LAHORE: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving a seven-year imprisonment in a corruon case, is sent back to jail from the Shehbaz Sharif to be indicted in corruon case on February 18 He also underwent CT scan, ultrasound and Colour Doppler tests at the Services Hospital Lahore. “After examining all results, the […]
Last year was the fourth warmest on record and the outlook is for more sizzling heat approaching levels that most governments view as dangerous for the Earth, a UN report showed on Wednesday. Weather extremes in 2018 included wildfires in California and Greece, drought in South Africa and floods in Kerala. Record levels of man-made […]
Weeks after receiving the prestigious Rosa Parks Trailblazer Award, eminent Indian-American Gurinder Sikh Khalsa has decided to enter electoral politics. “An interest in public policy based on my past experiences along with the desire to give back to my community are among the prevailing factors as to my decision to run for office,” Singh told […]
LONDON: The British Council on Thursday publicly apologised to George Orwell after rejecting an “excellent” essay of his 70 years ago. Orwell, born in British India and perhaps one the UK’s greatest political writer of the 20th Century and the author of 1984 and Animal Farm wrote the piece, entitled British Cookery, in 1946. But […]
The European Union (EU on Thursday promised to work with Theresa May on “whether a way through can be found” to avoid the disruon of a no-deal Brexit after the British Prime Minister demanded changes to the divorce deal to get it through Parliament. Ms. May was in Brussels on Thursday to plead with EU […]
Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving a seven-year imprisonment in a corruon case, is sent back to jail from the hospital in Lahore where he spent six days.“Mian Sahib has been sent back to Kot Lakhpat Jail (Lahore on his request as the government was showing non-serious attitude towards his health […]
Following President Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union address (bottom, the Democratic Party response was delivered by Stacey Abrams. In her address, Abrams recounted incidents of hardship that her parents had to face as immigrants in the US, and how this shaped her belief in a sense of community. She also touched upon the […]
Toronto: Canadian entrepreneur Gerald Cotten who died in a hospital in India and left thousands of his investors in a quandary reportedly signed his last will and testament just days before his death.According to a report in newsbtc.com late Wednesday, the beneficiary of Cotten’s estate is named in the document as his wife, Jennifer Robertson. […]
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has announced that the government will resume execution of prisoners from this year, bringing to end a 43-year stay on executions, reports said. Those sentenced to death for drug violations will be hanged in the next two months, he said on Wednesday. Sirisena said the Welikada prison in Colombo has […]
STOCKHOLM: A Norwegian Air Shuttle plane with 169 passengers on board returned to Arlanda airport outside Stockholm on Thursday after receiving a bomb threat and is being evacuated, Swedish police said. Swedish police said the threat had been made against a specific plane which had now landed at Arlanda. “When the evacuation is complete, the plane […]
WASHINGTON: Eminent Indian-American philanthropist and entrepreneur Gurinder Singh Khalsa, who was recently conferred with the prestigious Rosa Parks Trailblazer award for his campaign that forced the authorities in the US to change their policy towards turban of the Sikh community, has announced his decision to enter electoral politics in America. Indianapolis-based Khalsa, 45 on Wednesday […]
An Indonesian court on Wednesday jailed a British woman for six months for slapping an immigration officer in the face on the island of Bali after an argument over a fine for staying in the country after her visa expired. Auj-e Taqaddas, 42, was found guilty in a court in Bali’s capital, Denpasar, of violence […]
DHAKA:Bangladesh has sealed off its border with Myanmar to stop further influx of refugees fleeing the troubled Rakhine state, Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen has said and claimed that the country’s military is now targeting the majority Buddhists and Hindus after cracking down on minority Rohingya Muslims. Over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have taken refuge […]
Washington: Democratic presidential aspirant and the first Hindu lawmaker in the Congress Tulsi Gabbard has said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is “not the enemy” of the US and the war-torn country does not pose a “direct threat” to America. Gabbard, 37, who recently announced her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, has […]
New Delhi/Washington: The US has agreed to sell two state-of-the-art missile defence systems to Air India One for an estimated cost of USD 190 million, a move that will enhance the security of planes flying the prime minister and the president. According to the Pentagon, the sale will support the foreign policy and national security […]
The Islamic State (ISIS will be “100 per cent” defeated in Iraq and Syria by next week, US President Donald Trump has claimed as he boasted his administration’s new approach for directly confronting the terror outfit’s “wicked” ideology. The ISIS currently holds only about 1 per cent of land in Iraq and Syria, the global […]
New Delhi: Ola, one of the world’s largest ride-sharing platforms, has achieved a unique milestone of facilitating the issue of 20 Million in-trip micro-insurance policies to its customers every month under its flagship and industry-first programme, in association with a new age insurer. The product was designed to cater to the needs of customers during […]
Iran appears to have attempted a second satellite launch despite US criticism that its space program helps the country develop ballistic missiles, satellite images released Thursday suggest. Iran did not immediately acknowledge conducting such a launch. Images released by the Colorado-based company DigitalGlobe show a rocket at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan […]
Militants operating out of Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to threaten Afghan stability as well as stoke tensions between Pakistan and India, and the US looks to Islamabad to cease behaviour undermining regional stability, a top Pentagon Commander said on Tuesday. During a Congressional hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Commander of the US Central […]
Washington: The US has agreed to sell two state-of-the-art missile defence systems to Air India One for an estimated cost of USD 190 million, a move that will enhance the security of planes flying the prime minister and the President. According to the Pentagon, the sale will support the foreign policy and national security of […]
Washington: Indian-American Narsan Lingala and his girlfriend Sandhya Reddy have been charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill the former’s estranged wife. Lingala, 55, who has been charged by criminal complaint with one count of murder-for-hire was produced before US Magistrate Judge Michael A. Hammer in Newark federal court and was held without […]
The incident happened last week in Kumb, a town in Khairpur district. The unidentified people fled the after vandalism. There was no caretaker at the temple because Hindus felt that it was safe enough, since it was surrounded by their houses. (Photo: Reuters file A Hindu temple was vandalised in Pakistan’s Sindh province by people […]
Washington D.C. [USA]:Joshua Trump, an 11-year-old boy who was bullied for his last name, was visibly enjoying the best sleep of his life at the State of Union address by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday night (local time. Joshua was one of the special guests for Trump’s State of Union address. Joshua, a sixth-grade […]
A bipartisan group of Congress members on Wednesday sought details of the sting operation carried out by the Department of Homeland Security that led to the detention of 129 Indian students, reported. The students were arrested on allegations of immigration fraud. The Congress members, in a letter, urged the Department of Homeland Security and the […]
Tokyo: Researchers say they have successfully grown functional kidneys inside rats using just a few donor stem cells, an advance with significant implications for human organ transplantation. For patients with end-stage renal disease, a kidney transplant is the only hope for regaining quality of life, according to the study published in the journal Nature Communications. […]