New York, A slipper can be mightier than a gun in the hands of a valiant Sikh store-owner! In a feat caught on surveillance cameras, the 59-year-old Amrik Singh fought off a shotgun-wielding masked robber using only his slipper in the store at his petrol station in Staatsburg, about 150 km from New York City. […]
Washington, In a historic move, America’s central bank, the US Federal Reserve, for the first time in nearly a decade raised its key interest rate from a range of 0 percent to 0.25 percent to a range of 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent Wednesday’s rate hike though a small one, is seen as a sign […]
Paris, The climate conference here has been extended by another day, not for the first time at the conference of parties (CoP) seeking to narrow the difference between the developed and developing nations. After what is being called a “hard night of negotiations”, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a final text would be presented […]
New Delhi, The India-Japan strategic relationship can contribute to peace and prosperity in Asia and the world, said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who arrived here on Friday on a three-day official visit expected to see progress towards India’s first bullet train and a civil nuclear deal. “Indo-Japanese relations will contribute to peace and prosperity […]
Taronga is thrilled to welcome two tiny Squirrel Monkeys to its vibrant group. The little primates can be spotted by keen eyed-visitors clinging to their mothers’ backs like tiny backpacks while their mothers leap and scurry around the trees of the Amazonia exhibit. The infants are just weeks old, with the eldest born 23 November […]
Paris, As negotiations grind down to the last day on Friday, the hopes for an agreement seemed to be stuck on one major point-money. Unless the developed countries come out with specific commitment, the climate change conference may not yield an important agreement, say developing countries. “Hollow promises and hollow slogans wonÂ’t work,” Indian Environment, […]
Paris, The goal of capping the global warming to 2 degrees Centigrade may be giving way to demands for the ceiling to be fixed at 1.5 degrees. The island countries have raised the demand for a lower cap, saying they stand to lose if the global temperature rises by 2 degrees. Some scientists have predicted […]
Washington, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump sent shock waves through the political establishment with a call to bar Muslims from entering the US until lawmakers figure out what is going on. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out […]
Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country will find alternatives to Russian energy as tensions remain high over Ankara’s downing of a Moscow warplane. “Russia is Turkey’s biggest natural gas supplier but it is not the only one,” Xinhua quoted Erdogan as saying on Saturday. Turkey is heavily dependent on foreign oil and […]
London, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said on Saturday that the deployment of Typhoons and two further Tornados would double the number of British fighter jets taking the fight against the Islamic State militant group. IS terrorists have again been struck by British Royal Air Force aircraft, with Typhoon fighters jets used for the first […]