Bbaghdad, March 9 (IANS) At least 31 people, including a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, were killed and 49 others wounded in separate violent attacks across Iraq Saturday, Xinhua reported citing police sources. In Sharqat, 280 km north of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen attacked a car carrying Mohammed Hussein Hamid al-Gawamid, a parliamentary candidate on the […]
Colombo, March 9 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised to push ahead with development while opening a Japanese funded highway here Saturday, reiterating he would not back down from international scrutiny over the country’s human rights record, Xinhua reported. The Outer Circular Highway, which includes several national and provincial roads and cost $184 million was […]
London, March 9 (IANS) Rapper Jay Z has reportedly rejected a chance to be Kanye West’s best man at his wedding to socialite Kim Kardashian because he is totally against appearing on her reality TV show. The 44-year-old only agreed to the idea initially, provided his family, including wife Beyonce Knowles and their two-year-old daughter Blue […]
Tehran, March 9 (IANS) European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton arrived in Iran’s capital Tehran Saturday for talks on Iran’s nuclear issue and the relations between Iran and Europe, media reported. Ashton is scheduled to meet with Iran’s president, foreign minister and parliament speaker during her stay in Tehran, Xinhua reported. Senior Iranian nuclear […]
Washington, March 9 (IANS) The US Navy said Saturday that it has dispatched a warship to assist in the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The USS Pinckney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is en route to the southern coast of Vietnam to aid in the search for flight MH370, Xinhua quoted the US […]
Mumbai, March 9 (IANS) It couldn’t have been a better day for their victory – Raagini Makkar and her troupe Naadyog picked the “India’s Got Talent 5” trophy here on International Women’s Day Saturday. Raagini is a housewife and a kathak dance teacher and she runs her family institute called Naadyog, which is 25 years old […]
Sanaa, March 8 (IANS) Three members of the Yemeni armed forces were killed in an Al Qaeda attack Saturday, a provincial police source said. The three, belonging to the 115th Armoured Army Brigade, were killed when unidentified gunmen, believed to be from Al Qaeda, attacked their base in the district of Lowder in southern Abyan province, […]
Kuala Lumpur, March 8 (IANS) Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said here Saturday that no signs had been found that a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, had crashed,. He said no sign of any plane wreckage was found and denied earlier media reports that the plane had crashed south of an island off […]
Kabul, March 8 (IANS) A bomb blast in Jalalabad city in Afghanistan Saturday killed a district governor and injured five others, a local official said. “A bomb blast targeted the vehicle of Nazian district governor this morning killing him on the spot and injuring five others”, Xinhua quoted the unnamed official as saying. “The bomb was […]
Dubai, March 8 (IANS) An Indian in Dubai has been jailed for six months followed by deportation from the United Arab Emirates for molesting a five-year-old girl. The Dubai Court of First Instance passed the sentence after the 23-year-old delivery man earlier admitted that he had grabbed the girl by her hand, and hugged, kissed and […]