Tehran, May 3 Iran’s fencing champion Hamed Sedaqati has been abducted in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, media reported Saturday. Sedaqati and two of his friends were driving on Khash-Iranshahr road to the provincial capital city of Zahedan Friday when they came under attack by unknown assailants, Xinhua reported citing the semi-official Fars news […]
Ljubljana, May 3 (IANS) Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek announced her resignation Saturday to pave the way for an early election before summer. It is best for Slovenia to hold an early election before the summer, she told reporters after a coalition summit at Brdo pri Kranju, about 35 km northwest of Ljubljana, according to […]
Damascus, May 3 (IANS) An explosives-packed car exploded Saturday afternoon in a government-controlled area west of Syria’s capital Damascus, leaving an undisclosed number of casualties, media reported. The booby-trapped car went off in the western Somariyeh area at the entrance to the town of Muadamiyeh in southern Syria, Xinhua reported citing the state-run SANA news […]
Baghdad, May 3 (IANS) A total of 16 people were killed and 16 others were wounded in separate attacks across Iraq Saturday, police and medical sources said. Gunmen intercepted a car travelling on a main road near the city of Baiji, some 200 km north of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, killing four soldiers before fleeing the […]
Kabul/New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The toll in Friday’s landslide in Afghanistan has been put at 2,000 by rescue officials as India Saturday offered assistance in relief and rehabilitation efforts. Rescue officials also said that the site may become a massive grave as the enormous amount of rubble is making the recovery of bodies almost […]
Washington, May 3 (IANS) Jawahar Kaliani, an IT and electronics engineer from Mumbai, has been named to a key job in the US Treasury Department to develop secure business solutions for safety and soundness of banks and federal savings associations. Named Deputy Chief Information Officer for Application Services Delivery (ASD) at the Office of the […]
Toronto, May 3 (IANS) Three Indo-Canadians were charged with 17 offences in two separate cases of violent sexual assaults on sex workers two years ago in Canada’s Surrey, media reported. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that three suspects identified as Simranpreet Dhillon, Sukhraj Chahal and Gurjinder Sodha were involved in two incidents in Surrey […]
Mogadishu, May 3 (IANS) Five people, including a former government official, were killed and six others injured after a car bomb went off near a main junction in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. The bomb was planted on the vehicle of Abdi Kafi Hilowle, former secretary of Mogadishu administration. It went off near […]
PTI WASHINGTON: The US Senate has confirmed the Indian-American Manish as a federal judge in Illinois, becoming the first South Asian federal judge in the 5th most populous state of America. Shah, 40, was confirmed by the Senate by 95-0 votes. “His experience as a prosecutor and in various leadership positions at Chicago’s US Attorney’s […]
LONDON: One of the earliest images of Jesus Christ has been discovered from the most unlikely place — buried deep in an ancient Egyptian tomb. Egyptians were not Christians but a team of Catalan archaeologists have found five or six coats of paint on the tomb’s walls, the last of which was from the Coptic […]