As a heartbroken President Barack Obama renewed a call for gun control in the wake of the killing of two journalists on live TV, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump instead favoured addressing mental health issues. “It breaks my heart every time when you read about or hear about these kind of incidents,” the president told an […]
A manhunt was underway for a gunman who fatally shot a local news reporter and photographer on live television during an interview outside Moneta, Virginia, on Wednesday morning. Alison Parker was interviewing a woman at approximately 6.45 a.m. when shots rang out. Both women screamed, CNN reported. As the camera fell to the ground, the […]
Outshining seasoned politicians, drawing huge crowds and surging in polls, frontrunner Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has served notice on his opponents that he is in the game to win. “It’s one thing to have the summer of Trump. But it doesn’t mean anything unless we win,” Trump told a crowd Tuesday in Dubuque in […]
An organisation that governs and cares for the transgender community in Malaysia has lodged a police complaint on a hate video that sought physical violence against the community. The Malaysian Tamil Thirunangai Organisation lodged the complaint at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur after a group of Indian-Malaysian transgender women complained about the […]
The toll in blasts in a warehouse in China’s Tianjin city has risen to 123, authorities said on Sunday. The identities of all victims have been verified, Xinhua quoted Gong Jiansheng, deputy head of Tianjin’s publicity department as saying. Fifty people, including 34 firefighters and four policemen, continued to remain missing nearly two weeks after […]
The death toll in Philippine typhoon Goni has risen to 14, the state disaster management agency said on Sunday. At least 11 others were injured and three remained missing, Xinhua quoted the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) as saying. Over 33,000 were evacuated in five regions in Philippines due to the rough […]
The Syed Ali Shah Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference on Saturday said India’s policy of non-inclusion of the Kashmir issue in the NSA level talks with Pakistan was “unfortunate”. “It is very unfortunate that India has put pre-conditions to Pakistan ahead of the talks. It also proves that India has no argument to put before the international […]
Pakistan on Thursday refused to host the 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference after declining to change its stance on not inviting the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly. The announcement was made by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who said Pakistan would not compromise on its stand on Jammu and Kashmir which it considers a […]
India-born former Google executive Nikesh Arora has bought shares valued at $482 million (Rs.3,148 crore) of Japanese multinational SoftBank Group Corporation in which he is director, president and chief operating officer. In a regulatory filing to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, SoftBank said its board members had approved Arora investing in the group in […]
The Taj Mahal in Agra is perhaps the world’s most photographed monument. Each minute hundreds of cameras click to shoot memorable photographs. “It’s a matter of pride to be photographed with the Taj Mahal,” Denis, a tourist from Australia, told IANS. These days, with almost every one in possession of a mobile or a digital […]