One person was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded at the Istanbul offices of a Turkish magazine taken to be sympathetic to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Efe news agency reported citing Turkish media on Thursday. The explosion on Wednesday night at the offices of Adimlar magazine left a journalist […]
In a shocking revelation, the French prosecutor said on Thursday that the co-pilot of the Germanwings A320 flight deliberately crashed the airliner, killing all 144 passengers and six crew members on board. The action of the first officer, Andreas G. Lubitz, of the crashed Germanwings A320 in the French Alps “can be analysed as his […]
To stem modern day slavery, Britain has implemented a new law under which human traffickers could be punished with life imprisonment, London-based Asian Lite daily reported on Thursday. The maximum jail sentence for traffickers has been increased from 14 years to life imprisonment under the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act, 2015. It allows the […]
An Indian restaurant in Britain was raided by immigration officers and seven workers, all from Bangladesh, were arrested on the charge of visa-related offences, according to media reports. The seven illegal workers were arrested last week from the town of Sandhurst in southeast England’s Berkshire county and face deportation, reported Getreading online on Monday. British […]
An Airbus A320 of a German low-cost airline with 150 people on board crashed on Tuesday in southern France while flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. French President Francois Hollande said no survivors are expected. Germanwings confirmed on Tuesday that its flight 4U9525 met with an accident over the French Alps, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]
Tehran, March 21 A nuclear deal with the world powers on Iran’s nuclear programme is within reach and achievable, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday. Rouhani said negotiators from both sides have found new common ground in recent days, state run news agency IRNA reported. His comments came as diplomats from the P5+1 group […]
New Delhi, March 21 The 1,200 Indians who allegedly have accounts in HSBC Bank’s Geneva account and against some of whom a probe was initiated by tax authorities can’t get amnesty under the new law that the government proposes to get back ill-gotten money stashed abroad. The so-called amnesty scheme is detailed in the chapter […]
Dhaka, March 20 Customs officials at the Shah Amanat Airport in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong seized 16 gold bars weighing around two kg from a United Arab Emirates (UAE) flyer, media reported. The passenger, Jahangir Alam, landed at the airport on an Air Arabia flight from Ras al Khaimah in the UAE around on […]
Aden, March 19 A fighter jet that took off from Yemen’s capital Sanaa bombed the republican palace where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi stays in the southern port city of Aden on Thursday afternoon, a government official based in Aden told Xinhua news agency. “The military warplane fired one rocket on a building inside the republican […]
Tunis, March 19 The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group is believed to be behind the attack on a museum in Tunisia’s parliament complex which killed 23 people, including 20 foreign tourists, media reports said on Thursday. The IS said in an audio message that the attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis was carried out […]