At least two people were killed and 17 wounded in three bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital Baghdad Wednesday morning, a police source said. In one attack, a booby-trapped car exploded at a park near the Iraqi foreign ministry building in the city centre, wounding eight people and destroying several cars, the source told Xinhua. In […]
India and Pakistan must realise that trade normalisation and peace will continue to face setbacks unless they commit themselves to preventing incidents like the arrest of truck drivers, a leading Pakistani daily said Wednesday. The Dawn said in an editorial that the resumption of intra-Kashmir trade, after being suspended over the arrest of a Pakistani […]
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day Wednesday in the post-lunch session after a statement by Defence Minister A.K. Antony on the now cancelled deal with AgustaWestland for purchase of 12 VVIP helicopters. After Antony made his statement, opposition members sought to ask clarifications from the minister causing din in the house. Some members […]
A day after Parveen Amanullah, the first Muslim woman minister in Bihar, resigned as social welfare minister and from the ruling Janata Dal (United), she said she will not reconsider her decision. “There is no question of taking back my resignation,” Amanullah told media persons here Wednesday after she met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at […]
Three days ahead of Narendra Modi’s visit to Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday lashed out at the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, saying Modi sidelined other leaders of his party with his “dictatorial attitude”. “Modi has a dictatorial attitude. He is projecting himself as if it’s a one-man show in the Bharatiya Janata Party. He […]
The Election Commission of Thailand Wednesday announced that voter turnout nationwide in the Feb 2 general elections was 46.79 percent, excluding the nine provinces where voting was cancelled. The election commission said as many as 20.1 million out of 43.024 million eligible voters exercised their voting right in 68 provinces where voting was not disrupted […]
For all those frequent or not-so-frequent air travellers, what about some conversation up in the sky that can lead you to a date, even to make a little turbulence in the lavatory? You heard it right. Here comes an in-flight app that promises to let you meet fellow passengers on your flight while you’re still […]
The shortage of Indian workers has forced around 400 jewellery workshops in Saudi Arabia to shut down with 100 others struggling to survive. “We now have 100 gold workshops that employ about 5,000 foreign workers, but there are very few skilled workers in the industry following the labour ministry’s decision to reduce the quota to […]
The UN has denounced the Vatican for “systematically” adopting policies which enabled priests to sexually abuse thousands of children, BBC reported Wednesday. The Holy See must “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers, said the UN watchdog for children’s rights. It heavily criticised the Vatican’s attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion, […]
The Taliban are fighting for the implementation of the Islamic law, namely Sharia, which has been violated by Pakistan’s political leadership, a member of the committee nominated by the Taliban for talks with the government said Wednesday, Geo News reported. A decision over the meeting with the government committee will be made after consultations with […]