2 October, 2017 Las Vegas residents have rushed to donate blood to help victims of the deadliest ever US gun attack, which left at least 50 people dead and more than 400 injured. Some people queued up for hours overnight waiting for blood centres in the Nevada city to open today. The Las Ve

October 1, Canada Jagmeet Singh, a 38-year-old lawyer and practising Sikh, was elected on Sunday to lead Canada’s left-leaning New Democrats, becoming the first non-white politician to head a major political party there. The Ontario provincial lawmaker, whose penchant for colorful turbans and

Islamabad: Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was forced to step down after a tribunal accused him in a graft case, is set to be re-elected as president of the ruling PML-N, a media report said on Monday. PML-N's Central Working Committee (CWC) has agreed to amend the party's const

London: A Ghana-based Indian entrepreneur has won a prestigious business award in the UK for his efforts to bring innovative IT solutions to Africa. Birendra Sasmal, CEO of Subah, bagged the International Business Person of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards in London last week, for turning t

September 28, Kualalumpur Thailand faced mounting calls on Thursday to stop pushing migrants back out to sea amid fears an exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar could spark a new wave of boat people. Fighting in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state has forced about half a million Rohingya to seek re

An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada on Saturday after an engine apparently disintegrated over the Atlantic. Passengers said they heard a thud and vibrations rattled through the cabin as the A380 plane lost altitude. "We heard a big pop

Lahore: Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has slapped a Rs 100-million defamation notice on Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja Asif for calling him the “darling of the United States”. Asif, while speaking at the Asia Society forum in New York on Tuesday, acknowledged that Saeed, the Haqq

Syria’s war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today, in the deadliest month of the conflict this year. “More than 70 per cent of the civilians were killed in the regime and Russian air strikes, or in air raids of t

NEW DELHI: After the Doklam stand-off ended and PM Narendra Modi and China President Xi Jinping held a meeting, toasted as a success by both sides, there seems to be a conscious attempt by Beijing to build a favorable public opinion in India, suggesting the two nations can start a new chapter. Af

  29, September China today dismissed as "groundless rumours" the reports that authorities were seizing copies of the Quran and prayer rugs in Xinjiang as part of a crackdown against extremists in the restive province. Asked about media reports circulating in the province, Chinese Fore

28, September Chinese authorities are reportedly stepping up their campaign against Muslims in the north-western region of Xinjiang. According to sources in the region, officials have been warning neighbourhoods and mosques that ethnic minority Muslim families are being forced to hand in relig

September 24, Karachi The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is a global organisation that raises awareness and support research into men’s health on behalf of prostate cancer. The international event takes place every year in hopes to spread the message of awareness and the importance of men’

September 26, France In a rare instance, a 35-year-old man in France who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown signs of consciousness for the first time after neurosurgeons administered a nerve stimulation therapy. The findings reported in the journal Current Biology showed tha

Mexico,25 September 2017:This news hailing from Mexico might chill your spine. A 17-year-old boy went blind because of the most shocking thing possible. A worm went inside his eyes and caused him to lose his sight. This parasite, a flatworm, dug a hole in his eye and entered it because of which the

September 25, Bangladesh Doctors treating some of the 430,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks have seen dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks, UN clinicians and other health workers said. The accounts, backed in some cases by medical

Chancellor Angela Merkel was widely expected to win a fourth term in office as Germans went to the polls on Sunday in an election that is also likely to see the farthest right-wing party in 60 years, the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany, win seats in parliament. Merkel campaigned on her record a

Dhaka: Citing security reasons, Bangladesh put a ban on telecommunication companies from selling mobile phone connections to Rohingya refugees, officials said. “For the time being, they (Rohingya) can’t buy any SIM cards,” Enayet Hossain, a senior officer at the telecoms ministry said on Sunday.

Bangladesh, 22 September: In a humanitarian gesture, Hindus in Bangladesh on Friday decided to cut the expenses of the upcoming Durga Puja to set up a fund to provide relief for the Rohingya refugees who poured into the country following the ethnic violence in Myanmar. More than 420,000 Rohingyas,