Dubai, Feb 8 (IANS) A 26-year-old Indian waiter was sentenced to a one-year jail term in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for setting his ex-girlfriend’s shoe and bed on fire, media reported Sunday. The accused admitted that he got drunk before he visited his Filipina ex-girlfriend’s residence and set her shoe and bed on fire, […]
London, Feb 8 (IANS) Heir to the British throne Prince Charles has said that young people in Britain were being radicalised at an “alarming” rate, for which he partly blamed “crazy” content on the internet, a media report said Sunday. “The frightening part is that people can be so radicalised either by contact with somebody […]
Kiev, Feb 5 (IANS) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday discussed the crisis in Ukraine, stressing the need for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict in the eastern regions. Speaking at a joint press briefing following their talks, Poroshenko pledged continued efforts to seek a peaceful settlement […]
Beijing, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Pseudonyms such as “Obama” and “Putin” will no longer be available to Chinese citizens who wish to hide their identity on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, following new internet restrictions implemented by the country’s authorities, the official newspaper China Daily reported Thursday. Internet accounts that use names impersonating known personalities, […]
Washington, Feb 5 (IANS) Saudi Arabia has dismissed claims by a convicted terrorist that it had a role in the 9/11 attacks in the US. While dismissing the claims made by Zacarias Moussaoui, sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 9/11 attacks, the Saudi embassy in Washington in a statement also pointed out […]
By JaideepSarin Chandigarh Having made his millions in the Canadian real estate market, Canada’s first Sikh billionaire, Bob Dhillon, feels India’s real estate market has a lot of potential if the government makes the right moves. “The Indian real estate market is a developer’s dream. It is fascinating. It can be the No.1 market for […]
Nairobi, Jan 29 (IANS) Kenyan police were Thursday interrogating a suspect believed to be behind a spate of terror attacks in northern Kenya. Job Boronjo, police commander of Mandera, told journalists that Salim Abubakar Kitonga, who was arrested early Thursday, was providing crucial information that might lead to the arrest of those behind terror attacks […]
Beijing, Jan 29 (IANS) China’s top legislator Zhang Dejiang called for closer parliamentary exchanges and anti-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan Thursday. Zhang, chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), made the remarks in his talks with Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Xinhua news agency reported. They agreed to step up […]
Kiev, Jan 29 (IANS/EFE) Residents of Debaltsevo, the strategic Ukrainian city contested by pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian Army, began to abandon their homes Thursday as the humanitarian situation in their city continued to worsen. About 100 people, mostly pensioners and families with children, assembled Thursday morning in front of the city hall to be […]
New Delhi/Washington, Jan 27 (IANS) India and the US saw the forging of a closer partnership, helped in great measure by the personal and visible bonding between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, as the two sides elevated their ties with a new ‘Declaration of Friendship’ and also managed to pull off a […]