Geneva, Oct 20 (IANS) Nearly fifty-eight per cent of the about 600,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are children who suffer from severe malnutrition, a UN report released said. The UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) report also…
Moscow, Oct 20 (IANS) Russia has always favoured a civilized way to settle all disputes, including the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, said President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. North Korea should not be cornered or intimidated,…
Washington, Oct 20 (IANS) The President of the US on Thursday accused the mainstream media of ignoring fresh details about the controversial 2010 approval of a deal that gave Russia control over a large chunk…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) The festive fervour gripped the nation on Thursday as people celebrated Diwali, often referred to as ‘the festival of lights by lighting ‘diyas (earthen lamps), paying obeisance to Goddess Lakshmi,…
Patna, Oct 19 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday said Lord Ram will punish the BJP as it has been doing politics in his name. “It is wrong and unethical to play politics in…
Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain Mohammad Safdar were indicted by an accountability court on Thursday in a corruption reference pertaining to the London…
Gurez (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday celebrated Diwali with soldiers in this idyllic valley of Jammu and Kashmir, telling them how he gets engergised by spending time with…
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Actor Kamaal R. Khan, whose account on Twitter has again been suspended over personal remarks over Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, says he will take legal action against the micro-blogging site. Kamaal,…
San Francisco, Oct 19 (IANS) A senior Facebook executive admitted Russian agents used its Messenger platform and that the company is still determining, alongside federal investigators, how Russian agents may have tried to influence the…
Los Angeles, Oct 19 (IANS) Actor Channing Tatum has decided to pull the plug on his upcoming movie financed by the The Weinstein Company (TWC) amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal. The project would…
Kolkata, Oct 19 (IANS) A fire enveloped the 16th floor of a high-rise building here on Thursday, officials said. The blaze erupted around 10.30 a.m. on a Diwali day in the server room of the…
Yangon, Oct 19 (IANS) A colonial-era luxury wooden hotel in Myanmar’s Yangon city suffered severe damage in a massive fire that broke out on Thursday. The fire started around 3 a.m., in the Kandawgyi Palace…
London, Oct 19 (IANS) British Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to make it as easy as possible for European Union (EU) citizens to remain in the UK after Brexit, the media reported on Friday….
Tehran, Oct 19 (IANS) The Iranian supreme leader on Wednesday warned that his country would shred its multinational nuclear deal should the US decide to quit and criticized Europe’s weak defence of the landmark agreement….
Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump raised doubts on Wednesday about his support for a bipartisan initiative to restore the ObamaCare subsidies he suspended last week in exchange for states’ getting greater flexibility…
Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) The US President said on Wednesday that a congresswoman had lied about his conversation with the widow of an American soldier killed in an ambush early this month in the northern…
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) Ahead of his India visit, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that the US expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorist groups, and warned that countries that…
Gurugram/Chandigarh, Oct 18 (IANS) Veteran cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been named in a complaint of domestic violence filed by his sister-in-law Akanksha Sharma but his family lawyer said that no case has been registered against…
Los Angeles, Oct 18 (IANS) Actor Johnny Depp has sued his lawyer over claims that he conspired with Depp’s former financial manager to swindle $40 million of his wealth. The “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead…
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) A US judge blocked the latest version of the Trump administration’s travel ban just hours before it was set to take effect from Wednesday, saying that it “suffers from precisely the…