Washington The United States has given the remains of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr alBaghdadi a burial at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom after he was killed in a US commando raid in Syria on Saturday The US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity did not dis

29-10-2019

The Lahore High Court on Friday granted bail to former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case on medical grounds Sharif has been diagnosed with acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura and will recover in a weeks time doctors said Sharif is already serving a sevenyear jai

26-10-2019

A woman fell onto train tracks in Buenos Aires Argentina after being pushed away by a fainting man The driver managed to stop the train in time and the woman was rescued by other commuters at the station Police and emergency services arrived on the scene and attended to the woman and the man who fai

19-10-2019

Due to the ongoing cash crisis the United Nations Headquarters in New York will remain closed on Saturday and Sunday Has your country made its contribution to this years regular UN budget yet the United Nations asked in a tweet As per the document shared by the United Nations 131 member states have

19-10-2019

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has criticised Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at the InterParliamentary Union IPU assembly in Serbia Speaking for the Indian delegation which was headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said Parliament of India will not allow these maliciou

18-10-2019

MEXICO CITY Mexico has deported 311 Indians who were trying to enter the US illegally following pressure from the US The 311 Indian nationals including a woman had been detained in various Mexican states before being concentrated in the state of Veracruz in preparation for their deportation  Accord

17-10-2019

IndianAmerican Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday 14 October for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the prize on Monday The research conducted by this years Laur

14-10-2019

Ten people have been killed and 16 others are missing after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japans Tokyo The storm caused rivers to overflow and left over four lakh homes without power PM Shinzo Abe convened an emergency meeting and dispatched the minister in charge of disaster management to the worsthit areas

13-10-2019

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested on Friday from Lahores Kot Lakhpat jail in connection with money laundering in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills CSM case Sharif had earlier appeared in the accountability court for the hearing in the case The National Accountability Bureau NAB ea

11-10-2019

The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature were awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke respectively The Nobel Prize in Literature wasnt awarded last year after allegations of sexual misconduct and financial malpractice in Swedish Academy The Nobel Prize in Literatu

11-10-2019

A woman found two pythons in her toilet for two days in a row in Cairns Australia Each time it has been a water python In all my time I have pulled several snakes out of toilets But never two in two days at the same address Dave Walton part of the Cairns Snake Removals wrote Cairns Snake Removals t

11-10-2019

A Japanese man who stepped out of his Paris hotel for a cigarette was robbed of his 840000 approximately Rs 6 crore Swiss watch by a thief who snatched it off his wrist police sources said Tuesday The 30yearold victim was approached outside the fivestar Hotel Napoleon near the Arc de Triomphe late M

11-10-2019

President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied a US media report that he proposed extreme measures including alligatorfilled trenches to stop migrants on the Mexican border “The press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes with an electrified fence and sharp

03-10-2019

Australian police have arrested a 19 year old man for allegedly running down and killing 20 kangaroos with his car The dead kangaroos including two joeys were found littered over in Tura Beach 280 miles south of Sydney on Sunday morning At least three other joeys were orphaned as a result of the dis

02-10-2019

London Saudi operatives suspected of killing the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country’s Istanbul consulate were heard joking and talking about dismemberment before his arrival according to secret tapes heard by UN investigators Helena Kennedy a British lawyer assisting the UN probe into Khasho

01-10-2019

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22-09-2019

American news magazine Time of its May 20 issue has featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the cover page  with a headline that may create controversy across India amid the election season The headline reads Indias Divider in Chief that is and carries a caricature of the Prime Minister criticising

10-05-2019

A snake travelled 15000 km in a womans shoe on a flight from Australia to Scotland Moira Boxall unpacked her luggage after the journey to find the snake which had shed its skin curled up in her shoe Boxalls soninlaw said when she opened her bag and saw the snake she thought it was a toy put there as

26-02-2019

A video shows the exact moment a dam collapsed in Brazil on January 25 The dam collapsed at an iron ore mining complex operated by a mining firm killing atleast 115 people with 248 others listed as missing In the video vehicles can be seen driving despirately trying to escape as a gush of mud approa

02-02-2019

A hail of banknotes rained down onto the streets of a working class neighbourhood in Hong kong on Saturday sending bystanders into a frenzy Wong Chingkit a 24yearold man claiming to be crypto currency entrepreneur was arrested for throwing cash worth Rs 18 lakh from the top of building in Hongkong

20-12-2018

A man accompanied by a group of his friends took a 350Kg bathtub full of coins to an Apple store in a Russian Mall to buy an iPhone Xs An Instagram video showed him and his friends carrying the bathtub to the store in a car Atleast two scuffles broke out between the group and the mall’s security gau

15-11-2018

As trump replaced Sessions with a senior aide Matthew Whitaker a critic of Mueller’s inquiry senator Susan Collins was amongst the first Republicans to warn It is imperative that the administration not impede the Mueller investigation… special counsel Mueller must be allowed to complete his work wit

08-11-2018

Paul Allen who cofounded Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Bill Gates passed away on Monday aged 65 after battling cancer Allen came up with the name Microsoft and had left the company in 1983 “I’m heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends…Personal computing would

16-10-2018

English physicist Peter Higgs in a 1964 paper independently predicted the Higgs boson a subatomic particle which gives matter its mass Higgs’ paper was initially rejected citing “it did not warrant rapid publication” In 2012 the particle was confirmed by experiments at CERN’s 27 km long accelerator

08-10-2018

A Pakistani official was caught on Friday stealing the wallet of a Kuwait delegate who was on a twoday visit to Pakistan for a meet Investment and Facilitation Joint Secretay Zara Haider Khan was caught on CCTV stealing the wallet of the delegate after the latter complained Khan has been arrested an

30-09-2018

Boston Seventy Explosions apparently triggered by a natural gas pipeline rupture rocked three communities near Boston on Thursday injuring atleast six people and prompting the evacuation of hundreds officials said The blast left scores of homes and other buildings demolished or engulfed in flames a

14-09-2018

In her first address to UN Human Rights Council new High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has criticised India for failing to take any action after the UN report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir She said the report was not followed up with any meaningful improvements or op

11-09-2018

The Spixs Macaw the bird which inspired the animated movie Rio has become extinct in the wild according to a study by BirdLife International The study claimed that deforestation was the leading cause of their extinction Spixs Macaw is one of the eight bird species confirmed or suspected extinct in t

10-09-2018

After almost two decades out of action a New York City subway station destroyed in the 911 terrorist attacks has reopened The station was buried under debris when the two World Trade Centre towers collapsed after hijackers crashed planes into them It is more than a new subway station New York Citys

10-09-2018

At least 7 people have been wounded in an attack by a man armed with a knife and an iron bar in Paris France Police have detained the man who carried out the attack at two different locations and reportedly said there was no initial indication that the attack was linked to terrorism The attacker is

10-09-2018

Former US President Barack Obama has revealed that he was kicked out of Disneyland for smoking a cigarette during a ride as a teenager The 44th US President recalled this significant episode while addressing a rally in California on Saturday Obama said that the incident happened when he visited Disn

10-09-2018

China is participating in Exercise Kakadu Australias largest maritime drill for the first time More than 3000 personnel from 27 countries are taking part in the exercise which is being held off the coast of Darwin in northern Australia Other nations participating in the drill include India Japan Sou

09-09-2018

Former President Barack Obama has backed the Democratic party’s campaign efforts by throwing shade at President Donald Trump and voicing support for progressive policies Trump shot back that he found it “very good for sleeping” He  said that he fell asleep during former President Barack Obamas speec

09-09-2018

US President Donald Trump on Saturday called on Apple to make its products in the US instead of China Trump called this an easy solution where there would be zero tax Apple had said that Trumps proposed tariffs on 200 billion of goods from China will make some of its products including Apple Watch H

09-09-2018

A wide range of Apple products will be affected by proposed US tariffs on Chinese goods Apple said in a letter to US trade officials US President Donald Trumps proposed tariffs on Chinese goods worth 200 billion would affect products including the Apple Watch Our concern with tariffs is thatit will

09-09-2018

A US government photographer has reportedly admitted he intentionally cropped photos of President Donald Trumps inauguration to remove empty space and make the audience look larger Trump claimed footage of the event did not match with the number of people he saw from the stage White House had claime

08-09-2018

A helicopter with a pilot and six passengers on board crashed into a hillside in central Nepal on Saturday according to officials The Kathmandubound Airbusmanufactured helicopter which belongs to Nepals Altitude Air lost communication with the air traffic control at around 8 am local time after taki

08-09-2018

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he wants to stop the subsidies that growing economies like India and China have been receiving as he wants the US which he considers as a “developing nation” to grow faster than any other nation “We have some of these countries that are considered growing ec

08-09-2018

Former President Barack Obama said Friday 7 September President Donald Trump is the symptom not the cause of division and polarization in the US He also said Trump is just capitalising on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years He further added this is not normal and urged people to

08-09-2018

The Palghar Police in Maharashtra has arrested a man for allegedly trafficking over 500 girls from Bangladesh and forcing them into flesh trade in Mumbai Most of the girls were also found with valid documents like Aadhaar cards The crime branch is also investigating how these documents were made wit

08-09-2018

Russia will continue to kill “terrorists” in Idlib and elsewhere in Syria to bring back peace the foreign ministry said Thursday “We have killed we are killing and we will kill terroristswhether that be in Aleppo Idlib or other parts of Syria Peace must return to Syria” said spokeswoman Maria Zakhar

07-09-2018

Afghan troops will be trained by the Chinese in China to fight the alQaeda and Islamic State militants Afghanistans Ambassador to China Janan Mosazai said Afghanistan has also requested China to provide its security forces with combat helicopters China will help Afghanistan to set up a mountain brig

07-09-2018

Scientists have discovered the worlds most mature cheese – which made in Croatia by Neolithic farmers more than 7000 years ago During excavations of ancient pottery researchers found residues of a fetalike cheese on the remains of rhyton drinking horns and sieves dating back to 5300 BC This is the

07-09-2018

A 61yearold Indianorigin man Gurcharan Singh was jailed for three years on Thursday for making prank calls to the Singapore Police for 18 years after drinking alcohol In one of his calls The latest incidents occurred over two days in June with Singh making two calls on the first day and 15 on the se

06-09-2018

North and South Korea have agreed to hold a summit on September 1820 to discuss practical measures toward the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula Souths national security adviser Chung Euiyong has said Kim and South Korean President Moon Jaein will meet in Pyongyang on Sept 1820 and will discus

06-09-2018

An Emirates Airbus A380 operating from Dubai to New York was quarantined at New Yorks JFK International Airport on Wednesday after 10 passengers fell ill on board A statement by the airline said the passengers were attended to shortly after landing while the remaining were yet to disembark A passeng

05-09-2018

Japan on Wednesday began to clean up after the most powerful storm to hit the country in 25 years killed at least 11 people Typhoon Jebi follows months of heavy rain landslides floods and recordbreaking heat that killed hundreds of people this summer Japanese authorities said some roads and train li

05-09-2018

Thailands Royal Police Cadet Academy has announced it will not admit female candidates from the next academic year The Royal Police Cadet Academy RPCA on the western outskirts of Bangkok accepts about 300 applicants a year But from 2019 it will admit only men Worawut Sripakhon an RPCA captain did no

05-09-2018

Dr Arif ur Rehman Alvi was elected the 13th President of Pakistan after a vote in the Parliament and provincial assemblies on Tuesday Alvi a dentist by profession was a founding member of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khans political party Pakistan TehreekeInsaf The 69yearold is expected to assume o

05-09-2018

At least six people have been killed and several others left injured in Japan after it was hit by the strongest storm in 25 years Typhoon Jebi made landfall in the western part of Japan on Tuesday and brought heavy rains and strong winds Japan issued evacuation advisories for more than a million peo

04-09-2018

Calling on Myanmar for the immediate unconditional release of two Reuters journalists sentenced to 7 years in jail the US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the conviction was another terrible stain on the Myanmar government She said its the duty of a responsible press in a free country to keep p

04-09-2018

A lioness at the Ukutula Conservation Center UCC and Biobank in South Africa North’s West province has given birth to two cubs conceived via nonsurgical artificial insemination AI using fresh semen collected from an adult male lion at the same facility These are the first ever lion cubs to be born b

04-09-2018

Two Reuters journalists who investigated the killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims were on Monday sentenced to seven years in prison by a Myanmar court for breaching a law on state secrets Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who were detained in December 2017 said they were unsurprised by the verdict The case drew in

03-09-2018

The US Marines has successfully completed a prototype barracks that has been for the first time in the world completely 3Dprinted in concrete It was printed using the worlds largest concretefed printer operated by the Additive Manufacturing Team at Marine Corps Systems Command in collaboration with

02-09-2018

A 42yearold US man has sought over 11 million in compensation after being wrongly jailed for 17 years for a robbery his look alike may have committed Richard Anthony Jones came to know about his lookalike Ricky Amos when prison inmates started confusing the two Jones was convicted of aggravated robb

02-09-2018

A 95yearold British veteran of World War Two broke his own record on Saturday as the world’s oldest scuba diver after taking the plunge to explore a shipwreck off Cyprus Ray Woolley who turned 95 on Aug 28 already holds the record as the oldest active male scuba diver On Saturday he dived for 44 min

02-09-2018

A supervisor at Sochi airport in Russia has died during an emergency response after a landing plane careered off the end of the runway into a riverbed and caught fire The health ministry said 18 people were injured in the accident which occurred at about 3 am local time 0130 BST as the Utairoperated

02-09-2018

Police in central Mexico have arrested a man who fled with a coffin transporting vehicle which had a body inside it Police said the vehicle had been readied to take the body of an 80yearold man from a hospital to a funeral home The man admitted seeing the keys left in the vehicle before stealing it

02-09-2018

Calling climate change an existential threat Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele has said that any world leader who denies climate change should be taken to a mental hospital In a searing speech delivered on Thursday night during a visit to Sydney Tuilaepa Sailele berated leaders who fail to take

02-09-2018

A nearly ninemetrehigh inflatable balloon depicting London Mayor Sadiq Khan wearing a bikini was launched in the city on Saturday It is in an attempt by campaigners to highlight the capital’s rise in violent crime This comes after Khan allowed flying a balloon depicting US President Donald Trump as

01-09-2018

An Indian citizen who was the CEO of two information technology companies in the US has been arrested in connection with a multiyear visafraud scheme involving forged and fraudulent documents to get visas such as H1B for over 200 foreign workers Pradyumna Kumar Samal 49 was taken into custody as he

01-09-2018

The Trump administration has announced it will cut all US funding for the main UN programme for Palestinian refugees a move with potentially devastating impacts for five million people who rely on its schools healthcare and social services The announcement comes days after the US said it was  withdr

01-09-2018

Vending machines and snack kiosks in schools across South Korea will stop selling all coffee products by September 14 The ban is part of a campaign to discourage consumption of food and drinks high in calories or caffeine The ban follows media reports of some students suffering dizziness increased h

30-08-2018

A 32yearold female television journalist Subarna Nodi was hacked to death by unidentified assailants at her home in Bangladeshs Pabna district Goutam Kumar Biswas Pabna Additional Superintendent of Police ASP told the media Unidentified assailants rang the doorbell around 10 pm on Tuesday They hacke

29-08-2018

The US first lady opted for total glamour when asked to dig a hole in the White House garden Reacting to US First Lady Melania Trump planting a tree while wearing heels a Twitter user wrote FLOTUS is truly deeply dedicated to her high heels While other users tweeted By the look of those shoes she wa

29-08-2018

A University of Hong Kong professor has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife after police found her body stuffed in a suitcase in his office the latest grisly murder to transfix the crowded city Officers discovered the body of a woman wearing only her underwear and with electric wire aroun

29-08-2018

Technology giant Google on Tuesday rejected US President Donald Trumps claim that its news search results were rigged to show bad news and stories about him “Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology” a Google spokesperson said in an ema

29-08-2018

A 60metretall wind turbine was blown over and uprooted by the strong winds brought by a cyclone in Japan last week The structure in Hokudan Earthquake Memorial Park was built in 2002 in memory of the Great Hanshin Earthquake which devastated parts of Hyogo prefecture in 1995 The turbine was pictured

28-08-2018

Authorities in Spain have seized 67 kilograms of cocaine stuffed in pineapples at a wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the capital Madrid The drugstuffed fruits were found at the sprawling Mercamadrid market among a shipment of pineapples that arrived in the Portuguese port of Setubal by ship f

27-08-2018

Guests have claimed that they were served raw meat and drinks in unwashed glasses at Egypts fivestar hotel evacuated by Thomas Cook last week following a couples death within hours of each other While 69yearold John reportedly died of cardiac arrest 63yearold Susan died after fainting Several other

27-08-2018

Two people were killed and at least eleven were injured in a mass shooting incident when a man opened fire at an online video game tournament that was being streamed from a restaurant in Florida USA The police identified the shooter as 24yearold David Katz who killed himself after the shooting His b

27-08-2018

At least 19 people were killed and 23 injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Chinas Harbin city Authorities were investigating the cause of the blaze the Harbin unit of Chinas ruling Communist Party said on its Weibo account The fire broke out in the morning at the Beilong Hot Spring Hotel i

25-08-2018

The UN has renewed its appeal for aid for Rohingyas on the first anniversary on Saturday of the crackdown that led to more than 700000 members of the minority community fleeing Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR led the aid appeals on Friday calling for support for the st

25-08-2018

After a meeting with EU states failed to find a solution to Italys migration woes the UN asked for a deal to be made The UN refugee agency said EU states are in a race to the bottom to take the least responsibility The United Nations refugee agency on Saturday called for European Union states to com

25-08-2018

Britain’s Thomas Cook said it was evacuating all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt’s popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in circumstances it said were still unclear John Cooper 69 and his wife Susan Cooper a 63year old who worked

25-08-2018

India and China have agreed to expand their military ties and enhance interaction to ensure peace on their common borderThis came following a meeting between Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe ndia and China have sought to improve their ties after being

25-08-2018

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday expressed his grief at the loss of lives in Kerala floods“On behalf of the people of Pakistan we send our prayers and best wishes to those who have been devastated by the floods in Kerala India We stand ready to provide any humanitarian assistance that

24-08-2018

Australian ruling party elected  Scott Morrison as new Prime Minister on Friday This is the sixth change of prime minister in 11 years in Australia Foreign Minister Julie Bishop Treasurer Scott Morrison and the only declared challenger Peter Dutton a former Cabinet minister was in the fray Scott Mor

24-08-2018

Pictures of passengers travelling on the roof of a train in Dhaka Bangladesh to get home for Eid alAdha celebrations have gone viralHundreds of people can be seen clambering onto the roof as they try to return to their families and friends to celebrate Eid alAdha considered to be Islam’s holiest fes

23-08-2018

The Maldives may face sanctions if they dont hold free and fair federal elections top European officials warned A delegation of the officials discovered some undemocratic practices after meeting with the Maldvies opposition party These are not false threats The individuals concerned should consider

22-08-2018

India and Japan have decided to further expand their defence ties with more bilateral combat exercises military exchanges and toplevel visits as well as collaboration in maritime security and defence production Towards this end India and Japan will hold their firstever joint Army exercise in the dom

21-08-2018

Pope Francis on Monday wrote a letter to Catholics around the world addressing for the first time the recent alleged accusations of sexual abuse by priests In the letter released by the Vatican the Pope said the Church did not act in a timely manner to address the crimes The head of the Catholic chu

20-08-2018

Jakarta Four Japanese basketball players have been sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex The incident took place after Japans 8271 win over Qatar in a groupstage game last Thursday Japanese Olympic officials said they learned of the incident after a news

20-08-2018

According to Reports over 128 lakh Indian pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage A total of 128702 Indian pilgrims are facilitated by the government to undertake the pilgrimage through the Hajj Committee this year 466 flights have brought the Indian pilgrims to perf

19-08-2018

The London Police has detained gangster Dawood Ibrahims finance manager Jabir Moti from a hotel in the UKs capital city Moti reportedly holds a 10year UK visa and is a resident of Karachi Pakistan Earlier this year Ahmed Mohammed Lambu a close aide of Dawood was arrested by Gujarat AntiTerrorism Squ

19-08-2018

Rabies vaccines made by the Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences Company the second largest in China were found to have violated national standards including usage of expired fluids and falsified production dates China has sacked six senior government officials for their neglect of duty and misconduct

18-08-2018

Bern Former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan has died He was 80 and had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for humanitarian work He is survived by his wife and three children Kofi Annan was the UNs seventh secretary general and served from 1997 to 2006  As secretary gene

18-08-2018

islamabad Cricketerturnedpolitician Imran Khan took oath as Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister on Saturday 18 August at the President’s House in Islamabad Khan 65 the chairman of the Pakistan TehreekeInsaf PTI was administered the oath of office by President Mamnoon Hussain at a simple ceremony held at

18-08-2018

Jeneeva UN chief Antonio Guterres has expressed sadness over the flooding and extensive damage and displacement caused in rainbattered Kerala Asked if India had asked for UN assistance he said the world body has not received any direct request from the Indian Government for aid and added As you know

18-08-2018

The government of Mauritius has decided to fly both the countrys and Indias flags at halfmast on Friday as a mark of respect to deceased former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Shri Vajpayee will remain a mentor not only for politicians in India but across the world Mauritian Prime Ministe

17-08-2018

A Sikh storeowner has been stabbed to death in the US state of New Jersey Terlok Singh was found dead with apparent stab wounds on Thursday morning inside his East Orange suburb store by his cousin Karnail Singh The county prosecutors office has said it was a case of homicide WNBC TV reported that p

17-08-2018

New Zealands parliament on Wednesday passed a bill banning the sale of existing homes to foreign buyers saying that citizens were being tenants in our own land Associate minister of finance David Parker said the ban would mean housing would become more affordable for locals and supply would increase

16-08-2018

After 57 Years UK has returned a  12thcentury bronze Buddha statue stolen from an ASI museum at Nalanda Bihar on Independence Day The statue was among 14 stolen in 1961 and surfaced many years later at an auction in London Once identified the police cooperated with the Mets Art and Antiques Unit to

15-08-2018

The 50yearold bridge part of a toll motorway linking the port city of Genoa with southern France collapsed during torrential rain on Tuesday sending dozens of vehicles crashing onto a riverbed a railway and two warehouses It collapsed at about 1130 am 0930 GMT during torrential rainfall the local fi

15-08-2018

More than 300 “predator priests” were found to have committed sexual abuse in US harming more than 1000 children According to a near900page report released by the state supreme court on Tuesday it showcases how for decades one of the most powerful churches in the world hid the abuse and suffering of

15-08-2018

As many as 11 people were killed after a motorway bridge collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa on Tuesday A section of the bridge crashed down from a height of about 50 meters over a river and some railroad tracks and buildings It collapsed at about 1130 am 0930 GMT during torrential rainfall

14-08-2018

At least 12 fans of Ecuadorean football team Barcelona SC were killed and another 30 injured when a bus carrying them overturned on a highway The accident happened Sunday afternoon as the Barcelona SC fans were heading back to their home city of Guayaquil following a draw against a team from nearby

14-08-2018

The Malaysian government is considering banning Internet use for teens between 12 AM and 6 AM daily The move aims at reducing video game and social media addiction among teens A Health and Morbidity studies conducted in 2017 indicated that around 349 per cent of Malaysian teens between the ages of 1

13-08-2018

According to a report quoting World Trade Centre Health Program nearly 10000 people got cancer by inhaling toxic particles following the 911 attack Particles from the leaked jet fuel asbestos cement dust and glass fragments led to cancer proliferation  Since the tragedy 420 cancerstricken people

13-08-2018

According to Reports Meghan Markles father Thomas Markle has said he has not spoken to his daughter since her wedding to Britains Prince Harry and fears she will not contact him again I dont expect to see her or hear back from her and thats okay he said Former US actress Meghan 37 now the Duchess of

13-08-2018

Mumbai Actor Aamir Khan on Thursday clarified he was not going to attend Pakistans Prime Minister elect Imran Khans swearingin ceremony on August 11 Addressing media Khan said he hadnt received any invite and was not going for the ceremony in Islamabad Earlier one of the Pakistan media had quoted Im

02-08-2018

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif is reportedly on the verge of a kidney failure and a medical board has urged for his immediate transfer to a hospital from Adiala jail in Rawalpindi Sources told the express tribune that the urea nitrogen in Sharifs blood has climbed up to dangerous levels

23-07-2018

Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam were provided “B” class facilities at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi where they spent the night after being arrested at Lahore airport following conviction in the Avenfield corruption case media reports said on SaturdaySharif 68 an

14-07-2018

Indonesian cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death today over his role in a 2016 Islamic State terror attack that saw a suicide bomber blow himself up at a Jakarta starbucks cafeHeavily armed police guarded the hearing at a Jakarta court – Which had earlier found Abdurrahman guilty of maste

22-06-2018

Controversial rapper XXXTentacion shot dead at 20 in South Florida He was shot dead on Monday afternoon he was leaving a motorcycle dealership in South Florida when an armed suspect shot himThe investigators believe that it was a possible robbery The shooting was first reported at 357 PM at a Deer

19-06-2018

The parents of a 5year old boy have been asked to pay Rs 90 lakh after their kid broke a mosaic sculpture at a US community center The kid who was at the community center to attend a wedding reception with his parents broke the sculpture in an attempt to hug it The insurance company said the sculptu

18-06-2018

Suspected Boko Haram  jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in NE Nigeria a local official and militia leader told media on Sunday2 blasts ripped through the town of Damboa in Borno state on Saturday evening targeting people returning from celebrating the EidalF

17-06-2018

Colombo Sri Lankan navy will release 10 Indian fisherman’s boats that were taken into custody in 2015 and 2016 As per media reports Sri Lankan Government had on June 13 sent a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs MEA stating that they are ready to release 10 boats  In 2016 out of the 216 boats

17-06-2018

A video has gone viral on the social media in which Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte can be seen mopping up the coffee which he accidently spilled on the floor while entering the Parliament In the video Rutte can be seen grabbing the mop from a cleaner and then proceeding to cleanup the spilt

05-06-2018

An Indian man who had reportedly travelled over 10000 kms across 11 countries in a month to enter the US illegally in 2016 has been deported back after he was caught staying illegally The man identified as Harpreet Singh hails from Punjab’s Kapurthala district and was deported back to India on Satur

20-05-2018

Havana More than hundred people were killed in a fiery crash of a boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday with just 3 seriously injured survivors in hospital after being pulled from the wreckage officials and state media said The aircraft on a domestic flight to Holgain in Eastern Cuba crashed

19-05-2018

Russian state television showed Putin dressed in jeans and a casual jacket sit behind the wheel of a construction truck with workers to drive 19 kilometres 12 miles across the bridge which links the Taman peninsula in southern Russian to Ukraines Crimea peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014I want to s

15-05-2018

 South and North Korea have agreed to hold highlevel interKorea talks on May 16 confirmed South Koreas Unification MinistryThe South and North will hold a highlevel interKorea meeting on May 16 in the Peace House in Panmunjom to discuss the implementation of Panmunjom Declaration for Peace Prosperit

15-05-2018

President Donald Trumps wife Melania Trump underwent a surgical procedure  to treat a benign kidney condition and will remain at Walter Reed medical centre for the rest of the week the first ladys office saidSpokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement that Mrs Trump 48 underwent an embolizatio

15-05-2018

Heavy rains and flooding have claimed seven lives and destroyed several houses in Afghanistans northern Samangan and Baghlan provinces Two women and four children were among the dead in torrential rains and flooding outside Samangan provincial capital Aybak on Monday a police official was cited as s

15-05-2018

A county in southwest China’s Sichuan province has banned Tibetan monks “wrongly educated” in India from teaching Buddhism to prevent the spread of separatist ideas The move is aimed at preventing the spread of separatist activities as monks received education from groups associated with the Dalai L

15-05-2018

A nude portrait by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani has fetched 1572 million over ₹1000 crore the fourth highest price for any work of art at an auction The 1917 oil painting carried a presale estimate of about 150 million making it the highestestimated work of art in auction history The artworks o

15-05-2018

The import of sugar from Pakistan has sparked ire in the Mumbai Metropolitan RegionThe Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party NCP the two key Opposition parties and the Raj Thackerayled Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MNS has expressed its opposition to sugar consignments imported from PakistanThe B

14-05-2018

Israeli troops killed at least 28 Palestinians along the Gaza border on Monday health officials said as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the United States prepared to open its embassy in JerusalemProtests intensified on the 70th anniversary of Israels founding with loudspeakers on G

14-05-2018

A family of six ignited suicide attacks on Christians attending Sunday services at three churches in Indonesias secondlargest city of Surabaya killing at least 13 people and wounding 40 officials saidIndonesia the worlds largest Muslimmajority country has seen a recent resurgence in homegrown milita

13-05-2018

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a government building in Afghanistan on Sunday 13 May the Islamist militant groups Amaq news agency said without providing any evidenceAfghan security forces battled for hours against a group of attackers who stormed a government building in

13-05-2018

A day before the opening ceremony of the new US embassy in Jerusalem that sparked off Palestinian protests preparations in Israel were on in full swing on Sunday for the event US President Donald Trumps daughter Ivanka his senior adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner as well as Secretary of Treasury St

13-05-2018

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has questioned the policy of using Pakistanbased militant groups for crossborder attacks on India as he mounted a scathing attack on the powerful military establishments perceived meddling in politicsOn the campaign trail in Multan ahead of general elections expect

12-05-2018

UKbased farmer Donald Ross has shared a photo where his neighbour used a bra to prevent swelling and infection in a cows mammary glands Necessity is the mother of invention Calf wouldnt suck back teats so he adapted hiswifes bra with help from rope and bungy cord Hope she doesnt want them back Farmi

12-05-2018

For the first time after the full territorial defeat of Islamic State IS terror group in Iraq millions of Iraqis across the country headed to vote on Saturday for their representatives in ParliamentThe polls kicked off at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm Iraqi Vice President Nuri alMaliki was the fi

12-05-2018

Ethnic insurgents in Myanmar killed 19 people including four members of the security forces in an attack on security posts and a casino near the border with China a Myanmar government spokesman said on Saturday A spokesman for the Taang National Liberation Army TNLA made up of fighters from the Taan

12-05-2018

Two US fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace off the coast of Alaska The Russian TU95 Bear bombers flew into a socalled Air Defence Identification Zone located about 200 miles off Alaskas west coast at about 10 am EST North American Aerospace Defence Command spokesma

12-05-2018

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak who was defeated in the general elections has been banned from leaving the country Najib said he and his wife Rosmah Mansor were planning to go on an overseas holiday following which the Immigration Department made the announcement via its social site acco

12-05-2018

Briefing reporters at the end of Prime Minister Modis twoday visit to Nepal Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale today said it was a significant statement from Prime Minister Oli and India was satisfied with discussionsOli reiterated that Nepal would be sensitive to Indias interests and its territory wou

12-05-2018

Gaza Israeli troops killed a Palestinian and hundreds of others were hurt on Friday Palestinian medical workers said bringing to 44 the number killed during a sixweek protest at the GazaIsrael borderThe protests are building to a climax on May 15 the day Palestinians call the Nakba or Catastrophe ma

12-05-2018

Turkish President  Recep Tayyip  Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the prospects of the  Iran 

11-05-2018

India has asked Myanmar to ensure the safe speedy and sustainable return of Rohingya refugees who had fled Rakhine state following a security crackdown where hundreds were killed and thousands displaced Indias stance was conveyed by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to the Myanmarese leadershi

11-05-2018

Plastic surgeons at William Beaumont Army Medical Center successfully transplanted a new ear on a 21yearold soldier who lost her left ear in a car accident two years ago The total ear reconstruction the first of its kind in the Army involved harvesting cartilage from the Soldiers ribs to carve a new

11-05-2018

Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was shot and injured in an assassination attempt during a rally in Narowal district of the countrys Punjab province on Sunday police saidDistrict Police Officer of Narowal Imran Kishwar said a local resident opened fire at the minister soon after he concluded h

06-05-2018

On Saturday a USbased human right watchdog requested Dubai authorities to give information of 32yearold Sheikh Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid AlMaktoum as  she posted a video in March that she was fleeing the emirate because of the torture and mistreatment she was facing by her family In the video

05-05-2018

The Nobel Foundation has decided to not award the Nobel Prize in Literature this year after it was embroiled in a scandal over sexual assault allegationsThis years winner will now be announced with the winner in 2019 The committees head and several other members have recently stepped down over claim

04-05-2018

Three IndianAmerican physicians from Pennsylvania have been charged with health care fraud and illegal distribution of buprenorphine medication for opioid addiction treatmentThe physicians Dr Krishan Kumar Aggarwal 73 Dr Madhu Aggarwal 68 and Dr Parth Bharill 69 are part of the Redirections Treat

04-05-2018

A naked statue of Donald Trump complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auctionJuliens Auctions announced Wednesday 3 May sold the artwork believed to be the last of the controversial statues not vandalized

03-05-2018

In a bizarre incident a woman flew on an Emirates flight from Manchester to New Delhi on her husbands passport without the error being noticed by the airport or the flight authoritiesA relative of the passenger Geeta Modha said the shocking error was spotted by Modha after reaching the New Delhi air

02-05-2018

Tehran Iran today branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an infamous liar over his allegations of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programmeForeign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi called the accusations that Tehran lied about its nuclear ambitions “wornout useless and shameful”Netanyahus

01-05-2018

Lahore The founder of the LashkareTaiba LeT and mastermind of 2611 Mumbai terror attacks Hafiz Saeed is using the vulnerable Sikh community in Pakistan to push his propaganda against India especially the so called Khalistan issueSaeed who carries a USD 10 million bounty on his head is reportedly co

30-04-2018

Kandahar Afghanistan At least 11 students of a madrassa were killed in a car bombing in Afghanistans Kandahar province on Monday officials saidA suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives in Haji Abdullah Khan village of Daman district at about 11 am killing 11 children at a nearby madras

30-04-2018

Number 16 has died It was the name researchers had given to the the spider which had reached the age of 43 years It was a Gialus Villosus or a trapdoor spider According to the researchers at Curtin University Number 16 was the oldest spider known to man The researchers hoped that it would reach her

30-04-2018

The United Nations has expressed concern over the safety of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims as the approaching monsoon season threatens their makeshift camps in Southern BangladeshThe UN has sought urgent financial aid to prepare the area against floods and landslidesThousands of Rohingya Musl

28-04-2018

 At least nine students were stabbed to death at a middle school in Chinas Shaanxi provinceA male suspect has been detainedaccording to reports 12 students were injured at the incident that took place on Friday evening According to local government seven of the deceased were female and two were male

28-04-2018

The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track and kill Osama bin Laden has been moved by authorities from a prison in the countrys northwest to an unknown safer location an official and family member said today Shakil Afridi has been languishing in a prison in the city of Peshawar for almost seven y

28-04-2018

Armed men stormed into Nigerias Senate on Wednesday and stole the mace which usually lies on the table before the Senate President Laws cannot be passed by Nigerias Senate in the absence of the mace which is a symbol of authority on the Senate floor Police said that the mace was recovered later lti

20-04-2018

The Gujarat high court on Friday acquitted former BJP minister Maya Kodnani and upheld the conviction of Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in  the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case in which 97 people were killed The acquittal came following witnesses turning hostile judges recusing themselves and the Sp

20-04-2018

A video showing a house explosion in the US state of Texas after a vehicle crashed into it and struck a gas line has surfaced online Police officials responding to the crash said they rescued three people from the house after the explosion They also arrested the vehicles driver for not having a vali

19-04-2018

Havana   Raul Castro who took from his brother Fidel 12 years ago and led Cuba through some of its biggest  changes in 6 decades is expected to step down on Thursday and hand over power to someone outside the Castro dynasty for the first time since the Cuban revolution more than  half a century ago

19-04-2018

Former First Lady of the United States of America – Mrs Barbara Bush died at the age of 92 on Tuesday morning according to a statement made by the office of George HW Bush She was the second woman in US history to be a first lady and mother of a president “My dear mother has passed on at age 92 Laur

18-04-2018

A US rescue team has recovered bodies of an IndianAmerican man Sandeep Thottapilly and his daughter from a car which was found from a river the police have said The bodies of Sandeep and Saachi were recovered yesterday inside the vehicle a Honda Pilot which was recovered from about 46 feet of river

17-04-2018

The Indian economy has recovered from the adverse impacts of demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax and is projected to grow by 73 in 2018 and 75 in 2019 the World Bank has said Indian recovery will lift South Asia as a region and make it the worlds fastest growing again possibly even widening th

15-04-2018

After a passenger threatened the crew with a fountain pen an Air China flight headed for Beijing had to make an emergency landing in Zhengzhou According to a statement released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China a male passenger tried to hold an attendant under duress using a pen in Air C

15-04-2018

New Milford US A man killed his wife who was also his daughter and their 7monthold son and then took his own life after she broke up with him Steven Pladls mother called police in North Carolina to say shed had a disturbing call from him and to ask officers to check on the wellbeing of her infant gr

14-04-2018

A fire that broke out in US President Donald Trumps Trump Tower a commercial and residential building in New York has taken away the life of one person Apparently the fire erupted in an apartment in the 50th of the building around 530 pm and later spread into other rooms New York City Fire Commissio

08-04-2018

Germany Several people injured as a car ploughed into a crowd in the western German city of Muenster on Saturday police reported There were several deaths after the incident but said it was not clear whether the incident was an attack A German police spokeswoman said there are several dead probably

07-04-2018

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought the help of UN to implement the BangladeshMyanmar agreement on the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas displaced from the Rakhine state Hasina spoke with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the issue over phone on Friday night and her

07-04-2018

Toronto At least 14 people have been killed and another 14 injured in a collision involving a junior hockey team’s bus in Saskatchewan Canada according to the police There were 28 people in the vehicle at the time of the accident that took place last day when a semitrailer collided with the bus Res

07-04-2018

An active shooter opened fire at YouTubes headquarters in San Bruno California on Tuesday injuring four people who have been taken to a hospital According to the police the female suspect died inside the building with a selfinflicted wound Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the situation is contained and

04-04-2018

Myanmar minister will tour camps for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh an official said on Wednesday the first such visit since Myanmars army drove nearly 700000 members of the Muslim minority over the border Bangladeshs foreign ministry confirmed that Myanmars social welfare relief and resettlement m

04-04-2018

Two prisoners have escaped from a maximum security jail in the Colombian capital Bogotá by getting a guard drunk and convincing him to let them go to go buy more alcohol The two inmates never returned and police are currently hunting for them Colleagues of the guard at La Picota jail said his breath

03-04-2018

In response to a video circulating in Dubai via social media claiming that eggs made from plastic were available in the emirate the Dubai Municipality has clarified that there is no truth in the video and its just a rumour A presenter in the video claimed a layer of plastic was formed on the eggs wh

03-04-2018

Dubai Municipality organised an awareness workshop for real estate developers on the new waste disposal fees for companies operating in investment areas which will come into effect from May 17 During the workshop the participants representing major real estate developers in the emirate of Dubai were

02-04-2018

Bahrain  has discovered its biggest oil field in more than 90 years The “highly significant” oil and deep gas resource is thought to dwarf the Gulf kingdom’s current reserves according to an official announcement on Sunday It is located in the Khaleej alBahrain basin located off the country’s west c

02-04-2018

The process of filing petitions for H1B considered the most soughtafter work visa among highly skilled Indian professionals begins tomorrow Monday amidst unprecedented scrutiny by the Trump Administration A strong indication has come from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS the fede

01-04-2018

Stephen Hawking’s funeral took place on March 31 in Cambridge UK at Great St Mary’s Church where thousands attended to pay tribute to the world renowed physicist The Church bells rang 76 times representing the number of years Hawking lived The coffin was carried by six porters from Gonville and Caiu

01-04-2018

India is confident that Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Olis upcoming visit to New Delhi will help the two countries remove the distrust that had marked the ties between the two nations during his stint at the helm in 20152016Official sources said the very fact that Oli known for his proChina stance

30-03-2018

FORT LAUDERDALE The prime suspect of the Florida high school shooting Nikolas Cruz is getting letters of support and fan mail including pictures of teenage girls women and men Cruz is charged in the killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida and is being held i

30-03-2018

More than 10000 Indian students have to reappear their Class 10 mathematics and Class 12 economics examinations following a confirmation of question paper leaks by the Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE Parents students as well as teachers in the UAE expressed their deep disappointment with t

29-03-2018

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai broke down during an emotional return to her native Pakistan on Thursday 29 March six years after she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for advocating greater education of girlsYousafzai travelling with her father and younger brother met Prime Minister

29-03-2018

Myanmars parliament has elected Win Myint a loyalist of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi as new presidentSuu Kyi who formal title is state counsellor has retained her executive authority over the government The 66yearold Win Myint succeeds Htin Kyaw who retired last week for reasons of ill health Th

28-03-2018

A veterinarian in Australia performed a surgery on a python that entered a familys house and ate one of the slippers He said You could see the outline of some foreign material in the stomach Sharing details and pictures of the procedure online the veterinarian added that the snake would spend betwee

27-03-2018

Uber has been suspended from testing autonomous vehicles in the state of Arizona following last week’s fatal crash in the city of Temp The accident which occurred at night and coincided with autonomous test driver Rafaela Vasquez looking down right before the moment of impact left pedestrian 49yearo

27-03-2018

At least 37 people died in a massive fire that broke out in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday Russian news agencies reported citing local authorities Initial reports by the Investigative Committee which investigates highprofile crimes and reports directly to Russian Presiden

26-03-2018

A pizza with 111 types of cheese has set the Guinness World Record for ‘Greatest Variety of cheese on a pizza’ Baked at a German restaurant the pizza featured 2886 grams of cheese in total but only 26 grams of each variety A diary expert described the pizza as “crunchy and cheesy each piece tastes d

25-03-2018

At least 12 people were killed and 40 others were injured on Friday after a car bomb exploded in Afghanistans Helmand province officials said The bomb exploded outside a sports stadium in the city of Lashkargah This comes days after 31 people were killed and 65 others were wounded in an ISIS attack

24-03-2018

The United States on Friday officially filed a trade complaint at the World Trade Organisation WTO against China  over its alleged discriminatory technology licensing practises The US Trade representative USTR filed a request for consultations with China at the WTO to addressBeijings  unfair technol

24-03-2018

Researchers at MIT and UC Berkeley have developed and now tested a device that can extract  water  out of the air even in the driest of climates The team proposed the device in a science  article last year and now theyve improved the design and tried it out in Tempe Arizona While there are a

23-03-2018

A woman’s tweet showing how Dubai’s ruler His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum the Prime Minister and Vice President of the UAE rescued her family by pulling her vehicle out of sand has gone viral The woman’s vehicle had gotten stuck in the sand and His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Ras

23-03-2018

ExPlayboy model Karen McDougal who claimed that she had an affair with US President Donald Trump in 2006 has apologised to the Presidents wife Melania Trump However adding There was a real relationship There were real feelingsHe would call me baby or beautiful Karen said she broke up with Donald in

23-03-2018

 US President Donald Trump shook up his foreign policy team again on Thursday replacing HR McMaster as national security adviser with John Bolton a hawk who has advocated using military force against North Korea and IranThe move announced in a tweet and a White House statement came little more than

23-03-2018

The Singapore Changi Airport has been named the worlds best airport for the sixth consecutive year by consultancy firm Skytrax The Incheon International Airport in South Korea and Haneda Airport in Japan were placed second and third respectively While the Mumbai airport has been ranked 63rd the airp

22-03-2018

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for mistakes his company made And how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users and promised tougher steps to restrict developers’ access to such information “We have a responsibility to protect your data and if we cant then we don’

22-03-2018

A video recording from Uber selfdriving car that struck and killed a woman on Sunday shows her moving in front of it suddenly a factor that investigators are likely to focus on as they assess the performance of the technology in the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicleUS police

21-03-2018

Austria’s capital city Vienna has been rated the world’s most livable city for the 9th consecutive year by Mercer in its annual Quality of Living survey Most cities in the top 10 this year are located in Europe including Zurich which came in at second place Munich which tied for third with Auckland

21-03-2018

Moscow Russia is set to elect vladimar Putin to a historic fourth Kremlin term as the country faces increasing isolation over a spy poisoning in Britain and a fresh round of US sanctions Since taking power 18 years ago Putin has stamped his total authority on the country silencing opposition and re

19-03-2018

China’s parliament chose former top graft buster Wang Qishan a key ally of President Xi Jinping as Vice president on Saturday widely – expected move that nonetheless breaks with convention and underlines Mr Xi’s dominant authority MrXi was also re elected President by parliament  chose former top gr

18-03-2018

At least 4 employees have been killed and two others are trapped in a fire that hit a Manila hotel where more than 300 guests were evacuated some by helicopter Johnny Yu who heads Manila’s disasterresponse office tells reporters that at least 6 other people at the Manila Pavilion Hotel and Casino o

18-03-2018

COLOMBO Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said on Sunday he had lifted a nationwide state of emergency imposed on March 6 after Buddhist –Muslim clashes “Upon assessing the public safety situation I instructed to revoke the State of Emergency from midnight yesterday” Sirisena said on his Twit

18-03-2018

The president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences the body which hands out the Oscars is being investigated for sexual harassment US media reported The trade publication Variety and CBS News said the Academy immediately opened an investigation after receiving three harassment claims

17-03-2018

Former South African President Jacob Zuma  will be prosecuted on charges of Corruption over 25 billion arms deal dating back to the late 1990s The announcement was made by Friday afternoon by Chief Prosecutor Shaun Abraham Zuma will face charges of fraud racketeering and money laundering He was for

17-03-2018

On Friday Pakistan  special court has asked the ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz government to suspend Computerized National Identity Card CNIC and the passport of the former Pak President Pervez Musharraf in a treason case against him according to reports Musharraf was charged with treason  fo

17-03-2018

61yearold Danny Lee Konieczny allegedly stole a parked ambulance outside the hospital after being frustrated at the long wait times the incident occurred at The Villages Hospital in The Villages Florida The Lake County sheriff’s office reported that Danny was transported to The Villages Hospital aft

16-03-2018

On Sunday March 11th 23yearold Christopher Shawn Ring of Sebastian Florida was found hiding from the police in his freezer after a home was raided a large number of illegal narcotics were found in the property as the police searched for the wanted man On the evening of Sunday a home located in Luthe

16-03-2018

A cargo plane carrying precious metals accidentally flew open upon takeoff scatteing at least 3 tons of gold on the runway An investigation is underway after the incident Thursday at the airport in the fareast city of Yakutsk An An12 plane operated by the airline Nimbus took off for Krasnoyarsk car

16-03-2018

Miami A 174foot bridge at Florida International University collapsed on Thursday afternoon at least 4 people dead The bridge came down crashing on to a number of cars and pedestrians At least eight cars have crushed under the bridge confirmed Florida Highway Patrol officials At least 8 cars are fea

16-03-2018

James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan said he was cheated by pan masala brand Pan Bahar as he was not informed about the product’s “Hazardous” nature in his advertisement contract as per Delhi Additional director  SK Arora “In a written reply to the Delhi State Tobacco Control Cell the actor stated that

15-03-2018

Helsinki  Finland has captured the title of world’s happiest country for 2018 the latest edition of the UN’s World Happiness  Report reveals  Not just for citizens Finland has been adjudged the country having the world’s happiest immigrant population India however was ranked 133 far behind terrorhit

15-03-2018

Seven thousand pairs of shoes representing the number of lives lost since the 2001 elementary school shooting in Connecticut were lined up in a lawn outside the US Capitol building in Washington Several pairs were donated by families that lost their children to gun violence The move was aimed at pre

14-03-2018

Stephen Hawking peacefully dies at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday The Briton was known for his work with black holes and relativity and wrote several popular science books including ‘A Brief History of Time’ At the age of 22 Stephen Hawking was given only a few years to live

14-03-2018

PM Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday pledged to begin work on the largest nuclear power plant in the world in India by this year Urging Electricite de France SA and Indias Nuclear Power Corporation to accelerate discussions on a contract and start work at Maharashtras Jait

12-03-2018

At least 50 people were reported killed after a USBangla Airlines flight carrying 67 passengers and four crew members crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu Nepal on the afternoon of 12 March The plane caught fire after it careened off the runway during landing and crashed into

12-03-2018

The daughter of a business tycoon and bride tobe Mina Basaran  along with her seven friends were onboard the Turkish private jet which crashed in a mountainous region of Iran on Sunday The plane which was reportedly travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul was flying the 28yearold heires

12-03-2018

Washington President Donald Trump’s plan to combat school shootings will include helping states pay for firearms training for teachers and a call to improve the background check system But Trump’s plan will not include a push to increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons or an embrace

12-03-2018

Tens of thousands of Bolivians held a nearly 200km long 124 miles bright blue flag on Saturday in a show of support for their landlocked countrys demand that it be given a sovereign access to the sea The socalled flag of maritime revindication stretched like a long blue ribbon between the towns Orur

11-03-2018

Donald Trump will take a hardline position at his planned summit with the North Korean leader Kim JongUN the white House said US officials scrambled to keep pace with the president after his sudden acceptance of Kim’s offer to talk In briefings after the announcementwhich would be the first ever me

10-03-2018

President Donald Trump said that he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first US North Korea summit marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang Kim has committed to “denuclearization” and to suspending nuclear or missile tests South Korea’

09-03-2018

Florida 27000 Kg of beer was spilt after a truck overturned on a highway in United States’ Florida on Wednesday The truck driver was treated for minor injuries and charged with careless driving Sharing photographs of the incident the authorities added “the beer didn’t fare so well”

08-03-2018

A twoyearold boy in Shanghai locked his mother’s iPhone for  47 years after playing with it and repeatedly entering the wrong passcode The mother Lu  found that the phone had been disabled for 25 million minutes by pressing keys repeatedly when the handset requested the passcode Each time the wrong

08-03-2018

An Australian farmer got a giant unusual chicken egg The egg was three times larger than a normal one and it had a smaller egg inside The giant egg was laid by normal chicken at Stockman’s eggs farm The farm is at North of Queensland Scott Stockman has been working for years in the egg farm but neve

07-03-2018

Thousands of starfish along with lobsters and sea urchins washed ashore in one of the biggest mass strandings on record in the UK Believed to be an aftermath of a storm dubbed Beast from the East researchers said such mass strandings of seabeddwelling creatures are not unusual after winter storms Me

06-03-2018

A Russian plane with 32 people on board crashed during landing at Hmeymim air base in Syria All the 32 persons were killed in the crash said reports The plane is said to have crashed when it was about 500 meters short of the runway Out of the 32 people 26 were passengers and six were the crew The cr

06-03-2018

Colombo SriLanka declared a nationwide state of emergency for 10 days on Tuesday to stop the spread of communal violence a government spokesman said after clashes erupted between majority Buddhists and members of the minority Muslim Community Tension has been growing between the two communities in

06-03-2018

Krishna Kumari has become Pakistans first Hindu Dalit woman Senator after she was elected to the Upper House on Saturday The 39yearold had contested from a seat reserved for women from the Sindh province representing the Pakistan Peoples Party Kumari is a human rights activist Kohli who comes from N

04-03-2018

A flight from Manchester to Cancun was forced to divert to Gatwick after a cockpit window shattered in midair Flight BY174 got as far as Dublin when it had to turn around as a safety precaution The disruption has left travelers bound for the Mexican holiday haven stranded at the airport until a new

04-03-2018

Washington US President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone on Friday saying trade wars were good and easy to win after his plan to put tariffs on steel and aluminum imports triggered threats of retaliation from trading partners and a slide in stock marketsThe European Union raised the possibility o

03-03-2018

Around 35 female football fans were arrested for trying to attend a football match between Esteghlal and Persepolis in Irans capital Tehran on Thursday Women are barred from attending football matches in Iran since 1979 The detained women reportedly wanted to draw attention of FIFA President Gianni

02-03-2018

 A suicide car bomb targeting a foreign forces convoy rocked eastern Kabul early morning killing at least one civilian and injuring four in an area where many expatriates reside Witnesses reported a strong explosion and extensive damage to the facades of nearby houses Security forces could be seen

02-03-2018

An American transgender woman claims to have spent approximately ₹38 lakh to look like a dragon Eva Medus has had her nose reshaped ears removed and the whites of her eyes permanently stained green among other procedures She says that she does not want to die a human and decided to undergo the trans

01-03-2018

People have been leaving gloves and scarves for homeless people in Bristol England amid a current wave of cold weather sweeping Britain The items of clothing come with notes

28-02-2018

Washington  The US administration has reached a 39 billion deal with Boeing for two Air Force One planes for the President the White House said President Donald Trump has reached the informal deal with Boeing on a “Fixedprice contract” for the new Air Force One Program Xinhua quoted a White House s

28-02-2018

The Italian capital city of Rome witnessed snow for the first time in six years on Monday as cold winds from Siberia moved across Europe Schools were closed and public transportation was affected Meanwhile priests at St Peters Square in the Vatican took part in a snowball fight and nuns built snowme

27-02-2018

A power bank kept in a bag in the overhead cabin of a plane in China caught fire while passengers were boarding the flight The video of the incident shows an air hostess and a fellow passenger putting out the fire with water and juice No passenger was hurt during the incident while the flight was de

26-02-2018

Men and women swayed to music at Saudi Arabia’s firstever jazz festival on Friday the second of a threeday outdoor event that showcases the Kingdom’s recent efforts of shedding its conservative image Saudi Arabia is holding its firstever jazz food and arts festival in the capital city of Riyadh The

25-02-2018

A restaurant in United States Anaheim is launching an ice cream coated with 24 karat gold leaves The 1495 ₹970 ice cream is served in a waffle cone which is also sprayed with 24 karat gold dust Interestingly a Boston restaurant had introduced a burger that came with a diamond ring framed in a 14 kar

25-02-2018

Dubai Sridevi’s brother in law Sanjay  Kapoor has said the whole family was in shock with the sudden demise of the veteran actress He also said that she had no history of heart ailment The actress 54 died on Saturday night at around 11 pm after suffering a  cardiac arrest In an interview to Khaleej

25-02-2018

India and Canada today resolved to work together to neutralise the threats emanating from Sikh militant outfits Babbar Khalsa International and the International Sikh Youth Federation along with LeT and Pakistanbased JaisheMohammed This was announced in the Framework for Cooperation between India an

24-02-2018

More than 500 residents of the villages close to the Line of Control LoC in the Uri sector of Baramulla district have been shifted to safer locations by the authorities Due to firingshelling from across in border areas of Uri about 500 people migrate to safer areas DCSSP on spot looking after the pe

23-02-2018

South Korea and Singapore have the most powerful passports in the world with a visafree score of 162 according to 2018 Global Passport Index Germany and Japan have been ranked second while the UK and US took the fourth and fifth spots respectively With a visafree score of 57 India has been ranked 73

23-02-2018

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif be removed as head of the political party Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz PMLNwhich  he founded six months after the court disqualified him as the country’s leader over unreported income The apex court also revoked al

21-02-2018

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked India not to worry about Dhaka’s growing ties with China asserting that the cooperation with Beijing was meant only for the country’s development Hasina said her government was only concerned about the development and is ready to cooperate with any c

21-02-2018

As India and Bhutan celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations this year External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said it was an opportunity to reflect about further advancing ties between the two countries The year 2018 is a milestone moment for IndiaBhutan partnership as we celebrate t

21-02-2018

The biggest inverted house in the world has popped up in the Russian city of Ufa where the spectacular artwork is giving tourists a unique topsyturvy perspective on lifeThe nearly €300000 ₹24 crore house  took more than 100 workers to build the unusual bolthole which can fit at least 50 people at a

19-02-2018

Tehran A passenger plane with 66 people on board crashed in Central Iran on Sunday Mohammad Tabatabaie Asemans public relations chief told the ISNA news agency that Given the special circumstances of the region we still have no access to the spot of the crash and therefore we cannot accurately and d

18-02-2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held “substantive” talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday to boost cooperation in key areas of security trade and energy after which the two sides inked nine pacts including one on double taxation avoidance Addressing a joint press event with Rouhani Mod

17-02-2018

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu expected to sink amid rising sea levels is actually growing in size a New Zealandbased research has shown Based on satellite imagery researchers found eight of nine atolls and around 75 of 101 islands grew from 19712014 lifting Tuvalus land area by 29 even though

16-02-2018

Jacob Zuma has resigned from the post of South Africas President after defying a 48hour deadline given by the ruling African National Congress ANC to leave the office Zuma who had to face a noconfidence vote in Parliament on Thursday said I fear no motion of no confidenceNo life should be lostThe

15-02-2018

17 students and teachers were killed as a heavilyarmed 19yearold went on a shooting spree outside and inside his former high school in Florida state in the US Shooter was arrested an hour later The horrific violence unfolded on Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in parklandwhich ironically

15-02-2018

President Donald Trump is donating his fourthquarter salary in 2017 to the Transportation Department to help address the nation’s infrastructure The donation announced Tuesday in the White House briefing room comes a day after Trump released a plan to rebuild crumbling roads bridges and ports The Tr

14-02-2018

Network provider Etisalat announced that their device sale is back with an attractive up to 60 off for a limiter period You can get an iphoneX starting from Dh3769 as part of the sale On offer are HTC M10  starting from Dh 949 instead of Dh899 by availing the offer And get the latest Samsung Gear G

13-02-2018

South African president Jacob Zuma has been given 48 hours to resign by African National Congress leaders The decision to ask Zuma to step down or face being stripped off his office was taken at a specially convened emergency meeting late on Monday evening The meeting of the ANC’s National executive

13-02-2018

  Tambolaka Technicians and airport employees have been captured in a viral photo cpushing 35000 kilogram plane along

11-02-2018

Palestine’s president Mahnoud Abbas has conferred Indian PM Narendra Modi with ‘Grand Collar of the State of Palestine’ the country’s highest honour given to foreign dignitaries This was in recognition of PM Modi’s “leadership national and international stature in appreciation of his efforts to prom

11-02-2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation for Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu temple via video conferencing Thanking UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan PM Modi said “I believe this temple will not be only unique in terms of architecture and splendor but will also give a message of ‘Vasudhaiv

11-02-2018

Sohini Roy Chowdhury an  eightyearold Indianorigin school girl has entered the UKs Mathletics Hall of Fame an online learning resource involving primary school level Mathematics curriculum She also made it to the top 100 World Hall of Fame after competing with students from across the world She wish

10-02-2018

A Turkish military helicopter was shot down on Saturday during combat in Syria Turkey had launched a military operation against the Kurdish militia in Syrias Kurdishcontrolled Afrin region in January This comes after a Russian fighter jet was shot down by the rebels in Syrias Idlib province last wee

10-02-2018

In a Twin bomb blasts struck in a mosque in Benghazi in eastern Libya on Friday at least one person was killed and 129 others were injured The bombs were reportedly hidden in a coffin and in a shoe cabinet The explosions hit the mosque at the start of weekly prayers in Libya’s second city which lies

10-02-2018

  A man in Florida claims that one of his Apple Airpods began smoking and later exploded Jason Colon was working o

10-02-2018

Abudhabi The UAE’s stateowned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ADNOC has lit up its tower in the colours of the Indian National Flag head of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country PM Modi will arrive in the UAE on Saturdays as part of his threenation tour and is expected to singn bilatera

10-02-2018

The United States’ second shutdown in three weeks ended on Friday after the president signed a nearly 400bn funding bill that narrowly passed Congress only a few hours before Funding for the federal government had lapsed at midnight eastern time after Kentucky Republican Rand Paul staled a Senate

09-02-2018

Donald Trump Jr Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization is expected to visit India in late February to officially launch Trump Towers in Gurugram and Kolkata Trump Jr is scheduled to visit four Indian cities to cover the sprawling Trump portfolio He will also attend Global Business Summit

08-02-2018

A strange phenomenon  has been observed at the Grinnell Glacier in Montana The molten snow of the area is red in colour and hence is known as watermelon snow The phenomenon is caused by a particular kind of redpigmented algae known as Chlamydomonas nivalis which contains a pigment that creates brigh

07-02-2018

Riyadh External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will inaugurate a national cultural festival of Saudi Arabia Al Janadria on Wednesday Sushma Swaraj arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and will be in the country till Thursday The two – week long festival that began in is the biggest cultural festi

07-02-2018

A group of Afghan women has developed  the first  video game which fight against drugs In the game a soldier mimics a reallife mission to clear out drugs in Afghanistan the worlds top cultivator of poppy from which opium and heroin are produced Afghanistan produces more opium than all other countrie

06-02-2018

The Flamenco Ice Tower  which is  31metrehigh and took two years to build the world’s largest ice sculpture ice tower inspired by traditional Chinese towers and a flamenco dancers dress was showcased at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in China The tower has been made using f

06-02-2018

Tokyo A Japanese army Apache attack helicopter crashed in Western Japan on Monday Killing one of two people on board and sparking a fire in a residential area near a school and a nursery media said The crash comes amid heightened scrutiny of military flights following a series of emergency landings

06-02-2018

A missing woman has been spotted as a contestant on this season of ‘The Bachelor’ Rebekah Martinez of Fresno California was reported missing on November 18 by her mother who told the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office she hadn’t heard from her daughter since she came to the area to work on a matijuana

06-02-2018

The Texas Authorities in US had started putting in efforts to have a new law in place which would make it a felony to leave a child alone at home This has started gathering steam and has won the support of lawmakers in whose constituency a 3yearold Indian girl Sherin Mathew  was found dead in a culv

05-02-2018

Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen has declared a 15day state of emergency The move gives powers to security forces to arrest and detain suspects The emergency comes amid a deepening political crisis in the Indian Ocean nation as Yameen refuses to comply with a Supreme Court order to release politic

05-02-2018

Sunil Mappatta Krishnan Kutty Nair an Indian expatriate in AbuDhabi won a lottery worth over Rs 175 croreWith raffle tickets costing Dhiram 500 participants usually pitch in to cover the entry cost and split the prize later the report said The earlier Big Ticket Draw of 12 million Dirhams on January

05-02-2018

An 81yearold woman named Xue Minxiu has received an undergraduate diploma in ecommerce from Chinas Tianjin University The woman who had enrolled in the distance education course four years ago would get up at 5 am to study She was offered a seat at a university in the 1950s but was not allowed to pu

05-02-2018

Moscow One person died and five others were injured after Moscow experienced a recordbreaking snowstorm The snowstorm accompanied by highintensity winds has been wreaking havoc across the Moscow region A person died when a tree fell on him Due to the snowstorm more than 3000 households have witness

05-02-2018

More than 900 gold miners who were trapped in a South African mine for more than 24 hours after a power outage were safely evacuated The SibanyeStillwater companywhich manages the Beatrix mine in Free State provincesaid the miners will have medical tests and counseling and that it expects the mine

02-02-2018

Police in Spain noticed a suspicious drive After a chase five people were arrested with four tons of oranges in their car Police in Seville recorded over 8000 pounds of oranges from three cars which the suspects claimed were for personal consumption The suspects said they were “coming from very far

01-02-2018

Spotting a Cockroach in car and losing control a  61yearold woman in Singapore crashed her car into a foot overbridge on a pavement The woman who was alone in her car suffered minor injuries The police have launched an investigation and the woman could face charges

31-01-2018

Accidentally a Chinese man thrown ₹12 lakh into a public waste collection point in China The man had left his home carrying two plastic bags one containing trash and the other containing money to deposit into the bank A woman picked the bag containing money and alerted the police following which the

31-01-2018

Prime minister Narendra modi will inaugurate the Palestine institute Diplomacy a centre to train diplomats of that country built with Indian assistance of 45 million when he visits the country on February 9  “This centre is latest example of IndiaPalestine cooperationespecially in the area of capac

31-01-2018

Davos Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai opened her heart that she would like to visit India She said this during her speech at world economic forum She also revealed that she has learned Hindi by watching Bollywood films and dramas She is also excited to expand her female education initiativ

30-01-2018

Amazon’s second headquarters the world’s largest online retailer is still expanding its main campus Company office towers and highend eateries have taken the place of warehouse and parking lots in Seattle’s South Lake Union district The Spheres complex officially open to workers on Tuesday is the pi

30-01-2018

Liberias newly sworn in president George Weah has pledged to cut his salary by a quarter in the wake of his countrys ongoing economic crisis The former International football player who was elected earlier this month inter country’s first democratic power transition in 47 years had vowed to end corr

30-01-2018

Two Billionaire Singh Brothers named Malvinder and Shivinder Singh has been accused of diversion siphoning and digression of assets A lawsuit filed by a New Yorkbased investor in the Delhi HC claims that they have  diverted funds to aid them with a 16billion personal debt The lending arm of Singhs c

29-01-2018

Climate change is creating havoc all across the world with bizarre and rare phenomenon occurring all over the globe In world’s coldest village A rare snowstorm in Saudi Arabias Tabuk region recently left the sand blanketed in snow According to reports the roads were filled with cars as people visite

29-01-2018

Kabul An ambulance packed with explosives blew up in a crowded area of Kabul on Saturday killed at least 95 people and wounding 140 others in an attack claimed by the Taliban A truck bomb ripped through the Afghan capitals diplomatic quarter on May 31st last year chaotic scenes as terrified people

27-01-2018

London Not intended to cause any offence in Britain says US President Donald Trump Recently Trump had shared anti Muslim videos and had sparked outrage in the country  When pressed on whether he would apologize for his retweet he said that if the group was made up of racists then he would Trump also

26-01-2018

South Korea 41 people killed in a fire at a hospital in South Korea It is reported that 70 people are injured whereas 13 are in a critical stage Around 200 patients were inside the hospital building and adjacent nursing home when the fire broke out at about 730 am in South Korea It is said that inha

26-01-2018

China The monkeys named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua become the first primates to be cloned using the same technique that was used to make the sheep named Dolly Scientists used cell and egg from two monkeys while the embryo was placed in another The clones of the monkeys have previously been produced by

25-01-2018

Bangkok Zimbabwean family leaves Bangkok airport after living for three months The family had tried to seek political asylum in Spain but was denied Over safety concerns the family was not ready to depart back to Zimbabwe They were unable to reenter Thailand because their tourist visas had expired  

24-01-2018

Beijing China is all prepared to build a new ‘great wall’ The new wall is aimed to prevent infiltration of militants The wall is intended to build along the border of Xinjiang province Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years in violence between Uighurs a mostly Muslim p

24-01-2018

Davos “Data is real wealth” says Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prime Minister was addressing the World Economic Forum Narendra Modi is the first Indian prime minister to address the world economic forum He also added that whoever controls the data will have control over the world in future He highlig

24-01-2018

Another high school has turned into a scene of carnage this time in western Kentucky 2 students were dead and multiple others were wounded Tuesday when gunfire erupted at a Kentucky high school prompting panicked students to run for their lives Marshall County High School in Benton was on lockdown a

24-01-2018

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the World Economic Forum held at  Switzerlands Davos warned against protectionism and highlighted India’s virtues He also said that globalisation is losing its lustre and protectionism is gaining more importance Modi underlined the progress India had made since

23-01-2018

Afganistan The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul Five people were killed during the gunfight It is one of two main luxury hotels in the city and had been due to host an information technology conference on Sunday More than 100 IT managers and en

21-01-2018

Five people killed and 6 injured during a gunfight in a hotel in Afghanistan The attackers have also taken several persons as a hostage Hotel manager Ahmad Haris Nayab who escaped the attack unhurt said the attackers had got into the main part of the hotel through a kitchen before going through the

21-01-2018

USA The US government has officially shut down as the Senate failed to agree on a bill of budget This is the fourth government shutdown in 25 years The shutdown means many government services will close down until a new budget is agreed though essential services including national security and disas

20-01-2018

Students are the most mentally stressful in days of exams Confusions and worries about studies and the mode of questions is common in students But an interesting incident in a college in China was totally a mees in  students calculations and preparations The questionnaire from college included an un

18-01-2018

China has constructed an experimental air purifying tower said to be the worlds biggest air purifier and goes to a whopping height of 330 feet The hundred meter high tower in Xian is reported to be having a positive effect on the air quality in the area The tower is undergoing tests by researchers

17-01-2018

A couple in the US state of California has been arrested and charged with torture and child endangerment for holding their 13 children including seven adults captive in the house chaining some of them to beds Police made the discovery after a 17yearold girl escaped the house and alerted the authorit

16-01-2018

A bridge under construction in central Colombia collapsed on Monday at least 10 people were killed Another two people were missing and four others were injured when the structure fell along a tract of a highway that links the capital Bogota with the nearby city of Villavicencio officials said Jorge

16-01-2018

To hide from a snowstorm two mice snuck into an ATM The next Moring when the bank workers were surprised as they discovered that these mice had not only taken shelter inside the ATM they had also ruined the notes inside it Soon they captured this on the camera This incident took place in the Kazakh

15-01-2018

Topless activist confronted Czech President Milos Zeman The incident took place while he was preparing to cast his vote The president’s bodyguard quickly knocked the activist to the floor The woman had confronted the president shouting Zeman Putins Russian President slutltiframe srcwwwyoutubecomemb

15-01-2018

A car crashed into the second story of a southern California  office building Sunday morning after the vehicle went airborne when the driver hit the center divider in the road officials said Making for an unusual sight the car appeared lodged into the second story of a dental office in Santa Ana Ca

15-01-2018

President Donald Trump has defended himself as not a racist The President has drawn himself into a huge controversy when he called African countries as shit holes while discussing immigration with lawmakers Trump defended himself as not racist when Kevin McCarthy asked the president whether he is a

15-01-2018

Pegasus Airlines  from Turkeys capital Ankara has moved off the runway to the sea The incident happened  on  Saturday night The plane skids  to the sea from the runway at Traffsson airport but because of the mud in the cliff edge it doesnt became a disater There were 162 passengers two pilots and fo

14-01-2018

New Delhi The Delhis Teen Murti Chowk was renamed Teen Murti Haifa Chowk on behalf of the india visit by Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Haifa is an Israeli city The war memorial has three statues representing Hyderabad Jodhpur and Mysore Lancers  which played an important role to liberate Haifa from

14-01-2018

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov President of Turkmenistan announced the order of ban on women from driving in the country on the request of Interior Minister Isgender Mulikov Isgender Mulikov claimed  before that women drivers are the major reasons behind car accidents in the country Officials have report

13-01-2018

London Mayor  Sadiq Khan said that US President Donald Trump  cancelled his  visit not because  of his decision of not opening  the new US embassy in London but beacause he is not welcome in the country as londeners doesnt want him to come to London He also added that his countrymen love and admire

13-01-2018

Brazil According to the Scientists of School of Oceanography of the State University Rio de Janeiro in an out break of a virus named  cetacean morbillivirus around 170 Dolphines had been killed with in a period of 40 days in the Bay of Sepetiba and Ilha Grande The attack of this Virus seriously affe

12-01-2018

Queen Elizabeth shared her experiences with BBC for a documentary In the documentary she revealed her experiences of wearing the crown and the pain of traveling in a golden carriage She had jokingly said that she was not able to look down while wearing the Imperial State Crown which weighs nearly 12

12-01-2018

The South Australian government with a proposal from a USbased company to build the worlds largest solarthermal power plant in the Australian state The 150megawatt facility will harness solar energy by using mirrors known as heliostats to focus sunlight onto one central tower worths over ₹3200 crore

11-01-2018

  Japanese Astronaut apologises for fake news of height increase Japanese astronut Norishige Kanai apologized on Wednesday for his fake news about his height increase as  he said that he had grown 9 cm  that is 35 inches while in space It was on Monday the 41 year ol

10-01-2018

Bahrain is planning to stage the first Baby Olympics in April The participants for this Olympics will be from two to fouryearold  This new plan is aimed to spread awareness about the importance of sports in life and to practice it from the very beginning of a child The Bahrain Olympic Committee BOC

10-01-2018

Bangladesh court upheld a government ruling which bans marriage between its citizens and refugees from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minorityMarriages with Rohingya were banned in 2014 as to prevent refugees living in Bangladesh from seeking a way to citizenshipRecently the High Court in Dhaka had d

10-01-2018

Manila One devotee died and more than 800 people were injured in the Philippine capital when millions joined a religious procession featuring a blackend image of Jesus official said on Wednesday The annual feast of black nazarene one of the worlds largest Catholic festivals drew 35 million barefoot

10-01-2018

Astronut claimes that he has grown 9 cm in height during the three weeks he had spent in the International Space Station ISS Norishige Kanai Japanese astronaut mentioned above had previously been recorded a growth of 35 cm in height during ISS missions due to elongation of spine in microgravity He a

10-01-2018

According to recent reports 53000 children die of diarrhoea every year in Pakisthan by consuming bacterially contaminated water Pakistan is also facing water scarcity with official projections showing the country will run dry by 2025 As reports by UNICEF Over twothird households in Pakistan lack fr

09-01-2018

Rather than the hot and sunny Sahara Desert known to everyone sand dunes of the Sahara desert has been  covered with a rare blanket of snow thus allows Algerians the chance to try out some icy sliding Algerian town of Ain Sefra enjoyed sliding down the small sections of dunes on Sunday morning befor

09-01-2018

The US government has finally announced giving a breather for foreign tech workers particularly Indians that it is not considering any proposal that could force deportation of H1B visa holders by ending the provision of granting visa extensions as they waited for permanent residency on Monday Up to

09-01-2018

Dubai Creek Tower the tower taller than Burj Khalifa by 100 metre has been successfully  completed its  deep foundation test The Dubai Creek Tower is expected to be completed in time for the Dubai Expo 2020 The testing and monitoring for the foundation of the Dubai Creek Tower which will have a cent

09-01-2018

World’s largest ice festival Harbin China’s famed Ice City started welcoming visitors to its International Ice and Snow Festival on Friday This is one of the China’s coldest cities in the winter It is the 34th annual Ice Festival in Harbin northeast China and features sculptures of Moscow’s Red Squa

08-01-2018

Copenhaegan Worlds most expensive vodka bottle stolen earlier this week which worth over 8 crores has been found The bottle which is made from 6kg of gold and silver mixed together and has a diamondstudded cap is believed to be the worlds most expensive vodka bottlewas found  at a construction sit

06-01-2018

In FloridaUS reports are coming out that because of cold temperature frozen Iguanas are falling from trees This situation may lasts for a day or two But they are not dead They can breath and able to do bodily functions very slowly This comes after Bomb Cyclone led to the first snowfall in Florida a

06-01-2018

A 6 inches wide and 6 feet long piece of a solar panel has been stolen from China’s recentlyopened highway which is built with wireless charging systems for electric vehicles The onekilo 9metrelong road contains over 10000 photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight into electricity It is China’s firs

06-01-2018

UNIVERSITY PARK  According to Penn State researchers a new desalination technique is able to remove salt from water using less energy than previous methods The new battery electrode deionisation method improves upon previous techniques by avoiding a regeneration step by alternating the direction of

04-01-2018

In a flight  from London to Mumbai Pilot couples due to some personal misunderstandings fought each other According to the reports the husband slapped the wife and she left the cockpit and later persuaded by the cabin crew returned to the cockpit As the matter has been reported to the Jet Airways Ma

04-01-2018

11 people including a policeman died in antigovernment street protest at Iran President Hassan Rouhani blamed on interference by foreign powers as the cause of protest US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley responded to the allegation that foreign enemies were behind the protests was complete nonsense

03-01-2018

The UAE has banned the import of all species of hatching eggs meat and products from Russia The move is a safety measure in response to the outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu at a farm in the central region of Kostromskaya Oblast that led to the death of more than 660000 birds The M

03-01-2018

New Delhi All India MajliseIttehadul Muslimeen AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi rejects P M Narendra Modi’s claim of his government had made it possible for the Muslim women to perform Haj without being accompanied by a male guardian He says that the regulation of enabling Muslim women above 45 years of

02-01-2018

South Africa   Bettie Bee the kitten born with two faces left the world after one month of struggled survival Born with a rare congenital condition called craniofacial duplication Bettie Bee had two noses two mouths and three eyes The Kitten was doing great until two days ago started with pneumonia

02-01-2018

Washington The US to stop the financial funding of 33 million dollar  which has been giving to  Pakistan for the past  fifteen years The funding provided was for the pakisthan’s  fight against terrorism Trump criticized the Pakistan in harsh words as Pakisthan failed in for what money was given Trum

01-01-2018

Russia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the Kostromskaya Oblast region According to  the Parisbased World Organisation for Animal Healththe flu led to the death of more than six lakh birds The H5N2 was detected on Dec 17 but the country has been facing regular

31-12-2017

US In Texas nearly 18000 kg of avocados spilled onto highway A truck carrying avocado crashed and caught fire on tuesday The crash snarled traffic and closed the hughway for three hours but nobody was injured The Texas Department of Public Safety has not released the cause of the incident  

30-12-2017

Guatemalas Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel has said that the countrys plan to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will not be reversed and called for the critics of the decision to respect the decision The decision made Guatemala the first country to follow the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israe

30-12-2017

A 6yearold girl in Germany calls police 19 times using her mobile phonewhich she got as a Christmas gift According to the reports the girl  has called the police accidentally Later police traced the call assuming an emergency when they heard child’s voice Even though  they considered it as a mistake

29-12-2017

China recently tested its first photovoltaic highway based on homegrown technology in the countrys eastern Shandong province and stated that it was successful Builtin wireless charging systems for electric vehicles and other sensors for drones are the main highlight With solar panels having a thin

29-12-2017

Vatican In St Peters Square on Christmas a  topless feminist group activist  FEMEN tried to snatch the figure of baby Jesus The protester who shouted God is woman was stopped by Vatican Swiss guards as shocked believers looked on Demonstrators had the words “Assaulted by the church” written on their

27-12-2017

Patna Raj Kumar Vaishya a 98 years old man received his masters degree in Economics on Tuesday from Patnas Nalanda Open University He has already entered the Limca Book of Records as the oldest person to apply for a postgraduate degree in India Due to family responsibilities Vaishya couldn’t continu

27-12-2017

Sri Lanka to convert garbage dumps into urban parks Next year as part of  city beautification programme Srilanka is planning to convert two big garbage dumbs into urban parks Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said on Tuesday in the Colombo City Beautification Awards Ceremony that  garba

27-12-2017

Madhya Pradesh Recent reports from Madhya Pradesh villages are showing that Aadhar cards are creating big mistakes in its data The Aadhaar cards of around 80 residents of five villages in Madhya Pradeshs Neemuch district  are having same birth date as January 1 This technical error  has already cre

27-12-2017

Beijing  China and Pakistan will look at extending the 57 billion ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday is part of Chinas ambitious Belt and Road plan to link China with Asia Europe and beyond China tries to position itself as a helpful part

27-12-2017

Kaliningrad A Russian man was stabbed by a fellow passenger at the Kaliningrad airport for wearing smelly socks The case dates back to last week but details only came to light recently It is telling that a 54yearold resident of the Baltic Sea resort of Svetlogorsk was arrested for seriously stabbin

25-12-2017

Washington D C Horse Manure found in gift wrapped box sent to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin which first sparked a bomb scarePolice said the package had been gift wrapped and was marked as being from the American people As Steven didn’t receive the package it was dropped off at a neighbour’s

25-12-2017

MALDIVES Maldivian  President Abdulla Yameen  Abdul Gayoom on Sunday reaffirmed that India was the nations closest friend and ally He also highlighted that Indian assistance formed an invaluable contribution to the MaldivesHe also added that the  administration would never entertain negative sentime

25-12-2017

Gautemala Gautemala becoming the first country to follow the controversial decision of Donald Trump to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem Jimmy Morales President of Gautemala announced that the decision has been accepted through Facebook Gautemala being one among the Nations that voted with th

25-12-2017

Donald Trump praised the United Nations Security Councils vote on Friday to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea calling it a sign that the international community wants peace not death The United Nations Security Council just voted 150 in favor of additional Sanctions on North Korea The World wa

24-12-2017

China to open the World’s  highest and longest glass bridge today The 488 meters long and two meters wide glass bridge is located in Shijiazhuang Hebei province It stands at 218 meters above the valley between two steep cliffs in Hongyagu Scenic Area in Pin

24-12-2017

Philippines Mud Slides and Flash Floods a result of  tropical storm in Philippines killed hundreds of people Officials are trying to provide the casualities the best service and are in search of dozens of missing people residents of the main southern island of Mindanao Disaster officials said that

23-12-2017

England The Royal Family is in a celebration mood The  engagement pictures of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle which is officially released out gets hearty wishes from all over the world Photos took by Fashion Photographer Alexi Lumborski clearly portraits the love the couples have for each other The

22-12-2017

Manhattan The Trump SoHo which was the last sign bearing the name of Trump Family name got renamed as The Dominick Hotel thus made an end to the power of Trump Family over the Hotel Trump’s decision to go with politics is behind this name change But at the same time a known fact is the connection o

22-12-2017

The white House temporarily removed its “ We The People” petition tool from its website following an 11month period which the administration did not respond to requests However a replacement is promised for next month The administration of President  Donald Trump said on Monday that the petition too

21-12-2017

Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has launched an investigation into the poor condition of the 59000 Rs 38 lakh official Christmas tree of the Italian city The tree which died and lost its pine needles two weeks after being erected has been mocked and dubbed “Spelacchio” mangy by Romans People have likened

20-12-2017

Kabul At least 50 militants belonging to the Taliban insurgent group were killed in the airstrikes conducted by the security forces in northern SarePul province of Afghanistan The sources said  the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan army on Monday as saying that the airstrikes were conducted in Sanc

19-12-2017

The United States welcomes India’s rise as a “leading global power” and will increase quadrilateral cooperation with it Japan and Australia according to President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy released on Monday The strategy which brands China and Russia as main competitors of the Un

19-12-2017

Washington Donald Trump bemoaned the “shame” of the FBI on Friday then flew to one of the agency’s campuses and declared “You are great people” The US president also made the false claim that foreign countries send the “worst of the worst” to America through the green card immigration lottery syste

16-12-2017

A noodle measuring over 10119 feet holds the Guiness World Record for being the longest noodle It was made entirely by hand using 40kg of bread flour 06 kg of salt and over 28 litres of water Based on a traditional ramen receipe the 661kg noodle took the chefs of a Chinese food company 17 hours to

16-12-2017

Washington India is  Afghanistan’s “most reliable regional partner” the Pentagon told the US Congress on Friday as it welcomed  additional economic medical and civic support from New Delhi to the war torn country India is Afghanistans most reliable regional partner and the largest contributor of

16-12-2017

London Embassies around the world have traditionally been bland in design and have always given the feeling of  a boring building with state – of – the  art security Howeverthe notion that all embassy buildings around the globe have a boring design remains altered with the construction of the new

15-12-2017

WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today said he does not enjoy dealing with Pakistan as America’s relationship with the South Asian Country has “drifted over the years” nothing that the two countries need to restore the ties to “one of common interest” Dealing with Pakistan – I dont en

13-12-2017

Moscow and Cairo have signed an agreement to construct Egypt’s first nuclear plant The project will cost 21 billion and is due to be finished by 20282029 The preliminary agreement between the countries was signed in 2015 A loan from Russia would cover 85 percent of the construction costs and Russia’

12-12-2017

Washington This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our foot print” Trump said at the White House as  hew signed the new space policy directive “We will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond” The last time US astronauts visited t

12-12-2017

Time magazine has honoured Ian Grillot the US national who took a bullet for an Indian while trying to intervene during a raciallymotivated shooting in Kansas early this year Grillot’s name features in the magazine among “5 Heroes Who Gave Us Hope in 2017” Grillot then 24 was injured when he tried t

11-12-2017

Islamabad Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s allegations that Pakistan was trying to influence the outcome of the assembly elections in Gujarat was “utterly baseless and irresponsible” the neighbouring country has said “India should stop dragging Pakistan into its electoral debate and win victories on o

11-12-2017

New Delhi Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said India and China’s strategic interess outweigh “partial frictions” and handling of the Dokhlam standoff through diplomatic means reflects the importance of bilateral ties Ahead of his visit to India to attend the Russia – India China RIC foreign mi

11-12-2017

Iraq has agreed to swap up to 60000 barrels per day of crude produced from the northern Iraqi Kirkuk oil field for Iranian oil Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar alLuaibi said on Saturday The agreement signed by the two countries provides for Iran to deliver to Iraq’s southern ports on the Gulf “oil of the sa

10-12-2017

New Delhi Railways has sent out more than 33 lakh text messages to passengers alerting them of their trains being delayed for over an hour since it launched the service last monthThe service was started for 102 premium trains on November 3 and till December 7 passengers of 23 pairs of Rajadhani and

10-12-2017

Yemeni officials say Saudiled coalition airstrikes have killed at least 23 civilians including women and children in the country’s north Abdel Elah alEzi head of the health directorate in the northern city of Saada said Friday’s airstrikes were carried out in different areas of the city Saada is a

09-12-2017

Jerusalem Thousands of Palestinian protestors confronted Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border Friday and thousands more clashed at military checkpoints across the West Bank Protests broke out after Friday prayers from Beirut to Istanbul from Mogadishu Somalia to Tehran Iran In Amman Jordan demonstr

09-12-2017

The Indian drone that “intruded” and crashed in Chinese territory did so in the Doklam sector near the Sikkim boundary – the same location where border troops of both the countries were involved in a long and tense military standoff earlier this  year—Chinese state media said on Saturday In an edito

09-12-2017

Pakistan on Friday said it will allow convicted Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet his wife and mother on December 25 Jadhav 47 was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court in April on charges of espionage and terrorism The International Court of Justice in May had halted hi

08-12-2017

Australia’s parliament passed a bill legalizing same –sex marriage Thursday after the nation overwhelmingly voted in favour of changing the law ending decades of political wrangling There were loud cheers hugs and sustained clapping in the lower House of Representatives when all but four MPs voted i

07-12-2017

Jerusalem The lights illuminating East Jerusalem’s AlAqsa mosque which is Islam’s thirdholiest site were switched off by the mosque’s authorities on Thursday in rejection of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the city as Israel’s capital A general strike and protest rallies over Trump’s dec

07-12-2017

New York President  Donald Trump shattered decades of unwavering US neutrality on Jerusalem Wednesday declaring the sorely divided holy city as Israel’s capital and sparking frustrates Palestinians to cry out that he had destroyed already fragile Mideast hopes for peace Defying dire worldwide warni

07-12-2017

BERLIN Austria ‘s Constitutional Court has decided that same – sex couples will be allowed to marry by the beginning of 2019 ruling that the existing laws are discriminatory Same – sex couples in Austria have been allowed to enter legal partnerships since 2010 but until now haven’t  been able to ma

05-12-2017

The Hague Sixteen yearold Mohamad Al Jounde from Syria was awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize here on Monday for his efforts to ensure the rights of Syrian refugee children Al Jounde a refugee of the Syrian civil war set up a school together with his family in a Lebanese refugee camp

05-12-2017

Washington The US Supreme court ruled on Monday that a ban ordered by Donald Trump on travelers from six Muslim majority countries and two other countries could be immediately imposed while mulitiple court cases challenging the ban are resolved The ultimate disposition of the ban was expected to ta

05-12-2017

Vandals have knocked over a statue of Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi in Buenos Aires for the second time this year Photos on Sunday posted on social media showed the sculpture lying on its side on the pavement having been chopped off at its ankles sources said Police said they had no i

05-12-2017

Washington The twin brothers who successfully sued Mark Zuckerberg claiming he stole the concept for Facebook are now billionaires after investing their lawsuit winnings in bitcon The crypto currency surpassed a record high of 11700 on Sunday According to the Telegraph Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

04-12-2017

Paris A French mother was charged on Thursday with murdering five of her babies in a case solved by DNA evidence obtained years later after a brawl between neighbours Fourteen years after the bodies of four of the babies were found in a forest Sylvie H aged 53 has admitted to murdering five children

03-12-2017

Iraqi paramilitary forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians including women and children in an area home to the Yazidi religious minority they said Saturday In 2014 IS killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the c

02-12-2017

Washington The White house is plagues with cockroaches mice and ants building maintenance files have revealed According to hundreds of White House work orders obtained by NBC 4 Washington cockroach infestations were found in at least four parts of President Donald Trump’s official residence There

02-12-2017

Washington US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a Phone conversation “expressed satisfaction” over the Global Enterpreneurship Summit GES the countries cohosted in Hyderabad late last month according to the White House The US delegation to the three day event with the them

02-12-2017

Islamabad Pakistani Taliban gunmen using the disguise of allenveloping burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday killing at least nine and wounding 30 police said Police officials present at the site of the attack told that four terrorists were killed The attacker

01-12-2017

Police in Massachusetts say a 68yearold man apparently accidentally shot his grandson in the chest during target practice when the younger man stepped in front his grandfather just as he fired Southbridge police said on Facebook that the 22yearold grandson was taken to the hospital after the shootin

01-12-2017

Washington US president Donald Trump lunged headlong into a row with British prime minister Theresa May late on Wednesday Publicly rebutting her criticism of antiMuslim propaganda “Theresa theresamay don’t focus on me focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within th

30-11-2017

Sol North Korean has claimed that the rocket it testfired on Wednesday morning is a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM that can strike anywhere on the United States mainland In a special announcement broadcast on state TV the regime said it had successfully tested a Hwasong15 which

29-11-2017

Yangon Pope Francis met Myanmars powerful army chief on Monday at the start of a highly sensitive trip with the military man saying he told the pontiff there was no religious discrimination in his country despite allegations of ethnic cleansing The 80yearold pope the first to travel to Myanmar recei

28-11-2017

More than 100 reindeer have been killed by freight trains in northern Norway in the past days in what has been called a senseless tragedy One train killed 65 deer on a track on Saturday while 41 died between Wednesday and Friday according to sources on Sunday  “I’m so angry that I’m dizzy” the owner

28-11-2017

Baghdad Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market on Baghdad’s outskirts on Monday leaving 11 people dead a security official said in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group“Five suicide bombers attacked a market and shops in the Nahrawan area” east of the Iraqi capital a police capta

28-11-2017

WASHINGTON 2611 mastermind Hafiz Saeed must be arrested by Pakistan and charged for his crimes the United States said today India has said his freed Proves that Pakistan is not serious about punishing terrorists Saeed’s house arrest which began in January was ended this week by a court Earlier toda

24-11-2017

New Delhi Months after Indian and Chinese troops disengaged after a standoff situation on the Doklam plateau of Bhutan China has begun construction near the disputed region China has built several tunnels and barracks near the disputed area in Doklam A 400metre tall wall has also been built by Chin

24-11-2017

A man who was expected to die after suffering burns across 95 of his body has been saved by skin transplants from his identical twin in a worldfirst operation Engulfed in flames while handling chemicals on the job 33yearold Franck Dufourmantelle received the grafts from his brother Eric’s head back

24-11-2017

An Italian court sentenced former AC Milan and Brazil forwar Robinho in Absentia to nine years in Prison on Thursday after convicting him of taking part in a gang rape of an Albanian woman in 2013 A Milan court ruled that Robinho and five other Brazilians assaulted the woman who was 22 at the time a

24-11-2017

JOHANNESBURG Zimbabwes economic growth is threatened by high government spending an untenable foreign exchange regime and inadequate reforms a senior International Monetary Fund IMF official said Zimbabwe was once one of Africas most promising economies but suffered decades of decline as former Pre

23-11-2017

HARARE Zimbabwes incoming president Emmerson Mnangagwa told crowds who turned out in Harare to greet him on Wednesday that they were witnessing unfolding and full democracy Today we are witnessing the beginning of a new and unfolding full democracy in our country he told the crowds gathered outside

23-11-2017

A pakistani review board on Wednesday ordered the release from house arrest of LashkareTaiba founder Hafiz Saeed who pledged that he and his followers in the JamaatudDawah will play a strong role for “Kashmir’s independence” The government of Pakistan’s Punjab province had sought a three month exten

23-11-2017

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar have been “drained” by the trauma they suffered during the crisis and a struggle to overcome desperate want the United Nations refugee chief said on Wednesday More than 600000 Rohingya have fled Buddhistmajority Myanmar si

23-11-2017

TEHRAN Irans supreme leader has praised his countrys contribution to the fight against the Islamic State group saying it had helped destroy a tumour created by the United States and its allies In an address broadcast on national television he told a gathering of Basiji militia fighters in Tehran tha

23-11-2017

Harare Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him ending four decades of rule by a man who turned from independence hero to archetypal African strongman “I have resigned to allow smooth transfer of power My decis

21-11-2017

Beiging China on Monday strongly criticised President Ram Nath Kovind’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh saying SinoIndia relations were at a “crucial moment” and that New Delhi should not complicate the dispute “The Chinese government has never acknowledged the socalled Arunachal Pradesh” Lu said respon

21-11-2017

Beijing China on Monday said Bangladesh and Myanmar have accepted Beijing’s mediatory role and agreed to implement a three phased solution proposed by its Foreign Minister Wang Yi to resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis Over 600000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s violence hit Rakhine state to ne

20-11-2017

NEW DELHI  Tibetan  spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Sunday said India and China have “great potential” and they could work together at a “ practical level” “I think great potential… India and China combine are doing more compassionate work… At a Practical level also Imagine two billion people wo

20-11-2017

New Delhi Beijing India and China on Friday held their first meeting on the border consultation and coordination mechanism at Beijing after the Doklam standoff and reviewed the situation in all the sectors of their border and exchanged views on enhancing CBMs and military contacts The 10th round of

18-11-2017

Syria ISIS car bomb kills 20 At least 20 displaced people were killed and 30 others were injured in a car bomb attack carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and    Syria ISIS on 17 November in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor Province A car bomb was exploded by ISIS terrorists in the area between alJa

18-11-2017

Beiging More than 30 vehicles have collided in heavy fog on an expressway in eastern China killing at least 18 people and injuring 19 others The official Xinhua News Agency said the pileup Wednesday morning in Fuyang a city in Anhui province caused several vehicles to catch fire It cited local pol

16-11-2017

Geneva The largestever D flawless diamond to be put up for auction mounted in a diamond and emrald necklace sold for 337 million Tuesday night including buyer’s fees The white match box –size “ Creation 1” diamond from Swiss jeweler de Grisogono weighs a whopping 163 caratsThe hammer went down at

15-11-2017

Beiging Christians in south east China have reportedly been told it is President Xi Jinping who will help them fight and eliminates poverty and not Jesus Christ They have been aked to remove Christ’s Images and instead put up a good photograph of Jinping as he will save them Local officials have to

15-11-2017

Beiging Its the shocking moment an air hostess fell onto the tarmac from a parked plane after accidently stepping through the gap between loading stairs and a cabin door Online footage shows the flight attendant dangerously hanging below the rear cabin door before hitting the ground at an airport i

14-11-2017

Manila Donald Trump nearing the end of his mammoth tour of Asia has raised a few eyebrows with comments about North Korea and surprised others by his warm embrace of China But one moment caught on camera for all to see has gone viral online Trump along with various other regional leaders had gather

14-11-2017

World carbon emissions are set to rise 2 this year to a new record scientists said on Monday dashing hopes that global emissions had already peakedits emissions had been roughly flat from 2014 16 but will increase this year mainly due to a rise in China after a two – year decline the scientists sai

14-11-2017

Georgia The earthenware jars containing residual wine compounds were found in two sites south of the Georgian capital Tbilisi researchers said Some of the jars bore images of grapes clusters and a man dancing Previously the earliest evidence of winemaking was from pottery dating from about 7000 ye

14-11-2017

Manila The IndiaUS relationship is going to get stronger and better under the Trump administration in a wide range of areas including regional security issues trade and economy terrorism a senior White House official has said “India is a natural ally of the United States because of the shared commi

14-11-2017

Thehran The Italian government is ready to aid the victims of the powerful tremor that killed over 400 people injured thousands and left tens of thousands homeless on the border between Iran and Iraq Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted “Hundreds of victims of the earthquake in Iran and Iraq Ita

14-11-2017

Kathmandu Nepal scrapped the award of a 1200MW Hydropower project to a Chinese stateowned company dealing a blow to Beijing’s ambitions to take on key infrastructure schemes in the country A meeting of the cabinet decided to scrap the agreement for the Budhi Gandaki hydropower project with Gezhouba

13-11-2017

Thehran More than 300 people were killed in Iraq when a magnitude 73 earthquake jolted the country on Sunday and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area At least six have died in Iraq as well State television said more than 336 people were killed in Iraq and

13-11-2017

Manila Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday tried a hand at agriculture as he visited the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos Philippines He also inaugurated the Resilient Rice Field Laboratory The PM is in the Philippines to attend the India – ASEAN summit At the institute PM Mod

13-11-2017

Hyderabad Among his millions of admirers across the world music maestro A R Rahman has got another admirer in Ivanka Trump As  per Sources the daughter of the U S President Donald J Trump will be present at AR Rahman ENCORE the concert that begins on November 26 in Hyderabad It will act as an offic

13-11-2017

Manila Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the  opening ceremony of the 31st ASEAN Summit at Manila Earlier on Sunday Modi interacted with world leaders including US President Donald Trump Chinese premiere Li Keqiang and Russian prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a gala dinner reception hosted by

13-11-2017

New Delhi External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday the government will provide all help to the family of an Indian –American motel owner who was shot dead In the Us Akash Talati40 who owned Knights Inn ad Diamondz Gentlemen’s Club in  Fayettteville cityNorth Carolina was killed on Sa

13-11-2017

Thehran More than 120 people killed in Iran and several others in Iraq injured when a powerful magnitude 73 earthquake hit the region Rescuers stepped up efforts overnight to find dozen’s trapped under rubble “There are still people under the rubble We hope the number of dead and injured won’t ris

13-11-2017

Bagdad Mass graves containing at least 400 suspected Islamic State group victims have been found near the former jihadist bastion of Hawija in northern Iraq the regional governor said Saturday The string of grisly discoveries was made at a military base around three kilometers from the city that th

12-11-2017

Washington A camera battery  kept in a suitcase exploded outside the security checkpoint at Orlando international airport in the US Airport on Friday according to sources Passengers panicked after hearing the sound of explosion and thousands were evacuated from the terminals while several flights w

11-11-2017

President Donald Trump singled out India’s success story for praise as he spoke of the US forging a new partnership with countries in Asia to promote prosperity and a free and open IndoPacific region Trump’s speech was peppered with repeated references to the “IndoPacific” a new term coined by his a

11-11-2017

New Zealand’s winter has gotten shorter by a month over the last 100 years meaning “true winter” weather with very low temperatures frosts and snow starts significantly later in the year and ends earlier New Zealand’s winter starts at the beginning of June and runs to 31 August a total of 92 days I

10-11-2017

Syria’s army declared victory over Islamic State on Thursday saying its capture of the jihadists’ last town in the country marked the collapse of their three year hardline reign in the region The army and its allies are still fighting Islamic state in desert areas near Albu Kamal the last town the

10-11-2017

UNITED NATIONS United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock warned on Wednesday that if a Saudi led military coalition did not allow humanitarian aid access to Yemen then it would cause “ the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims” The Saudiled military coalition figh

10-11-2017

A man allegedly attempting to break into a takeaway restaurant in England during the night got stuck and ended up spending almost seven hours with his legs dangling out of the ventilator Firefighters rescued the 45 – year old accused after passersby heard screaming for help andinformed authorities H

04-11-2017

US President Donald Trump has called the ongoing Congress investigation into alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election “a disgrace” Trump added that it was a bad thing for the US itself and lashed out at US ‘fake news’ Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and the House

04-11-2017

Singapore has unveiled a fivestorey airport terminal that is the size of 27 football fields and cost £544m to build The title of world’s best airport as judged by the Skytrax World Airport awards wasn’t quite enough for Changi so it added the new building with the aim of accommodating its everincrea

03-11-2017

Lucknow Suspended Janta Dal UnitedJDU leader Ali Anwar has yet agein made a controversial statement this time on the boiler explosion at National Thermal Power Corporation NTPC Plant in UNchahar in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli Anwar while reating on the NTPC boiler lst said that the boiler been saffron

03-11-2017

Pakistan termed as “baseless” the US claims that it provides safe havens for terrorists and said that America should refrain from making “unfounded assertions” Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Faisal during a briefing said that Pakistan “contributed with both blood and treasure in the fight against

03-11-2017

London Michael Fallon the United Kingdom’s Secretary of state for Defence quit on Wednesday November 1 after sexual harassement allegations against him Fallon resigned as defence  secretary admitting his behavior towards women in the past may have ‘fallen short However Michael Fallon is the first

02-11-2017

Washington Denouncing the suspect as an “animal” President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged tougher immigration measures based on skills and other merits rather than a lottery after the deadly truck attack in New York City Trump noted during a Cabinet meeting that the driver in Tuesday’s attack ent

02-11-2017

North Korea slammed US President Donald Trump as “incurably mentally deranged” in a personal diatribe ahead of his first visit to Asia as head of state amid high tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions Trump and North’s leader Kim JongUn have traded threats of war and personal insults against e

02-11-2017

Washington America must not let Islamic State jihadists return to or enter the US after they are beaten overseas President Donald Trump said Tuesday hours after the New York attack “We must not allow ISIS to return or enter our country after defeating in the Middle East and elsewhere Enough Trump

01-11-2017

Tunisia A suspected terrorist was arrested in Tunisia after he allegedly wounded two policemen in a knife attack The attack occurred near the parliament building in Tunis Tunisia’s interior ministry confirmed the incident informing “A Salafist attacked two policemen with a knife One was struck on

01-11-2017

On the occasion of Halloween the world was in for a shock when a truck ploughed into 8 people on the streets of Manhattan The Mayor deeming the situation as a “terror attack” people online have been condemning the situation While Priyanka Chopra joined the slew of celebrities to mourn the grave inc

01-11-2017

KhyberPakhtunkhwa Police arrested seven men for parading a young woman through a village naked in connection with a dispute over family honour Police officer Mohammad Basharat Khan said Tuesday that the woman’s brother had an affair with a young woman from the suspect’s family He says they forced t

01-11-2017

The Cabinet Office is to investigate whether Mark Garnier broke the ministerial code after he admitted asking his former assistant to buy sex toys Garnier a minister in the Department for International Trade under Liam Fox was the most senior of several politicians named in reports on Sunday as all

31-10-2017

Islamabad An accountability court has issued bailable arrest warrants against Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar after he failed to appear for a hearing in connection with a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau NAB The court also rejected an application seeking Dar’s ex

31-10-2017

Dozens of octopus have been spotted emerging from the ocean and crawling along the Welsh coast in a nightly pilgrimage that has perplexed people at a seaside town Up to 25 curled octopuses which grow to a length of 50cm were seen three nights in a row at New Quay beach in Ceredigion in west Wales S

31-10-2017

Britain’s Prince George is on the Islamic State terror group which has threatened to kill the 4yearold son of Prince William and Kate Middleton according to UK media report The threat appeared as part of a message posted by ISIS members on social media George who is the thirdinline to the British t

30-10-2017

Islamabad Pakistan opposed supply of armed drones by the US to India warning that it could increase the chances of  “military misadventures” leading to a conflict in the region The remarks by the Foreign Office spokesman came days after a senior Trump administration official said that the US was “co

28-10-2017

A Pennsylvania woman who beat and tried to strangle her daughter for incorrectly reciting Bible verses has been sentenced to prison 41 year old Rhonda Shoffner was sentenced to 2 and a half to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges including aggravated assault of her daughterwho was youn

27-10-2017

Spain The Spanish Senate gave the central government in Madrid unprecedented powers over Catalonia just minutes after the breakaway region declared independence sharply escalating a constitutional crisis in the centre of western Europe The two votesone for independence one to restore constitutiona

27-10-2017

Lucknow A young Swiss couple was attacked by 5 youths in Agra’s Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh leaving them battered and bruised after which all of them were nabbed police said As the centre and the UP government condemned the attack on Sunday doctors said Quentin Jeremy Clerc 24 who came to India

27-10-2017

Two women and their dogs have been rescued after being lost at sea for five months while trying to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti The US navy rescued the women on Wednesday after a Taiwanese fishing vessel spotted them about 900 miles southeast of Japan well off their planned course and alerted the US c

27-10-2017

Washington Pakistan is more dangerous than North Korea as it does not have a centralized control on its nuclear weapons making them vulnerable to theft and sale a former top American Senator warned describing both the nations as rogue states Larry Pressler who served as chairman of the US Senate’s

27-10-2017

Washington The adoptive mother of the 3yearold Indian girl whose body was found on Sunday from a culvert near their home in suburban Dallas Texas has denied any involvement in the death of her daughter Lawyers Michelle Nolte and Gregg Gibbs representing Sini Mathews published a statement late yester

26-10-2017

Washington The Trump administration has made it more difficult for the renewal of nonimmigrant visas such as H1b AND L1 popular among Indian IT professionals saying that the burden of poor lies on the applicant even an extension is sought Rescinding its more than 13yearold policy the US Citizenshi

25-10-2017

Singapore’s passport has become the most powerful in the world with a Visafree Score of 159 according to the Passport Index developed by an advisory firm Arton Capital This is the first time an asian country has topped the rankings for the most  powerful passport India secured the 75th rank in the i

25-10-2017

The United States is likely to resume the entry of refugees into the country but through a more stringent screening and vetting procedure Under the latest order the administration has called for 90 days of review period for refugees from 11 countries believed to pose a higher risk to national securi

25-10-2017

Washington Police in the United states confirmed that recently recovered child’s dead body was that of a 3yearold IndianAmerican girl Sherin Mathews who had been missing since October 7 The father confessed that he was with Sherin when she died and said that he moved her body after he could not feel

25-10-2017

Singapore will stop increasing the total number of cars on its roads next year The government will cut the annual growth rate for cars and motorcycles to zero from 025 percent starting in February the transport regulator said “In view of land constraints and competing needs there is limited scope f

24-10-2017

Scotland The world’s first floating offshore wind farm started delivering electricity to the grid in the north of Scotland The Hywind project built by Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA and Masdar Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co has 5 turbines floating 25 kilometers off the coast of Peterhead near Aberdee

24-10-2017

The US government has warned that sophisticated hackers  have been targeting nuclear energy water aviation and other critical industrial firms since at least May 2017 In a rare public warning the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a report that threat actors

24-10-2017

Wesley Mathews father of missing threeyearold adopted girl Sherin Mathews has been arrested a day after body of a small child was found in a culvert less than a mile from the familys home Sherin who has developmental issues and limited verbal communication skills was last seen outside her familys b

24-10-2017

Islamabad Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the next general election would be held on time next year and adviced his political opponents to wait patiently till the PMLN completes its term “I am 100 per cent sure that elections will be held in 2018” he told Expressing his amazem

24-10-2017

A Pakistani journalist who went missing 2 years ago while following an Indian citizen’s case has been found The reporter was pursuing the case of Indian engineer Hamid Ansari who was jailed in Peshwar on espionage charges Zeenath Shahzadi 26 years old worked as a reporter in Daily Nai Khaber and Met

21-10-2017

Iran’s supreme leader has pilloried Donald Trump with degrading epithets in his speech following the US President’s refusal to recertify the nuclear deal Trump is  “foulmouthed” uttering “nonsense” and “suffering from retardation”according to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “The President of the United Stat

21-10-2017

OSLO Norwegian Defence Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide was named minister of foreign affairs on Friday making her the first woman to hold the post in the Nordic country She replaces Boerge Brende who last month was appointed president of the World Economic Forum The appointment leaves the top three g

21-10-2017

American Express CoCheif Executive Officer Kenneth Chenault is stepping down after 16 years running the creditcard lender and will be replaced by Steve Squeri Chenault 66 will stay on until Feb 1 Squeri 58 is vice chairman and has been at AmEx for three decades “We’re completing a 2year turn around

21-10-2017

Kabul A suicide bomber killed atleast 30 people inside a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday night The attack occured at Imam Zaman mosque in the western dashteBarchi part of Kabul as Shiite worshippers gatherd for prayers a security official said A senior security official said the

20-10-2017

Beiging Over 100 cockroaches were recently found onboard two flights bound for Chinese city Kunming Pest control experts who were called to fumigate the planes cleaned their catering areas cargo holds toilets and cabins The cockroaches belonged to a species called Blattella germanica German cockroa

19-10-2017

France As many as 29 nuclear reactors in France are vulnerable to natural disasters the country’s nuclear safety watchdog has warned While 20 nuclear reactors are at risk of a “total loss of the heat sink” nine are at risk of “partial loss” Earlier the company operating  said 20 reactors might not

19-10-2017

Imphal  Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday on his first visit to Manipur capital Imphal said there are no Muslim or Christian terrorists because terrorists are no more religious once they embrace terrorism” People cease to be Muslim Christian or any group the moment they becam

19-10-2017

Madrid Catalonias separatist leader Carles Puigdemont who sparked Spains worst political crisis in decades by holding a banned independence referendum on October 1 has been ordered by Madrid to say by 1000 am 0800 GMT whether or not he is unilaterally declaring a split from Spain The Spanish governm

19-10-2017

Three people have died and two are injured after a shooting at a business park in Maryland in the US according to a report by news agency associalted press The shooting took place at Emmorton Business Park Wednesday morning in Harford County Police have identified the suspect as Radee Labeeb Prince

18-10-2017

Malta The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed in a car bomb blast near her home Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the vehicle into several pieces and threw the debri

17-10-2017

A Canadian passenger plane hit a drone while descending on Quebec City’s Jean Lesage International Airport The incident with the Skyjet flight occurred around 3km from the airport at an altitude of 450 meters on October 12 Transport Canada recommends that drones should be flown no higher than 90 me

16-10-2017

Qatar A member of Qatar’s royal family Sheikh Abdullah alThani has accused the country’s authorities of freezing all his bank accounts over his role in Qatar’s ongoing diplomatic crisis with Arab neighbours Althani had met Saudi Crown Prince Salman in August after Saudi Arabia and several other Ara

16-10-2017

The United Nation’s senior envoy in Somalia has condemned Saturday’s bombing that claimed over 270 lives in Mogadishu and offered the world body’s support Special Representative of the UN SectretaryGeneral for Somalia Micheal Keating said the immediate priority is to support efforts led by the autho

16-10-2017

In Germany police had to make use of tear gas to take down a serial waterwaster Police were called to an apartment in a northern Germany town after the serial waterwaster had left the taps in his sink bathtub and toilet running for an entire year The act resulted in the wastage of 70 lakh litres of

14-10-2017

US President Donald Trump has said that he has started to develop a much better relationship with Pakistan a day after Pakistani forces rescued an AmericanCanadian family from the Haqqani terror network American citizen Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle along with their three ch

14-10-2017

An 85 tonne Chinese space station has accelerated its outof control descent towards Earth and is expected to crash to the surface within a few months The Tiangong1 or “Heavenly Palce” lab was launched in 2011 and described as a “potent political symbol” of China part of an ambitious scientific push

14-10-2017

Seoul A 29magnitude shallow earthquake struck Pyongyang South Korea This earthquake was just weeks after Pyongyangs biggest detonation but experts claim that the tremor was by no means man made The tremor is also believed to have caused no damage A US agency had the following remarks “This event occ

13-10-2017

Death toll in the wildfire that swept through northern California has reached 29 as hundreds of firefighters are still battling the flames in multiple areas of the region “We are not even close to bring out of this emergency” –Mark Ghilarducci the director of California’s Office of Emergency servic

13-10-2017

The United States has formally notified the UN’s world heritage body Unesco that it is withdrawing its membership of the organization citing “continuing antiIsrael bias” The announcement by the Trump administration was followed a few hours later by news that Israel was also planning to quit the fin

13-10-2017

Rose McGowan who is at the centre of the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal revealed that Twitter has temporarily suspended her account post calling out Ben Afflect over his level of knowledge about studio mogul The 44yearold actress took to her Instagram and Facebook accounts to relay the new

12-10-2017

Washington A US Navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Tuesday three US officials told Reuters prompting anger in Beijing even as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks Chinese cooperation in reining in North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs The ope

12-10-2017

Colombo Sri Lankan police arrested the legislator son of a former president on Tuesday for leading violent antiIndia demonstrations over alleged plans to sell an airport built and named after his father A police spokesman said MP Namal Rajapaksa was arrested for being a member of an unlawful assembl

11-10-2017

10 people died in northern California after what officials are describing as an “unprecedented” wild fire that has already destroyed 1500 structures and devastated large swaths of wine country California’s governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in 8 mostly northern countiesButte Lak

10-10-2017

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that he would not rule out using the constitutional powers to remove Catalonia’s autonomous status if it claimed independence as tens of thousands took to the streets to call for talks The wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia with its own language and cu

09-10-2017

Bangladesh Two  people died after a boat carrying refugees fleeing Myanmar capsized on its way to Bangladesh on Sunday The boat sank near Shah Porir Dwip on the southern tip of Bangladesh said Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Islam the local commander of Border Guard Bangladesh confirmed via SMS that the b

09-10-2017

Dhaka A Bangladeshi teenager died in hospital in Dhaka after he was hit by a ball umpiring in a cricket match The local police confirmed the same on Saturday Rafiqul Islam 17 was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital late Friday after being rushed there in critical condition following the

07-10-2017

Washington Donald Trump’s presidency has put a spotlight on the risks of nuclear weapons the Nobel Peace Prize winning nuclear disarmament group ICAN said on Friday “The election of President Donald Trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorize th

07-10-2017

US  Defence secretary Jim Mattis said the united states would try “one more time” to work with Pakistan in Afghanistan before President Donald Trump would turn to options to address Islamabad’s alleged support for militant groups Relations between the two countries have been frayed over the past dec

04-10-2017

The French parliament has approved a new antiterrorist bill criticized by human rights activists as restrictive of civil liberties Ahead of the vote France’s interior minister Gerald Collomb said that “nobody is safe” in the country as “it is still in a state of war” The parliament’s lower house th

04-10-2017

Moscow Officials in Kazakhstan say 5 people including 2 doctors have died when a plain carrying them crashed soon after take off The An28 plane with a crew of three was flying the doctors from Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty to the southern city of Sheymkent on Tuesday Communications with plane we

04-10-2017

UK Vijay Mallya was arrested in London in a case of money laundering and was granted bail Mallya is out on bail after his arrest in April following India’s extradition request The 61yearold tycoon who has been staying in the UK for over a year now is accused of defaulting on loans worth thousands o

03-10-2017

IS claims responsibility for the mass shooting in Las Vegas where 59 people were killed and more than 527 wounded and said the attacker had converted to Islam a few months ago have been disputed Stephen Craig Paddock 64 a resident of nearby Mesquite Nevada opened fire on a country music festival ta

03-10-2017

Las Vegas The gunman in the Las Vegas attack has been named as 64yearold Stephen Paddock A “white male from Mesquite Nevada opened fire on a crowd of more than 22000 concertgoers from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on Sunday evening at approximately 1008 pm” As many as 4

03-10-2017

US President Donald Trump addressed the nation about the attack in Las Vegas Nevada the deadliest mass shooting in US history Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack that left 59 killed and over 500 injured The president also said he will be visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday to meet w

03-10-2017

LondonThe first female president of the Supreme Court has hailed a historic day while being sworn in as the UK’s most senior judge Baroness Hale of Richmond pledged to “do right to all manner of people” while saying her oaths which were met with applause from yellow judges international visitors and

03-10-2017

China has opened a new 409 km toll free expressway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi Lhasa and Nyingchi with Nyingchi being close to Arunachal Pradesh border are major cities and tourist attractions in the Tibet Autonomous Region The Express way cuts LhasaNyingchi travel time from 8 hours to 5 hours at a

02-10-2017

Poonch A 10yearold boy a teenager girl and another child were killed and eight other civilians injured during a ceasefire violation by Pakistan early morning in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district The boy was identified as Israr Ahmed The injured were rushed to hospital Heavy shelling occurred in t

02-10-2017

France Two people have been killed during a knife attack at a Marseille train station The assailant who was reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ was shot dead by an army patrol at the scene The incident took place at the saintCharles train station in Marseille on Sunday when a man attacked paasersby

02-10-2017

Europe A 53yearold German man has admitted to poisoning baby food and threatening to contaminate other products in stores across Europe as part of a presumed blackmail plot authorities said Arrest of the suspect decribed as “mentally disturbed” came after German police alerted the public earlier in

02-10-2017

France An Air France A380 super jumbo jetliner taking more than 500 people from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Canada on Saturday following serious damage to one of its four engines the airline said Flight 066 landed without further damage at the Goose Bay military airport in Can

01-10-2017

Washington US President Donald Trump is visiting Asia in November Trump is going to visit Asian countries like China South Korea Vietnam and the Philippines Trump is scheduled for a 11 day long visit  

29-09-2017

Abu Dhabi Eman Ahmed the world’s heaviest woman who underwent a weightloss surgery in Mumbai earlier this year passed away in Abudhabi on Monday morning just a week after celebrating her 37th birthday Officilas from the Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi confirmed the news adding that numerous comorbid

25-09-2017

India is the mother of terrorism in South Asia and “a racist and fascist ideology is frimly embedded” in the Modi government Pakistan has said in response to external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s speech at UN India sponsored and aided terrorism against all its neighbours reports in the Pakistan

24-09-2017

Sushma swaraj in her address to the 72nd UN General Assembly session hitting out at PAkisthan for creating terror groups like LET JEM Hizbul Mujahideen and the Haqqani Network India today asked Pakistani leaders to introspect as to why their country is infamous  as the “preeminent export factory for

24-09-2017

London Following Britain’s Exit from the European Union British Prime Minister Theresa May promises to pay 20 billion euros The announcement will be formally made by May on Friday when the prime minister delivers a highlyanticipated Brexit speech in the Italian city of Florence The lack of agreement

20-09-2017

Montreal In regards to the Paris climate accord Environment ministers from some 30 countries gathered on Saturday in Montreal to push forward on implementing the same Nearly 200 countries agreed in Paris in December 2015 to curb carbon dioxide emissions with the aim of limiting the rise in average g

17-09-2017

New Delhi Around 40 of villages inhabited by Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims who were targeted by the country’s Army are now empty government spokesperson Zaw Htay has said People abandoned their homes because they were told to leave by family members who were involved in terrorist activities Htay claim

16-09-2017

Abu Dhabi Two narcotic smugglers were arrested in Abu Dhabi in different incidents Inspectors from the General Administration of Customs joined hands with drug control department foiled two narcotic smuggling attempts with a planned mission First incident happened in Al Dhafra area where Police

15-09-2017

Iraq At least 50 people including Iranians were killed  in twin gun and car bomb attacks near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq local officials said “The toll has now reached 50 dead and 87 wounded “Abdel Hussein alJabri deputy health chief for mainly Shiite province of Dhiqar of which Nasariy

14-09-2017

Beijing Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had reached India to strengthen the IndiaJapan relations for regional peace and stability Abe is on a twoday official visit to India Both countries are also expected to discuss their joint role in the IndiaPacific regions where China is increasingly becoming a

14-09-2017

The UK has  seized properties belonging to Indias most wanted gangster and worlds secondrichest criminal ever Dawood Ibrahim according to reports The assets are reportedly worth over rupees 42000 crore67 billion This comes after the UK named Dawood as the only Indian national on a list of financial

13-09-2017

Halimah Yacob a former speaker of parliament was declared elected as Singapore’s first woman president after the returning officer announced she was the sole candidate to qualify for the contest Aiming to strengthen a sense of inclusivity in the multicultural citystate Singapore had decreed the pres

13-09-2017

Cairo At least 2 Egyptian soldiers and 5 militants were killed when security forces foiled a terror operation in the restive North Sinai Province bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip the Egyptian military said “One of the extremists wearing an explosives belt attempted to break into a m

13-09-2017

China said it was “ready to keep communication” with India on opening the Nathu La pass route for Kailash Manasarovar pilgrims The newly opened Sikkim route was more convenient for pilgrims than other route through Lipulekh in Uttarakhand The Lipulekh is unaffected Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gen

12-09-2017

 Myanmar At least three Rohingya refugees killed in explosion near MyanmarBangladesh border and one injured after a landmine explosion near Myanmar’s Border with Bangladesh on Sunday A security official said the explosion took place at Bandarban’s Naikhongachchari border in Bangladesh while the refu

11-09-2017

New Delhi Participating in a general debate on “Culture of Peace” at the United Nations on Friday India again aggressively flagged concern over Pakistan continuing to be a safe haven for terrorists and terror outfits and criticized Islamabad for using terrorism as a tool of state policy In his spe

09-09-2017

Mexico city The death toll in the earthquake which struck off southern Mexico reaches up to six A tsunami warning was issued immediately The  two fatalities came in the southern state of Chiapas interior minister Minguel Angel Osorio Chong said The quake hit off the coast of Chiapas The quake trigg

08-09-2017

Mexico The epicenter was about 100km 62 miles southwest of the town of Pijijapan and at a depth of 35km the US Geological suvey said A tsunami warning has been issued for mexico Guatemala EI SalvadorCosta Rica Nicaragua Panama and Honduras The earthquake was felt in Mexico City with building shakin

08-09-2017

 Kensington Fans of Princess Diana gathered at dawn at the gates of Kensington Palace on Thursday to celebrate the life of a woman who transformed Britain and its royal family when she died 20 years ago in a Paris car crash One of the most famous women in the world Diana was killed aged 36 on Aug 3

05-09-2017

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday raised the issue of terrorism at a BRICS forum  while suggesting 10 commitments to be made by the fivemember bloc for their role in global transformation Modi made the remarks at the dialogue of Emerging markets and developing Countries in the course of the 9

05-09-2017

North Korea has said that it is now capable of “producing powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants” It claimed that it has domestically developed all components of a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded on to an intercontinental ballistic missile North korea on Sunday claimed that it has successfull

04-09-2017

Pakistan Former military ruler Parvez Musharaf said he would return to Pakistan to face trial in the murder case of exprime minister Benazir Bhutto Pakistan court on Thursday pronounced Musharaf a fugitive in the murder trial but acquitted five men accused of involvement in the 2007 assassination o

04-09-2017

Myanmar More than 2600 houses have been burned down in Rohingyamajority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week the government said on Saturday in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades About 58600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from

03-09-2017

Washington Donald Trump called a senior Republic senator from Iowa on Wedesday whose congressional committee is investigating his son Donald Trump Jr and promised him critical federal support for the biofuel ethanol a key issue for the lawmaker Chuck Grassley the chairman of the Senate judiciary co

02-09-2017

US Warren Buffet the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc said insured losses from Hurricane Harvey could climb to as much as 20 billion though much remains unknown “Nobody has too good of a feel” of the losses he said Wednesday in an interview with CNBC respon

02-09-2017

 NKorea Starving North Korean soldiers have been ordered to steal corn to ensure they are ‘combat ready’ for ‘imminent war’ Kim Jongun’s army officers have reportedly given their malnourished fighters permission to raid crops from impoverished citizens Pyongyang frequently boasts of the power of it

02-09-2017

Pakistan A Pakistani court branded former military ruler Parvez Musharraf a fugitive in exprime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder trial but acquitted five men accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination The verdicts are the first to be used since Bhutto the first female prime minister of a M

31-08-2017

Florida A federal court in the state of Florida has charged two Indians with conspiring to smuggle counterfeit cigarettes into United States Abhishek Shukla and Shabhai Panchal appeared in a federal court in Miami to be formally arraigned on an indictment charging them and two companies Jubilee Tob

31-08-2017

Geneva North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of driving the Korean peninsula towards “an extreme level of explosion” and declared that it was justified in responding with “tough countermeasures” The combative statement came hours North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan’s northern

30-08-2017

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi intends to work  with archrival India to achieve peace across South Asia Tensions have remained high since January last year when Pakistanbased insurgents attacked an Indian air base near the border derailing scheduled talks between the two countries  A

30-08-2017

Russia Youngest Russian winter Olympic gold medalist Yulia Lipnitskaya has retired at the age of 19 after being treated for anorexia Her mother Daniela told that Ms lipnitskaya informed the Russian figure skating federation she was ending her career in April “after returning from Europe where she u

30-08-2017

NKorea State media repeated threats to the US Pacific island of Guam which it called “an advanced base of invasion” The missile launched on Tuesday crossed Japan’s northern Hokkaido Island triggering public alerts to take cover before landing in the sea The UN Security council has unanimously conde

30-08-2017

Beijing North Korea on Tuesday fired a ballistic missile over Japan Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying urged all sides to avoid provocations and repeated Beijing call for the North to suspend missile tests in return for a halt to USSouth Korean military exercises China warned that tensions on

29-08-2017

UK 233 people were being treated after a suspected chemical leak along Britain’s southern coast The officials in East Sussex confirmed the news on Sunday night after British emergency services evacuated a beach in Sussex reports Xinhua news agency Sunday morning some 50 people on the beach at Birli

29-08-2017

Singapore Bodies of all 10 sailors who went missing after a US warship met with a collision near Singapore last week have been recovered the US Navy has said The US ordered a worldwide operational pause of its Navy and dismissed its 7th fleet Commander after the Collision which was the fourth US war

29-08-2017

Washington Seven members of Donald Trump’s cyber security team resigned earlier this week accusing the US President of ignoring the national security matters “ you have given insufficient attention to the growing threats to the cybersecurity of the critical systems including those impacting the sys

28-08-2017

New Delhi India and China have agreed to withdraw their troops from Doklam after being in a standoff for over two months The ministry of external affairs said in a statement that the “expeditious disengagement has been agreed to and is goingon” The standoff had started after India objected to china

28-08-2017

Houston Harvey has stalled inland over Southeast Texas resulting in catastrophic record flooding Torrential rain will continue over parts of texas the next several days with more flooding Parts of the Southern Houston saw more than two feet of rain in 24 hours The flooding has rivaled what was obser

28-08-2017

Morocco A young woman being sexually harassed by a gang of teenage boys on a bus in Casablanca has sparked outrage in Morocco The video of the same was posted on social media on Sunday shows four boys sexually molesting the woman laughing at her tearing her clothes off and insulting her in Arabic T

23-08-2017

Rome A 40 magnitude earthquake had struck the Italian city The tremor hit the northwest of the island of Ischia at 857 pm The main earthquake was followed by 14 smaller aftershocks It was Casamicciola and Lacco Ameno two small communes that borne the brunt of the quake A woman was killed in Casamicc

22-08-2017

Washington  US President Donald Trump on Monday gazed at the first solar eclipse in a century At one point he appeared to ingnore precautions that scientists and doctors warned to protect people’s eye during the celestial event Trump appeared on the Balcony of the white house with First lady Melani

22-08-2017

Wasington US President Donald Trump opened the door to an increase in US troop numbers in Afganistan on Monday night as part of a new strategy for the region arguing against a hasty withdrawal from America’s longest military conflict Trump in a primetime television said his new approach was aimed a

22-08-2017

Las Ramblas Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured in Las Ramblas A van hit on a crowded tourist place Authorities said that 15 people had suffered serious injuries and that the death toll could rise More than 100 people were hurt said Joaquim Forn the interior minister of the Catalan reg

18-08-2017

Pakistan Air Force PAF crashed near Sargodha  during a training mission The pilot safely ejected from the aircraft However reason behind the crash could not be confirmed yet says spokesman of Pak Local people along with PAF rescue team reached the spot and extended assistance whatever was required N

17-08-2017

Pakistan The member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Mr Wang Chinese Vice Premier has arrived in Pakistan to take part in Pakistan’s 70th Independence Day celebrations Mr Wang had come for a two day visit The visit also eases the allweather strategic cooperative par

14-08-2017

China Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Saturday that the North Korean nuclear issue needs a peaceful resolution On Friday Donald Trump issued a new threat to North Korea saying the US military was locked and loaded Xi told Trump that it was in the j

12-08-2017

Pakistan A legislation has been introduced in Pakistan to protect the fundamental rights of transgender people The Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Bill is the first piece of proposed legislation that extends recognition to this oftenignored segment of society It was moved by Naeema Kishwar

10-08-2017

  Washington North Korea had earlier issued a threat claiming that they will launch a missile strike near the US territory of Guam The island of Guam is a 210squaremile dot in the Pacific which is a key US military outpost and home to some 6000 US troops Responding to the threat US President Donal

09-08-2017

Islamabad PM candidate Abbasi won the election in the National Assembly Shahid Abbasi was chosen as the interim prime minister after Nawaz Sharif resigned following the Supreme Court verdict Abbasis victory in the 342member parliament secured 221 votes The PPPs own candidates also contested against

01-08-2017

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been convicted by the Pakistan Supreme Court for his role in the corruption case The court ruled that the prime ministers position should be resigned immediately With the proven conviction Sharif will have a criminal case against him A fivemember be

28-07-2017

  Washington On Thursday the US Justice Department had shut down AlphaBay a dark web market place accused of allowing a global trade in drugs firearms computer hacking tools and other illicit goods AlphaBay allowed users to sell and buy opioids including fentanyl and heroin contributing to a rising

21-07-2017

United Kingdom An undercover investigation team by BBC consumer program Watchdog has revealed that the ice used in beverages in McDonald’s Burger King and KFC contains fecal bacteria ‘fecal coliform’ bacteria is what is found in these drinks and is proved to cause a number of diseases The coliforms

21-07-2017

Washington DC A powerful Senate Committee has asked the Pentagon to work with India in cyber and space operating domain Chaired by Senator John McCain the Senate Armed Services Committee plays a key role in shaping the defense and national security policy of the US Looking ahead to the future the c

19-07-2017

Moscow The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center on Monday evening informed that a magnitude 78 earthquake had occurred off the coast of Russias Kamchatka Peninsula The epicenter is reported to have been 234 km of Nikol’Skoye Russia among the Komandorski islands of the Bering Strait Initial reports say

18-07-2017

In the Pacific resort of Acapulco on Thursday atleast 28 prisoners were killed in a brutal prison fight one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the countrys troubled penal system in recent years Acapulco is the biggest city in Guerrero one of Mexicos most lawless states and a center of opium poppy

08-07-2017

 Russia Tsargrad TV a Russian religious television channel is offering to pay all gay citizens a one way ticket out of the country “We really want you to move there and openly submit to your sins” said the anchor It was also added that this is not a troll and they wish to do ‘good’ The channel is kn

05-07-2017

According to UN chemical watchdogs report banned nerve agent Sarin was used in Aprils chemical attack in Syria which killed at least 100 paople and injured 300 others A report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPCW also found that hexamine a known component of the Syrian re

02-07-2017

Beijing On Thursday China asked India to withdraw its troops from the Donglong area in Sikkim sector as a precondition for a meaningful dialogue to settle the boundary issue wraning that Indian army should learn historical lessons in an oblique reference to 1962 war Chinese Foreign ministry spokes

30-06-2017

Manila Under a new proposed bill approved by the House of Representatives on Monday singing to the national anthem wiil be mandatory and must be done with fervour Filippino citizens who dont sing their national anthem enthusiastically enough could face penalties upto 100000 pesos or 1978 and one ye

29-06-2017

Taliban have attacked a security post in Western Afganisthan killing atleast 10 policemen and wounding another three Taliban attacked late Saturday setting off a gun battle in which five insurgents were killed Jelani Farhad spokesman for  the governor of the western Herat province said No one immed

25-06-2017

In Pakisthan an overturned oil tanker burst into flames on Sunday More than 120 people were killed in this incident who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel an official said The tanker flipped over on the national highway about 100 kilometers southwest of Multan Th

25-06-2017

Washington The White House is getting ready and is very intrested to roll out a red carpet welcome to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a working dinner on Monday US President Donald Trump would host him the first of its kind under this administration A senior administration official told

24-06-2017

Afghanistan On Thursday in a car bomb blast outside a new Kabul Bank’s branch in Afghanistan’s Lashkargah at least 24 people were killed and over 60 others were injured This comes after a recent car bomb blast by Taliban militants which killed six police men in the country’s Paktia province But no

23-06-2017

Washington Senior White house official Kenneth Juster will be the next US ambassador to India ending a month long search that saw several IndianAmericans in the mix An announcement however is not expected in time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US starting later this week Kenneth J

22-06-2017

Japan Honda motor Co had to shut down its Sayama plant on Monday after finding the ransomware in its computer network This plant located outside of Tokyo manufactures the Accord Odyssey and Step wagon models and produces around 1000 vehicles each day Production at other plants wasn’t affected The

22-06-2017

  WASHINGTON For the first time since the US started recruiting training and advising what it calls moderate Syrian opposition forces to fight ISIS the US military on Sunday shot down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet that bombed local forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Islamic S

20-06-2017