An Indian doctor was stabbed to death in Kansas state of the US. One of his patients has been arrested as a suspect in the stabbing death, according to police. Achutha Reddy’s death in Witchita on Wednesday is the second killing this year of an Indian in Kansas where Srinivas Kuchibhotla was shot dead in […]
The US has issued visa restrictions on Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone as these countries refused to take back deported citizens. The visa restrictions, effective from Wednesday, affected “certain categories of visa applicants, determined on a country-by-country basis”, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported. “Without […]
Top House and Senate Democrats have announced agreement with President Donald Trump to protect certain immigrants brought illegally to the US under the DACA programme, media reports said. The agreement was announced in a joint statement from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. It was […]
One student was killed and four others injured on Wednesday in a shooting at a high school near Spokane in the US state of Washington. The shooting took place shortly after 10:00 a.m. local time at Freeman High School in Rockford, Spokane County, in Eastern Washington state, Xinhua news agency reported. More than an hour […]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday directed federal departments and agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their information systems. “The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies,” Xinhua quoted the DHS as saying. The US department also expressed concerns that under […]
A day after Apple announced facial recognition system to unlock iPhone X, a US senator has written a letter to CEO Tim Cook, conveying concerns on users’ privacy and security. According to a report in appleinsider.com on Thursday, Senator Al Franken (Democrat-Minnesota) has asked several questions related to Apple’s implementation of Face ID technology. “While […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants Rohingya refugees helped “regardless of politics,” his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday in reply to a question about India’s policy on those fleeing Myanmar. Dujarric said that the reports about Rohingya’s plight and pictures of them fleeing were heart-rending and these are very vulnerable people and deserved to be helped. […]
Cuban authorities have evacuated 700,000 people from the country’s northeastern coast ahead of the category 5 hurricane Irma hitting the island nation, authorities said. The eye of the hurricane was expected to pass between the island of Hispaniola, home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday morning, reports […]
Film: “Logan Lucky”; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Katherine Waterston, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Brian Gleeson, Jack Quaid, Hilary Swank, Daniel Craig and Jesse White; Rating: ** A goofy heist film, “Logan Lucky” is similar yet a far resemblance from director Steven Soderbergh’s repertoire of films. […]
Dozens of South Korean protesters and police were injured in clashes on Thursday during a rally against the full deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile shield. Some 400 residents of Seongju City, who live close to the site where the THAAD system will be installed, clashed with the security forces […]