London, Sep 28 (IANS) Syrian militant group Nusra Front has denounced the US-led airstrikes as “a war against Islam”. In a statement, the Al Qaeda linked group called on jihadis across the world to target Western and Arab countries involved in it, BBC reported. Nusra Front spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri threatened the coalition nations. “These states […]
Islamabad, Sep 28 (IANS) Three new polio cases have been reported in Pakistan, raising the total number of such cases to 174. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has said the cases were registered from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan, Dawn online reported Sunday. “The parents from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan did […]
Islamabad, Sep 28 (IANS) Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan is all set for his protest rally in Lahore’s Minar-i-Pakistan Sunday. PTI leaders say rally participants will start arriving at the venue before noon, while the proceedings will begin around 5.00 p.m. and Imran Khan will speak around 7.00 p.m., Dawn online reported. At the venue, […]
New York, Sep 26 (IANS) Your filmy conversations on Twitter are set to give the micro-blogging site a new way to display targeted ads. The advertising move named “Movie Conversation” would display ads about a particular movie to users who have tweeted about similar movies or related keywords, said a report in Hollywood Reporter. For instance, […]
Kiev, Sep 26 (IANS) A group of American advisors will come to Ukraine in the near future to assist the country with the modernisation of its army, US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt has said. “We believe that Ukraine needs to be able to defend itself, and we will support that,” Xinhua quoted Pyatt as saying […]
New York, Sep 26 (IANS) A new social networking site Ello – described by some people as “anti-Facebook” – that has created quite a buzz claims to end the “real name” policy by keeping itself simple, beautiful and ad-free. In a manifesto posted on its website, the developers claims that “your social network is owned by […]
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) A day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to the US, a human rights group has obtained summons against him for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots as state chief minister. New York based American Justice Centre (AJC) obtained the summons from the US Federal Court for the […]
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) Vinod Khosla, Indian-American co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has lost a court battle against a coastal protection group to keep the public out from a popular beach in northern California with the victorious attorney saying that “great wealth cannot be used to circumvent and ignore the law”. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge […]
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) Shunned by the US for nearly a decade, a triumphant Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi flies into New York Friday to start what he himself has called “a new chapter in our strategic partnership.” Modi gets into Washington for his first meeting with President Barack Obama only on Monday after an address […]
Beijing, Sep 26 (IANS) At least four school students were killed Friday in a knife attack in China. The four children from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were attacked by a knife-wielding middle-aged man while they were en route to their school, Xinhua reported. Three children died at the scene and one died later in a hospital. […]