Karachi: A powerful suicide blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 52 people and injuring over 50 others gathered to celebrate Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, authorities said. Hours later, another blast at a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu city killed at least three people and injured five others. […]
Washington: India and the US have emphasised the continued importance of bilateral cooperation in areas like defence, space and clean energy as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Secretary of State Antony Blinken and exchanged notes on global developments, amid a simmering diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. […]
New York: More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, the UN refugee agency said, while approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period. Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in New […]
Washington: Tens of thousands of emails were stolen from US State Department accounts by Chinese hackers who exploited Microsoft’s email system earlier this year, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staff member, who was present at an earlier Wednesday briefing of State Department IT personnel, claimed the officials informed senators that 60,000 emails […]
London: After a 15-year-old girl was fatally stabbed on her way to school on Wednesday, London police said that they had detained a youngster, igniting new concerns about the severity of knife crime in the UK. Around 8.30 am (0730 GMT), emergency personnel, including an air ambulance, were summoned to the site in Croydon, south […]
New York: During its G20 presidency this year, India was able to bridge the North-South divide and East-West polarisation and encourage the most powerful nations in the world to confront and commit to addressing challenges facing humanity today, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. The minister, currently in New York to attend the […]
Beijing: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has vowed that his country will stand against the “wanton expansion” of military alliances, amid reports on the US-led NATO’s plan to open a liaison office in the Asia-Pacific. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Yi said his country would “oppose the wanton expansion of military […]
Singapore: Singapore police said a 100 kg World War II aerial bomb recovered recently was on Tuesday safely detonated in Upper Bukit Timah, a jungle reserve during the war. More than 4,000 residents in the area, now a suburban housing estate, are set to return home later on Tuesday for the authority’s decision to evacuate […]
New Delhi: The FBI have firmly told numerous high-profile extremist Sikhs in California this summer with the ominous message that their lives were also in danger following the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia, according to a report by The Intercept. After Nijjar’s passing, the […]
New York: The US is “deeply concerned” about the allegations raised by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against India on the killing of a Khalistani separatist in Canada, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said and Washington was “closely coordinating” with Ottawa on the issue and wants to see “accountability” in the case. Speaking at […]