Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said Pakistan has reactivated its terror camps in Balakot. Speaking to reporters here at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) Rawat said: “Balakot has been reactivated by Pakistan recently. It has been damaged and destroyed. Pakistan has got people back there.” According to him, there are around 500 infiltrators […]
With an eye on next year’s elections, US President Donald Trump tried at the ‘Howdy Modi!’ rally to reset the optics for his campaign among immigrants – a group among whom he has fared badly because of the broad brush accusation of being anti-immigrant. Unlike his ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) rallies for his re-election […]
Rare anti-government protests broke out across Egypt against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, demanding his resignation, media reports said on Saturday. The demonstrations on Friday night were in response to corruption allegations against President Sisi’s government, the BBC said. “Sisi out” and “The people want to overthrow the regime” topped Egyptian Twitter’s trending list late Friday. […]
At least one person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting that took place about 3 km from the White House here, police said. The incident took place at around 10 p.m. on Thursday night in the Columbia Road Northwest neighbourhood. Police Commander Stuart Emerman told reporters at the scene that no […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday welcomed Facebook’s initiative on technology improvement and policy shift to prevent the harm of social media. “These are the kinds of efforts the Christchurch Call to Action was designed for as we try to eliminate the spread of terrorist and violent extremist content online,” Ardern said. Facebook […]
An Indian-American doctor couple has teamed up with a Florida University to bring world class medical education to India and potentially transform healthcare in the country with an initial investment of $200 million. As part of their grand design, Zambia-born India-educated cardiologist Kiran Patel and his India-born paediatrician wife Pallavi Patel have already acquired 50 […]
US authorities have busted a drug distribution ring that imported millions of opioid pills from India with the arrest of eight people with ties to that country, according to authorities. The eight, all of Indian origin and living in New York City or suburbs, were arrested Thursday morning, the Justice Department said. The opioids were […]
The horrendous attack on the Twin Towers at New York eighteen years ago by a band of Al Qaeda terrorists sent out on a suicide mission in the name of Jehad, remains a reference point for the international community even today in evaluating the threat that Islamic radicals continue to pose for all democratic nations. […]
A hilarious video of a pit bull who pretended to faint when his owner tried to clip his nails has gone viral on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The video showed the dog pretending to faint when his owner brought out the nail clippers. In a video, the pit bull can be […]
Historian and award-winning author William Dalrymple is all set to release his most ambitious and remarkable history book to date, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of The East India Company. It is believed that this book carries the weight of his entire body of work, a lifetime of research and nights spent reading on days […]