A bomb ripped through a fruit truck parked on Lahores Band Road, leaving at least 34 people, mostly passers-by, injured late on Monday. “It was a bomb blast in a fruit truck,” Punjab government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan said. The bombing came as ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif prepares to return to Lahore, the […]
The Arab League on Monday condemned the repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israelis as an attempt to Judaize Jerusalem. Saed Abu Ali, AL assistant secretary general for Palestine and the occupied Arab territories affairs, said the unprecedented incidents in Jerusalem recently were a blatant violation of the rights of the Palestinians and […]
US President Donald Trump told his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto to remain quiet about the border wall, according to a transcript of the conversation revealed on Thursday by The Washington Post. The transcript of Trump’s conversation with Mexico’s leader was one of two phone calls revealed on Thursday, which provide a rare glimpse into […]
The FBI has detained a computer expert who found a way to stop an outbreak of the “WannaCry” ransomware computer virus in May that had affected computers of key public services and businesses across the world. The 23-year-old Briton Marcus Hutchins, who runs a security blog called MalwareTech, was arrested late Wednesday in Las Vegas […]
After the Chamber of Deputies voted to dismiss charges against President Michel Temer for corruption, the government is focusing on social security reform, Brazil’s Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha has said. Padilha on Thursday said the measure is necessary to ensure the security of Brazil’s accounts. “Brazil’s accounts cannot get completely out of hand. We […]
Air France will expand its no-flyover zone around North Korea after concerns a missile test crossed a plane’s flight path, the media reported. On Thursday, the French flag carrier said the move was being taken as a “precautionary measure” after a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) splashed down near the route being taken by […]
The US has declared a full-scale trade war against Russia with the enactment of a new sanctions bill, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “The hope of improving our relations with the new US administration has come to an end,” said Medvedev on Facebook on Wednesday, commenting on the signing of the bill by US […]
A proposed US immigration reform legislation is narrowly focused on Green Cards and it does not cover temporary non-immigrant visas like the H1-B given to tens of thousands of Indian professionals. The Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which was unveiled on Wednesday, “doesn’t deal with guest workers and temporary non-immigrant visas” […]
By Saket Suman Book: East or West; Author: Vinati Sukhdev; Publisher: Westland; Pages: 135 The many aspects of everyday Indian life — history, culture, language, family relationships and marriage — that we in India tend to take for granted are often major issues of contention for NRIs living overseas – an estimated 30 million of […]
Los Angeles Indian actress Priyanka Chopra, who has found a foothold in Hollywood, is reportedly executive producing a comedy series about Bollywood’s dancing diva Madhuri Dixit’s life for US network ABC. According an exclusive report by variety.com, the yet untitled series is based on the real life of Madhuri, who will also executive produce the […]