In a bizarre investigation, German police have asked about 900 men to submit DNA samples in a bid to solve a 23-year-old murder case. 11-year-old Grevenbroich resident Claudia Ruf was kidnapped, raped and then choked to death in 1996 in a case that caused widespread alarm and media frenzy in Germ

Lahore: A petition has been filed in a Pakistani court seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Imran Khan for his “anti-judiciary” remarks on the departure of his political rival and former premier Nawaz Sharif to London for treatment. Tahir Maqsood, a Pakistani citizen, filed the petition in

Britain’s crime officials have charged ten Indian-origin members of an organised crime group believed to have flown an estimated £15.5 million out of the UK to Dubai in suitcases over last three years and trying to smuggle 17 people into the country earlier this year. The nine men and one woman,

As he cradles his young puppy in his arms, Laurent Simons looks much like any other 9-year-old boy. Then he starts describing his work at a university in the Netherlands, developing a computer circuit that will replicate a part of the brain. “What we are doing is placing neurons and making connec

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said the Siachen area, the world’s highest battlefield, was a disputed territory and could not be opened for tourism by India. Responding to media reports that India was starting tourism in the Siachen area, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Muhammad Faisal said

Jerusalem : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was formally charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust on Thursday, making him the first Israeli premier to be indicted while in office and sending Israel's already stalemated political system into further disarray. Israeli Attorney General Avicha

As Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his new cabinet on Wednesday, it featured newcomer Anita Indira Anand, making her the first Hindu to be a federal minister in the country. The cabinet includes three other Indo-Canadian ministers, all Sikhs, and each of whom was a member of the p

Jerusalem: Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief rival announced Wednesday that he had failed to form a new government, dashing his hopes of toppling the long-time Israeli prime minister and pushing the country closer toward an unprecedented third election in less than a year. The announcement by Benny Gant

Islamabad: Pakistan has resumed postal mail service with India, nearly three months after it was suspended in the wake of India’s decision to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistan media reported on Tuesday. Tensions between India and Pakistan spiked after New Delhi abrogated p

New Delhi: Around 150 Indians deported from the US, for either violating their visa norms or illegally entering America, landed at the Delhi airport on Wednesday morning, an official said here. The special aircraft carrying them landed at the T3 terminal of the Delhi airport at 6 am, the official

Two Indian nationals, one from Hyderabad and another from Madhya Pradesh, were arrested by the Pakistani police for illegally entering the country on November 14. The two men, Prashant Vaindam, a software engineer from Telangana and Durmi Lal from MP, were found wandering in the Cholistan desert

Pakistan’s ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was convicted of corruption, left the country on Tuesday to travel to London for medical treatment. Sharif departed on a special plane from the city of Lahore, after a court granted him permission to leave for four weeks abroad for medical

Washington: India sent more than 202,000 students to the US in 2018-19, the second largest after China which for the tenth consecutive year remained the largest source of foreign students in America, according to a report released on Monday. The '2019 Open Doors Report on International Educationa

Los Angeles: Four people were shot dead and six others wounded while watching a football game in the backyard of a central California home on Sunday, police said. Police were called to the scene after at least one person opened fire into a crowd of about 35 people gathered outside the house in Fr

Putting pressure on Facebook to follow suit, Twitter has officially banned all kinds of political ads from its platform, weeks after CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the micro-blogging site would no longer allow those ads. No political content will be promoted from candidates, parties, governments

Colombo: Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka on Saturday, hours before polling in presidential elections got under way, police said. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but a police official said the attackers had burnt tyres o

A California high school student on his 16th birthday opened fire on campus on Thursday, killing a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy and wounding three other teens before shooting himself in the head, officials said. The suspect survived but was in grave condition, officials said. After d

Kashmir witnessed horror and brutality similar to the kind inflicted by the Islamic State in Syria, a long time before the West and other international communities were introduced to the brutalities of radical Islamic terror, political commentator and writer Sunanda Vashisht told a US Congressional