The UN General Assembly will appoint Antonio Guterres as next Secretary-General on Thursday to replace the retiring Ban Ki-moon on January 1 next year. According to a letter sent by General Assembly President Peter Thomson on Tuesday, the date for the appointment has been set for October 13 at UN headquarters, Xinhua news agency reported. […]
Sixteen terror suspects including a group that pledged allegiance to an Islamic State (IS) member in Syria have been arrested in Malaysia, the media reported. Fourteen of the suspects belonged to a local cell and have used internet to swear an oath of allegiance to Mohamad Wanndy Mohamad Jedi, a Malaysian IS militant in Syria, […]
Some senior Republicans and leaders on Saturday lined up to denounce presidential nominee Donald Trump for his incendiary remarks about women that he made in 2005, while some others blasted the remarks and demanded apology from Trump while not explicitly withdrawing support to him, CNN reported. Some members said they wanted Trump to step aside […]
US President Barack Obama has criticised Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for “demeaning women” amid the scandal that erupted after the release of a videotape in which the latter can be heard making lewd comments about women. “It tells you that he’s insecure enough that he pumps himself up by putting other people down,” said […]
Five Indian-Americans figure among America’s 400 richest people, in a list again headed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, according to the survey by Forbes magazine. Symphony Technology founder Romesh Wadhwani, co-founders of outsourcing firm Syntel Bharat, Syntel’s Neerja Desai, airline veteran Rakesh Gangwal, entrepreneur John Kapoor and Silicon Valley angel investor Kavitark Ram Shriram figure […]
Republican Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton sparred over a number of issues including the billionaire’s lewd comments about women and the former State Department Secretary’s deleted emails, in the second presidential debate here on Sunday night. The two presidential nominees accused each other with Clinton saying Trump was “not fit to be […]
Increased movement of personnel and vehicles has been detected in North Korea’s main missile launch site, indicating preparations for a long-range missile launch in the near future, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. Yonhap quoted a senior South Korean official as saying that moves in North Korea’s Tongchanr-ri missile base have remarkably increased recently, noting […]
India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan – a country that has “established itself as a global epicentre of terrorism”, and asked it to abandon its “futile quest” of Kashmir. India’s Permanent Representative in the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, in his statement on the Work of the Organization, also called for a comprehensive reform of the […]
As Google, Salesforce and even Walt Disney join the race to buy Twitter, the micro-blogging website is expected to receive bids this week, media reported on Wednesday. According to Wall Street Journal, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is “building a case to Salesforce.com Inc. investors and others that his company should be the buyer.” Like LinkedIn […]
Ahead of the festive season, domestic smartphone-maker Karbonn Mobiles on Monday launched two new smartphones in India. Karbonn Titanium Vista (priced at Rs 5,499) comes with a 5-inch screen, 1.3MHz quad-core processor that runs on a Mediatek MT6580 chipset along with 2,300mAh Li-ion battery. The smartphone has 8GB internal memory that can be expanded up […]