Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Monday that he sought India's help to train the country's security forces in counter-terrorism during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi on Sunday became the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after the deadly E

Hong Kong: Thousands of protesters rallied in central Hong Kong, seizing two main highways on Wednesday, in a defiant show of strength against government plans to allow extraditions to China. The Asian financial hub was rocked over the weekend by the largest protest march since the city's 1997 re

Washington: US President Donald Trump said that even though India has reduced its import tariff on American motorcycles from 100 percent to 50 percent, it is still too high and not acceptable to him. Trump said the United States, under his leadership, is a country that can no longer be fooled.

The National Accountability Bureau on Monday arrested former Pakistan president and Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in connection with a fake bank accounts case. Zardari’s arrest came hours after the Islamabad High Court refused to extend bail granted to Zardari and his sister F

As small and medium newspapers shut shop and big media houses handed over pink slips to journalists worldwide, Google alone made a whopping $4.7 billion from its Search and Google News in 2018 -- nearly as much as the entire US news industry made as a whole last year. According to a report in The

NEW DELHI: Former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj received a rather unusual request when she visited the Maldives in March—would India help build a cricket stadium in the atoll nation? The request was made during a discussion on cooperation in youth affairs and sports. India indicated it would, sensi

Dhaka: A Bangladeshi pilot, who flew a special plane to bring Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina back from Finland after her three-nation visit, was caught without his passport at Qatar's international airport, according to media reports. Captain Fazal Mahmud of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was denied ent

Kathmandu: At least two people lost their lives and a hundred were injured after a storm hit Nepal`s Kailali and Kanchanpur districts in the Far-Western Development Region on Thursday evening.   While 77 people were wounded due to the storms in Kailali, 23 people have been injured in Kanc

London: US President Donald Trump has claimed that India, China and Russia do not have a sense of pollution and cleanliness. His statement came in context to the World Health Organisation data that shows average air pollution levels are much higher in the three countries than the United States, even

Oldenburg: A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history was handed a life sentence Thursday for murdering 85 patients in his care. Judge Sebastian Buehrmann called Niels Hoegel's killing spree "incomprehensible". The 42-year-old murdered patie

In an unprecedented voluntary move, Pakistan’s military has decided to cut the defence budget for the next fiscal year amid an austerity drive launched by the government to solve the cash-strapped nation’s economic woes. Major General Asif Ghafoor, Director General (DG) Inter Services Public Relatio

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood arrived here on a three-day private visit on Tuesday night, diplomatic sources said. On Wednesday, he offered Eid prayers at historic Jama Masjid in New Delhi. Mahmood was Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India before he assumed charge of the top post in m

Colombo: Eight Muslim government officials in Sri Lanka quit their portfolios on Monday in solidarity with the industry minister accused by the opposition of supporting Islamist militants who killed more than 250 people on Easter Sunday. However, the three ministers and five junior ministers only

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won a major legal victory as a Swedish court denied a request to detain him over a sexual assault investigation dating back to 2010. The ruling by the Uppsala District Court on Monday is a setback for prosecutors who were hoping to issue a European Arrest Warr

Pithoragarh: A helicopter searching for eight climbers including seven foreigners missing on India's second-highest peak spotted bodies on Monday, a military source said. "Some bodies were visible during the helicopter recce. They were on the same route as the climbers had taken," the source said

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday disclosed a new problem involving Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX, saying that more than 300 of that troubled plane and the prior generation 737 may contain improperly manufactured parts and that the agency will require these parts to be quickly replac

Pakistan on Saturday indicated that it may lift the airspace ban along its eastern border with India to reciprocate the Indian Air Force’s decision to remove all restrictions on all air routes in the Indian airspace. Reacting to the India’s May 31 decision, a senior official of the Pakistan gover

Former Indian President of India Pratibha Patil has been conferred the “Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca” (Order of the Aztec Eagle) - the highest civilian award of Mexico given to foreigners, here on Saturday. The Ambassador of Mexico to India, Melba Pria, conferred the award on Patil - who crea