US President Donald Trump said he was proud to wish people a Merry Christmas, and so defend the beautiful time-honoured phrase against political correctness. “People are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again. I am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!” Trump said on […]
A British frigate has escorted a Russian warship through the North Sea near UK waters on Christmas Day, the Royal Navy has revealed. Russia has not commented on the issue, the BBC reported. In a statement, the Royal Navy said HMS St Albans was called upon to sail on December 23, and “keep watch on […]
The Supreme Court of Iran has approved the death sentence on an Iranian researcher over spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Tehran Times reported on Monday. Ahmad Reza Jalali, the convict, had admitted that he had eight meetings with Mossad’s agents and that he had received money in return, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi was quoted […]
Taking a cue from global markets, the key Indian equity market indices on Tuesday opened higher after the extended Christmas weekend. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 33,940.30 points on the last trading day of last week (December 22), opened higher at 33,980.76 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting […]
Thousands of people took to the streets across Peru to protest against the pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori, which exempts him from completing a 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations. In Lima, some 6,000 people demonstrated peacefully on Monday. It ended with at least one arrest and the police dispersed the demonstration […]
Canada has announced its decision to expel the Venezuelan embassy’s charge d’affaires in retaliation after the government in Caracas declared a Canadian diplomat persona non grata. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the measure on Monday in a statement that also said the Venezuelan ambassador, whom Caracas withdrew from the country in protest against […]
Five Pakistani soldiers have been killed over the last two days on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri and Poonch districts, Defence Ministry sources said on Tuesday. Three Pakistani soldiers were killed and another injured when the Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid in Nowshera sector of the LoC in Rajouri district on Monday […]
Emergency services have confirmed 41 people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a local train collided with the buffers at the station of Alcala de Henares, to the east of Madrid on Friday afternoon. The causes of the accident, which happened at around 4.00 p.m., are as yet unknown, but the train driver […]
Two Palestinians were killed on Friday in clashes with the Israeli army in Gaza amid another round of protests against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Zakaria al-Kafarneh, 24, and Mohammed Nabil Muhaisen, 29, were fatally shot and more than 70 other people wounded as protesters tried to […]
Shashi Arora, CEO and Managing Director of Airtel Payments Bank, has stepped down, the company announced on Friday – nearly a week after the Unique Identification Authority of India, (UIDAI) suspended its Aadhaar linked e-KYC services because of alleged misuse. “Shashi Arora has been associated with Airtel in senior leadership roles since 2006. He has […]