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Pakistan Army feared leak of Kulbhushan Jadhav case, kept it secret
New Delhi: The trust deficit between Pakistan’s security establishment, primarily the Army as well as the ISI, and the country’s political leadership can be gauged from the fact that the former kept the process of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav’s trial completely secret and flagged it
Illegal UK visa holders to return India
Britain: Numerous Indians think, Britain is a land of jobs and opportunity for them. They try to overstay in London having their visas being expired. A report of HT says that the economic conditions have now changed for these people who stay there illegally. It has become harder to get jobs and b
Ten Yemeni soldiers killed after blast struck military camp in Aden
Aden [Yemen]: As many as 10 soldiers were killed in a blast that struck a military camp in Yemen’s southern Aden city on Sunday, Anadolu news agency reported citing a military source. According to the source, the explosion took place inside a weapons depot in Jabal Hadid area in southern Aden.
Trump administration accuses TCS, Infosys of unfair practice in H-1B visa lottery draw
WASHINGTON: The United States has accused top Indian IT firms TCS and Infosys of unfairly cornering the lion’s share of H-1B visas by putting extra tickets in the lottery — a system the Trump administration wants to replace with a more merit-based immigration policy. At a White House briefing l
Palestinians slam Israel for refusing talks with hunger strikers
Ramallah: Palestinian leaders on Wednesday denounced Israel’s refusal to negotiate with Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, warning of a “new intifada” if any of them die. Some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike that began Monday, according to Issa Qaraqe, head
Panamagate verdict on Thursday; Much at stake for Nawaz Sharif
Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will announce its verdict in the Panamagate case on April 20, Thursday, after it added the matter in its cause list on Tuesday. Confirming the news, ARY News tweeted: “PANAMA VERDICT has been finalised. Announcement will be in 60 hours.” Last year, the
Palestinian prisoners start hunger strike in Israeli prisons
JERUSALEM: Around 1,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons on Monday started an indefinite hunger strike to demand an improvement in their conditions. Akram Atallah, of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), told Efe news that it hopes more pri
Australia abolishes visa programme used largely by Indians
Melbourne: Australia on Tuesday abolished a visa programme used by over 95,000 temporary foreign workers, majority of them Indians, to tackle the growing unemployment in the country. The programme known as 457 visa allows business to employ foreign workers for a period up to four years in skilled
At 117, Jamaican woman likely just became world’s oldest
DUANVALE, Jamaica, April 17,2017 (Arab News): Violet Brown spent much of her life cutting sugarcane in the fields around her home in western Jamaica. She attended church regularly, avoids pork and chicken and celebrated her 117th birthday last month. On Saturday, she is believed to have become the
PAKISTAN: POLICE ARREST 22 IN LYNCHING OF STUDENT ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY
Peshawar: Pakistan police announced on Monday they had arrested 22 people after the lynching of a university student accused of blasphemy, but observers said there was little hope authorities would secure convictions. A large mob attacked journalism student Mashal Khan last Thursday, stripping, b
U.S. NSA ADAMANT ON DEFEATING TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN
Kabul [Afghanistan]: U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R McMaster is adamant about defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan. He said those members of the Taliban who refuse to join the peace process will be defeated on the battleground. “The Taliban must be defeate
TURKEY VOTE ON EXPANDING ERDOGAN POWERS ‘UNEQUAL’
Ankara: Turkey’s referendum process to grant expansive new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was held on an “unlevel playing field”, with campaigning restrictions and late procedural changes, monitors said. Opposition events were obstructed and state resources misused, the Organisation for S
Turkish referendum passes with thin margin
ANKARA: Turkish citizens gave President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers in a historic referendum on Sunday, transforming Turkey’s political system from parliamentary to presidential and restructuring its executive, legislative and judicial branches. “Yes” votes led the referendum in
Pak Army Says 20-Year-Old Woman Caught In Terror Bust A Medical Student
LAHORE: A 20-year-old woman, who was arrested in a terror bust in Lahore, is a medical student and had joined the ISIS terrorist group on Facebook sometimes ago, the Pakistani army said today. Pakistan's security forces yesterday claimed to have foiled a "major" terror attack on minority Christia
Turkey President Erdogan's Camp Claims Win In Referendum To Give Him Sweeping Powers
ISTANBUL: The 'Yes' camp in a referendum to give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers claimed victory on Sunday but the knife-edge result left the country bitterly divided with the opposition crying foul. Opponents fear the constitutional changes, which would grant Erdogan more p
SYRIAN ARMY EXPELS DAESH TERRORISTS NEAR DEIR EZ-ZOR AIRBASE
Damascus [Syria]: Syrian government forces have freed territories to the south of the Syrian airbase in Deir ez-Zor from Daesh terrorists. “The Syrian army regained control over the Faraj territory to the south from the airfield. Several Daesh militants were killed near the cemetery and in Al Arf
‘MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS’ KILLED 94 ISIS FIGHTERS, AFGHAN OFFICIAL
Kabul [Afghanistan]: At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the U.S. military dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Achin district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province earlier this week, an Afghan official said Saturday. “The number of Daesh fighters killed in
U.S. ARMY BECOMING STRONGER THAN EVER: TRUMP
New Delhi [India]: In the wake of the MOAB strike against the Islamic State in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump was all praises for the American military saying that the U.S. army is ‘becoming stronger than ever before.’ “Our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever befo