paris terror attacks, the Indian embassy here said on Saturday. ... Read more
Paris: An unnamed witness at the Bataclan rock concert where over 150 people were massacred by terrorists in a string of attacks in Paris on Friday night, recalled it as "war", BBC reported. ... Read more
London: Facing attack back home over the issue of intolerance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India's diversity was the country's "strength and pride" and underlined the importance of peaceful co-existence. ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama has telephoned his French counterpart Francois Hollande to offer condolences over the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris that left over 120 people dead and extended support in probing the incident. ... Read more
Tokyo: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Kyushu in southwestern Japan on Saturday, triggering a minor tsunami in the southern part of Kagoshima prefecture, Xinhua reported. ... Read more
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned "the despicable terrorist attacks carried out in various locations in and around Paris," and demanded "the immediate release of the numerous individuals reportedly being held hostage in the Bataclan theatre." ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the deadly attacks currently still unfolding in Paris, France, and said it was too early to determine who was behind those attacks, Xinhua reported. ... Read more
London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today condemned the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris that has killed at least 100 people, saying that the “news from Paris is anguishing and dreadful”. ... Read more
London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced a direct flight between London and Ahmedabad from December this year. ... Read more
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday said a time will soon come when there will be a British-Indian prime minister. ... Read more
London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, the second day of his three-day visit to Britain, gifted Queen Elizabeth II a set of memorable photographs, special Darjeeling tea, and honey from Jammu and Kashmir as the British monarch hosted a luncheon banquet in his honour. ... Read more
London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hard sold India as an investment destination to top CEOs of India and the UK, highlighting the government’s recent reform measures including further relaxation in FDI norms in 15 sectors. ... Read more
London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vegetarian tastes were well catered for at Chequers, the British prime minister's country residence in Buckinghamshire, where he was served dishes like mushroom pulao (rice) and tarka dal. ... Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Customs officials in Saudi Arabia say they've cracked a case — and then some — of smugglers trying to bring illicit cans of beer through the kingdom by disguising them as Pepsi. ... Read more
London: Britain must realise that it needs India perhaps more than India needs Britain, said a leading British daily which noted that whatever Britain does, it must do so with candour and sincerity since "India does not wish to be lectured or patronised; it wants to be treated with respect". ... Read more
United Nations: Hitting out at UN Security Council's functioning, India has said the world body's "ineffectiveness" is imposing "severe costs on all of us", as it blamed the top UN organ for failing to fight terrorism and use peacekeeping as a tool to secure peace. ... Read more
Yangon (Myanmar): Coming from a politician who has spent her career fighting military rule, the statements seem rather authoritarian: "I'll be above the president," who "will be told exactly what he can do." ... Read more
Ottawa: Canada’s newly appointed Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has become the target of racist attacks by an officer in his own armed forces. ... Read more
Washington: A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" on Thursday, according to American officials. Whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages was not known, officials said. ... Read more
Jerusalem: Security camera footage of a deadly Israeli arrest raid in a West Bank hospital on Thursday gave a rare glimpse into the murky undercover units that Israel contends are a key tool in preventing violence and Palestinians revile as a ruthless symbol of Israeli occupation. ... Read more
Washington: Since India does not seek an alliance with the US, a leading US think tank has suggested a 'joint-venture' model for US-India relations focused on shared pursuits and converging interests. ... Read more
Washington: The US has slapped sanctions on a Pakistan-based group and its affiliate in Dubai, which have ties with terrorist outfits like the LeT and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, for laundering money for criminals and political activists. ... Read more
Sinjar (Iraq): Supported by U.S.-led airstrikes, Kurdish Iraqi troops on Thursday seized part of a highway that is used as a vital supply line by the Islamic State group, a key initial step in a major offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar from the militants. ... Read more
Beirut: Twin suicide bombings struck a southern Beirut suburb that's a stronghold of the militant Shiite Hezbollah group on Thursday evening, killing at least 43 people and wounding scores more in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in Lebanon. ... Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to ask Britain to take strong action against Sikh groups trying to revive the demand for a separate Khalistan and their attempts to radicalise Sikh youth besides giving them training on how to make bombs. ... Read more
Islamabad/Beijing: Pakistan and China today kicked off their ambitious USD 46 billion economic corridor project with Beijing acquiring over 2,000 acres of land in restive Balochistan to develop the strategic Gwadar port, providing the Communist-giant an opening to the Arabian Sea. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Madhesi protesters have attacked Nepalese vehicles carrying essential goods and torched a truck near the Indo-Nepal border as they continued their protests against the new Constitution. ... Read more
Washington: Terming China as "number-one abuser", leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has alleged that the Communist nation, along with India, is taking advantage of the US through its economic policies. ... Read more
Washington: Two US Senators have introduced a bipartisan legislation in the Senate seeking reform of H-1B visa programme and modify wage requirements while also calling for a sense of urgency against the "abuse of the system" over a scheme they claim has gotten away from its original intent. ... Read more
Yangon, Myanmar: Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won her parliamentary seat, official results showed Wednesday, leading a near total sweep by her party that will give the country its first government in decades that isn't under the military's sway. ... Read more
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his concern over the obstruction of essential supplies on the Nepal-India border underlining the landlocked country's right to free transit, and called on all sides to lift the obstructions without further delay." ... Read more
London: Describing Diwali as a "great moment" in Britain's national calendar, Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday greeted the Indian diaspora and lauded the community for their "incredible" contribution to the UK. ... Read more
Washington: The US has issued a travel alert for Bangladesh and asked its citizens to exercise appropriate caution and maintain a high level of vigilance during their travel to the country, citing "recent violent attacks". ... Read more
Cairo: Egyptian media have reacted with fury as Britain and the United States increasingly point to a bomb as the cause of the Oct. 31 Russian plane crash in Sinai, with many outlets hammering home the same message: Egypt is facing a Western conspiracy that seeks to scare off tourists and destroy the country's economy. ... Read more
Moscow: The accusations of state-sponsored doping in Russian track and field appear to be unfounded, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Tuesday. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan's Sindh always possessed characteristics of a "viable independent state", but its role as Punjab's conduit to the sea may be the ultimate reason that successful separatism could not yield results, a first-ever US Congressional report on the strategic province has said. ... Read more
Yangon, Myanmar: Myanmar was trapped in a post-election limbo Tuesday with official results barely trickling in, although opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party claimed a victory massive enough to give it the presidency and loosen the military's grip on the country. ... Read more
London: Most of those who left their homes soon after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal on April 25 this year have now returned, shows an analysis of mobile phone data monitoring by British researchers. ... Read more
Washington: Bihar's electorate has sent Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a message: "Put an end to hatemongering", said the influential New York Times on Tuesday. ... Read more
Nay Pyi Taw: Myanmar's Union Election Commission on Tuesday announced 106 parliament representatives-elect, including 54 to the lower house - House of Representatives. ... Read more
United Nations: India has been re-elected by the General Assembly to a six year term on the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama wants you to like him. And comment on him. And share his posts, too. ... Read more
New York: Oil prices continued its retreat on Monday as oversupplies weighed on the market. ... Read more
Yangon, Myanmar: The party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi claimed victory Monday in virtually every seat in four states where results of Myanmar's historic parliamentary election were known, signaling a sweep that could give it the presidency and further loosen the military's stranglehold. ... Read more
Islamabad: Leading Pakistani newspapers today ran front-page stories on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP's rout in the key Bihar polls, in which Pakistan figured as a major issue during campaigning that saw party president making the controversial "firecrackers would go off" remark. ... Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates: A number of military purchases announced Monday at the Dubai Airshow, including a $1.27 billion deal for upgraded Saab surveillance systems purchased by the United Arab Emirates, reflect a shift in focus at the biennial event this year from civil aviation to defense. ... Read more
Washington: The Bihar assembly polls result is a direct and negative evaluation of the BJP's performance in the last one year, a US-based expert said today, as the American media termed the party's stunning defeat as a "serious political setback" for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has invited External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for a crucial regional conference here on Afghanistan, a move that could provide an opportunity for the two neighbours to mend their frosty ties. ... Read more
Dhaka: A court in Bangladesh capital Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against the country's former prime minister Khaleda Zia's eldest son Tarique Rahman in a sedition case. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif will pay a five-day official visit to the US next week where he will discuss the stalled Afghan peace process and security issues, the military said. ... Read more
Damascus: Syrian troops killed 58 militants associated with the Islamic State (IS) group in the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, a media report said. ... Read more
Yangon, Myanmar: With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Myanmar's historic general elections that will test whether the military's longstanding grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party expected to secure an easy victory. ... Read more
Singapore: The leaders of Taiwan and China shook hands today at a historic meeting marking the first top-level contact between the formerly bitter Cold War foes since they split amid civil war 66 years ago. ... Read more
London: Sierra Leone has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday, prompting nationwide celebrations, the media reported on Saturday. ... Read more
Islamabad: The toll in the factory collapse in Pakistan's Punjab province has risen to 45. ... Read more
Washington: In the coming years, India is positioned much more favourably than China in terms of growth, the World Economic Forum has said though it observed that it is not entirely smooth sailing just yet. ... Read more
Islamabad: India appears to be "at war with itself", a leading Pakistani daily observed on Saturday, adding that the politics of fear and hate appears to be on the march on both sides of the border. ... Read more
Washington: NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren on the International Space Station (ISS) ended their seven hour and 48 minute spacewalk on Friday, successfully completing some key tasks in the outer space. ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama denied Canadian energy infrastructure company a cross-border permit for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed project harshly criticised by environmental groups. ... Read more
Washington: The US introduced new airport security measures as a result of the ongoing investigation into the last week's Russian airliner tragedy on Egypt's Sinai peninsula, the country's Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has said. ... Read more
New Orleans: Marie picked up the phone and dialed the number the detective gave her 10 days before, on the night she was raped at knifepoint outside a friend's house in New Orleans. It was the first of many calls Marie would make in an 18-year ordeal of shoddy police work and numbingly slow prosecution to track down and convict her attacker. ... Read more
Beijing: Saturday's first-ever meeting between the presidents of China and Taiwan presents a formidable challenge: How can they ensure the event's place in history when nothing of substance should happen? ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal and China have agreed to open seven more border trading points to facilitate flow of essential goods to the landlocked country reeling under acute shortage due to blockade of a key border point with India by Madhesis protesting against the new Constitution. ... Read more
On Board Special Flight: India's commitment to religious tolerance and plurality is self-evident and it is laid in the Constitution, upheld by courts and no political party proclaims that intolerance is their agenda, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said. ... Read more
Yangon, Myanmar: It's about returning democracy to a nation held hostage to more than a half-century of military rule. It's about hope for a better life for millions of desperately poor people. It's about being fully embraced by the international community. But most of all, Myanmar's general election on Sunday may prove to be opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's moment of destiny — a chance to seize the victory the junta stole from her 25 years ago. ... Read more
Seattle: After 20 years of people sticking their gum to the walls of an alley by Seattle's Pike Place Market, officials say it is time for a cleanup. ... Read more
Juba: A thirteen-month-old baby and a man who was found cradling the infant were the only survivors of a cargo plane that crashed soon after taking off from a South Sudan airport, killing 37 people, a witness and relatives said on Friday. ... Read more
Washington: In the midst of a presidential campaign by his second son, former President George HW Bush has criticised two top aides of his first son saying they ill served him after the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks. ... Read more
Washington: Two Indian brothers are among four men who have been indicted by a US federal court on charges of providing material support to slain al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, prosecutors said yesterday. ... Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: NASA's Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun likely robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water. ... Read more
Veliky Novgorod, Russia: Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by Britain and the United States that a bomb was likely to have brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers leaving an Egyptian resort, saying the claim was premature. ... Read more
Washington: The US has said it is in talks with Pakistan on its recent move to ban media coverage of terrorist outfits including LeT and its leaders like Hafiz Saeed, underlining that every nation needs to strike a balance between the fight against terrorism and media freedom. ... Read more
Ottawa: In a red-letter day for Indo-Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has inducted a record four members from the community in his diverse Cabinet that for the first time in the country's history is equally balanced between women and men. ... Read more
Aboard The USS Theodore Roosevelt: In a symbolic swipe at China's muscular moves in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited an American aircraft carrier in the disputed waterway. ... Read more
Bali: Vice President Hamid Ansari's departure from Indonesia to Brunei has been further delayed following shutting down of operations at the Bali airport due to spewing of ash from a rumbling volcano. ... Read more
United Nations: Pakistan has firmly rejected Indian claim to Kashmir as an “integral part” of India, terming it as an internationally-recognised disputed territory. ... Read more
Ottawa: Harjit Sajjan, an Indo-Canadian Sikh, was named Canada's new Defence Minister as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 30-member cabinet was sworn in at a ceremony here. ... Read more
Toronto: Justin Trudeau was sworn in Wednesday as Canada's new Liberal prime minister, and his new cabinet ministers vowed to honor campaign pledges to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year. ... Read more
Juba, South Sudan: A cargo plane taking off from the South Sudanese capital of Juba crashed along the shore of the Nile River, killing at least 25 people. ... Read more
Male: A state of emergency was today declared by the Maldivian government, giving sweeping powers to security forces, after arms and explosives were found at the country's capital as well as at an island resort. ... Read more
Washington: Astronomers have discovered a giant cluster of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe that is touted as the most massive structure yet found at such great distance. ... Read more
Washington: After marathon deliberations spread over three days, on the case of police brutality on an Indian grandfather in the US, the jury has decided to meet again today. ... Read more
Washington: A US fighter plane and a Russian fighter plane flew in the same airspace over Syria on Tuesday, testing new safety protocols designed to avoid air clashes between the two countries. ... Read more
St Petersburg: In another push to India’s bid to bring back black money stashed abroad, CVC K V Chowdary has asserted that all state parties should ensure cooperation in dissemination of information without any impediment of bank secrecy laws, to the requesting country. ... Read more
United Nations: Raking up the Kashmir issue at the UN, Pakistan repeated its call for Security Council resolutions to be implemented in the state and said fulfilling promise of self-determination to the Kashmiri people is "indispensable" to establishing lasting peace and stability in South Asia. ... Read more
Washington: Suggesting that India has a sizeable nuclear weapons effort, a US think tank estimated India's nuclear arsenal at around 75-125 weapons made from weapon-grade plutonium and perhaps some thermonuclear weapons. ... Read more
United Nations: At least 714 Iraqis were killed and 1,269 others wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in October, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here on Monday. ... Read more
Toronto: Four years after Punjabi became Canada's third most common language, it has now attained the same status in the country's new Parliament after English and French following the election of 20 Punjabi-speaking candidates to the House of Commons. ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama has signed into law a two-year budget bill that averts a default on the government's debt and a potential government shutdown. ... Read more
Tehran: A senior Iranian foreign official has criticised what it called Saudi Arabia's "unconstructive" role in recent international talks on Syria crisis, threatening to walk out of the talks should the next meeting be "unproductive", the media reported. ... Read more
Washington: US-based Kerala Center will honour six Indian-American Malayalees for their outstanding achievements and service to the society. ... Read more
Tripoli: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has called on Libyan rival parties to redouble efforts to reach a political agreement and form a unified national government, according its statement issued on Monday. ... Read more
Kathmandu: On a day when customs points along the India-Nepal international border saw renewed tension, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli warned India not to interfere in the Himalayan nation's internal affairs. ... Read more
Washington: A federal jury in the US state of Alabama has failed to arrive at a decision on the case of a brutal police assault on a 57-year-old Indian-American grandfather who was left partially paralysed. ... Read more
Beirut: Suspected Russian warplanes bombed the outskirts of Islamic State-held Palmyra on Monday, sending smoke rising out of an area that includes a historic castle overlooking the Syrian city's Roman ruins, activists said. ... Read more
Kathmandu/New Delhi: An Indian youth was today killed when Nepalese police opened fire on protesters near the Indo-Nepal border, prompting a "concerned" India to ask its transporters to exercise caution and not endanger their lives, in an advisory which may deepen the supply crisis in Nepal. ... Read more
Beijing: Ahead of Sino-India talks on counter-terrorism, China today expressed "willingness" to work with both India and Pakistan in the fight against terror, raising hopes that it may take up with its all-weather ally New Delhi's concerns about cross-border terrorism. ... Read more
Jakarta: India and Indonesia today signed agreements in the fields of renewable energy and culture and discussed possibilities of expanding cooperation in counter-terrorism and defence. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepalese police today forcibly removed the agitating protesters from their sit-in spot on crucial Miteri Bridge at Indo-Nepal border, opening the Birgunj-Raxaul border point after 40 days. The protesters initially hurled stones towards police when the latter started removing them early this morning. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal has received 73.5 metric tons of petrol in the first batch of Chinese delivery, a Nepali official said on Sunday. ... Read more
Yangon: At least six people have been killed and six others were missing in a ferry capsizing incident in the Chindwin River in Myanmar on the weekend, the authorities confirmed on Monday. ... Read more
Beirut: The Islamic State militant group is advancing in central Syria, seizing control of a town that lies near a highway leading to the capital, Damascus, and attacking another, activists and the group said Sunday. ... Read more
Kathmandu: India today said it does not want to prescribe any model to Nepal over its Constitution and is only concerned about violence and instability in the neighbouring country that would also affect India as well. ... Read more
Berlin: Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86. ... Read more
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said Sunday that the Airbus A321-200 appeared to be in good condition. ... Read more
Bali: Special police commandos have been provided for the security of the Indian officials who arrived here today to expedite underworld don Chhota Rajan’s deportation to India. ... Read more
Cairo: International investigators today began probing the crash of a Russian Airbus plane in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that killed all the 224 people on board as black boxes were recovered and sent for analysis amid claims by an Islamic State-affiliate group that it downed the jet. ... Read more
Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry has extended the "deepest condolences" to Russia over the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt, which killed 224 people onboard. ... Read more
Geneva: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the alleged attack on a Russian plane in "the strongest terms" and voiced his deep sadness for the victims of the crash in Egypt's Sinai earlier on Saturday. ... Read more
Dhaka: "Ansar-Al-Islam", which declared it as the "Bangladesh branch" of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has reportedly claimed responsibility for the killing of secular blogger Faisal Arefin Dipan, local media reported on Saturday. ... Read more
Manama (Bahrain): The United States ramped up its support for Syria's opposition with a pledge of nearly $100 million in fresh aid on Saturday. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's top diplomat described the timing of the departure of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the withdrawal of foreign fighters as top sticking points to finding a lasting resolution to the civil war in Syria. ... Read more
Washington: Leading Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has asked Disney to hire back every one of the workers they replaced with cheaper foreign IT workers on H-1 B visas largely from India. ... Read more
Wreckage found of plane that crashed 23 minutes after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh; rescuers search for survivors; all on board were Russian nationals. ... Read more
Dhaka, Bangladesh: A publisher of secular books was hacked to death and three other people were wounded in two separate attacks Saturday at publishing houses in Bangladesh's capital, police said. ... Read more
United Nations: Making a strong pitch for urgent reform of an "ineffective" Security Council, India has said the UN body's "malfunctioning" has affected over 60 million people and resulted in huge human and economic costs in terms of wars and conflicts. ... Read more
BUCHAREST, Romania: At least 27 people died and over 150 were injured in an explosion and fire in a Bucharest nightclub. ... Read more
Washington: The White House on Friday confirmed that the United States will send less than 50 Special Operations troops to northern Syria to act as military advisers and help local forces fight the Islamic State (IS), Xinhua reported. ... Read more
Beirut: The first missile slammed into the field hospital in the rebel-held Syrian town of Sarmeen, killing a physiotherapist inside. Five minutes later, the aircraft returned, firing another missile that hit nearby just as the first responders were arriving. A total of 13 were killed, and the hospital organisers blamed Russian warplanes. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has asked the international community to take notice of the "terrorist activities" of Shiv Sena which had blackened the face of ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni over the launch of a book by former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri. ... Read more
Dania Beach, Florida: A jet plane's engine caught fire Thursday as it prepared for takeoff, and more than 100 passengers had to quickly evacuate using emergency slides. One person was seriously injured, officials said. ... Read more
Washington: India and the US have agreed to continue their engagement on the vexed issue of a totalization agreement for the purpose of avoiding double taxation of income with respect to social security taxes. ... Read more
Washington: Russia is no longer a superpower as its deteriorating economy is ranked "somewhere behind Spain", the White House today said and stressed that Moscow's influence is limited compared to the erstwhile Soviet Union. ... Read more
Washington: A high-ranking US senator has said that former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's remarks that his country aided and trained terrorist organisations like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was "not surprising", and said that the country seems to be moving in a different direction under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. ... Read more
London: The UK government has rejected plans by an Islamic group to build a new 290,000-square-foot "mega mosque" in east London, citing a "conflict" with authorities' local plans for the brought. ... Read more
London: A lunch with Queen Elizabeth II, an address to the Indian diaspora at the iconic Wembley Stadium and a "warm" interaction with his British counterpart is part of the hectic schedule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to the UK next month. ... Read more
New York: Weeks before President Barack Obama ordered the raid on al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, his four top lawyers secretly worked on resolving sensitive legal issues including sending forces on Pakistani soil without its consent, according to a new report. ... Read more
Frankfurt, Germany: Deutsche Bank says it is cutting 35,000 jobs through redundancies and the sale of businesses as new CEO John Cryan seeks to make Germany's biggest lender more manageable and profitable. ... Read more
Beijing: The official Xinhua News Agency says China's ruling Communist Party has decided to abolish the country's one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children. ... Read more
Beijing: China has started a crackdown on illegal internet TV devices, which provide programming that has not been approved by regulators, the media reported on Thursday. ... Read more
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that victory in the fight against terrorism in Syria should come before any concrete dialogue on political reconciliation in the war-torn country. ... Read more
Paris: France would propose to the UN Security Council a resolution to prevent Syrian government forces from allegedly using barrel bombs against civilians, the country's top diplomat Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has "some influence" over the Taliban but no control over them, the Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz today said even as he voiced support for Afghan reconciliation process. ... Read more
Beijing: Modernising its airforce at a rapid pace, China has introduced a third-generation supersonic trainer aircraft to its military flight schools to shorten pilots' training time and prepare them for advanced fighter jets. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal's parliament has elected a Communist leader who has long campaigned for women's rights as the Himalayan nation's first female president. ... Read more
United Nations: India reiterated its unambiguous opposition to unilateral embargoes imposed by countries through their domestic laws as New Delhi voted on Tuesday for a resolution calling for an end to the United States embargo against Cuba. ... Read more
Washington: The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at promoting better cybersecurity information sharing between the private sector and the government. ... Read more
Warsaw: The Polish government has agreed on the plan of action concerning the preparation of the NATO Summit that will take place in Warsaw on July 8-9 2016. ... Read more
Damascus: At least 60 armed militants were killed on Tuesday during the Syrian forces ground offensive in the northwestern province of Idlib, Xinhua reported. ... Read more
Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab province government has enhanced the security of 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed following a Home Department alert that a “foreign intelligence agency” may make an attempt on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief’s life. ... Read more
Beirut: The Islamic State group killed three of its captives in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to Roman-era columns at the site, then blowing the structures up with explosives, activists said Tuesday. ... Read more
Beijing: A U.S. Navy warship sailed past one of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, in a challenge to Chinese sovereignty claims that drew an angry protest from Beijing, which said the move damaged US-China relations and regional peace. ... Read more
Seoul: South Korean authorities have detained five members of the Islamic State (IS) terror group after they were caught trying to smuggle a key bomb-making ingredient out of the country, the media reported on Tuesday. ... Read more
Dubai: With the perfect-looking fake Indian notes found widely in circulation, the UAE has cautioned its people, especially money exchange companies and their customers, about counterfeit currencies. ... Read more
New Delhi: In a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi government, BJP leader Arun Shourie on Monday contended that it believes that managing economy means "managing the headlines" and that people had started recalling the days of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. ... Read more
Islamabad: Over 300 people are confirmed to have been killed a day after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocked Pakistan and Afghanistan as rescuers scrambled to deliver relief aid to victims. ... Read more
Kabul, Afghanistan: A strong earthquake in northern Afghanistan shook buildings from Kabul to Delhi, cut power and communications in some areas and caused more than 180 deaths, mainly in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... Read more
Srinagar: The massive earthquake, epicentred in Afghanistan, that rocked Jammu and Kashmir on Monday afternoon has caused huge damage to property across the Valley while there were no reports of casualties so far. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan today summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner and lodged a protest over alleged ceasefire violations by Indian troops along the border which authorities here claim killed three civilians. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan uses militants as proxies to counter India's growing influence in Afghanistan, according to a set of documents released by WikiLeaks from the hacked personal email account of CIA director John Brennan. ... Read more
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Shiv Sena protests against Pakistani personalities, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Sunday deplored "intolerance" in the society and said "tolerance, friendship and love" was the way for India and Pakistan to move forward. ... Read more
London: Britain's World War I army included Indian children as young as 10-years-old fighting against the Germans on the western front, according to a new book on the role of Indian soldiers in the Great War. ... Read more
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will visit India for the first time this week to attend the third India-Africa Forum Summit to boost bilateral ties and invite increased investment, especially in the new, ambitious Suez Canal project. ... Read more
London: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was partly responsible for the emergence of the Islamic State militant group in the Middle East. ... Read more
Mumbai: A major fire broke out in South Mumbai's busy Crawford market in the wee hours today, gutting over 60 shops. ... Read more
Benghazi: Libya’s Red Crescent says the bodies of 40 migrants have washed ashore in the Mediterranean country. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a contempt of court case for failing to deliver his speech in Urdu at the UN General Assembly in violation of a verdict by the country’s Supreme Court. ... Read more
Islamabad: A hoax call allegedly traced to the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, claimed that a bomb had been placed on the premises of the Sindh Governor House in Pakistan, the media reported on Saturday. ... Read more
Baghdad: The Islamic State group has purportedly released a video showing the aftermath of a raid in northern Iraq by U.S. and Iraqi special forces in which one American soldier was killed. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Several people were injured today when supporters of Madhesi parties turned violent and attacked buses and other vehicles being escorted by security forces in southern Nepal near the Indian border where they have been agitating for over a month against the new Constitution. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Amid a blockade of trade points between India and Nepal by agitating Madhesi parties, China is mulling providing 1,000 metric tonnes of fuel to help the landlocked country tide over an acute shortage of petroleum products during the festival season. ... Read more
Dhaka: Unidentified attackers hurled home-made bombs as thousands of Shiite Muslims gathered for a religious procession in Bangladesh's capital before dawn Saturday, killing a teenage boy and injuring more than 100 other people, police said. ... Read more
Patna: Hundreds of trees have been cut down, chopped off and uprooted to make space for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally to campaign for the BJP-led NDA candidates in the ongoing state assembly polls in Madhepura district here on November 1, officials said on Saturday. ... Read more
Male: Police say Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adeeb has been arrested on suspicion of links to a blast on the presidential boat last month. ... Read more
Male: Police say Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adeeb has been arrested on suspicion of links to a blast on the presidential boat last month. ... Read more
Washington: Even as visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif kept up his tirade against India, the US said President Barack Obama had made clear to him that Pakistan should not discriminate among terrorist groups. ... Read more
London: The senior-most Indian-origin member of the British government Priti Patel has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the UK next month will deepen the bonds between the two countries. ... Read more
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico: Hurricane Patricia roared ashore in southwestern Mexico as a Category 5 storm Friday evening, bringing lashing rains, surging seas and cyclonic winds hours after it peaked as one of the strongest storms ever recorded. ... Read more
Washington: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday kept up his attack on India and warned that Pakistan will have to take "credible deterrent" measures in the face of Indian "arms build-up" and "dangerous military doctrines". ... Read more
Islamabad: At least 20 people including four children were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack on a procession by minority Shias in Pakistan's Sindh province today, a day after 12 others were killed in another suicide attack at a Shia shrine on the eve of Muharram. ... Read more
Puisseguin, France: A truck and a bus transporting retirees on a day trip collided and caught fire Friday in wine country in southwest France, killing 42 people and badly injuring four others, authorities said. It was the nation's deadliest road accident in more than 30 years. ... Read more
Washington: Hillary Rodham Clinton firmly defended her record before, during and after the Benghazi attacks as she came face-to-face Thursday with the Republican-led special investigation of the 2012 violence in Libya, hoping to put to rest the worst episode of her tenure as secretary of state and clear an obstacle to her presidential campaign. ... Read more
London: Twenty protesters have been arrested by the British police after a Sikh demonstration outside Indian Embassy here against alleged police brutality in Punjab turned violent, leaving one policeman injured. ... Read more
Karachi: At least 11 minority Shia Muslims, including six children, were killed and 12 injured when a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up at a shrine in a village in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province as the worshippers gathered to observe the holy month of Moharram. ... Read more
Hemeimeem Air Base,Syria: Russian combat jets streak into the sky from this base in western Syria for yet another day of the heavy bombing runs that have allowed Moscow to again portray itself as a major global player, projecting military power far from its borders. ... Read more
Washington: The US is set to sell eight new F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan despite Washington's growing reservations over Islamabad's fast expanding nuclear arsenal, a media report said. ... Read more
Washington: The WikiLeaks organization posted material Wednesday from what appears to be CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account, including a draft security clearance application containing personal information. ... Read more
Washington: Ending months of intense speculation, US Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he wouldn't jump into the presidential race easing Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton's path to win the party nomination. ... Read more
Washington: Several Sikh-American groups have condemned the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs, in Punjab and alleged that it was a “planned strategy” to destabilise and create “enough” fissures in the social fabric of the state. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan on Wednesday said it has handed over to the US three "dossiers", which it claims to contain "evidence" about India's role in "subversive activities" in that country, nearly a month after it gave such an alleged document to the UN which paid no heed to it. ... Read more
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked an uproar in Israel on Wednesday for suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader persuaded the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate 6 million Jews. ... Read more
Damascus, Syria: President Bashar Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since war broke out in Syria in 2011, meeting his strongest ally Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The two leaders stressed that the military operations in Syria— in which Moscow is the latest and most powerful addition— must lead to a political process. ... Read more
Colombo: Allegations that the Sri Lankan army committed war crimes during the bloody conflict with Tamil rebels are “credible”, a government probe panel has said and backed UNHRC’s recommendation that foreign judges should have a role in domestic inquiry. ... Read more
Washington: As Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Washington, the White House made clear that its top priority would be how to take on extremist elements inside Pakistan who have "committed terrible acts of terrorism." ... Read more
Washington: Asserting that Pakistan has repeatedly proven itself to be "deceptive and deceitful", a top American lawmaker, who heads a Congressional subcommittee on terrorism and non-proliferation, has urged the US President not to ink any kind of civil nuclear deal with Islamabad. ... Read more
United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will use his "good offices" to help India and Pakistan mend fences only if both countries requested it, his spokesperson said Tuesday. ... Read more
Baghdad: Teamed up with paramilitary forces, Iraqi government troops on Tuesday drove Islamic State militants out of a key oil refinery town north of Baghdad, a government spokesman said. ... Read more
Washington: The US has made "the long bet" on India as an important partner in advancing their collective security interests in the South Asian region, according to a senior Obama administration official. ... Read more
Washington: The Pentagon said the US and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding on safe flight operations over Syria as they carry out separate airstrikes against militant groups in the country. ... Read more
Moscow: India and Russia today discussed key regional and bilateral issues including defence, civil nuclear cooperation and trade ties as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj described Russia as India’s “tried and tested” partner and a “real friend”. ... Read more
Toronto: Indian-origin candidates today won a record 19 seats in Canada's general election, more than doubling their numbers in Parliament as the Liberal Party decisively defeated Conservatives, ending its decade-long rule. ... Read more
Islamabad: Only Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can send back the 'Jinn of Hindutva' into the bottle he brought it out from, Pakistan's former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has said. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan has made low-yield nuclear weapons to bridge the gap for war that India had created through its cold-start doctrine, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said on Tuesday. ... Read more
Washington: The White House has confirmed that President Barack Obama will discuss "nuclear security" with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his visit here, but again discounted the possibility of a nuclear deal. ... Read more
United Nations: India has warned that global efforts to arrive at a climate deal in Paris later this year will not succeed if they are laced with persistent attempts to dislodge the balance of responsibilities between developed and developing countries, stressing that the path to climate ambition must be paved with equity. ... Read more
Toronto: Canadians voted for a sharp change in their government on Monday, returning a legendary name for liberals, Trudeau, to the prime minister's office and resoundingly ending Conservative Stephen Harper's near-decade in office. ... Read more
United Nations: Some 1.25 million people die each year as a result of road accidents, according to a report issued here by the World Health Organization (WHO). ... Read more
Washington: The White House said that a total of 81 companies have signed a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the country's efforts to combat climate change. ... Read more
Moscow: External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday arrived here on a three-day visit to participate in the annual India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission meeting in which the two countries will discuss key strategic issues including space, defence, energy and trade. ... Read more
Islamabad: The owner of an American restaurant chain in Pakistan is offering free meals to any Indian visiting the country on a short-term visa, in a novel reaction to reports that a Pakistani family was refused accommodation by hotels in Mumbai. ... Read more
Beijing: China’s economy grew at 6.9 per cent in the third quarter of this year, posting its worst showing since the 2009 global financial crisis which could prompt the Communist giant to unveil a new stimulus package to arrest the slowdown of the world’s second largest economy. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday left for the US on a three-day visit aimed at holding wide-ranging talks with the Obama administration. ... Read more
London: Six children, including a 6-year-old Indian-origin boy, have been denied life-saving treatment from a rare disease due to high costs by UK's state-funded health service. ... Read more
Mumbai: Some policemen allegedly beat up two Muslim youth at a police station in suburban Bandra and asked them to go to Pakistan for being "agents" of that country after they had a fight with the cops, prompting authorities to launch a probe into the incident. ... Read more
Washington: It seems that the more we see of Pluto, the more fascinating it gets. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has stepped up security for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after learning that the Indian intelligence agency RAW was trying to assassinate him, the media said on Sunday. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto because she had informed him of the death threats she was facing, a top American journalist has said in his testimony in the case. ... Read more
Washington: The US government has cancelled plans to allow oil drilling along the Arctic coasts of Alaska for the next two years, the interior department announced. ... Read more
Milan: US Secretary of State John Kerry said here at the Milan world exposition that the US stands ready to work with all countries on food security and climate change. ... Read more
Beirut: An airstrike has killed a top al-Qaida commander and two other fighters in Syria, activists said Saturday, but it was not immediately clear whether it was carried out by the U.S.-led coalition or Russian warplanes. ... Read more
Beijing: China today sought to calm down tensions over the South China Sea dispute, saying it will not use force "recklessly" for resolving issues as the US mulls sending a warship to the contested territory to directly challenge Chinese claims. ... Read more
Riyadh: Riyadh police on Friday said that an Indian maid lost her arm due to a fall from a building and not because of an attack by her Saudi employer as was reported in India and elsewhere. ... Read more
Washington: US President Barack Obama urged Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to "tamp down" the kind of rhetoric that is arousing anger and tensions in the region, and condemned the violence "against innocent people" that has left more than 30 people dead over the past few weeks. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan and Russia yesterday signed a major agreement to build a 1,100-kilometre gas pipeline from Lahore to Karachi, that will take cooperation between the two Cold War-era adversaries "to a new level". ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepalese lawmakers today unanimously elected a former guerrilla fighter as the country’s first woman speaker of Parliament following the formation of a new government. ... Read more
QUITO (Ecuador): Ecuador says it's unilaterally ending a contract with India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which sold seven military helicopters to the South American nation. ... Read more
Washington: The prospect of a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan being talked about in the public domain is quite unlikely, the White House said on Thursday, but acknowledged that the US is in talks with Islamabad on issues related to nuclear safety and security. ... Read more
United Nations: The UN owes India an amount of USD 85 million for its contribution towards peacekeeping operations including troops, police and equipment, a senior management official has said. ... Read more
Washington: President Barack Obama will keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, according to senior administration officials, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch and instead ensuring he hands the conflict off to his successor. ... Read more
Islamabad: Six persons were today hanged in Pakistan's Punjab province, the third consecutive day of mass executions in the country bringing the total toll to more than 260 since December when a moratorium on death penalties was ended following the Peshawar school carnage. ... Read more
Beijing: Under criticism that its well developed space programme focussed more on the Moon while the US and India stole a march over China by branching out into outer space with voyages to Mars, Chinese space experts are now planning missions deeper into the solar systems. ... Read more
Washington: Barack Obama has said that one of the biggest perks of being the US President is Air Force One and singer Buddy Guy coming to White House with his guitar. ... Read more
Washington: A top American diplomat on religious freedom has said the US will encourage the Modi government to turn the ideals of "tolerance and civility" into reality across the country, days after the Prime Minister called for communal harmony in the backdrop of the Dadri lynching incident. ... Read more
Beirut: Iran has sent hundreds of troops into northern and central Syria in the first such open deployment in the country's civil war, joining fighters from its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in an offensive against rebels and taking advantage of cover from Russia's air campaign, a regional official and Syrian activists said on Wednesday. ... Read more
Moscow: Moscow "laments" Washington's refusal to carry out a high-level discussion with Russia over Syrian issues, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. ... Read more
United Nations: Pakistan has declared that it won't give up consulting Kashmiri separatists in order to hold talks with India -- a condition that India promptly rejected at the General Assembly here on Wednesday. ... Read more
Washington: The US state Department on Wednesday suggested that authorities in India continued to enforce laws designed to protect "religious sentiments" which at times had the effect of limiting free expression related to religion. ... Read more
Washington: The US went soft on Pakistan's nuclear smuggling efforts during former President Ronald Reagan's administration, fearing that any action would upset their bilateral ties at a critical time of the Afghan war, according to new declassified documents. ... Read more
New Delhi (INDIA): In the backdrop of lynching of a Muslim man over rumours of eating beef in Dadri, the Centre has asked all states not to discriminate against the minorities while registering FIR as timely filing of charge sheet and speedy trial restore the faith of different communities. ... Read more
Multan: A suicide bomber blew himself up at the election office of a ruling party lawmaker, killing seven people and wounding nine others in central Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. ... Read more
Islamabad: The "rise of the right-wing" in India could have toxic effects regionally, said a leading Pakistani daily, which warned that alarm bells are ringing and "India needs to reaffirm its commitment to pluralism and diversity". ... Read more
Washington: As Democratic presidential candidates faced off for the first time, frontrunner Hillary Clinton, without offering any specifics, said she would be different than President Barack Obama, but closest rival Bernie Sanders promised a "political revolution." ... Read more
Washington: Former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sought American assistance and wrote to the then US president John F Kennedy to provide India jet fighters to stem the Chinese tide of aggression during the 1962 Sino-India war, according to a new book. ... Read more
Jerusalem: President Pranab Mukherjee today said that India was "disturbed" by the continuing violence in the region rocked by Israel-Palestinian clashes and that it condemned all forms of terrorism. ... Read more
United Nations: Slamming the use of technical blocks by some permanent members of the UN Security Council, India has said such “hidden vetoes” distort the already opaque procedures of the Council’s sanctions regime as it called for the UN body to take the lead in prosecuting non-state actors. ... Read more
Washington: While the world celebrates the signs of flowing water on Mars, researchers estimate that the Martian pebbles travelled roughly 50 km from their source, supporting the idea that Mars once had an extensive river system and conditions that could harbour life. ... Read more
Damascus: The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Tuesday called for a jihad against Russia and the US for their "crusader's war" in the Middle East. ... Read more
Washington: "Strong indications" showed that Iran's test of a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday violated a UN Security Council resolution, the White House said on Tuesday. ... Read more
Kiev: Ukraine has fulfilled all safety recommendations made by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at the time of crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Gennady Zubko said on Tuesday. ... Read more
New Delhi: Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership knew about Osama bin Laden's presence in the country much before the US Navy SEALs killed him in a raid in 2011, the then defence minister of Pakistan has claimed. ... Read more
United Nations: Voicing its commitment to unilateral moratorium on nuclear explosive testing, India has said the goal of complete elimination of nuclear weapons can be achieved by a "global and non-discriminatory" multilateral framework. ... Read more
Jerusalem: A pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car into a bus station before stabbing bystanders, in near-simultaneous attacks Tuesday that escalated a monthlong wave of violence. Three Israelis and two attackers were killed. ... Read more
The Hague, Netherlands: Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was destroyed by a Buk surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board said Tuesday as it presented the results of an official probe into the crash. ... Read more
Lahore: After spending three days at the Lahore Railway Station and its adjacent hotels in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a total of 86 Indian passengers have left for their home by crossing the Wagah border on foot. ... Read more
Ramallah: Observing that peace and stability in the Middle East region is in India's interest, President Pranab Mukherjee today proposed a three-pillar framework to propel its "historic" ties with Palestine besides building a secondInformation Technology (IT) centre in Gaza. ... Read more
Moscow: A Russian state-controlled missile-maker said Tuesday its investigation of last year's crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane over rebel eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe. ... Read more
Damascus: Insurgents fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital on Tuesday as hundreds of pro-government supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria. ... Read more
Beijing: China today operationalised the USD 1.5 billion Zam Hydropower Station, the largest in Tibet,built on the Brahmaputra river, which has raised concerns in India over the likelihood of disrupting water supplies. ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan has expressed concern over campaign against prominent Pakistani personalities in India by a “fundamentalist organisation” and said there is a need to ensure that such incidents do not reoccur. ... Read more
United Nations: Many member states have approved recent high-level reports on UN peacekeeping missions and promised procedures to ensure such missions "are effective as possible", Mogens Lykketoft, president of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly has said. ... Read more
Mumbai: Six Shiv Sena workers were arrested in connection with the paint attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni, a former BJP member and head of a city-based think-tank, earlier on Monday. ... Read more
Washington: A miniature satellite sent in the space aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on October 8 is working fine, NASA has announced. ... Read more
London: Indian community groups in the UK have launched a 'Modi Express' bus for a month-long tour around iconic landmarks here to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to the country next month. ... Read more
Kiev: Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said on Monday that Kiev has decided to ban all Russian airlines from flying to Ukraine starting from October 25. ... Read more
Oslo: Participants of an annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Monday urged NATO nations to boost defence spending in the face of new security threats. ... Read more
Kathmandu: India's Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae on Monday held talks with the newly elected Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Oli and discussed issues related to both countries. ... Read more
Ramallah (Palestine): India on Monday announced projects worth $17.9 million in Palestine, as also a grant of $5 million, as President Pranab Mukherjee arrived here from Amman on a maiden visit of an Indian head of state to this troubled country. ... Read more
Ramallah: An important road and a roundabout here have been named after India, coinciding with the tour of President Pranab Mukherjee, the first Indian head of state to visit Palestine. ... Read more
Beijing: Reacting sharply to arch rival Japan joining the 'Malabar' naval exercises being held by the Indian and US navies in the Bay of Bengal, China today said it is not "that fragile" to be affected by the trilateral drills. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Veteran Communist leader K P Sharma Oli was today sworn in as Nepal's 38th Prime Minister, a day after he was elected in Parliament with support from smaller parties. ... Read more
Stockholm: Scottish economist Angus Deaton has won the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday. ... Read more
Washington: Entrepreneur and philanthropist Frank Islam would like fellow Indian-Americans to make a strategic investment in education in India as it is the great equalizer and opportunity creator. ... Read more
Beijing: Joint military drills between China and India will "surely promote bilateral collaboration", said an opinion piece in state-run Global Times. ... Read more
Sanaa: At least 20 prisoners were killed when warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition bombed a prison in Yemen's al-Bayda province on Sunday, medical sources and witnesses said. ... Read more
Amman: India will continue to extend unwavering support for separate statehood for Palestine while also engaging with Israel to forge an independent and long-standing bilateral relationship, President Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday. ... Read more
Male: Amid international pressure over imprisonment of opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Sunday bluntly told external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj that his government will not tolerate "foreign parties" to interfere in domestic issues. ... Read more
Baghdad: Iraq's air force on Sunday said it struck a convoy carrying Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. ... Read more
Amman: The explosive situation in Syria, Palestine and the threat posed by terror group ISIS was discussed by India and Jordan today on the second day of President Pranab Mukherjee's visit here. ... Read more
Ankara: Scuffles broke out Sunday in the Turkish capital as police used tear gas to prevent pro-Kurdish politicians and other mourners from laying carnations at the site of two suspected suicide bombings that killed 95 people and wounded hundreds in Turkey's deadliest attack in years. ... Read more
Male: The Maldives government today expressed hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit the country "very soon" as it admitted disappointment over his skipping the island nation on a tour to the region in March. ... Read more
Kathmandu (Nepal): Nepal's parliament elected Communist party leader Khadga Prasad Oli the new prime minister of the Himalayan nation. ... Read more
Amman: President Pranab Mukherjee today inaugurated a street in the capital city of Jordan named after Mahatma Gandhi. ... Read more
Colombo: A joint investigation is being conducted by India’s High Commission and the Sri Lanka Red Cross over allegations of sexual favours demanded from women for granting of India-built houses in the country’s northern province, a media report said on Sunday. ... Read more
Safaga (Egypt): In continuation of the Indian Navy's overseas deployment to West Asia, Africa and Europe, Talwar class frigate INS Trikand entered Safaga port on the coast of the Red Sea on Sunday for a three-day visit, an official statement said. ... Read more
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday condemned the bombings in the Turkish capital of Ankara and extended condolences to the families of the victims. ... Read more
Islamabad: The US has given Pakistan $265 million during the current fiscal year under Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for capacity enhancement in counter terrorism and counter-insurgency, revealed a US State Department report. ... Read more
Washington: Defence officials from the US and Russia held a video conference on Saturday to discuss safe flight operations over Syria, the Pentagon confirmed. ... Read more
Ankara (Turkey): Two bomb explosions targeted a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday, killing 95 people and wounding 246, the government said. ... Read more
Riyadh: The Saudi Arabian employer, accused of chopping off the hand of an Indian domestic help, has claimed that the woman had to get her hand amputated in hospital after she damaged it badly while allegedly jumping from the third floor of his house. ... Read more
Ankara, Turkey: Two bomb explosions targeting a peace rally in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Saturday killed at least 30 people and injured 126 others, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala today resigned even as Parliament prepares to elect a new premier tomorrow after parties failed to forge a consensus amid continued protests and blockade of a key border trade point with India over the country’s new Constitution. ... Read more
Washington: Russia and the US are expected to hold military talks over Syria, where both countries have been conducting airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) militants, as soon as this weekend, the Pentagon said. ... Read more
Washington: The Obama administration announced on Friday it would halt its botched train-and-equip programme to build a Syrian rebel force and focus on supporting forces already engaged in the fighting against the Islamic State (IS). ... Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan summoned a senior Indian diplomat on Friday to convey concern over cancellation of a cross-border train service, authorities said. ... Read more
Washington: The US House of Representative passed a bill on Friday to appeal the 40-year-old oil export ban, but its future was uncertain facing a veto threatened by the White House. ... Read more
Washington: Pakistan is probably the most dangerous country for the world as it is ripe with the threats of terrorism, a failing economy and the fastest growing nuclear arsenal, a retired CIA official has said. ... Read more
Mumbai: With a recent NASA study confirming presence of water on Mars, Indian-origin scientist working with the US space agency Amitabh Ghosh said that a few other planets in our solar system too may have water, increasing the possibility of finding life there. ... Read more
Jerusalem/Gaza City: At least six Palestinians were killed and 21 others injured today when Israeli troops opened fire on demonstrators along the Gaza border as a fresh wave of stabbing attacks rocked Israel, exacerbating an already tense situation. ... Read more
Oslo: A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement. ... Read more
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is the most corrupt person in Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said in remarks published on Friday. ... Read more
Washington: India-US cooperation in governance of mega-cities is part of a whole new paradigm of working together and forming habits of cooperation between the world's two largest democracies, according to the Indian ambassador Arun K Singh. ... Read more
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will take up the matter of Indian alleged ceasefire violations alongside the Line of Control (LoC) and working boundary with US leadership in his upcoming trip to US on October 17, said a statement issued on Thursday. ... Read more
Brussels: NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg warned that Russia is testing "some of their most modern weapons" in Syria, while carrying out a great military deployment. ... Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it's undoubtedly blue. ... Read more
Kabul: A day after President Barack Obama apologised for a tragic US airstrike that killed at least 22 people at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Afghanistan, the medical charity said on Thursday that it is continuing to press its demand for an independent investigation of the incident. ... Read more
New York: The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) has condemned the lynching of a Muslim man following rumours that he ate beef in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read more
SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea said Monday North Korea will release a detained South Korean student from New York University. ... Read more
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to deliver a harsh response on "Palestinian terrorism" amid a wave of violent attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank. ... Read more
New Delhi: Afghanistan Defence minister Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai today said there should be "no doubts" that the base of Taliban leadership is in Pakistan. ... Read more
Kabul: The toll by air strikes at a hospital in Afghanistan's Kunduz city has risen to 22, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the agency running the hospital, said on Sunday. ... Read more
Paris: At least 16 people were killed and three remain unaccounted for after a violent storm and subsequent floods hit the French Riviera, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday. ... Read more
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Saturday strongly condemned airstrikes that killed medical staff and civilians in a hospital in Afghanistan, calling for "a thorough and impartial investigation into the attack in order to ensure accountability". ... Read more
Moscow: Russia's air forces will intensify airstrikes against the posts of extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, a senior military official has said. ... Read more
Islamabad: India-Pakistan peace talks will be possible only when the BJP is voted out in India, a Pakistani newspaper said on Saturday. ... Read more
New Delhi: As German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in India today with a high-ranking delegation of senior ministers and some of the world’s most powerful business leaders,investment and greater market access will be on top of her agenda. ... Read more
Kabul (Afghanistan): The international charity Doctors Without Borders said at least 16 people including nine local staffers were killed when its clinic came under "sustained bombing" Saturday in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, where Afghan officials said helicopter gunships had returned fire from Taliban fighters sheltering in the facility. ... Read more
Baghdad: At least 24 people were killed and 61 injured in two suicide car bomb attacks here, a police source said late Saturday. ... Read more
Damascus, Syria: Russian warplanes have attacked the Islamic State group and other insurgents in central and northern Syria with a wave of new airstrikes, Syrian and Russian military officials said Saturday. ... Read more
Washington: President Barack Obama has said that Russia's Syrian strategy is a recipe for disaster as President Vladimir Putin failed to differentiate between Islamic State militants and moderate groups who oppose the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad. ... Read more
Kathmandu: Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav has called on the political parties in the country to elect a new Prime Minister and form a national consensus government within a week. ... Read more
Washington: Gun violence in America has claimed a thousand times more lives than Americans killed through terrorist attacks in a decade, yet the country refuses to pass tough gun laws in the face of a powerful gun lobby. ... Read more
Paris: The presidents of Russia and France, which both started bombing Syria this week, held talks Friday about their military operations as they tried to overcome differences on whether Syrian President Bashar Assad should stay in power. ... Read more
United Nations: Invoking Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th birth anniversary, UN chief Ban Ki-moon today said in the current times of escalating conflicts, rising extremism and massive displacement, the Indian leader's dedication to non-violence is an "example" for the international community. ... Read more
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