US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan has said the US policy for Afghanistan is condition-based and not time-based. Sullivan said the US understands that it may take a “considerable amount of time” to implement its South Asia policy and convince the Taliban back to the negotiating table, Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The recent […]
Emphasising on the significance of the #MeToo campaign, a US tourist, who had complained of molestation during her vacation in Goa in a Facebook post, has thanked the police for swiftly arresting the suspect, hours after she uploaded her travails on social media. In a new post on the social networking site, the victim, who […]
Nightlong cloud cover on Wednesday further improved the minimum temperatures bringing relief from intense cold wave conditions in Jammu and Kashmir. “Light rain or snow is likely to occur in the valley on Thursday and Friday. Night temperatures have improved since Tuesday and are likely to improve further during the next two days,” a Met […]
A bullish US President Donald Trump has proclaimed a “new American moment” as he delivered his maiden State of the Union speech. In his address to Congress on Tuesday from the Capitol Hill, he told lawmakers: “There has never been a better time to start living the American dream.” Addressing the joint session of Congress […]
The Pakistan Army resorted to overnight heavy shelling and firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district. Using small arms, automatics and mortars, they targeted military and civilian facilities in nearly a dozen areas of the Balakote sector late on Tuesday, Defence Ministry sources said. “The Indian positions retaliated effectively. Firing exchanges continued […]
An infiltration bid by militants has been foiled on the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Noticing suspicious movement in Gohalan area on Monday, “alert troops fired forcing the infiltrating militants to flee back”, Defence Ministry sources said. “Pakistan Army started firing at Indian positions immediately after the […]
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) expects that Russia will target the US mid-term elections later this year, a media report said. Speaking to the BBC, Mike Pompeo said there had been no significant diminishing of Russian attempts at subversion in Europe and the US. The US intelligence community has said that it […]
Negative global cues along with selling pressure subdued the key indices of the Indian equity market during the early-morning trade session on Tuesday. According to market observers, heavily selling pressure was witnessed in banking, capital goods and metal stocks. At 9.30 a.m., the Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 36,283.25 points […]
Pyongyang has cancelled one of the joint events it had agreed to hold with Seoul following a “historic” meeting earlier in January, and has blamed the South Korean media for it. In a fax on Monday, Pyongyang cancelled the celebration of the joint cultural performance, scheduled for February 4, accusing the South’s media of encouraging […]
Three Dutch banks and the Dutch tax authorities were hit by cyberattacks on Monday, media reports said. It is unclear who is behind the so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Rabobank, the Netherlands’ second largest lender, had a failure that lasted about three hours on Monday morning. Customers had no access to mobile and […]