Seoul, Oct 10 (IANS) Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including the latest Washington-Seoul wartime operational plan, a ruling party lawmaker said on…
London, Oct 10 (IANS) The cost of treating obesity-related illnesses globally will top $1.2 trillion every year from 2025 unless more was done to check the rapidly worsening epidemic, new expert estimates revealed on Tuesday….
Beijing, Oct 10 (IANS) China welcomes Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s greeting to Chinese soldiers on the border as a “friendly gesture”, a Chinese daily has said. “China welcomes Sitharaman’s greeting and hopes this friendly…
San Francisco, Oct 10 (IANS) Massive wildfires raged across Northern California, killing at least 10 people, forcing up to 20,000 to evacuate and destroying over 1,500 buildings in one of the most destructive fire emergencies…
By Radhika Bhirani New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Age is just a number for Amitabh Bachchan, who turns 75 on Wednesday. His work diary is already spilling into 2019, but he remains firmly “not out”,…
Nay Pyi Taw, Oct 10 (IANS) A human rights group on Tuesday condemned the Myanmar Army for blocking humanitarian aid to Rohingya villages in the violence-ridden Rakhine state. Many of the villages near Buthidaung municipality…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Donald Trump’s current wife Melania slammed the US President’s first wife, Ivana who called herself “first lady” as “attention-seeking and self-serving noise”, the media reported. On Monday, Ivana Trump in an…
Las Vegas, Oct 10 (IANS) Stephen Paddock shot a security guard before he opened fire on an open-air concert in Las Vegas on October 1 killing 59 people, a senior police official announced. Paddock shot…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said the US policy toward North Korea has been a failure for a quarter of a century, allowing Pyongyang to develop atomic weapons. “Our country has been…
Los Angeles, Oct 10 (IANS) Deadly wildfire roared across the US state of California, killing at least 10 persons, forcing evacuations and destroying homes and businesses in their paths. The biggest fires burned in the…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Scott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said he will on Tuesday formally announce a repeal of the Clean Power Plan, a signature effort by former US President…
Sonoma, Oct 10 (AP) More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending an estimated 20,000 people on a headlong flight…
Hyderabad, Oct 10 (IANS) A Telangana legislator who allegedly abused a woman and even brandished his footwear at her was booked on Monday, police said. Farooq Hussain, a member of Legislative Council of the ruling…
Visakhapatnam, Oct 9 (IANS) The first car out of South Korean auto major Kia Motors’ plant in Andhra Pradesh will roll out in January 2019, Andhra Pradesh minister Nara Lokesh said on Monday. The plant,…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that there will be no sale of firecrackers in Delhi and National Capital Region during Diwali, as it restored a November 2016 order banning…
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) History was made at exactly 1.03 p.m. on Monday when the trailer of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Padmavati” came to us. In one word, the experience is indescribable….
Paris, Oct 9 (IANS) The French government on Monday said it will not recognise Catalonia if it declares independence from Spain and such a move will mean expulsion from the European Union. European Affairs Minister…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Hundreds and thousands of trucks kept off the roads across the country on Monday beginning a two-day strike to protest against the GST and calling for an end to daily…
Oslo, Oct 9 (IANS) US economist Richard Thaler, one of the founding fathers of behavioural economics, on Monday won this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. The 72-year-old is a professor at the University of Chicago….
Islamabad, Oct 9 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the days of Islamabads dependence on Washington to meet its military requirements have ended. In an interview to Arab News, published on Monday,…