Exercising its right of reply in the general debate at the ongoing UN General Assembly Session here, India slammed Pakistan for its support to terrorism, labelling it as “Terroristan”. “In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror,” Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said on Thursday […]
The Mexican authorities have raised the number of casualties to 139 after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook the centre of the country, an official said. The emergency services were carrying out rescue operations in the areas affected in the Tuesday disaster, Efe news reported. Mexico’s National Coordinator for Civil Protection, Luis Felipe Puente, confirming the toll […]
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said that her country does not fear the scrutiny of the international community as over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh after fleeing the ongoing violence in Rakhine state. “It is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame or to abdicate responsibility. […]
s Apple gets ready to ship iPhone 8 and 8 Plus before it opens iPhone X for pre-orders, a top analyst with Taiwanese business group KGI Securities has warned that iPhone X will cannibalise iPhone 8 orders. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the most famous analyst with KGI Securities when it comes to Apple, it is […]
Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a public meeting here on Wednesday arranged by the the party’s overseas wing as part of its push to enlist Non-resident Indians (NRIs). On Monday in Washington, Gandhi, who is on a tour of the US, spoke at the pro-Democratic Party think tank, Centre for […]
US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj discussed here women empowerment and the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. Ivanka Trump, who has the official title of Adviser to the President, tweeted afterwards: “I have long respected India’s accomplished and charismatic Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, and it was an […]
US President Donald Trump once again mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, calling him “Rocket Man”, an allusion to Pyongyang’s recent nuclear tests, as well as speaking ironically about the “long … lines” of people waiting to get fuel in the nation after the sanctions imposed by the UN. “I spoke with President Moon of […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the US could stay in the Paris Agreement on climate change under right conditions. “Under the right conditions, the President said he’s open to finding those conditions where we can remain engaged with others in what we all agree is a challenging issue,” said Tillerson in an […]
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley warned that the world body has “exhausted” its options on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. “We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point,” Haley on Sunday said in an interview with the CNN. “None of us want […]
Indian-American Aziz Ansari and African-American Lena Waithe added a shade of diversity to the winners of the 69th Primetime Awards here as co-writers of a “Master of None” episode on a character coming out to her family as a lesbian. They won for the “Thanksgiving” episode, in which Waithe’s on screen character Denise discovers her […]