Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned North Korea against continuing its current missile and nuclear weapons development policies. Prior to leaving for Vladivostok to participate in the Eastern Economic Forum,Abe on Wednesday said that Japan would coordinate with Russia and international community to make North Korea understand that there would be no future for the […]
Dozens of South Korean protesters and police were injured in clashes on Thursday during a rally against the full deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile shield. Some 400 residents of Seongju City, who live close to the site where the THAAD system will be installed, clashed with the security forces […]
An internal investigation at Facebook has revealed that fake Russian accounts bought nearly $100,000 of political ads during the 2016 US election campaign. The ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun […]
The Border Security Force (BSF) early on Thursday apprehended three Pakistani fishermen and seized 14 of their boats off the Gujarat coast, an official said. The fishermen were held around 3.30 a.m. in Bhuj district after a brief gunfight between the intruders and the BSF’s 79 Battalion troopers, a Home Ministry official said.
A minor girl and five labourers were killed in a gas cylinder blast followed by a raging fire late on Wednesday night in an under-construction building here, a civic official said on Thursday. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. in the 13-storeyed Prarthana Building on Gulmohur Road in the posh Juhu area. The blaze trapped […]
At least seven coaches of the Shaktipunj Express derailed near Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. No one was injured. According to railway officials, the incident occurred near Obara around 6 a.m. The train from Howrah in West Bengal was headed to Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. East Central Railway Spokesperson Rajesh Kumar told IANS, all […]
More than 60 people have died or are feared dead in flooding or circumstances connected to Tropical Storm Harvey, according to local officials on Monday. Medical examiners are in the process of confirming which deaths are related to the historic flooding. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed 29 storm deaths on Saturday, all […]
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) extremists have set ablaze hundreds of houses in villages of northern Myanmar over the last two days, a government committee said on Tuesday. They burned down 50 houses after clashing with the security forces in Aukpyuma village. They set fire to around 120 houses in Ountaw village, Xinhua news […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the green on Tuesday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 52.59 points or 0.17 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 13.35 points or 0.13 per cent higher at 9,926.20 points. […]
US President Donald Trump spoke to two American astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer, upon their return from the International Space Station (ISS), the White House said. The President on Monday congratulated Whitson and Fischer for their accomplishments, saying: “They make us all very proud,” reports The Hill magazine. “Exploration has always been at the […]