Seattle, March 21 (IANS) The police here has re-examined the investigation into late singer Kurt Cobain’s death but the case will not be reopened as no new evidence has been found. The King County Sheriff’s Office recently assigned a detective to look into the files, almost 20 years after the Nirvana frontman was found dead in […]
Washington, March 21 (IANS) Controversial Indian-American candidate Manju Goel has lost the race for the Republican nomination for US House member from Illinois to Larry Kaifesh, a US Marine Corps Reserve colonel. With 95 percent of precincts reporting Goel had garnered 9,338 votes to Kaifesh’s 23,295 votes in Tuesday’s primary for the State’s eighth Congressional district, […]
New York, March 21 (IANS) A US court has asked India’s Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport to show that she was not in the US between Sep 2 and Sep 9 last year. Gandhi had filed a motion in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, seeking dismissal of […]
United Nations, March 21 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel over the weekend to The Hague to attend the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit, a UN spokesperson has said. The secretary-general will speak at the opening session of the two-day event Monday, Xinhua quoted Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesperson, as saying here Thursday. The Nuclear […]
Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday said that Islamabad will not send its troops to other countries, rejecting assumption that the country had changed its policy about Syria. The reaction came amid speculations in the media that Pakistan has changed its policy towards Syria and could send troops to Saudi Arabia to […]
Brussels, March 21 (IANS) Hannes Swoboda, leader of the centre-left Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, Thursday urged leaders of the European Union (EU) not to stir up a trade war with Russia. “Europeans need jobs. A trade war would harm EU economies, some of them more seriously than others,” Xinhua quoted Swooba as […]
Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) Islamabad Thursday dismissed as “ridiculous and baseless” a report in the US media claiming Pakistan’s intelligence agency had protected Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan’s Abbotabad city by the US military during a special operation in 2011. The denunciation came in the light of a New […]
Washington, March 21 (IANS) US President Barack Obama Thursday announced new sanctions against senior Russian officials and a bank in a bid to “impose additional costs” on Russia. “Based on the executive order that I signed in response to Russia’s initial intervention in Ukraine, we’re imposing sanctions on more senior officials of the Russian government,” Xinhua […]
London, March 21 (IANS) Britain will deploy a Royal Navy ship to help in search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane in the southern corridor of the Indian Ocean, British defence ministry has announced. The vessel — HMS Echo — is a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship, currently cruising in the Indian Ocean. […]
Kuala Lumpur, March 20 (IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Thursday held a meeting with Chief of Defence Forces Mohd Zulkifeli Mohd Zin after objects believed related to a Malaysian aircraft that went missing March 8 were spotted in the southern Indian Ocean. Najib said in his latest post on Twitter that he held the meeting […]