Washington, Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi to wish him a happy diwali, US President Barack Obama has reaffirmed the importance of the US-India partnership in addressing both regional and global issues. A White House readout of the call on Tuesday said Obama spoke to Modi by phone “to review joint efforts on key areas of […]
Angad Paul, son of — an India-born Britain-based business magnate and philanthropist — died after falling from his eighth-storeyed penthouse home here, a media report said on Monday. Angad fell eight storeys on Sunday night, landing on the roof of another building below. Paramedics pronounced the 45-year-old dead at the scene in central London, Mirror […]
Police in Nepal on Monday shot dead an Indian national during protests in the the country’s Birgunj city close to the Indian border, officials said. The deceased was identified as Asish Kumar Ram, 24. He belonged to Raxaul in Bihar. Nepal’s Home Secretary Surya Silwal confirmed that a protester had been killed in a clash […]
A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS. “You have published many books of atheists, you have sinned. Be prepared for death! Al-Ahrar, UK,” reads the SMS sent to Somoy Prakashan publisher Farid Ahmed, The Daily Star reported. The […]
A Russian airliner crashed on Saturday in central Sinai with more than 200 people on board, the office of Egypt’s prime minister has confirmed. The office of Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail confirmed in a statement that a “Russian civilian plane… crashed in the central Sinai.” The Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsiya said in a statement […]
A Russian airliner crashed in central Sinai in Egypt on Saturday with 224 people on board, all of whom are presumed dead, media reports said. Kolavia flight 7K9268, an Airbus A321, enroute to St. Petersburg, went off the radar 23 minutes after taking off from Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport. The plane was to contact air […]
Mumbai-born British businessman Lord Ghulam Kaderbhoy Noon, who earned the moniker ‘Curry King‘ for popularising Indian chicken tikka and curry in Britain and survived the 26/11 terror attacks in Taj Mahal and Palace Hotel in Mumbai, has died in London. Born in Mumbai on January 24, 1936, the 79-year-old Noon breathed his last — in […]
India on Tuesday made a strong pitch for early reforms of the United Nations Security Council before a gathering of Africa’s leaders, saying both India and Africa can no longer be excluded from their “rightful place” in the world body. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who addressed the ministerial meeting of the Third India-Africa Forum […]
The third India-Africa Forum Summit kicked off here on Monday with senior officials of the host nation and 54 countries from the continent negotiating two agreements. “The summit formally started with the meeting of the senior officials of India and Africa,” Indian external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup told the media here. “Two agreements are […]
The strongest earthquake in 10 years rocked Pakistan on Monday leaving at least 200 people dead and over a thousand injured and causing widespread damage, stretching from the areas near Afghanistan to Kashmir and Punjab regions bordering India. The 7.5 intensity quake with its epicentre in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountains at 2.09 p.m. jolted most […]