Union minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday tweeted that two Indians have died in the terror attack at a nightclub in Istanbul in which total 39 people have died while 65 others were injured. While one of them, she said, was Abis Rizvi, the son of former lawmaker Akhtar Hasan Rizvi,[Read More…]
A series of bomb blasts killed 29 people and wounded 50 in central Baghdad on Saturday as fighting intensified in northern part of Mosul, largest stronghold of Islamic State in the country. The explosions, blamed on two suicide bombers, happened one after another in the busy al-Sinak market. Police said[Read More…]
At least 39 people, including 16 foreigners, were killed and at least 69 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Turkey’s Interior Minister said. “We are face to face with a terror attack,” Interior minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters. Suleyman Soylu[Read More…]
At least 28 killed and over 54 injured in two blasts that exploded in a busy market in central Baghdad on Saturday. The incident took place near a car spare part shops in al-Sinak during the morning hour rush. While one blast was triggered by a suicide bomber, another was[Read More…]
Pakistan on Friday said that State Grid of China will help build a 4,000 MW power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion. The transmission line will link north-south National Grid. An agreement on the project was signed on Thursday in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha,[Read More…]
Art always had a role in conflict zone. Various art forms and creative expressions fearlessly portrayed the fury of war. A 38 year-old man from Syria is converting the destructive weapon of war into fine art pieces. Akram Abo Alfoz collects the bombs and bullets that litter the shell-ridden streets[Read More…]
The world’s highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said on Friday. The Beipanjiang Bridge took three years to build, cost more than $146.7 million dollars, and stretches to be 4,396[Read More…]
A ceasefire across Syria, brokered by Russia and Turkey, came into force after the government and armed opposition groups accepted the truce agreement. Russian President Vladimir Putin, a key ally of Bashar al-Assad, announced the deal on Thursday after preparing the agreement with Turkey, a long time backer of the[Read More…]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday struck back at Russia for its alleged effort to influence the 2016 US election, imposing sanctions against its intelligence services and expelling 35 diplomats who were suspected to be behind the cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee. The US administration also penalized four[Read More…]
Iraqi security forces on Thursday began the second phase of their offensive against Islamic State militants in Mosul, pushing into some eastern districts where the battle has been in deadlock for nearly a month. Thousands of federal police troops who redeployed from Mosul’s southern outskirts two weeks ago also pushed[Read More…]
Airports around the world could soon be seeing installations of lie-detecting kiosks that can changes in physiology and behaviour during interviews with travellers. The new innovation comes as a help to security agents to screen for criminals and potential terrorists. The system is called AVATAR, which is short for Automated[Read More…]
At least 32 people were injured when two bombs exploded while they were watching a boxing competition in Hilongos in Philippines Wednesday night as part of an annual Roman Catholic holiday festival, police and other officials said Thursday. Sixteen of the wounded were admitted to various hospitals while 16 others[Read More…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he had to express “deep disappointment” over US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech and vowed to work with the incoming Trump administration to contain the fallout from last week’s U.N. resolution calling Israeli settlements illegal. “We are not about to[Read More…]
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday reported that both the Turkish and Russian governments have agreed the terms of a ceasefire in Syria. The ceasefire, which comes into effect on midnight, aims to expand a ceasefire in the city of Aleppo, brokered by Turkey and Russia earlier this month to[Read More…]
What can be more overwhelming than cruising in the warm waters of the Caribbean that too on the cost of your company? While most of the people will shiver through another cold January, over 800 employees of Iowa’s Bertch Cabinets in Waterloo will get a free outing to the Caribbean[Read More…]
On Tuesday, a faction of the ruling South Korean party talked about forming a new party, while key members of the faction were hopeful outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would join it to launch a widely expected bid to become president, reported Reuters. Ban’s potential rivals reacted by questioning his[Read More…]
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has held a telephonic conversation with Pakistan’s Finance Minster Senator Ishaq Dar and discussed with him Indo—Pak water dispute, days after the country asked the global lender to fulfil its obligations on the issue. Dawn newspaper quoted official sources as saying the call was[Read More…]
A Redmond, Washington analyst thinks that Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkenIn will push the tech giant to become the first company with a $1 trillion market value, reported GeekWire. Analyst Michael Markowski writes for Equities.com that Microsoft will reach that threshold before other big companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook[Read More…]
A series of human errors including errors by the pilot are to blamed for the plane crash in Columbia that killed 71 people on November, Columbia aviation authorities said. Colombia’s Civil Aeronautics agency concluded in its investigation that the plan for the flight operated by Bolivia-based charter company LaMia did[Read More…]
Six people, which included a nine-year-old child, were found dead from suffocation in a tiny bathroom by Indonesian police, after armed robbers had locked them there the previous day. Up to four intruders broke into the house in an upmarket neighbourhood on Monday, Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said, reported[Read More…]
In a video uploaded on social media sites, Indian priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted from Yemen, was seen begging for life, a day after Christmas. Uzhunnalil was abducted from the port city of Aden, on March 4, by militant group ISIS. The priest appears very weak and at[Read More…]
Society has a pretty screwed up way of looking at itself. We consider abusive marriages, child grabbing and male domination a part of the lower income group. This particular story of Dutch national, Nadia Rashid may be the rude wake-up call that you need. Humans of Amsterdam shared a story[Read More…]
To err is human, right? Well, church service organizers are human too as was seen recently at a Sri Lankan church. Churchgoers were in for a rude shock when they attended a Christmas carol service on December 11. Instead of the usual ‘Hail Mary’ carol, the printed leaflets had rapper[Read More…]
Pilot error or technical faults could be a reason for Sunday’s crash of a Russian Tu-154 plane carrying 84 passengers and eight crew members, said Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov. The rescue teams are searching for victims using ships, helicopters and drones following the Russian plane to Syria crashed into[Read More…]
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami alert for parts of the pacific ocean after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit off the coast of southern Chile Sunday, 40 km (about 25 miles) southwest of Puerto Quellon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A “state of precaution” has also been[Read More…]