Washington, March 1 (IANS) Islamabad has urged Washington to show a greater understanding of Pakistans security concerns as US Secretary of State John Kerry asked the south Asian country to consider reducing its nuclear arsenal….
Tokyo, March 1 (IANS) Japanese researchers have identified the development of behavioural laterality or left- or right-handedness and attack side preference in a scale-eating cichlid called Perissodus microlepis from Africa’s Lake Tanganyika. The study found…
Nay Pyi Taw, March 1 (IANS) Myanmar has formed an advisory review commission for the Union Parliament comprising the two Houses to cooperate in handling legal affairs and special cases, parliament sources said on Tuesday….
Kabul, March 1 (IANS) Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai attended the ongoing Raisina Dialogue 2016, which began in New Delhi on Tuesday. Karzai was invited to the conference by Observer Research Foundation (ORF), an Indian…
Kabul, March 1 (IANS) At least 70 militants were killed as Afghan forces, after three days of fierce fighting, captured Taliban bastion in the northern Faryab province on Tuesday, a senior official said. “Finally the…
New York, March 1 (IANS) Countering a recent report that said millennials have cut down cereal consumption as it requires doing the dishes after eating, a new article in Live Science suggests that the youth…
Baghdad, March 1 (IANS) At least 39 security members were killed in a suicide attack on army headquarters in Iraq’s Anbar province, the media reported on Tuesday. Two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests triggered blasts…
Islamabad, March 1 (IANS) The toll in an outbreak of water-borne and food shortage diseases has reached 165 in a district of Pakistan’s Sindh province since this January. People in Tharparkar district, largely from the…
Brasilia, March 1 (IANS) Brazilian Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo has resigned, the government has announced. Cardozo was under pressure from the ruling Workers Party because he failed to curb a corruption investigation on the…
Baghdad, March 1 (IANS) At least 39 people were killed as two suicide bombers attacked an Iraqi army headquarters in the province of Anbar. Among the killed people was a senior general and a provincial…
Islamabad, March 1 (IANS) A Pakistani police constable was arrested after drugs, weapons and Indian passports were recovered from his house during a raid in Lahore on Tuesday, media reported. The accused identified as constable…
Kabul, March 1 (IANS) The only way left for Taliban militant group is to join the peace process in Afghanistan, Russian Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov has said. “Taliban don’t have any ways other…
Kabul, March 1 (IANS) Three civilians were killed and two injured when militants fired a rocket towards Pul-e-Khumri city of Afghanistan on Tuesday morning. “The rocket fired by Taliban militants struck a house in Pul-e-Khumri,…
London, March 1 (IANS) Researchers have developed electronic films that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. The researchers believe that the new films that are almost as flexible as…
Tokyo, March 1 (IANS) A Japanese sewage firm is set to launch next month collectable cards featuring pictures of manhole covers with unique designs. The unusual project led by GKP, a group including officials from…
London, March 1 (IANS) A team of researchers, including one of Indian origin, has found that in the last decade there has been a ten percent rise in people above 50 with more than one…
Sydney, March 1 (IANS) Australia has imposed some of the world’s toughest laws on cyclists to protect them from accidents, the media reported on Tuesday. According to the new laws in New South Wales (NSW)…
Havana, March 1 (IANS) The sales of Cuban cigar grew four percent in 2015 and generated a revenue of $428 million, an executive of state-run cigar maker Habanos S.A. said. The growth was due to…
New York, March 1 (IANS) Researchers have developed a new technology called device fingerprinting that could help address the unique security challenges of the electrical grid and other cyber-physical systems. “Device fingerprinting is a unique…
Muscat, March 1 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed and 14 injured on Tuesday when a Dubai-bound passenger bus collided with a truck and a car in Oman. Police said injured people were admitted…