SEPTEMBER 4, 2017: Low-cost carriers in India might soon offer direct international flights at insanely cheap prices. Yes, you may not have to dig deep into your pockets to book a ticket to Europe. For, Indian low-cost carriers (LCCs), along with a few foreign airlines, are offering internatio

London: A 47-year-old Indian-origin family doctor today appeared before the UK court charged with 118 sexual offences, including sexually assaulting a girl aged under 13. Manish Shah, from Romford area of London, had been charged with 65 counts of assault by penetration and 52 allegations of sexu

Baghdad: The Iraqi forces killed over 2,000 Islamic State (IS) militants and more than 50 suicide bombers during a major offensive to free Tal Afar area in west of Mosul, officials said. “The IS total casualties in the blitzkrieg during the period from August 20 to 31 were more than 2,000 terrori

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged on Monday the Israeli government to end its “occupation attempts” of Palestine that threaten the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Speaking at a joint press conference in Ankara after talks with Palestinia

Kabul [Afghanistan]: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior has confirmed that at least five people have been killed and eight others injured in an explosion near the United States Embassy in Kabul. The officials had earlier said that eight people were taken to the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital, Tolo New

A car bomb ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad today morning, killing at least nine people, Iraqi officials said. The explosives-laden car went off at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City, a police officer said. The explosion also wounded 25 other pe

Pentagon: Hacker Amjed Qabha didn’t exploit it for his own interest, instead he reported the glitch and was subsequently registered on The Pentagon’s “List of Honor” for his feat, Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday. Yes! It was a Palestinian hacker Qabha who found a loophole in the official website

Hurricane Harvey, the most powerful to hit the US in about 12 years, left a trail of destruction as it swept across Texas on Sunday, pummelling the region with heavy rains and claiming at least two lives since making landfall on the US’ Gulf Coast. Harvey continued to batter Texas during the early h

Bangladesh has detained and forcibly returned 90 Rohingya migrants to Myanmar, police said Sunday, just hours after Myanmarese troops on the other side of the border had opened fire on people fleeing the country. Police intercepted a group of 70 Rohingya late Saturday after they crossed the “zero li

Petah Tikva: Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of Israel’s attorney general’s home to demand he indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges. The weekly vigils have become the vanguard of a grassroots protest movement against Netanyahu’s alleged financial misdeeds and ill

Kabul : The death toll has risen to more than 30, after a coordinated militant attack was carried out in Kabul city’s Imam Zaman mosque in Afghanistan on Friday. The sources have confirmed about the death toll and over 80 others were wounded in the attack, Tolo News reported. However, the Afgh

Seoul, South Korea: North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, the US military said, following weeks of heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. The missile launches come as tens of thousands of South Korean and US troops take part in joint military drills in th

Venice: The mayor of Venice has warned that anybody who shouts “Allahu Akbar” or “God is great” in Arabic, in the city’s St Mark’s Square will be shotwithin four steps. Addressing a conference, Luigi Brugnaro boasted that Venice was safer than Barcelona, where recently 13 people were killed in a

French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly spent a whopping €26,000, or around Rs 19.7 lakh, on makeup-related expenses in his first three months after assuming office in May. French magazine Le Point reported that Macron’s personal makeup artist Natacha M submitted two bills, one for €10,000 an

At least 14 people were killed and several others wounded on Friday when a suicide bomber detonated himself inside a Shiite mosque in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul, according to Reuters. As per an Associated Press report, a member of Afghanistan’s Shiite clerical council confirmed the deaths in t

A powerful typhoon caused at least three deaths Wednesday in Macau, according to local authorities in the Chinese gambling enclave. Three men, aged 30, 45 and 62, were killed in falls and accidents related to the heavy rain and gusting winds from Typhoon Hato, and two other people were listed as

WASHINGTON: The United States warned an angry Pakistan on Tuesday that it could lose its status as a privileged military ally if it continues giving safe haven to Afghan terrorist groups. A day after US President Donald Trump unveiled a new strategy to force the Taliban to negotiate a political s

Washington : North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is “starting to respect” the United States, President Donald Trump declared, even as Pyongyang revealed plans for its missile development Wednesday and Kim ordered a production boost. Trump’s remarks, at a rally in Phoenix, came hours after Secretary o