Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said nobody’s passport application should be rejected on the grounds of a relative’s involvement in militancy. Abdullah’s comment came on Twitter after Sheikh Ruhail Afzal, resident of Trehgam village in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, went to media claiming that his passport application had been rejected by the […]
The Sri Lankan Army Thursday termed as baseless allegations by the US embassy in Colombo that the army was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians at the fag end of the country’s three-decade-long war against Tamil rebels. The US Embassy in Colombo had tweeted a picture of the US ambassador-at-large at the Office […]
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s condition is worsening and his family is by his side, CNN reported Thursday. “In the last few hours there has been a deterioration in Ariel Sharon’s medical condition,” said Michael Schwartz, a spokesperson for the Sheba Medical Center, where the comatose former Israeli prime minister is being treated, in […]
A 28-year-old employee of an advertising firm was fined for rash driving after he overtook the convoy of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, police said Thursday. Saurabh Rastogi’s car overtook Vadra’s convoy in south Delhi’s Amar Colony area. “Vadra’s security officers signalled to the traffic policemen deployed on the road about the suspicious […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was given a G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity Jan 8 and is on her way back to India. The external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: “Devyani Khobragade was given G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity on 8 Jan, 2014. Airborne on way back to India.”
Nigeria’s troops in northeast state of Borno said Thursday that 38 Boko Haram suspects were killed after it successfully repelled an attack on Damboa community in by suspected Boko Haram fighters. Spokesperson for the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army Muhammad Dole announced the development in a statement in Maiduguri, the restive state capital city, […]
Mohd Asim Khan When we talk of the food at an upscale restaurant we invariably talk of the chef behind it. But despite most of us finding the array of food available in Delhi’s old quarters lip-smacking, few of us remember the ‘bawarchis’, or the traditional cooks, behind the culinary magic. Purani Dilli, as the area is known, […]
New Delhi India has urged its nearly 25 million strong diaspora across the world to play a constructive role in bolstering the economy, especially in infrastructure development and expanding manufacturing capacity. Addressing the 12th edition of the annual diaspora meet – Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) – in the national capital, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand […]
A special court in Pakistan Thursday heard the high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf for abrogation of the constitution and ordered him to appear Jan 16 after reviewing his medical report. The court said Musharraf’s medical report did not mention that he had a heart attack. It also did not say that he […]
A travel agency’s owner in Tripura has been arrested for hacking into the network of another travel agency and cancelling air tickets of ministers and police officers, police said Thursday. The 30-year-old was arrested Wednesday night, police official Milan Datta told reporters. The man is being interrogated, Datta said, adding that this was the first […]