Colombo, Nov 10 (IANS) Over 200 Tamil prisoners, including former Tamil Tiger rebels, re-started a hunger strike in jails across Sri Lanka on Tuesday for their immediate release. The prisoners launched a similar fast last…
Mumbai, Nov 10 (IANS) The owner of the ‘Ambedkar House’ in London — which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit later this week during his upcoming Britain trip — remains a mystery though the Maharashtra…
London, Nov 10 (IANS) Post the BJP’s debacle in the Bihar assembly elections, the overseas unit of the Congress has said the interaction between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the British Indian diaspora scheduled at…
London, Nov 9 (IANS) With the Bihar election result coming as a setback for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public interaction with the Indian diaspora in Britain at Wembley Stadium, the internationally renowned sporting…
Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday congratulated Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi for emerging victorious in her country’s general elections. Sukna: West…
Dhaka, Nov 9 (IANS) A court in Bangladesh capital Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against the country’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s eldest son Tarique Rahman in a sedition case. Moshiur Malek, president of Bangabandhu…
Ankara, Nov 8 (IANS) Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has booked an entire hotel in Turkey’s southern Antalya province during his 18-day visit to the city as part of the G20 Summit to be held…
Cairo, Nov 7 (IANS) Foreign intelligence on the reasons of a Russian airliner’s crash over Sinai peninsula has not been shared with Egypt, Foreign Minister of the country said on Saturday. “The information we have…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) India’s pending application for entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) should come up for consideration at its plenary in June 2016. Indian diplomats have been in discussion with NSG…
Cairo, Nov 1 (IANS) The black box of the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai earlier on Saturday has been found and 129 bodies have been recovered, Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said at…
Cairo, Nov 1 (IANS) The Islamic State terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the crash of a Russian plane on Saturday in Egypt’s Sinai, which killed over 200 people on board, in a statement posted…
United Nations, Oct 31 (IANS) Taking aim at double standards on human rights, India has criticised its selective invocation as a political tool to go after certain countries. Human rights must “not be used as…
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday congratulated Bidhya Devi Bhandari on being elected as the first woman president of Nepal and assured all possible help to the neighbouring country. Noting that…
Brussels, Oct 29 (IANS) A man deliberately crashed his car into a convoy carrying Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, without causing any injuries, Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The incident happened on a motorway south of…
Washington, Oct 27 (IANS) US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump would not call Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the “Supreme Leader.” He would also put a stop to US meddling in Middle Eastern affairs because women…
Vijayawada, Oct 22 (IANS) Japan and Andhra Pradesh on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of Andhra capital Amaravati. The MoU was signed a couple of hours before Prime Minister Narendra…
(AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader) Tehran, Oct 21 (IANS) Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the government’s nuclear deal with major world powers but said Tehran should not yield…
Seoul, Oct 20 (IANS) Preparations by North Korea for another nuclear test were under way, but there were no signs of an immediate test, South Korea’s intelligence agency said on Tuesday. The assessment was delivered…