Houston: US Senator and Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders addressing the audience at an event hosted by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) that he was "deeply concerned" about the situation in Kashmir and asked the US government to "speak out boldly" in support of a UN-backed

Showing his skills in the emerging field of water technology, a 25-year-old electronics engineer from Odisha became the first-ever gold medallist from India in the prestigious World Skill Competition at Kazan(Russia) which ended yesterday. Aswatha Narayana Sanagavarapu, a B Tech graduate in Appli

New York: Tiffany & Co. is entering India after years eyeing the market’s rising middle class shoppers. The jeweler’s top executive says the time is finally right. “That’s a big market, not only for the number of people, but also because it’s a very fast-growing middle class that we know is a d

Islamabad: The electricity supply to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Secretariat faces disconnection over non-payment of bills running into crores of rupees. The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) issued a notice to this effect on Wednesday. According to reports in the Pakistani media

Lima: Archeologists in Peru say the 227 bodies they have unearthed from a site used by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture is the biggest-ever discovery of sacrificed children. Archeologists have been digging since last year at the huge sacrificial site in Huanchaco, a beachside tourist town north of

Washington, United States : Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally. Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, w

NORMAN, Oklahoma: A judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling Oklahoma's opioid crisis, ordering the pharmaceutical company to pay $572 million to remedy the devastation wrought by the epidemic on the state and its residents. Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman'

Brazil on Monday rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of “his home and his colonies.” “We appreciate (the offer), but maybe those resources are more relevant to reforest Europe,” Onyx Lorenzoni,

The head of Hezbollah on Sunday threatened Israel after a “drone attack” on the Lebanese Shiite movement’s Beirut stronghold, vowing to “do everything” to thwart future attacks. Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States, is a major political actor in Lebanon and

LAHORE : Special Assistant to Pakistan Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that Pakistan was effectively highlighting the Kashmir issue at internationally, but it was unfortunate that some Islamic countries due to their selfish interests were ignoring its ef

Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed a question that several viewers of the Man vs Wild episode featuring the Prime Minister had been left pondering about — how he and Bear Grylls managed to effortlessly converse despite speaking in different languages. "There is no mystery to this," Modi said. "Tec

After roiling markets with tweets lashing out against new Chinese tariffs and urging American companies — saying they are “hereby ordered” — to leave China, US president Donald Trump on Friday slapped an additional 5% levy on existing and planned duties on Chinese goods. “Starting on October 1st,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday used the Pakistani airspace, the first time since the Balakot airstrike in February, to travel to France for a bilateral meet. The airspace was shut following the airstrike by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on February 26. IAF planes had destroyed terror camps

Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia. F

Clearing its stance on Jammu and Kashmir, Bangladesh Wednesday said the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution — which gave Jammu and Kashmir special status — was India’s “internal matter”. “Bangladesh maintains that the abrogation of Article 370 by the Indian Government is

Washington: A 27-year-old Indian student has drowned after jumping off from a recreation spot into the Crater Lake in the US state of Oregon, authorities said. Sumedh Mannar jumped off the "Jumping Rock" - a popular recreation spot at the lake - on Sunday around 4:40 pm (local time) and did not r

Three officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) who were probing a terror funding case have been removed for allegedly asking for bribe, the NIA Tuesday said. Pakistan-based Hafiz Saeed, the globally designated terrorist, is an accused in this case. The NIA, the country’s federal an

New York: Navneeth Murali, an Indian-American teenager from New Jersey, has won the 2019 South Asian Spelling Bee contest by correctly spelling "flipe" to earn the annual title and USD 3,000 grand prize. The South Asian Spelling Bee (SASB) is an annual spelling bee platform in the US for children