NEW DELHI: India on Friday signed two loan agreements with Japan for construction of a Metro project in Kolkata and a high-speed rail project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, said an official. As per the agreements, the Japan International Cooperation Agency would provide a loan worth Rs. 5,591 cror

PALU, INDONESIA: Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful quake sent a tsunami barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said Saturday, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region. The national disaster agency

Canada’s parliament has voted unanimously to effectively strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship over the Rohingya crisis. Ottawa had given the long-detained democracy advocate and Nobel laureate the rare honour in 2007. But her international reputation has b

US President Donald Trump “looks forward” to visiting India but the timing will depend on his other commitments, according to a senior State Department official. “I am certain that President Trump looks forward to being able to visit India at an appropriate time,” Alice Wells, the principal deput

The body of a missing man, who was murdered in 1974, has finally been found after a fig seed in his stomach grew into a tree. In 2011, a researcher spotted a fig tree growing in an unusual place in the mountains. He dug the area around the tree and was horrified to find the remains of a human body t

The Antigua government Thursday said it would cooperate with India in the extradition of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who is a prime accused along with his nephew Nirav Modi in the Rs 13,600-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case. The assurance was confirmed during a meeting between External Af

Hyderabad: An 11-month-old baby boy died on board a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Hyderabad in the early hours of Wednesday. The baby, identified as Arnav Varma, was travelling with his parents from Doha to Hyderabad when he reportedly developed breathing troubles. As soon as the flight la

Saudi Arabia has launched a high-speed railway connecting Islam’s two holiest cities in a bid to improve traffic congestion for the millions of Muslim pilgrims that visit the country annually. King Salman launched the 450km Haramain High-Speed Rail System linking Mecca and Medina via the Red Sea

A 22-year-old Sikh soldier, who created history by becoming the first to wear a turban during an annual parade to mark British Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday ceremony, could be kicked out from his post after he was tested positive for cocaine, according to a media report. Charanpreet Singh Lall ma

The Lahore High Court on Monday ordered former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and journalist Cyril Almeida to appear before it in a treason case on October 8, Dawn reported. The court was responding to a plea filed by a person called Amina Malik, who has sought action against Sharif for defami

BANGKOK: The bodies of a wealthy British retiree and his Thai wife were found buried on their own property Tuesday a week after an alleged contract killing that implicated the woman's brother, police said. Alan Hogg was shot while his wife Nhot Suddaen was bludgeoned to death with a hammer at the

Moscow will bolster Syria's air defence following the downing of a Russian plane last week by sending a modern S-300 system to the Syrian army within two weeks, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said. In a televised statement on Monday, Shoigu said the decision to "transfer the modern S-300 air defe

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO: An Indian and a South African were among three mine workers kidnapped in a northern part of Burkina Faso which has been repeatedly targeted by terrorists, sources told AFP. "The three men of Indian, South African and Burkinabe nationality were kidnapped by unidentified ar

China summoned the U.S. ambassador in Beijing and postponed joint military talks in protest against a U.S. decision to sanction a Chinese military agency and its director for buying Russian fighter jets and a surface-to-air missile system. Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang summoned Am

Geneva [Switzerland]: Referring to the recently elected Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan as 'Taliban Khan', human right activists told the United Nations Thursday that Islamabad is misleading international community. "Now, with the new government in Pakistan, the situation is going to be bad t

Tehran: Gunmen attacked an annual Iranian military on parade Saturday in the country's oil-rich southwest, killing at least 24 people and wounding 53 others, local media reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault in Ahvaz, which saw gunfire spray into a crowd of marchin

NEW DELHI: Within 24 hours of announcing that the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers would meet next week in the US, the government today called off the talks, accusing Pakistan and its prime minister Imran Khan of "evil designs" after three policemen were kidnapped and killed by terrorists in J

Dodoma: The death toll in a ferry capsize in Lake Victoria climbed to more than 100 on Friday, as Tanzanian rescue workers pressed on with searches to find scores of more people feared drowned. The MV Nyerere may have been carrying as many as 200 passengers -- double the ferry's capacity -- when