Paris, A huge manhunt is under way for surviving members and accomplices of the Islamist group suspected to be involved in the Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people and left 350 others injured, media reports said on Monday. Police have named Belgium-born French national Salah Abdeslam, 26, as a key suspect. He was reportedly […]
Washington, Taking the stage a day after the deadly terrorist strike in Paris, Hillary Clinton in direct contrast with President Barack Obama asserted that ISIS “cannot be contained” but instead must be “defeated.” “We have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be […]
Beijing, China’s People’s Daily has condemned the Paris attacks in a commentary on Sunday, saying terrorist attacks against civilians are a blatant and extreme violation of basic human rights and civilization. The article said extremism and terrorism are spreading across the world, and terrorist attacks resulting in massive civilian casualties have become more frequent, reported […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday said a time will soon come when there will be a British-Indian prime minister. Addressing 60,000 wildly cheering British-Indians awaiting to listen to visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Cameron began with an Indian style of greeting: ”Namaste Wembley!” “It won’t be long before there is a […]
London, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India will no longer resort to retrospective taxation, while acknowledging that such steps were adversely affecting the mood of existing and potential investors. “There were a number of regulatory and taxation issues which were adversely impacting on the sentiments of foreign investors. We have taken very decisive […]
Washington, Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi to wish him a happy diwali, US President Barack Obama has reaffirmed the importance of the US-India partnership in addressing both regional and global issues. A White House readout of the call on Tuesday said Obama spoke to Modi by phone “to review joint efforts on key areas of […]
Angad Paul, son of — an India-born Britain-based business magnate and philanthropist — died after falling from his eighth-storeyed penthouse home here, a media report said on Monday. Angad fell eight storeys on Sunday night, landing on the roof of another building below. Paramedics pronounced the 45-year-old dead at the scene in central London, Mirror […]
Police in Nepal on Monday shot dead an Indian national during protests in the the country’s Birgunj city close to the Indian border, officials said. The deceased was identified as Asish Kumar Ram, 24. He belonged to Raxaul in Bihar. Nepal’s Home Secretary Surya Silwal confirmed that a protester had been killed in a clash […]
A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS. “You have published many books of atheists, you have sinned. Be prepared for death! Al-Ahrar, UK,” reads the SMS sent to Somoy Prakashan publisher Farid Ahmed, The Daily Star reported. The […]
A Russian airliner crashed on Saturday in central Sinai with more than 200 people on board, the office of Egypt’s prime minister has confirmed. The office of Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail confirmed in a statement that a “Russian civilian plane… crashed in the central Sinai.” The Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsiya said in a statement […]