Taipei, At least three people were reported killed and toppled several buildings on Saturday when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Tainan city in southern Taiwan. According to the city’s emergency response centre, a total of 127 were rescued from a toppled 17-story residential building in Tainan’s Yongkang district, with 29 of those being hospitalised, Taiwan News […]
Washington, US presidential aspirants are making a final push before Monday’s first nominating contest in Iowa where Donald Trump leads the Republican side while Bernie Sanders poses a top challenge to Hillary Clinton among Democrats. The former secretary of state Clinton, clinging to a narrow 45 to 42 percent lead over Sanders, spent much of […]
Kathmandu, A resolution to the ongoing agitation in Nepal’s Terai region receded even farther with three protestors killed in police firing on Thursday in the south-eastern Morang district as Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and his CPN-UML hardened their stance on the more than five-month-old Madhesi agitation. Since early morning on Friday, incensed Madhesi activists […]
Peshawar, Ayat Ibrahim was entering the South Block of the Bacha Khan University on Wednesday morning when she heard the first of the gunshots and huge blasts. Initially, the student, in her late 20s, had no idea that the university, named after the iconic Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, was under terrorist attack. It took only […]
Peshawar, At least 21 people including students were killed and dozens injured when four terrorists stormed the Bacha Khan University near here and opened indiscriminate fire in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is at war with the Pakistani state, claimed responsibility for the horrific attack at Charsadda that only […]
Jerusalem, India attaches the highest importance to its relations with Israel, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said as she met Israel’s top leadership, including President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. “India attaches the highest importance to full development of wide-ranging ties with Israel,” she said as she met Netanyahu who is […]
Washington, Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as a “welcome sign” the US says it wants the two countries to continue to have a dialogue to fight terrorism. “We want them to continue to have a dialogue and to continue to look for ways to cooperate against a […]
London, British film, TV and stage actor Alan Rickman, who carved out a niche for himself with his distinctive screen presence and voice and was best known for playing Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series and ruthless terrorist Hans Gruber in “Die Hard”, died here on Thursday, his family announced. He was […]
Mumbai, Hamid N. Ansari, a techie from Mumbai who went missing in Pakistan on November 10, 2012, is reported to be alive and in custody of the Pakistan Army, an activists’ group said here on Thursday. “We are relieved and happy to hear that he’s safe. But we are uncertain of the future. We want our […]
Jakarta, In a brazen midday assault, a band of well-armed militants detonated explosives and opened fire on Thursday in the heart of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. When it was over, two people were dead and 19 others were wounded, police said. Five of the attackers were also killed. A manhunt was underway for additional suspects. […]