At least 15 people, including eight Al Qaeda militants, were killed and eight wounded in clashes and attacks in Iraq’s Anbar province and near Baghdad Thursday evening, police said. A police commando force fought a fierce clash with Al Qaeda militants in a desert area near the town of Khaldiyah, some 80 km west of […]
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s condition is worsening and his family is by his side, CNN reported Thursday. “In the last few hours there has been a deterioration in Ariel Sharon’s medical condition,” said Michael Schwartz, a spokesperson for the Sheba Medical Center, where the comatose former Israeli prime minister is being treated, in […]
A 28-year-old employee of an advertising firm was fined for rash driving after he overtook the convoy of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, police said Thursday. Saurabh Rastogi’s car overtook Vadra’s convoy in south Delhi’s Amar Colony area. “Vadra’s security officers signalled to the traffic policemen deployed on the road about the suspicious […]
Indian diplomat Devyanni Khobragade, whose arrest in the US sparked protests from India, has been formally indicted by a US grand jury. However, prosecutors said that Khobragade, 39, had also been granted immunity and that US officials had asked her to leave the country, BBC reported Friday. She was arrested Dec 12 in New York […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was given a G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity Jan 8 and is on her way back to India. The external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: “Devyani Khobragade was given G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity on 8 Jan, 2014. Airborne on way back to India.”
Nigeria’s troops in northeast state of Borno said Thursday that 38 Boko Haram suspects were killed after it successfully repelled an attack on Damboa community in by suspected Boko Haram fighters. Spokesperson for the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army Muhammad Dole announced the development in a statement in Maiduguri, the restive state capital city, […]
As part of his efforts to focus on income inequality and poverty in the country, US President Barack Obama Thursday announced five “promise zones”. “I will work with anybody who’s willing to lay out some concrete ideas to create jobs, help more middle-class families find security in today’s economy, and offer new ladders of opportunity […]
A commercial spacecraft operated by US space company Orbital Sciences Corp. blasted off Thursday, flying its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA TV showed. The unmanned Cygnus spacecraft was launched atop the Antares rocket, also built by Orbital Sciences, at 1:07 p.m. EDT (1707 GMT) from the US space agency’s […]
Mohd Asim Khan When we talk of the food at an upscale restaurant we invariably talk of the chef behind it. But despite most of us finding the array of food available in Delhi’s old quarters lip-smacking, few of us remember the ‘bawarchis’, or the traditional cooks, behind the culinary magic. Purani Dilli, as the area is known, […]
New Delhi India has urged its nearly 25 million strong diaspora across the world to play a constructive role in bolstering the economy, especially in infrastructure development and expanding manufacturing capacity. Addressing the 12th edition of the annual diaspora meet – Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) – in the national capital, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand […]