3 killed in shooting at Walmart store in US
Washington, Nov 2 An unidentified gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in the US state of Colorado today, killing three persons including a woman. Hundreds of emergency responders ringed the Thornton Town Centre shopping complex for hours after the shooting was reported around 5 am IST. The Walmart is part of the centre. “Multiple parties” […]
UK defence minister Michael Fallon resigns amid growing sexual harassment scandal
London: British defence minister Michael Fallon resigned on Wednesday, the first resignation in a growing sexual harassment scandal that prompted calls for a wholesale change in the “locker room” culture in parliament. Members of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party said the first high-profile resignation in the scandal showed it was time for reform at the […]
‘Fake news’ named word of the year 2017
November 02, 2017 Fake news, a term heavily popularised by US President Donald Trump, been named the word of the year by Collins dictionary due to its widespread use around the world. The UK-based lexicographer found that the use of “fake news” registered a 365 per cent rise in the last 12 months, reflecting Trump’s […]
No change on Azhar issue: China
China is set to block the US application to declare Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist on Thursday when the technical hold raised by Beijing comes up for discussion at the UN. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying made it clear there was no change in Beijing’s position on the resolution seeking an […]
Sharif returns to Pakistan, to appear before accountability court
Islamabad, Nov 2 : Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today returned home from London to face trial before an anti-graft court tomorrow in the corruption cases spiralling from the Panama Papers scandal. Sharif, 67, had to step down as the chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after he was disqualified as the prime minister […]
World leaders join in support of US after deadly NYC terror attack
Nov 1, 2017, Leaders from around the world, as well as former U.S. presidents, offered their condolences to the victims of the harrowing terror attack in New York on Tuesday with many of them sending warm messages and words of encouragement through social media. The outpouring of global support came just hours after a man, […]
200 dead in N Korea after tunnel collapses
October 31, 2017 As many as 200 construction workers are feared dead after the collapse of a tunnel at a nuclear test site in North Korea, writes the Independent reports citing a Japanese media report. The tunnel was being built at the Punggye-ri test site when it collapsed, according to a report on Japan’s TV […]
China rejects report of planned tunnel to divert Brahmaputra waters
China denied a media report on Tuesday as “false and untrue” after it said Beijing was planning to build a 1,000-km long tunnel to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region. South China Morning post, based in Hong-Kong, on Monday reported that engineers in China […]
Palestinian prisoner gets ’10 minutes’ to see dying son
A Palestinian political prisoner was given “10 minutes” to visit his terminally ill teenage son, according to his family. The visit between Rajab Tahhan, who is serving a life sentence, and his son, Majd, who suffers from leukaemia, took place on Monday morning at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem. The family said that the Israeli court handling […]
Pakistan seeks new US deal after returning 9 choppers
Oct 31, 2017, Pakistan is trying to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters from the US for anti-narcotics operations after returning nine Huey II helicopters it had acquired in 2002, the media reported. Pakistan returned on Monday the remaining five of the nine helicopters it had received from the US almost 15 years ago. The […]
