New Delhi, March 13 If China attacks India tomorrow, the situation would be something similar to the 1962 war, a strategy expert said on Friday. Sam Roggeveen, a well known strategy expert and founding editor of Australia’s Lowy Institute of International Policy’s blog, however, said there were little chances of this happening. “The situation will […]
Tripoli, March 11 Libya’s secular parliament has requested the UN to postpone peace talks for a week to allow more time to discuss the next government’s roadmap, media reported citing a house spokesperson. “We request postponement of the dialogue session for a week to discuss the next government’s roadmap, jurisdictions, timeframe…” said Farraj Hashem, spokesperson […]
New Delhi, March 11 A special court here on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh as accused in a coal block allocation case. Special Judge Bharat Parashar also summoned industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary P.C. Parakh and three others as an accused in the case for April 8.
Washington, March 11 Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has jumped into a war of words between the White House and Senate Republicans over a letter to the government of Iran on a potential deal over its nuclear programme. Jindal, who is testing the waters for a 2016 presidential run, issued a call on Tuesday for […]
Washington, March 11 A sickening video released by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group on Tuesday purportedly shows a child executing a man, whom the group claimed to be an Israeli spy. The video identified the slain man as the 19-year-old Mohamed Sa’id Ismail Musallam, an Israeli citizen of Arab descent, according to a CNN […]
Washington, March 10 The US has reiterated a call asking for Iran’s help in finding a retired agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and raised the bounty for his whereabouts. Secretary of State John Kerry’s appeal on Monday came on the eighth anniversary of Robert Levinson’s disappearance, who Washington said went missing on […]
Washington, March 10 Pakistan had about 120 atomic weapons, 10 more than India, in its nuclear arsenal last year, according to a new interactive infographic unveiled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Designed by the Bulletin, founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan […]
Moscow, March 10 Russian authorities confirmed on Monday to have detained two more suspects in connection with the assassination of Russian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, according to media reports. The two suspects were caught in a special operation carried out on Sunday evening in Shelkovskoy district of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Xinhua […]
Washington, March 8 Islamic State (IS) supporters are operating a minimum of 46,000 Twitter accounts, a 92-page study by global think tank Brookings Institution has revealed. The study also found that at least 1,000 accounts supportive of IS, and possibly many more, were suspended by Twitter from September to December last year, the New York […]
Washington, March 8 Pakistan officials have endorsed a plan to explore green projects at Nankana Sahib and Kartarpur, the most sacred Sikh shrines in the country. This will be a part of the celebrations of 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in 2019. He was born in Nankana Sahib and lived in Kartarpur for the […]