Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was believed to have been killed in a U.S. military operation in Syria, sources in Syria, Iraq and Iran said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to make a “major statement” at the White House. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anony

Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday said it has denied India's request to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi's VVIP flight to fly through its airspace for his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, citing the "ongoing grave human rights violations" in Jammu and Kashmir. The decision came with tensions simmerin

A top Pakistani court on Friday granted bail to jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif who is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with an acute immune disorder which reduced his blood platelet count to dangerous levels. The 69-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo was ru

One of the victims may be from Vietnam The police investigating the deaths of 39 people in a truck near London said they had arrested three more suspects on Friday on suspicion of human trafficking amid signs that some of the dead may be Vietnamese. As forensic experts began the proc

NEW DELHI: A key Indo-US project aimed at sharing technology for building fighter jet engines has been ‘suspended’ after the two sides could not come to an agreement on specifics, with a lack of initiative from the industry. India and the US have now identified new technologies for joint developm

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday the South American nation will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas. Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, came to power at the beginning of the year and has made it a policy to reduce visa r

Feni: A court in Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death on Thursday over the murder of a 19-year-old female student burnt alive in April that provoked outrage across the country. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint aga

London: British police said they had arrested a man on suspicion of murder after the bodies of 39 people were found on Wednesday in a truck container at an industrial estate to the east of London. Police said the truck was believed to have come from Bulgaria and to have entered Britain at Holyhea

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has stripped his 34-year-old consort of all titles for “disloyalty” and apparent “ambition” to match the Queen’s position, a royal command issued late Monday said, less than three months after she was bestowed with the honour. Former royal bodyguard Sineenat Wo

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will remain in power but with a minority government that will require the support of a smaller left-leaning party after a hard-fought election in which he was dogged by scandals. The Liberals had won or were leading in 156 out of 338 seats in Monday's vote,

New Delhi: The government today criticised Pakistan for unilaterally stopping postal mail service between the two nations, saying the move was in contravention of international norms. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Pakistan took the decision without giving any notice to India. "Pakistan

India said on Monday it had informed Pakistan that it will be ready to sign an agreement to operationalise a cross-border corridor to Darbar Sahib gurdwara in Kartarpur even as it again called for the waiver of a service fee of $20 per pilgrim imposed by Islamabad. People familiar with developmen

New York/New Delhi: Considered as one of the biggest ever simultaneous chases in the US and India, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is hunting for an Indian fugitive, Bhadresh Kumar Patel, for the past four years. Patel, who hails from Viramgam in Ahmedabad, figures in the FBI's top 10 l

An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered to offer Friday players, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshippers, provincial officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said the militant attack wounded 36 others. H

An Indian tourist was detained by the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) for standing on the National Memorial Chorten in Dolucha, and has been called in for questioning Friday, The Bhutanese reported. A chorten is an important religious monument in Buddhism, symbolising Buddha’s presence. The tourist ide

More than 300 Indians put on a Boeing 747-400 charter by Mexican immigration authorities for illegally entering the country to sneak into the United States landed in national capital Delhi’s airport early this morning. The flight to deport the 311 illegal migrants - 310 men and one woman - is the

American, British and South Korean officials announced at a news briefing here on Wednesday that they have busted one of the worlds largest child sexual exploitation networks. An analysis of a server, seized by South Korean authorities, revealed that the website had more than one million bitcoin

Sydney: An Australian economist who wrongfully spent nearly two decades in prison for the assassination of a high-ranking police officer was awarded more than Aus$7 million (US$4.75 million) in compensation on Monday. Former public servant David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of killing Australian