Geneva, Sep 9 (IANS) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said its staff in Myanmar and Bangladesh are scaling up their efforts to minimize the suffering of this crisis. It said on Friday…
Washington, Sep 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that military action against North Korea was not inevitable. “Military action would certainly be an option. Is it inevitable? Nothing is inevitable,” said Trump…
Hyderabad, Sep 8 (IANS) “Baahubali” filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli will be conferred the Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR) award here on September 17 for his excellence in cinema, actor Akkineni Nagarjuna announced on Friday. “We are very…
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday banned all anti-NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) protests in Tamil Nadu and directed the state government to ensure that no agitation takes place against…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Poster Boys” Director: Shreyas Talpade Cast: Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Shreyas Talpade, Sonali Kulkarni, Randheer Rai and Raashul Tandon Rating: ** 1/2 Actor-director Shreyas Talpade’s “Poster Boys” is a screw-ball comedy…
San Francisco, Sep 8 (IANS) US-based credit reporting agency Equifax Inc announced on Friday that hackers had gained access to the company’s data, potentially impacting approximately 143 million US consumers. Hackers exploited a vulnerability in…
Beijing/San Francisco, Sep 8 (IANS) Google is reportedly considering to acquire the struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC’s phone business, media reported. According to a report in the Chinese publication Commercial Times, Google is considering two…
Washington, Sep 8 (IANS) The eye of the devastating category-5 hurricane Irma was moving near the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday and continued tracking towards South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend….
Washington, Sep 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that while a military response remains a possibility as the US develops a response to North Korea’s detonation of what Pyongyang claims was a hydrogen bomb,…
Washington, Sep 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump told young undocumented migrants protected from deportation under the DACA program that they need not worry about their immigration status for the next six months, the period…
Beijing, Sep 8 (IANS) China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said his country will support new measures against North Korea following the latest nuclear test by the Kim Jong-un regime. Given the situation on the Korean…
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) Indian star Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Shuai Peng entered the women’s doubles semi-finals of the US Open tennis tournament with a straight sets win over Timea Babos of…
Yangon, Sep 7 (IANS) Facing the problem of Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday likened the issue to Kashmir and said that there is the trouble of sifting terrorists from…
By Qaid Najmi Mumbai, Sep 7 (IANS) As expected, notorious mafia gangster Abu Salem A. Ansari, 50, was spared the death penalty and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by Special TADA court Judge G.A. Sanap…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Thursday said his party would fight the 2019 assembly polls in Odisha alone and get over 120 of the 147 seats. “The BJP…
Chennai, Sep 7 (IANS) In new twists and turns in political developments in Tamil Nadu, an AIADMK MLA owing allegiance to the Dinakaran faction on Thursday defected to the Chief Minister’s camp while three others…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) The US has proposed a range of new UN sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on the country’s leader Kim Jong-un’s assets. The draft resolution circulated…
Mumbai, Sep 7 (IANS) A Special TADA Court on Thursday awarded the death penalty to two convicts, life sentences to two others, including gangster Abu Salem, while giving 10 years jail to one accused in…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday summoned Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav in connection with a railways corruption case. The two…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) The “potentially catastrophic” hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, after causing widespread damage in the northern Caribbean islands was now moving towards Puerto Rico, according to weather…