Islamabad: Radical Islamist groups continued to protest and block highways for the second consecutive day in Pakistan on Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who had been convicted in 2010 of blasphemy. In major cities such as Lahore, Karachi and[Read More…]
San Francisco: Twitter has said that it is giving its users more freedom to report fake, suspicious accounts to intensify the crackdown on online spamming activities a few days ahead of US midterms elections. Twitter announced the new measure through its official safety account by saying that it will not allow[Read More…]
Dhaka: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday said that it needs more funds to continue assisting the hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees, who have been living in Bangladesh camps after fleeing an offensive by the Myanmar military last year. The WFP said it had spent around $20 million[Read More…]
India’s passport came 66th in the latest ranking release of Global Passport Index. The passport ranking, released by Henley and Partners’ takes into account the ease the citizens of the country feel via travelling to different countries. Henley provides rankings of various passports of the world. In their latest release,[Read More…]
A 41-year-old nurse, Niels Hoegel, has admitted to have intentionally administered medical overdoses, killing 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany. Hoegel is accused of killing the patients at a hospital in the northwestern city of Oldenburg between 1999 and 2002, and at another hospital in nearby Delmenhorst from 2003 to 2005. On the[Read More…]
San Francisco: Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson of Washington state has vowed to sue US President Donald Trump’s administration if Trump enforces a plan to revoke birthright citizenship of babies born to some non-citizens. Ferguson said in a statement that he would bring a lawsuit against Trump if he follows[Read More…]
Washington: US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where on the weekend a gunman who has espoused anti-Semitic views online massacred 11 people, while hundreds of protesters denounced the president’s seeming reluctance to frankly and clearly condemn white supremacism. As soon as Air Force[Read More…]
Los Angeles: Reality TV stars Kendall and Kylie Jenner have come out with an affordable range of handbags and small accessories. The famous sisters, 22 and 21, have expanded their Kendall + Kylie collection with a range of affordable handbags and small accessories for Walmart, reports pagesix.com. Their first collection[Read More…]
Beijing: China’s Commerce Ministry late on Tuesday expressed opposition to the US imposition of unilateral sanctions against a Chinese firm, urging the country to immediately stop its wrong practice. The statement was made after the US Department of Commerce on Monday decided to restrict exports to China’s Fujian Jinhua Integrated[Read More…]
Rio de Janeiro: Hundreds of Brazilians, mostly students, on Tuesday demonstrated protest in some cities of the country against the President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and demanded that he respects democracy during his term in office. In Rio de Janeiro, the most emblematic city of the country, more than 200 people marched[Read More…]
Male: The Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed an arrest order against former President Mohamed Nasheed, paving the way for the return of the self-exiled politician to the country later this week. On Monday, the Prosecutor General’s office had requested the top court to review the terrorism conviction and prison[Read More…]
Tennis player Sania Mirza and Pakistan Cricketer Shoaib Malik were blessed with a baby boy on Tuesday morning. Taking the joy to Twitter, the new father confirmed the news, saying “Excited to announce: It’s a boy, and my girl is doing great and keeping strong as usual #Alhumdulilah. Thank you[Read More…]
An Indonesian Lion Air Boeing passenger plane carrying 189 people, flown by Indian captain Bhavye Suneja crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, shortly after taking off from here, with authorities saying they have found no survivor. The Boeing 737, JT 610, disappeared from the radar 13 minutes after take[Read More…]
Jakarta: A Lion Air Boeing 737 passenger plane came down crashing minutes after taking off from here on Monday, said Indonesian officials. “It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the national search and rescue agency told the media. The scheduled Flight JT-610 was headed[Read More…]
Miss Grand International 2018 Clara Sosa’s crowning moment was a memorable yet quite a dramatic one on Thursday in Jakarta. Upon being declared the winner of Miss Grand International 2018, Paraguay’s Clara Sosa promptly fainted on the stage. At the time, she was holding hands with the first runner-up, Meenakshi[Read More…]
Washington: The person in custody on suspicion of sending suspicious packages to a dozen prominent people has been identified as Florida resident Cesar Sayoc, US media reported Friday, citing law enforcement sources. Sayoc was apprehended in a shopping centre in Plantation, Florida, west of Ft. Lauderdale, and authorities seized the[Read More…]
The United Nations announced to posthumously award the Asma Jahangir with the Human Rights Award 2018. Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir will be receiving the award on December 10. United Nations also announced the names of other recipients of the Human rights Prize for 2018 that includes Tanzanian activist Rebeca Gyumi,[Read More…]
Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Saudi Arabia to reveal the location of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body and hand over the suspects involved in his killing. Erdogan’s comments came after the Turkish media reported that the country’s police found no DNA traces of the Washington[Read More…]
Islamabad: The Pakistan Supreme Court has ordered that a committee suggests measures to curb the unchecked availability of smuggled Indian direct-to-home (DTH) devices in markets across the country. The committee will consist of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Jahanzeb Khan, Member Customs Mohammad Zahid, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director[Read More…]
Warsaw: Poland’s ruling nationalist party on Thursday secured most of the regional seats in the rural areas but failed to take the main cities’ town halls, according to the official poll results. Law and Justice (PiS) overwhelmingly took the majority of seats in the rural areas and small towns, securing[Read More…]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has described a $6 billion Saudi bailout package as a “big relief” for the country and vowed to mediate between Riyadh and Yemen to end their ongoing conflict. Accusing the previous two governments of plunging the country into its worst financial crisis, Khan in[Read More…]
London: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday cast doubt on Saudi Arabia’s explanation on the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and said her country would revoke or block visas for the suspects behind the alleged premeditated slaying. May’s comments came while she addressed lawmakers in the[Read More…]
Mumbai: An Indonesia woman delivered a baby girl on board an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi to Jakarta, early on Wednesday morning, officials said here. According to an official, the expectant mother went into labour mid-air in the flight and soon delivered a female baby with the help of[Read More…]
New York: Suspicious packages-potential explosive found outside Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama home.US intelligence said that “Potential Explosive devices” mailed to the homes of Clinton and Obama said an international news channel CNN. Secret Service intercepts suspicious envelope addressed to Trump New York investigative team has informed that around 1[Read More…]
Clive Palmer’s Titanic II — an exact replica of the ill-fated Titanic – is set to retrace the same old route in 2022, exactly 110 years after the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in one of the world’s most infamous disasters at sea. Mr Palmer’s company Blue Star Line has been[Read More…]
