Seven militants were killed late Wednesday in an army raid over the hardline hideouts in Egypt’s north Sinai province, an army statement said Thursday. “Seven dangerous jihadist elements loyal to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group were killed in southern Sheikh Zuweid city,” Xinhua quoted army spokesman Ahmed Ali as saying in a statement posted on […]
Paresh Barua, leader of the anti-talk faction of the ULFA, is among the 14 people awarded the death sentence by a Bangladesh court Thursday in connection with a 2004 arms smuggling case. A special court in Chittagong handed the death sentence to Barua and 13 others, including Jamaat chief and then industries minister Motiur Rahman […]
GVK BIO, a leading small-molecule contract research organization (CRO), has announced acquisition of US-based Aragen Bioscience, Inc., a pre-clinical CRO specialising in high-value biologics services. The Hyderabad-based company Wednesday said it entered into an agreement to acquire the capital stock of Aragen Biosciences. It, however, has not disclosed financial details of its first overseas acquisition. […]
The mother of a three-year-old Indian-origin boy, whose body was recovered two days after his disappearance from Scotland’s capital Edinburgh earlier this month, has appeared in court for a second time on charges of murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Mikaeel Kular went missing from his home in Edinburgh Jan 15 and […]
pakPakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday announced the formation of a four-member team to hold negotiations with the Pakistani Taliban. Addressing a session of the national assembly, Sharif accepted the invitation of the Taliban to hold a dialogue and said the government wanted to give peace another chance, Dawn online reported. Sharif said Interior Minister […]
An Indian family in Saudi Arabia, which could not return to India during the amnesty period granted by the country’s authorities to illegal expatriates last year, has finally been repatriated. Members of Zahid Hussain’s family, hailing from India’s Maharashtra state, have been deported and have reached home, the Arab News reported Wednesday. Zahid, however, was […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that he has been working toward a “true partnership” with Pakistan since taking office a year ago. The top American envoy made the remarks as he reopened the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue at the State Department with Sartaj Aziz, the adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on […]
A Chinese police officer was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for causing intentional injury to a seven-month-old baby. According to the Henan Provincial Higher People’s Court, Guo Zengxi of the public security bureau was convicted of the crime of causing intentional injury to the baby, Xinhua reported. On July 18, 2013, Guo took […]
The Nepali Congress, the largest party in parliament, Sunday named its president Sushil Koirala as its prime ministerial candidate, clearing a major hurdle in the formation of a new government in the Himalayan nation two months after the constituent assembly elections. The Nepali Congress emerged as the largest political party in last year’s Nov 19 […]
Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav Sunday called upon all political parties to form a consensual government before Feb 2 under an elected prime minister, even as the Maoists, the third largest grouping in the newly-elected Constituent Assembly, said they will remain in the opposition but will help others in drafting the constitution. The president’s call […]