India is expected to receive a total remittance of $80 billion in 2018, said the latest edition of the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief, released on Saturday. "Among major remittance recipients, India retains its top spot, with remittances expected to total $80 billion this year, foll

BEIJING/OTTAWA: China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, calling the case "extremely nasty". Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1

London: A joint team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) led by CBI Joint Director A Sai Manohar on Sunday left for the United Kingdom for court proceedings in connection with India's request seeking extradition of liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya. The Westminster Mag

Rex Tillerson came a little bit closer Thursday to saying what he actually thinks of President Donald Trump. The fired secretary of state, who while in office reportedly called Trump a "moron" (and declined to deny it), expounded on his thoughts on the president in a rare interview with CBS News's

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister, for the first time, has acknowledged that the 2008 Mumbai terror attack was perpetrated by Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. "I have asked our government to find out the status of the case. Resolving that case is in our interest because it was an act of t

In an eco-friendly move aimed at reducing traffic congestion, Luxembourg has announced plans to become the world's first country to make its public transportation free for everyone. According to The Independent, a new coalition government will be taking office in the Grand Duchy, and it has promi

Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the US of “pushing Pakistan away” and said he would never want to have a relation with Washington where his country is treated like a “hired gun”. “I would never want to have a relationship where Pakistan is treated like a hired gun -- given money to fight so

New York: A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein in which he grapples with the concept of religion has sold for nearly $2.9 million smashing predictions. Written in 1954, the so-called "God letter" was expected to fetch $1.5 million at Christie's Rockefeller Center auction here. The Nobel Prize-win

Iran President Hassan Rouhani has threatened again to close the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea. “If someday, the United States decides to block Iran’s oil (exports), no oil will be exported from the Persian Gulf,” the state TV quoted Rouha

The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly framing a love rival as the author of a terrorist hit list. Arsakan Khawaja, 39, is accused of trying to set up his former university colleague Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen, by convincing police that the 26-year-o

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had told him that Kashmir would have been resolved if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had not lost the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. In an interview to a group of television journalists here, Khan added

Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, recently issued a statement denying rumors that he had died and been replaced by a body double. Following Buhari’s five month absence from the country, as he sought treatment for an unnamed, serious illness in the UK, rumors began to circulate in Nigeria t

JAIPUR: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said Pakistan can seek India's help if it cannot handle the fight against terrorism alone. "I want to ask the Pakistani prime minister (Imran Khan) that if in Aghanistan, a fight can be carried out against terror and Taliban with the help of the US, then,

Former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush died at his home in Houston, Texas, late Friday, his spokesperson said in a statement. He was 94 and had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease in recent years. Bush was president from 1989 to 1993. His death came months after that of his

Washington: The Trump administration on Friday proposed major changes to the H-1B application process with the aim of awarding the visa to the most skilled and highest paid foreign workers. Under a new proposed merit-based rule, a notice for which was issued on Friday, companies employing foreign

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said in Pune on Friday that Pakistan needs to be a secular state to have better ties with India, reports ANI. “Pakistan has made its state an Islamic State. If they have to stay together with India, then they have to develop as a secular state. If they’re willing to

WASHINGTON: US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Wednesday slammed Beijing for failing to offer "meaningful reform" on aggressive trade policies that harm US workers and industry, and threatened tariffs on Chinese autos. The latest trade threat against China comes days before President Do

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's military chief was remanded by court Wednesday after weeks evading arrest over the alleged cover-up of the abduction and murder of 11 young men during the island's civil war. Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne is the highest-ranking military officer ever held by a court over alle