Afghan landslide toll 2,000, India offers help

Kabul/New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The toll in Friday’s landslide in Afghanistan has been put at 2,000 by rescue officials as India Saturday offered assistance in relief and rehabilitation efforts. Rescue officials also said that the site may become a massive grave as the enormous amount of rubble is making the recovery of bodies almost […]

Mumbai native named to key US treasury department post

Washington, May 3 (IANS) Jawahar Kaliani, an IT and electronics engineer from Mumbai, has been named to a key job in the US Treasury Department to develop secure business solutions for safety and soundness of banks and federal savings associations. Named Deputy Chief Information Officer for Application Services Delivery (ASD) at the Office of the […]

Three Indo-Canadians charged with violent sexual assaults

Toronto, May 3 (IANS) Three Indo-Canadians were charged with 17 offences in two separate cases of violent sexual assaults on sex workers two years ago in Canada’s Surrey, media reported. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that three suspects identified as Simranpreet Dhillon, Sukhraj Chahal and Gurjinder Sodha were involved in two incidents in Surrey […]

Five killed in Somalia car bomb blast

Mogadishu, May 3 (IANS) Five people, including a former government official, were killed and six others injured after a car bomb went off near a main junction in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. The bomb was planted on the vehicle of Abdi Kafi Hilowle, former secretary of Mogadishu administration. It went off near […]

Indian-American Manish Shah confirmed as federal judge in Illinois by US Senate

PTI WASHINGTON: The US Senate has confirmed the Indian-American Manish as a federal judge in Illinois, becoming the first South Asian federal judge in the 5th most populous state of America. Shah, 40, was confirmed by the Senate by 95-0 votes. “His experience as a prosecutor and in various leadership positions at Chicago’s US Attorney’s […]

One of Jesus’s earliest images discovered in Egypt

LONDON: One of the earliest images of Jesus Christ has been discovered from the most unlikely place — buried deep in an ancient Egyptian tomb. Egyptians were not Christians but a team of Catalan archaeologists have found five or six coats of paint on the tomb’s walls, the last of which was from the Coptic […]

BJP condemns Pakistan army chief’s Kashmir remarks

New Delhi, May 1  The BJP Thursday condemned Pakistan Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif’s comment that Kashmir was Islamabad’s “jugular vein”, and said Pakistan occupied Kashmir was an integral part of India. “BJP condemns statement made by army Pakistan army chief…PoK (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) is an integral part of India,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson […]

Scared of gaining weight? Kick the butt first

New York, May 2  Are you concerned about gaining weight from quit-smoking treatment? Better be concerned abut reducing weight that not quitting the puff as the latter’s health benefits are immense. According to researchers, smokers may avoid treatment to quit smoking if they previously gained weight while trying to quit. Weight gain is a predictable […]

US school placed on lockdown

US school placed on lockdown

Washington, April 30 (IANS) A high school in Texas, US, was placed on lockdown after a student received a text message that someone carried a weapon on campus. A male student at the Madison High School in San Antonio received a text message from an unknown number Tuesday morning stating, “I have a weapon,” Xinhua reported […]

Three leftists killed in Philippines

Three leftists killed in Philippines

Manila, April 30 (IANS) Three suspected members of a leftist rebel group were killed in a clash with government troops in southern Philippines Wednesday , a military official said. Captain Ernest Carolina of the Philippine Army’s 10th Infantry Division said the gun battle happened in a forested area in Montevista town. Carolina said no one from […]