Washington: There is a strong possibility of communal violence in India if the ruling BJP stresses on Hindu nationalist themes ahead of the general election in May, America's top spymaster told US lawmakers on Tuesday. The comment on India's upcoming general election is part of the US intelligenc

WASHINGTON: The US economy was expected to lose $3 billion from the partial federal government shutdown over President Donald Trump`s demand for border wall funding, congressional researchers said on Monday as 800,000 federal employees returned to work after 35 days without pay. The nonpartisan C

Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected Tuesday a challenge against its decision to acquit Asia Bibi, lifting the last legal hurdle in the years-long blasphemy case and potentially paving the way for the Christian mother to leave the country. “Based on merit, this review petition is dismissed,” Chief J

LIMA: A landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in southeastern Peru, killing at least 15 people, authorities said Sunday. "The mudslide broke through the walls of the hotel, crashing through," the mayor of the city of Abancay, where the hotel is located, told RPP radio. Th

Paris: More than 10,000 people marched through Paris on Sunday in protest at "yellow vest" violence during the anti-government demos that have drawn tens of thousands of people to the streets over the past 11 weeks. Since mid-November President Emmanuel Macron has offered concessions and debates

Jerusalem: Israeli troops on Friday fatally shot a Palestinian and wounded another as they threw stones at Israeli motorists in the occupied West Bank, the army said. Soldiers "responded by firing at the suspects, who received medical treatment. One of the suspects later died of his wounds and anoth

Manila: Two bombs exploded outside a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, killing at least 19 people and wounding nearly 50 during a Sunday Mass, officials said. The first bomb went off in or near the Jolo cathedral in the provincial capital, fo

Pakistan has announced plans to ease visa restrictions for tourists from 90 countries, including the U.S. and Europe, in a bid to revive its tourism sector, decimated by years of negligence and problems with militants. Cabinet Minister Fahmida Mirza pledged authorities would do everything possibl

BRAZIL: Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday searching for around 300 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil killed at least nine, but the local governor said "odds are minimal" that they would be found alive. Seven bodies were recovered Friday hours after the disast

A total of 185 passengers fell sick minutes after boarding a plane in Canada's Quebec airport. Ten passengers on board the plane were hospitalised, officials said. All passengers on board Air Transat flight 782 to US' Fort Lauderdale were seen by paramedics around 11 am on Thursday. Passengers

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa arrived here on Friday on a two-day State Visit to India. He will be the State Guest of Honour for the Republic Day parade on Saturday. "Special occasion. Special friend. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is received by Urban Development Minister

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar unveiled a package of measures on Wednesday to boost exports and investment and help Islamabad address a severe balance of payments squeeze that has forced it to turn to the International Monetary Fund for help. Announcing measures to cut red tape,

Lahore: Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's condition is "very serious" after heart complications and he should be shifted to hospital without any delay, his doctor said on Wednesday. Sharif, 69, who is serving a seven-year imprisonment in a Lahore jail, was rushed to a hospital f

MOSCOW: Three Russian bomber crew members died and another was injured when their plane crashed on a training flight Tuesday, Moscow's defense ministry said, days after a deadly collision between two jets. "A Tu-22M3 plane made a hard landing after a training flight due to going into a snow flurr

LAHORE: Pakistani authorities on Tuesday sacked the head of the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) after a probe into a weekend shootout revealed that three members of a family were killed in a fake encounter on a highway. Terrorism and murder charges were also pressed against five CTD off

Berlin: Germany has revoked the licence of an Iranian airline because it has been transporting military equipment and personnel to Syria and other Middle East war zones, the foreign ministry said on Monday, after heavy U.S. pressure on Berlin to act. The United States imposed sanctions on Mahan A

Two ships carrying Indian, Turkish and Libyan crew members have caught fire in the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from Russia, killing at least 11 persons, media reports said on Tuesday. The fire broke out on Monday off Russia’s territorial waters. Both vessels were flying Tanzanian flags. One of

DAMASCUS, SYRIA: Israel's military said it carried out strikes on Iranian targets in Syria early Monday after it intercepted a rocket fired from Syrian territory hours before. It said in a statement it was "currently striking" the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force in Syria and warned Syria