Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to the US with a litany of complaints against India with the hope of getting an India type nuclear deal and involving Washington in the Kashmir issue. He got neither. Instead Sharif ended up giving President Barack Obama an assurance that Islamabad would take effective action against Pakistan based […]
Washington, President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to an Indian-American kid who recently made history by becoming the first person to earn a second Global Finalist award in the 2015 Google Science Fair. “We’ve got some young Americans here tonight with that same kind of adventurous spirit,” he said addressing several hundred people including students, […]
Islamabad, At least 11 people were killed and 23 injured on Monday in an explosion in a packed passenger bus in Quetta city of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, media reports said. Most of the wounded people were in a critical condition, a police official said, reported Geo News. The explosion was carried out through a timed […]
Manila,Violent typhoon Koppu battered the Philippines on Sunday, destroying homes and displacing at least 10,000 people, and causing coastal surges of four metres high. Koppu, the category four typhoon, made landfall near the town of Casiguran in Aurora province. However, no casualties have been reported so far. The state weather bureau said Koppu intensified on […]
The Sikh community is offering free hot meals to the homeless and the poor in Northampton town in Britain, a media report said. This is done every Sunday, the Northampton Chronicle reported on Wednesday. A Sikh leader, Amarjit Atwal, was quoted as saying that the numbers queueing up for the free food had been growing […]
US. President Barack Obama urged Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to “tamp down” the kind of rhetoric that is arousing anger and tensions in the region, and condemned the violence “against innocent people” that has left more than 30 people dead over the past few weeks. “It’s important for both (Israeli) Prime […]
The White House has teamed up with a Sikh and an Asia Pacific community group to launch a public awareness campaign to address bullying in six languages including Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. The resources for the “Act To Change” campaign are also available in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese as one out of three in the […]
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has said he’s happy to see that under Narendra Modi’s leadership, India has taken steps to renew focus on building its economy, and called for closer ties between the two countries. In an email interview here, Key said closer economic and political ties between New Zealand and India would […]
Barely three weeks after a democratic federal constitution was promulgated in Nepal, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was on Monday sworn-in as the new prime minister heading an eight-member cabinet. President Ram Baran Yadav administered the oaths of office and secrecy to Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) chairman Oli and his cabinet colleagues at […]
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Scottish micro-economist Angus Deaton, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced here on Monday. According to an academy statement, Deaton, 69, was awarded “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”, Xinhua news agency reported. “More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced the understanding […]