WASHINGTON: The US has asked India and Pakistan to take steps to end the exchange of fire and resume normal trade and travel across the Line of Control. "We urge both sides to take steps to end exchanges of fire and to resume normal trade and travel across the line of control," State Department s

Former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed has been buried for eternal rest in his native village Ziarat Kaka Saheb Sunday. Earlier, the funeral prayer of veteran politician was offered here this day at Motorway Ring Road Chowk. Current Ameer of Jamat-e-Islami, Munawar Hassan lead the fu

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies on Sunday in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. Although the speech was billed as the unveiling of a new peace plan, Assad offered no concessions and even appeared

SHANGHAI: Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend. Since late November the country has shivered at an average of minus 3.8 degrees celsius, 1.3 degrees cold

[caption id="attachment_19861" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Reuters/Reuters - Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai (C) waves with nurses as she is discharged from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in this handout photograph released on January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Queen Elizabeth Hospital[

Days after its inauguration, one of the biggest Hindu temple in US, built at a colossal cost of USD 100 million and designed to last 1,000 years has become a major draw for its grandeur and architecture. The 68th Swaminarayan temple built near the Hollywood city in Los Angeles has been carved out

More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending. In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned

A weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid the economy-threatening “fiscal cliff” of middle-class tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts late Tuesday night hours before financial markets reopened after the New Year’s holiday. The bill’s passage on a 257-167 vote i

Washington, Jan 1, 2013, (PTI) Despite a last minute deal reached between the White House, Democrats and the Republicans brokered by the US Vice President, Joe Biden, the US missed the Monday midnight "fiscal cliff" deadline to avert sweeping tax hikes. While the Senate was moving ahead with its

New York :Two days after she shoved an Indian man to his death onto a subway train track here, a 31-year-old woman has been charged with "hate crime murder" as she admitted before police that she had pushed him because she "hated Hindus and Muslims". Erika Menendez was ordered held without bail a

[caption id="attachment_19138" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Two pilots, a flight engineer and an air stewardess were killed in the crash.[/caption] A Russian passenger plane has crashed into a main road after overshooting a runway at a Moscow airport, killing at least four people, police say.

Vows to continue fight for democracy [caption id="attachment_18837" align="aligncenter" width="475"] Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari (L) widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto, waves with his son and chairman of ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto (R) to suppo

[caption id="attachment_18605" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A fire truck passes a warehouse on fire on Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. An explosion ripped through a warehouse Wednesday where witnesses say fireworks were stored in Nigeria's largest city, sparking a fi

Beijing: A Chinese man died after his camel turned on him and bit him on his head in a northeast China city. The man surnamed Sun was rushed to a hospital by his co-workers but died despite emergency treatment for three hours. The man raised three camels for his owner in Dalian of China's Liao

Yangon: A Myanmar passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and burst into flames on Tuesday in a field in eastern Shan state, killing two people and injuring 11 others, officials said. Black smoke was seen billowing from the charred wreckage of the Air Bagan aircraft, which came do

[caption id="attachment_18094" align="aligncenter" width="550"] A protester holds up a sign as National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, left, speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington. - AP[/captio

[caption id="attachment_18044" align="aligncenter" width="680"] On Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on scientists to work towards the development of more rockets [AFP][/caption] South Korean defence ministry says launch of satellite into space was disguised test of a 10,000km-range 'm

Preliminary results indicate Egypt's voters have approved the contentious draft constitution, amid allegations of fraud. Early results show that Egyptians have approved a new draft constitution after a final round of voting in a referendum, despite opposition criticism of the measure as divis