A multi-party conference (MPC) and Pakistan Peoples Party late on Friday rejected the just-concluded Pakistan election results, demanding a transparent and free and fair re-election. A multi-party conference (MPC), called to devise a joint strategy over alleged rigging in the 2018 general elections of Pakistan, demanded a transparent re-election and[Read More…]
Hold on, it’s Friday! The day when the longest total lunar eclipse of the century will be witnessed has arrived and you can watch it if the weather allows. The monsoon in India is keeping the sky cloudy making the chance little doubtful, but the countries which are certainly going[Read More…]
Islamabad: In a major setback to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, its long-term stronghold province in Pakistan has been finally breached as 18 independent candidates on Thursday decided to ally with former cricketer Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf to form next PTI government in Punjab. The province was being ruled by the Sharif[Read More…]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday denounced what it called an uproar triggered by the Indian media over general elections in Pakistan and asked the neighbouring country to focus on its internal affairs. Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said that elections are a part of the democratic process and the Indian media[Read More…]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that he is committed to working with the Congress on a new Russia sanctions bill, after he issued a Crimea Declaration that rejected Russia’s control of Crimea. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pompeo on Wednesday said that he will support[Read More…]
An explosion is reported to have occurred outside the US embassy in China here, the media said. The US embassy complex is in Beijing’s Chaoyang District. Witnesses have posted images on Twitter of smoke surrounding the building. Another bystander said there had been injuries, the Herald Sun reported. The explosion[Read More…]
Massive delays in counting and allegations of rigging dominated the early hours of Thursday in Pakistan, where official poll results were still awaited even 15 hours after voting ended. Preliminary results indicate Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has obtained a clear edge over other parties with 119 in their kitty as unofficial[Read More…]
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry has said the US government should forget talks with Iran under sanction threats. Iran will never accept one-way negotiations that are based on excessive demands, Spokesman of Foreign Ministry Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying on Wednesday by IRNA news agency. Iran has never hesitated to[Read More…]
London: The European Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that while the makers of renowned chocolate bar Kit Kat might rightfully own the product’s name, they cannot claim ownership of its well-known shape. Swiss transnational food and drink company Nestlé had for more than 10 years sought to secure trademark[Read More…]
Islamabad: As the counting of votes started in Pakistan on Wednesday at various polling stations, early leads showed Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf ahead of Nawaz Sharif‘s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. According to the trends, the PTI was leading in 74 seats, PML-N in 54 and the Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari-led Pakistan Peoples Party[Read More…]
For the first time in Pakistan’s political history, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gave the duty of observers during polling to members of the transgender community. However, on Wednesday in Lahore they were not allowed to vote and in Peshawar they were barred from entering polling stations. There are[Read More…]
Adding to the casualties, 32 people have killed and 36 injured in a suicide bombing in Balochistan on as millions of voters queued up across Pakistan to elect a new government on Wednesday. Civil Hospital Quetta officials have confirmed the casualties. In early signs of poll violence, at least one person has[Read More…]
The dust of sensitive mass lynching incident is yet to settle and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made news of gifting cows to the villagers in Rwanda. India wondered what made him gift this unusual present to the beef-eating nation Rwanda. PM Modi too expected Indians to be pleasantly surprised[Read More…]
Myanmar’s Presidential Office has denied that it has issued an executive order to demonetise banknotes, saying that legal action will be taken against perpetrators of the fake news, media reported on Wednesday. Director-General and Spokesman of the President’s Office U Zaw Htay refuted the false executive order proliferating on Facebook,[Read More…]
Israel has carried out an airstrike against a group of Gazans launching arson balloons to burn the Israeli farmlands, the military said. A terrorist squad was launching arson balloons from the northern Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, a military spokesperson said in a statement on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported.[Read More…]
Forest fires raging across Greece have killed at least 20 people, the government said on Tuesday, as the authorities sought international assistance. Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos confirmed the death toll and said most of the victims were trapped in the seaside resort of Mati, 40km from here, and died either[Read More…]
The US dollar index increased against most other major currencies as investors bought the dip after the previous day’s sharp decline. In late New York trading on Monday, the euro fell to $1.1691 from $1.1725 in the previous session, and the British pound was down to $1.3101 from $1.3135 in[Read More…]
President Donald Trump has warned his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani that if Tehran threatened the US again, it will suffer consequences the likes of which few have ever suffered before. The tweet in all-caps was posted on Sunday night and followed an apparent warning by Rouhani, in which he cautioned[Read More…]
Multiple people in Canada have been shot outside a Toronto restaurant. A gunman has opened fire with witnesses saying victims could be seen scattered across the ground for many blocks, News corp Australia reported. “The victims have been sent to trauma centres across the city after the shooting started around[Read More…]
Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have rallied here against a law denying surrogacy to gay couples and single fathers. Demonstrators held their gathering in the central Rabin Square, and at one point briefly blocked a major motorway. At least one person was arrested, BBC reported on Sunday. Israel’s parliament[Read More…]
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his grave concern over the dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel. I deeply regret the loss of life. It is imperative that all sides urgently step back from the brink of another devastating conflict, the Secretary-General said in[Read More…]
More than 20 Indian origin persons residing in the United States, have been sentenced up to 20 years in jail for their involvement in an India-based call center scam which defrauded thousands of American citizens of millions of loss. While some convicts are sentenced for fours in prison, few are[Read More…]
Donald Trump‘s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen secretly taped a discussion with him two months before the presidential election, about payments to a former Playboy model who says she had an affair with the US president, and the tape is now in FBI hands. The FBI seized the recording earlier this[Read More…]
Even as the US-imposed sanctions on Iran has put India’s energy security in jeopardy, UAE Ambassador to India Ahmed Albanna has allayed fears of an oil shortage, saying his country as well as Saudi Arabia can fill in if supply from Iran is disrupted. “Production is the important element there,to[Read More…]
Beijing: China has installed an unmanned automatic weather observation station near its border between Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet, to support its army in the event of a live fire conflict with India. Beijing has plans to set up more such facilities in future in the plateau bordering India. Media reports[Read More…]
