Pakistan is trying to hoodwink the international community with its “cosmetic” steps against terror groups, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. The MEA’s response came after Pakistan claimed that it had “booked” Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed and 12 of his close associates for

At least two people were shot dead by an unidentified man on Wednesday at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, Pakistan. The police have arrested the shooter. The firing at the airport's lounge took place when the passengers had just exited the international lounge after arriving back f

Four Indian-American executives from two IT staffing companies have been arrested on the charges of fraudulently using the H-1B visa programme to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors, a US attorney has said. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ forei

London:  The body of a man thought to have been a stowaway who fell from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight on its way into Heathrow Airport has been found in a garden in London, police said on Monday. London's Metropolitan Police said they were called to a home in Clapham in south London

All ten people on board were killed when a small airplane struggled to gain altitude after taking off from a Dallas-area airport Sunday, veered to the left and plunged into a hangar, local authorities and witnesses said. Mary Rosenbleeth, a spokeswoman for the town of Addison, Texas, said there were

New Delhi: Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said on Sunday that Indians were present at the site of a brawl between workers at an oil field in western Kazakhstan but no serious injuries to any of them had been reported. According to local media reports, dozens were injured i

Washington: A small twin-engine passenger plane crashed in Texas in the United States on Sunday, killing 10 people, officials said. "The Dallas County Medical Examiner has confirmed 10 fatalities and no survivors," a spokeswoman for the town of Addison told AFP. The plane was heading for St. P

A group of Sikh activists has launched an online petition asking Indian-American Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to apologise to the community for allegedly defending a discriminatory policy in 2011. In a statement, the Sikh activists alleged that during her tenure as California’s

Pakistan on June 29 received the first tranche of $500 million from Qatar under the $3 billion package consisting of a foreign currency deposit and direct investment to help boost the country’s dwindling foreign-exchange reserves, according to a media report on June 30. The first tranche deposite

New Delhi: Four Swiss bank accounts of beleaguered diamantaire Nirav Modi, the main accused in the $2-billion PNB fraud case, and his sister have been “frozen” by authorities in Switzerland as part of the criminal money laundering probe being conducted against them in India. They said the account

The Dalai Lama accused President Donald Trump of having a "lack of moral principle" during a television interview that aired Thursday in which the Tibetan spiritual leader also voiced renewed concerns about Trump's "America first" policies. Speaking to the BBC, the Dalai Lama described Trump's em

Oscar-winning Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, known for his environmental activism, has drawn attention to the ongoing water crisis in Chennai. DiCaprio took to Instagram to re-share a photograph of a dry well which had been posted by BBC News. The post read, “'Only rain can save Chennai fro

Wesley Mathews, the adoptive father of Sherin Mathews – the three-year-old who was found dead in a Texas culvert in 2017 – has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his daughter. After about three days of testimony, the jury at a Dallas County court unanimously decided 39-year-old We

The parents of a Houston newborn who suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital were arrested in their daughter’s death, according to police and Harris County prosecutors. Jazmine Robin, who was born prematurely, was 10 weeks old when

Nearly 250 migrant children have been relocated to children's shelters from an overcrowded Texas border patrol station where attorneys said they had been held for weeks in dirty conditions without adequate food and water. Evelyn Stauffer, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Servi

Hyderabad: A Hyderabad man was killed in a road accident in San Francisco on Sunday. He was identified as Syed Waseem Ali, who used to live in Walnut Ave. "Syed Waseem Ali was travelling in a car along with another person yesterday. When he reached the intersection of Third Street, Bay View Di

LONDON: U.S. cyber attacks against Iranian targets have not been successful, Iran's telecoms minister said on Monday, within days of reports that the Pentagon had launched a long-planned cyber attack to disable his country's rocket launch systems. Tension runs high between longtime foes Iran and th

Dhaka: A train plunged into a canal when the bridge it was travelling across gave way, killing five people and injuring 67 more in Bangladesh on Monday. Officials said part of the bridge collapsed as the express train went over, sending five cars crashing to the ground, with one of them landing i