By Arul LouisNew York, Oct 29 : There are two Indian-origin candidates running for the US Vice President in the November 3 election — Democrat Kamala Harris and Sunil Freeman,...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 28 : The Federal Interior Ministry has informed the Islamabad High Court that five Indians who were “accused and charged with espionage and terrorism” and “had...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 28 : Bangladesh has reported 1,493 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to 403,079, health officials said on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,861 after 23 fatalities...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 28 : US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has said he returned to Afghanistan ‘disappointed’ that despite commitments to lower violence, it has not happened, referring...
Read More..Dubai, Oct 28 : Indian expats living in the UAE can now provide their local address abroad to be added in their passports. Siddhartha Kumar Baraily, Consul, Passport and Attestation,...
Read More..Nitya Kodali, a US-born teenager of Indian descent has been crowned the world’s first Miss Teen Telugu Universe at an international beauty pageant with entries from 40 countries including India....
Read More..New Delhi, Oct 27 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to explore some solution to bring back over 30,000 Indians, mostly blue-collar workers from Tamil Nadu, stranded...
Read More..Chennai, Oct 27 : DMK Treasurer and Lok Sabha member T.R.Baalu on Tuesday urged the Central government to warn Sri Lanka, through diplomatic channels, against attacks on Indian fishermen by...
Read More..Agartala, Oct 27 : Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday laid foundation stones of nine National Highway (NH) projects, worth Rs 2,752 crore, to boost surface...
Read More..Peshawar, Oct 27 : At least eight people were killed and 125 others injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off inside a madrasa in Peshawar, according to authorities....
Read More..Kabul, Oct 27 : The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has dropped by 30 per cent in the first nine months of this year, the lowest since 2012, the...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 27 : Four negotiators representing the Afghan government in the Doha peace talks with the Taliban have returned to Kabul amid a delay in direct discussions between the...
Read More..Peshawar, Oct 27 : At least seven people were killed and 123 others injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off inside a madrasa in Peshawar, according to authorities....
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 27 : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed fears that India may use Afghan soil to destabilize and target Islamabad. “Pakistan fears India will use...
Read More..By Binay Kumar Singh“Veni, Vidi, Vici,” said Julius Caesar after his swift victory at the battle of Zela in 47 BC, which translates as “I came, I saw, I conquered”.This...
Read More..Rawalpindi, Oct 27 : Police officers in Rawalpindi have been banned from posting on the short video-making app, TikTok, after a video went viral, the media reported on Tuesday. The...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 27 : The Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) in Islamabad has been temporarily closed after five coronavirus cases emerged in the premises. After the varsity was closed on Monday, a...
Read More..Peshwar, Oct 27 : At least seven people were killed and 70 others injured during a blast at a madrasa in Peshawar, according to authorities. The incident took place “during...
Read More..By HAMZA AMEERFaisalabad, Oct 26 : In a incident that has sent shock waves across Pakistan, two teenage girls in Punjab province were allegedly raped by at least 15 men...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 26 : The Sri Lankan Parliament has been closed for two days to disinfect the complex after a police officer in the premises tested positive for the novel...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 26 : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on Tuesday on a two-day visit to the island nation. Upon his arrival...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 26 : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has slammed French President Emmnanel Macron over his remarks on Islamophobia, saying the latter was “creating further polarisation and marginalisation that...
Read More..Lahore, Oct 26 : Pakistan’s first ever metro train service, the Orange Line, has started its commercial operation in Lahore. As an early project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),...
Read More..By Gurmukh SinghVancouver, Oct 25 : Eight Indo-Canadians were elected to the 87-member Assembly of Canada’s British Columbia province. There were 27 Indian-origin candidates in the fray in the elections...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 25 : The death toll due to a suicide attack outside an education centre in the Afghan capital of Kabul has increased to 30, a security official confirmed...
Read More..Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 25 : Even as the rest of India prepares to burn effigies of Ravan as a symbolic victory of good over evil, devotees are quietly lining...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 25 : Islamabad has reported its highest single-day spike in the number of Covid-19 cases since the last two months, with 186 people testing positive in the Pakistani...
Read More..Quetta, Oct 25 : The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance comprising 11 of the country’s opposition parties, will on Sunday hold its third power show in Quetta, amid heightened...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 25 : A top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that Pakistan could be the next polio-free country, after years of continued efforts to eradicate...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 25 : At least eight people were killed and four others injured in a road accident in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The accident took place on Saturday evening in...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 24 : A suicide bombing at an education centre in a western neighbourhood of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured 20 others,...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 24 : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the reason why India is reluctant to take Islamabad’s offer for another consular access to...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 24 : As peace negotiations continue, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the ongoing talks in Doha were “fragile” and that the presence of the international...
Read More..Karachi, Oct 24 : A senior journalist affiliated with Pakistan’s Geo News has gone missing in Karachi, the media outlet confirmed on Saturday. According to Geo News, Ali Imran Syed...
Read More..Mahua VenkateshNew Delhi, Oct 24 : The current civil war-like situation in Pakistan may deal a blow to the execution of the ongoing China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a collection...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 24 : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that peace in Afghanistan will benefit the two neighbours by opening new avenues for cooperation and enhance connectivity with...
Read More..Washington, Oct 23 : The Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) and other community organisations held a protest rally in front of the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington to mark the...
Read More..By Sumit Kumar SinghNew Delhi, Oct 23 : Indian Army chief, Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, will be visiting Nepal for two days early in November in a bid to strengthen...
Read More..By Anand SinghNew Delhi, Oct 23 : The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will take the diplomatic route to bring back a Muslim couple from Qatar, who were arrested there on...
Read More..Washington, Oct 23 : Authorities have said that a search operation for an Indian-American professor who has been missing since October 12 after a hike to Mount Rainier in Washington...
Read More..By S.P.S PannuNew Delhi, Oct 23 : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeos scheduled stopover at Colombo on October 28, after his meeting with the Indian foreign minister and defence...
Read More..By Rahul KumarNew Delhi, Oct 23 : To settle matters, Pakistan has always used non-state actors and utilized power that flows from the barrel of a gun.Way back on October...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 23 : During a phone call, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen was assured by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that Myanmar has assured Beijing of taking back...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 23 : The Bangladesh High Court has allowed the marriage of a man sentenced to life for rape and the victim, a media report said on Friday. The...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 23 : The 20th Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution, which will replace the 19th Amendment introduced in 2015 that curtailed the powers of the President, was passed...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 23 : The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry has decided to temporarily suspend all services offered by its Consular Affairs Division aimed at restricting the gathering of crowds amid...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 23 : The Pakistan Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing of an appeal from the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl against the acquittal of the key...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 23 : With Lahore in the lead, nine districts across Pakistan account for a gap of over three million between male and female voters, around one-fourth of the...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 23 : The Pakistan government has imposed a fine of 100,000 PKR on Turkish Airlines for violating standard operating procedures (SOPs) enforced against the Covid-19 pandemic. On Thursday,...
Read More..Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday, launching a blistering attack on Donald Trump with less than two weeks to go before the Republican president’s Election...
Read More..New Delhi, Oct 22 : The International Financial Services Centres Authority’s (IFSCA) Expert Committee on international retail business development in the IFSC said that NRIs and PIOs should be allowed...
Read More..The Government today has decided to make a graded relaxation in visa and travel restrictions for more categories of foreign nationals and Indian nationals who wish to enter or leave...
Read More..Dubai, Oct 22 : Indian expats in the UAE have joined forces to repatriate an elderly Tamil Nadu couple, who have been struggling in deep debt after the company the...
Read More..Bangkok, Oct 22 : Thailand has lifted a curb on public gatherings, after an emergency decree failed to end mass anti-government protests across the country. A government statement said it...
Read More..Kathmandu, Oct 22 : The office of Nepals Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has confirmed that Samant Kumar Goel, chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external spy agency,...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 22 : Sri Lanka stands to gain from greater Chinese trade and investment, a Sri Lankan diplomat has said. Sri Lankan exporters should particularly take advantage of the...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 22 : At least 12 children were killed and several others wounded in an air strike on a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar Province, officials said on Thursday....
Read More..Kabul, Oct 22 : At least 12 children were killed and several others wounded in an air strike on a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar Province, officials said on Thursday....
Read More..Kabul, Oct 22 : Nearly $19 billion of US amount was lost in more than a decade of war in Afghanistan to fraud, waste and abuse, Special Inspector General for...
Read More..By Nikhila NatarajanNew York, Oct 21 (IANS) : Hip-hop loving Indian American US district judge Amit P.Mehta has been picked to preside over the Justice Department’s landmark lawsuit against Google,...
Read More..New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) : New Delhi will be hosting the third India-US 2+2 ministerial level dialogue on October 27, amidst deteriorating relations with China. The US-India 2+2 talks,...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) : “Pakistan has slipped into a debt trap due to the governments failure to bring reforms and weak fiscal management, which has also raised...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerKarachi, Oct 21 (IANS) : A serious controversy has broken out in Pakistan after an Inspector General of Police (IGP) was allegedly forced into ordering the arrest of...
Read More..By Aarti Tikoo SinghNew Delhi/Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) : In a major show of open defiance against Pakistan Army, police officers in Karachi have threatened to go on mass leave...
Read More..Washington, Oct 21 (IANS) : A search was underway for an Indian-American professor who has been missing for 10 days after a hike to Mount Rainier in Washington state, the...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 21 (IANS) : Schools and other educational institutions in Bangladesh were unlikely to reopen in November as previously suggested due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Education Minister Dipu...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 21 (IANS) : The Afghan Interior Ministry has revealed that 180 civilians were killed and 375 others injured due to a recent spate of the violence in the...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 21 (IANS) : The Bangladesh government has approved plans to renovate runways at the Jessore, Syedpur and Rajshahi airports to ensure safe landings, it was reported. The Executive...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 21 (IANS) : At least 12 women were trampled to death and 12 others injured during a stampede which occurred while a high crowd had gathered in Afghanistan’s...
Read More..Karachi, Oct 21 (IANS) : At least five people were killed and 20 others injured in an explosion in a multi-storey building in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal area on Wednesday, according to...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) : Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has ordered a probe into what the so-called ‘Karachi incident’ involving an FIR registered against...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) : Pakistan is unlikely to exit the Financial Action Task Forces (FATF) grey list as it has been unable to comply with six of the 27...
Read More..Lahore, Oct 21 (IANS) : A Pakistan court has rejected the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)s request for the further physical remand of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly...
Read More..By Arul LouisNew York, Oct 21 (IANS) : A tweet by the niece of Democratic Party’s Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris portraying her as the Goddess Durga slaying US President...
Read More..US President Donald Trump went after top government scientist Anthony Fauci in a call with campaign staffers on Monday, suggesting the hugely respected and popular doctor was an “idiot.” Fauci,...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 20 (IANS) : As the global watch dog for money laundering and terror financing, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), gears up to conduct its virtual...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 20 (IANS) : In a shocking statement made by none other than the head of Pakistans parliamentary committee on forced religious conversions, Senator Anwar Ul Haq...
Read More..Chennai, Oct 20 (IANS) : DMK leader Kanimozhi on Tuesday demanded police take action against the person who had issued a rape threat against actor Vijay Sethupathi’s daughter. In a...
Read More..Dubai, Oct 20 (IANS) : At least 66 Indians with visit visas were still stranded at the Dubai International Airport for failing to meet the required entry regulations, according to...
Read More..New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) : In the first such reported case in India to date, the electrocardiogram (ECG) feature on Apple Watch has saved the life of a 61-year-old...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 20 (IANS) : The Bangladesh government has advised the citizens of the country to refrain from going outside without wearing a mask due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 20 (IANS) : A robust government roadmap was required for Sri Lanka’s targeted recovery in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in an effort to increase the island...
Read More..Doha, Oct 20 (IANS) : Members of the contact groups of both sides of the Afghan peace negotiations met in Doha and discussed the disputed issues in an effort to...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 20 (IANS) : The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has dismissed a petition filed by the federal government seeking the publication of proclamation against former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz...
Read More..By Arul LouisNew York, Oct 20 (IANS) : Safety, the economy and friendship for India are the themes of video ads supporting US President Donald Trump produced by an entrepreneur...
Read More..Karachi, Oct 20 (IANS) : PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has claimed that the arrest of her husband and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law retired Captain Mohammad Safdar,...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 20 (IANS) : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed fears over a second Covid-19 wave in the country in the coming months due to a resurgence of...
Read More..Kabul/Tehran, Oct 20 (IANS) : Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who pledged his countrys support for an enduring and acceptable...
Read More..The government of the Netherlands has approved plans which will permit doctors to legally euthanize children below the age of 12.Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said the new policy...
Read More..By Nikhila NatarajanNew York, Oct 19 (IANS) : Peak mudslinging season is here.With exactly 15 days to go before US elections 2020, the many interpretations of Democratic VP candidate Kamala...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerKarachi, Oct 19 (IANS) : Just two days after its debut power show, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance comprising 11 of the country’s opposition parties, staged...
Read More..Abu Dhabi, Oct 19 (IANS) : Celebrations of the nine-day long Navratri festival this year for Indian expats based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be a subdued affair...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) : The Pakistan government has sent out invitations to Indian Sikhs to attend celebrations marking the 551st birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 19 (IANS) : US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has said that the Taliban’s recent claims that Washington had violated the Doha agreement were”unfounded”, adding that “inflammatory rhetoric” does...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) : Pakistan’s Aviation Division has constituted a seven-member committee to ensure the proper implementation of standard operating procedures (SOP) at airports to prevent the spread of...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) : Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, former Afghan Prime Minister and leader of the Hizb-e-Islami party, will arrive in Islamabad on Monday on an important three-day visit...
Read More..Karachi, Oct 19 (IANS) : Just two days after its debut power show, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance comprising 11 of the country’s opposition parties, held its second...
Read More..Karachi, Oct 19 (IANS) : PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said on Monday that her husband and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law, retired Captain Mohammad Safdar had been...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) : Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Afghanistan’s Hizb-e-Islami party, is scheduled to embark on a three-day visit to Pakistan on Monday, the Foreign Ministry here said. In...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) : Sixteen people were killed when a passenger bus was hit by a landslide in Skardu district of Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan, a senior official said. In...
Read More..By Sumi KhanDhaka, Oct 19 (IANS) : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the occasion of Durga Puja, and also sent her...
Read More..New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) : The Indian and Sri Lankan navies will carry out a three day joint exercise off Trincomalee on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka, to...
Read More..By Sumi KhanOct 18 (IANS) : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that her government is working relentlessly to provide a better future for children so that they...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 18 (IANS) : As the anti-government alliance of 11 opposition political parties under the name of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) started its campaign, Prime Minister Imran...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 18 (IANS) : After Pakistani authorities imposed a complete ban on short video-making app TikTok, the Chinese service has regretted Islamabad’s decision, hinting towards a reallocation...
Read More..Hyderabad, Oct 18 (IANS) : A year after busting an international Bangladeshi human trafficking gang, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed its first charge sheet in the case and...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 18 (IANS) : At least 16 people were killed and 90 others injured after a powerful explosion on Sunday rocked the city of Firoz Koah, capital of Afghanistan’s...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 18 (IANS) : The Air Quality Index (AQI) of Dhaka, one of the most polluted cities in the world, was on Sunday ranked as the worst in the...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 18 (IANS) : A senior UN official has claimed that Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has maintained close ties with the Afghan Taliban despite the latters assurance to...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 18 (IANS) : Names of 5,807 individuals were struck off Pakistan’s travel blacklist after consultation with relevant agencies and departments, the Interior Ministry announced. The decision on Saturday...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 18 (IANS) : Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested the former managing director (MD) of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on charges of “illegal” hiring, officials said. On...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 18 (IANS) : The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has approved $966 million worth of loans under a relief program for Covid-19 affected businesses, it was reported...
Read More..Abu Dhabi, Oct 17 (IANS) : Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, inspected the site of Abu Dhabi’s first ever Hindu...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 17 (IANS) : At least 14 people have been killed and 10 others injured in crime and security-related incidents in Kabul over the last 10 days, according to...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 17 (IANS) : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing a serious outburst from the opposition parties, who have now joined together and launched an anti-government...
Read More..By Hamza AmeerIslamabad, Oct 17 (IANS) : The Indian High Commission has reached out to the Islamabad High Court (IHC), seeking the return of four Indian convicts in Pakistani jails,...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 17 (IANS) : Abdullah Abdullah, head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, has said that a Taliban emirate’s return was unacceptable under any circumstances as it will...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 17 (IANS) : The Pakistan government has imposed a 100,000 PKR fine on Qatar Airways for violating the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) enforced against the Covid-19 pandemic. Aviation...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 17 (IANS) : Security for former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London, has been heightened, a development that came weeks after the PML-N supremo’s...
Read More..By Arul LouisWashington, Oct 17 (IANS) : During the 2016 election campaign around this time, then-candidate Donald Trump addressed a large, glamorous rally of thousands of cheering Hindus – the...
Read More..By Arul LouisWashington, Oct 17 (IANS) : During the 2016 election campaign around this time, then-candidate Donald Trump addressed a large, glamorous rally of thousands of cheering Hindus – the...
Read More..Chennai, Oct 16 (IANS) : Political parties and others in Tamil Nadu are demanding actor Vijay Sethupathi to decline the opportunity to play lead role in Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) : The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance comprising 11 of the country’s opposition parties, will hold its first public rally on Friday in Gujranwala city...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 16 (IANS) : US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has urged the Taliban to remain committed to the implementation of the agreement between the two, warning that the rising...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) : Four more educational institutes in Islamabad were sealed after coronavirus cases were reported among staff and students, it was reported on Friday. With the new...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) : Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that arrest warrants for former President Asif Ali Zardari have been issued in...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) : Eight soldiers and seven civil security personnel were killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan’sBalochistan province, police sources said. The incident took place on Thursday...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) : Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his government was promoting tourism sector to generate revenue and address the country’s unemployment issue. Chairing a meeting...
Read More..By Arul LouisNew York, Oct 16 (IANS) : A new poll has revealed that Indian-Americans overwhelmingly support the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for the November 3 election with “great...
Read More..Dubai, Oct 15 (IANS) : Over 50 Indians have been stranded at the Dubai International Airport for non-compliance with entry requirements for tourist visa holders, a media report said on...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 15 (IANS) : A UN mission said on Thursday that the ongoing violence in Afghanistan’s Helmand province has undermined the efforts for “progress and building bridges between parties...
Read More..Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) : A new poll has revealed that Indian-American voters were unlikely to be swayed by either Democrat presidential nominee Joe Bidens selection of Indian-origin Kamala Harris...
Read More..Colombo, Oct 15 (IANS) : Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday extended an ongoing curfew to the Katunayake area on the outskirts of capital Colombo, as the number of Covid-19...
Read More..By Ateet SharmaNew Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) : Is the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) becoming totally irrelevant? Has it lost its credibility, much like the World Health Organization? Many...
Read More..By Rahul KumarNew Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) : The island development ordinance promulgated by Pakistani President Arif Alvi seems to be a plan to sell off Pakistani islands to future...
Read More..Islamabad, Oct 15 (IANS) : Pakistan’s Covid-19 positivity rate has increased to its highest level in more than 50 days, Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar on Thursday, while...
Read More..An Indian-origin researcher in the United States has found that Immunity against COVID-19 may last for a lengthy period. Deepta Bhattacharya, who is an Indian-origin professor at the University of...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 14 (IANS) : At least eight civilians were killed and 25 people wounded in two improvised bomb explosions in Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities said. In one incident, five...
Read More..Dhaka, Oct 14 (IANS) : Bangladesh reported 1,684 new Covid-19 cases and 16 new deaths on Wednesday, pushing the tally to 382,959 and death toll to 5,593, the Directorate General...
Read More..Kathmandu, Oct 14 (IANS) : At a time when India-Nepal ties have reached a historic low due to the boundary dispute that erupted last year, Indian Army Chief General Manoj...
Read More..Manila, Oct 14 (IANS) : At least 4.8 million Filipinos in the tourism industry have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Philippine Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Wednesday. Puyat...
Read More..Dubai, Oct 14 (IANS) : Two women who were born to an Indian man and his Pakistani wife have said that their lives have been in suspended animation of sort...
Read More..Kathmandu, Oct 14 (IANS) : Nepal has been re-elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in the elections held at UN Headquarters in New York. Currently...
Read More..New York, Oct 14 (IANS) : A woman of Indian-origin has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly secretly gave birth to a baby boy in a bathroom and...
Read More..Kabul, Oct 14 (IANS) : At least 15 people were feared killed after two Afghan army helicopters collided in midair in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. The accident occurred in Nawa-i-Barakzayi...
Read More..By Sumit Kumar SinghPulwama (J&K), Oct 14 (IANS) : Threat of terrorists using hexacopters to lob grenades at security forces at Line of Control (LoC) as well as in the...
Read More..By Arul LouisUnited Nations, Oct 14 (IANS) : Pakistan and Nepal have been re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council, while China won a seat by the smallest margin showing...
Read More..The United States Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris slammed Senate Republicans during the Supreme Court judge confirmation hearing and said that it was “reckless” on their part to call the...
Read More..Renowned Indian-origin South African human rights lawyer Priscilla Jana who represented many anti-apartheid political leaders, including Nelson Mandela, has passed away at the age of 76, the country’s human rights...
Read More..Less than 4 weeks to go for the elections, US President Donald Trump Sunday said he plans to resume holding physical rallies and restart his campaign trail after he had...
Read More..There is no obligation on private medical colleges to provide reservation for Non-Resident Indians (NRI) and it is the discretion of the management of such colleges to provide such quota,...
Read More..Danny Gaekwad, a Republican Indian-American entrepreneur and an avid supporter of US President Donald Trump, has launched a campaign titled, “Trump Hai to Safe Hai”, which highlights the President’s support...
Read More..The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for October 15 has been canceled, the organizers have announced after the incumbent US President refused to do a...
Read More..Indian-origin academician and economist Srikant Datar, who is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, has now been appointed the new Dean of the Harvard Business School.He...
Read More..Brand-new Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) : The High Court on Friday held that the NRI allocation secretive clinical universities is not sacrosanct, however the organizations meaning to do away with...
Read More..The Nobel Prize awarded for their discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. Harvey J.Alter and Charles M.Rice from America, and Michael Houghton from British are going to receive the prestigious...
Read More..An Indian-American businessman has joined the race for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, campaigning on a message of “hope, growth, and opportunity”.“Virginia is in trouble right now...
Read More..Indian origin HIV biologist Professor Ravindra Gupta is one of the 100 influential personalities listed by the Times magazine for 2020.He is the professor of Clinical Microbiology and Wellcome Trust...
Read More..US President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, setting up a bitter political...
Read More..In a bid to woo the Indian-American voters in the United States, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised to put in place “policies that address the priorities of the community”...
Read More..As the government pushes the Foreign Contribution Regulation (Amendment) Bill in Parliament amid criticism from the Opposition, its provisions have caused a lot of discomfort among NGOs, which argue that...
Read More..Indian-American judge Amul Thapar is among the top names being considered by US President Donald Trump to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Trump, who on Saturday indicated that he wanted to...
Read More..Bill Gates predicts that climate change affects as much as Coronavirus by 2060. Business magnate Bill Gates expressed his concern for climate change in an interview with Bloomberg.He predicts that...
Read More..Thousands of innovative new coronavirus-safe face masks created by an Indian-origin surgeon and his colleague based in the UK are being offered free to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS)...
Read More..An Indian-American president of a now-defunct New Jersey-based marble and granite wholesaler has admitted his role in scheming to defraud a bank in connection with a USD17 million secured line...
Read More..Russian, Chinese, and Iranian hackers have stepped up efforts to disrupt the U.S.election by targeting the campaigns of President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, a Microsoft Corp.investigation found....
Read More..Serum Institute of India (SII) said on Thursday (September 10) that it would pause the ongoing clinical trials in India of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford. The...
Read More..American aerospace, defence, and security company Northrop Grumman has named its NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft after NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla. The commercial cargo spacecraft that will lift off on September 29...
Read More..An Indian-origin businessman in the UK has been elected as the deputy mayor of London Borough of Southwark for the second time. Sunil Chopra was the mayor of the London...
Read More..Noor bin Ladin, the niece of Islamic terrorist Osama bin Ladin, has warned Americans in an interview with the New York Post that another 9/11 style attack might be around the corner...
Read More..For the first time in US history, the Census Bureau will count Sikhs as a “distinct” ethnic group.This is a significant step towards establishing a separate identity away from the...
Read More..Indian women accounted for the most number of ex-pat female employees in Oman’s government sector, according to a report by the Middle Eastern country’s National Centre for Statistics and Information...
Read More..Former US President Richard Nixon described Indian women as “the most unattractive women in the world” and the “most sexless”, claimed US professor Gary J.Bass in an opinion piece Thursday. In a...
Read More..Under the Vande Bharat Mission, more than 15 lakh people have returned through various modes including more than 4.5 lakh on flights, said Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh, Puri,...
Read More..Democratic U.S.vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she would not take President Donald Trump’s word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine. In an interview excerpt broadcast by CNN on Saturday,...
Read More..Indo-American MP Raja Krishnamurthy said about 20 Hindu lakh from many states will play an important role in the US presidential election.He also told other members of his community that...
Read More..President Donald Trump reportedly referred to American service members who died in World War I as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’ in conversations with his staff, an Atlantic report reads.And that is allegedly...
Read More..It is now looking extremely likely that the United States would indeed have a novel coronavirus vaccine by November, if not earlier.According to a report in The New York Times, the Centres for...
Read More..The bizarre video of doctors pulling out a snake from a woman’s mouth is going viral. Some people have the weird habit of sleeping with their mouth open.This habit may...
Read More..India’s partnership with the United States will continue to grow whether a Republican or Democrat is elected to the White House in the November elections, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has suggested.Jaishankar’s...
Read More..As the Central government has announced that the phase 6 of the Vande Bharat Mission will commence from September 1, German airline Lufthansa on Tuesday said that it will operate...
Read More..Pritam Singh, Singapore’s Indian-origin politician scripted history on Monday when the city-state’s Parliament conferred the duties and privileges to him as the country’s first Leader of the Opposition. Singh’s Workers’...
Read More..Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Founder and Chief Scientific Officer Uma Sharma, Ph.D.of MMS Holdings was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2020 Michigan and Northwest...
Read More..There are eaters, there are binge eaters and there are restaurant menu devourers.Kyle Gibson of Sunderland, UK belongs to the third category. By binging on the 13,000-calorie meal, he raised...
Read More..Kamala Harris is “not competent” to be President, US President Donald Trump has said as he launched an attack on the Indian-origin senator’s credentials for the top post. Addressing his...
Read More..A bronze statue of Indian doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis, who is revered in China for his contributions, would be unveiled outside a medical school in North China next month, state-run Xinhua...
Read More..In the race to find a cure for the coronavirus infection, Texas-based Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) has entered into a licensing agreement with Indian pharmaceutical company Biological E Limited...
Read More..Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, said on Friday he was resigning because of poor health, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy during which...
Read More..The Vice Presidential nominee of Democratic Party, Kamala Harris on Wednesday (local time) recalled that her grandfather, P V Gopalan would often take her on his morning walks in India,...
Read More..US President Donald Trump has officially accepted the re-nomination of the Republican Party as its presidential candidate for the November elections, telling his fellow Americans that at no time before...
Read More..The Singapore Academy of Law (“SAL”) announced today the appointment of Mr.Rama Tiwari as the chief executive-designate to succeed Ms.Serene Wee as Chief Executive of SAL when she retires on 7...
Read More..charged with murdering his wife and mother in the USA, former Indian shot-putter Iqbal Singh’s contemporaries remember him as a fiercely competitive athlete and are bewildered by the turn of...
Read More..There are no autopsy studies except for occupational exposure to dust that link polluted air with poor health.Some studies have demonstrated how small pollution particles and let’s limit ourselves now...
Read More..Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been captured on camera threatening to punch a reporter in the face, after being asked about alleged family corruption. Bolsonaro, who was visiting the Metropolitan Cathedral in...
Read More..The Kremlin has rejected accusations that Vladimir Putin was involved in the suspected poisoning of opposition critic Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a German hospital. A spokesman...
Read More..The technique uses antibody-rich blood plasma from people who’ve recovered from the disease and has already been applied to 70,000 people in the US – in trials or for the...
Read More..The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Sidley Austin law firm have jointly filed a lawsuit seeking “immediate injunction” of the rule hiking the US’ non-immigration visa fee. The fee hike...
Read More..An incredible result for an incredible item, says East Bristol Auctions Ltd. Mahatma Gandhi’s iconic circular eyewear is an emblem of determined vision.He had gifted it to one of his...
Read More..Former top Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who was arrested this week for defrauding donors to a Mexico border wall fundraising campaign, has said he is the victim of a “political...
Read More..An Indian couple in Singapore has been jailed and fined up to 15,000 Singapore dollars after being found guilty of abusing their domestic helper from India, a media report said...
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