Ahead of Trump’s visit, US Senators seek assessment of human rights situation in India
NEW DELHI : Ahead of US President Donald Trump’s maiden India visit later this month, four influential US Senators, who described themselves as a “longtime friends of India”, have sought an assessment of the human rights situation in Kashmir and religious freedom in the country, saying hundreds of Kashmiris remain in “preventive detention”. In More...
India extends helping hand to Prez Xi Jinping amid coronavirus crisis
NEW DELHI : Expressing solidarity over the coronavirus crisis in China Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday offered assistance to Chinese President Xi Jinping through a written letter. PM also offered condolences More...
PM Imran Khan will not use Indian airspace for his Malaysia visit
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will not use Indian airspace while leaving for his high-profile Malaysia visit starting today. PM Imran Khan is reported to have planned his travel through the Chinese More...
Man Shot By Cops, 2 Stabbed In’terror-related incident’: London Police
LONDON: British police on Sunday said they had shot a man in Streatham, in south London, after several people were stabbed in a suspected “terrorist-related” incident. “A man has been shot by armed More...
EU lawmakers draft stunning anti-CAA resolution
NEW DELHI : India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) could trigger the “largest statelessness crisis in the world and cause widespread human suffering”, a powerful group of 154 European Parliament members More...
Annabella Sciorra: ‘Harvey Weinstein held me down, raped me’
NEW YORK: “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, testifying that the former Hollywood studio boss overpowered and raped her. Actress Annabella Sciorra More...
Trump would be “impeached for life: US House
WASHINGTON : The US House of Representatives last night voted to send two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for trial. Sending the president and his party into uncharted territory More...
Finland To Introduce Six-hour Work Shifts, Four-day Working Week
HELSINKI: Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin has proposed the introduction of six-hour work shifts and a four-day working week in the country. The youngest serving PM in the world has plans to follow the lead of More...
Iranian target US bases in Iraq in response to Soleimani killing
BAGHDAD (Iran): Several rockets have hit two airbases in Iraq that house US troops, days after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed “severe revenge” for the assassination of the country’s More...
Iran to retaliate over the killing of its top military Boss
TEHRAN : Iran’s supreme leader named the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations arm Esmail Qaani to replace its commander on Friday after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad. “Following More...