SAN FRANCISCO: “Millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands. “We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users,” Facebook said in a […]
Gunmen killed at least 14 people after forcing them to disembark from buses in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, officials said Thursday. The attackers were wearing uniforms from the paramilitary Frontier Corps, provincial home secretary Haider Ali told AFP. The gunmen “stopped buses on the Makran Coastal Highway and gunned down 14 people”, he said, […]
London: A day after a UK judge refused to dismiss an order freezing nearly 260,000 pounds (USD 337,730 in one of his London bank accounts, embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Thursday questioned the SBI-led consortium of public sector banks pursuing him through the courts to recover dues they claim are owed to them. In […]
London: India has dropped two places on a global press freedom index to be ranked 140th out of 180 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders analysis released on Thursday, with the lead up to the ongoing Indian general elections flagged as a particularly dangerous time for journalists. ‘The World Press Freedom Index 2019’, topped […]
LAHORE: A teenage Hindu girl’s kidnapping by an “influential” Muslim man in Pakistan’s Punjab province sparked outrage among the minority community that held a sit-in here on Thursday, blocking the city’s main road to press the Imran Khan government to recover her safely. Holding placards and banners, the community members at Rahim Yar Khan, some […]
Indonesia’s Joko Widodo said on Thursday that his re-election as head of the world’s third-biggest democracy was all but assured, calling for calm as his firebrand ex-General rival insisted he had in fact won the nation’s top job. Mr. Widodo, 57, said he had received phone calls from world leaders to congratulate him on his […]
Ministry of External Affair spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on Thursday tweeted two helpline numbers of Indian Embassy in Tripoli. Raveesh Kumar added in his tweet that the Embassy will extend all possible assistance to Indian citizens. Members of Libyan internationally recognised government forces are seen in Al-Swani area in Tripoli, Libya April 18, 2019. (REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah […]
Islamabad: Pakistan will not be “pressured” by anyone on the issue of banning Masood Azhar, a top official here said on Thursday, a day after China dismissed reports that the US, the UK and France have served an ultimatum to Beijing to lift its “technical hold” on designating the JeM chief as a global terrorist […]
Islamabad: Just a day after China dismissed reports of being served with an ultimatum on Masood Azhar’s banning by US, UK and France, Pakistan said that its decision on Azhar will not be pressured by anyone. The country’s Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said that the country maintains a clear stance on Azhar and it […]
Moscow: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia later this month, the Kremlin said Thursday, in a meeting that offers President Vladimir Putin an opportunity to emerge as a broker in the long-running nuclear standoff and raise Russia’s profile in regional affairs. The Kremlin said in a brief statement Thursday that Kim will […]
Moscow: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia in late April for his first meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Moscow said Thursday. “Following an invitation from Vladimir Putin… Kim Jong Un will visit Russia in the second half of April,” the Kremlin said in a statement on its website. The announcement comes after […]
Lahore: The United Arab Emirates (UAE has gifted 18 big cats, including four white tigers, six Bengal tigers and eight African lions to the zoo in Lahore. The big cats gifted by UAE Prime Minister and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum reached Islamabad on Wednesday and will be shifted to the Lahore […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday complained of the “greatest political hoax of all time” hours before the special counsel’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election was due to be made public. The Greatest Political Hoax of all time! Crimes were committed by Crooked, Dirty Cops and DNC/The Democrats. — Donald J. […]
Asad Umar had been fighting fire for several months now even as Pakistan’s economy went from bad to worse to absolute tatters. In recent weeks, the country’s finance minister had been targeted by opposition parties for being ineffective in tackling the spiralling state of the economy and on Thursday, Umar resigned. While Umar hinted that […]
A site containing the 220-million-year-old fossilised remains of nearly a dozen dinosaurs has been discovered in western Argentina, researchers said Wednesday. “There are almost ten different individuals, it’s a mass of bones, there’s practically no sediment,” said Argentinian paleontologist Ricardo Martinez. “It’s very impressive.” According to Martinez, of the University of San Juan, the fossils […]
White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump says her father asked her if she was interested in the job of World Bank chief but she passed on it. In an Associated Press interview, President Donald Trump’s daughter said Wednesday she was happy with her current role in the administration. She was travelling in Africa to promote […]
China’s richest man faced severe backlash this week for praising something that’s almost a way of life in India. On April 14, the Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma wrote a lengthy blog post on the Chinese social media site Weibo praising the country’s infamous 996 work culture, which refers to working 12 hours a day […]
Taipei: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Taiwan`s coastal city of Hualien on Thursday, shaking buildings and temporarily suspending subway services in the capital Taipei, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Local television footage showed school children being evacuated from buildings, while a weather bureau official said it was the largest […]
LIMA:Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in hospital on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head at his home as police were about to arrest him in a sprawling corruon case, a party official said. He was 69. “Alan Garcia has died, long live Apra,” said Omar Quesada, the general secretary of Garcia’s American Popular […]
New Delhi: In a bone-chilling incident, 14 people traveling in a passenger bus on Makran Coastal Highway in Quetta were shot dead after being offloaded on Thursday morning. As per sources, the armed men stopped the bus and offloaded some of the passengers after asking for their identities. “After scanning their identities and offloading, the […]
Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday, hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection with a bribery probe. He was 69. A skilled orator elected president twice, first as a firebrand leftist and then as a champion of foreign investment and free trade, Garcia […]
New York: A man carrying a pair of full two-gallon cans of gasoline was arrested after entering St. Patricks Cathedral in New York, the police said. The 37-year-old entered the cathedral just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday, but was turned away by a church security officer, The New York Times quoted John Miller, the Police […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is all sent to form the next government in the Knesset — the Israeli Parliament, with the Right-wing coalition led by the Likud party having won 65 out of a total of 120 seats. In turn, Netanyahu would not only become the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israel, but the election […]
Balochistan At least 14 passengers were on Thursday offloaded from a bus and shot dead on the spot by terrorists on the Makran coastal highway at Ormara in Balochistan. Most of those killed belong were labourers or workers and belonged to Punjab.
TAIPEI: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, shaking buildings and disrung traffic. In the capital Taipei, highrises swayed violently while some panicked school children fled their classrooms in eastern Yilan county, according to reports. Local media said the quake had been felt all over the island and a highway […]