Ludhiana-born Anshdeep Singh Bhatia became the first turbaned Sikh to be inducted into the security team of US President Donald Trump, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday. Anshdeep, whose family had moved from Kanpur to Ludhiana during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots,

WASHINGTON: The United States threatened Monday to arrest and sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court if it moves to charge any American who served in Afghanistan with war crimes. White House National Security Advisor John Bolton called the Hague-based rights body

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s wife Kulsoom Nawaz passed away Tuesday in London, Pakistan media reported. Sharif and his daughter Maryam Sharif are at present imprisoned in Rawalpindi jail. According to Pakistan media Geo TV, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif an

A Hyderabad woman was allegedly cheated by her husband who forcefully kept her child in Dubai and sent her back to India. The woman, Amreen Ruhi has now, requested the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to look into the matter and help get back her son, Abdulla. Ms Ruhi filed a complaint

Paris: Seven persons, including two British tourists, were injured in a knife attack by a man in downtown Paris late on Sunday. According to the latest update, French police have detained the suspect. Any link to terrorism has also been ruled out. Four of the victims suffered severe wounds and

ISLAMABAD: Arif Alvi, a close ally of Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of the founding members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was sworn in as Pakistan's new president on Sunday.| The 69-year-old dentist was administered the oath of office as Pakistan's 13th President by Chief Just

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN: A small plane crashed into a lake in the centre of South Sudan on Sunday, a regional official told AFP, adding "many on board are feared dead". "We have not yet established full details of the airline but what we know it is a 19-seater plane coming from Juba to Yirol this morni

Kathmandu, Nepal: A helicopter crashed into a hillside in central Nepal on Saturday, killing six on board, including a Japanese tourist, officials said. One woman survived the crash with injuries and has been airlifted to the capital. Rescuers travelled on foot to reach the chopper's wreckage,

Islamabad: Succumbing to pressure from the hardliners, the Pakistan government on Friday withdrew the nomination of noted economist Atif Mian, a member of the minority Ahmadi community, from a newly-constituted economic panel, according to media reports. The move came three days after the Pakista

A 25-year-old Indian man was among three people killed when a gunman opened fire in a bank building in the US city of Cincinnati before police shot the attacker dead on Thursday. Pruthviraj Kandepi, who hailed from Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, was killed when 29-year-old Omar Enrique Santa

In a welcoming news for Indians, Pakistan on Friday announced that it would soon open the Kartarpur border corridor for Sikh pilgrims of India. Reacting to the announcement, Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu welcomed it and thanked Prime Minister Imran Khan for taking the step. On the 55

Tokyo: Devastating landslides caused by a powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake in northern Japan claimed at least nine lives on Thursday, with dozens still missing as homes were engulfed. Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of a po

Pakistan on Wednesday once again raised the Kashmir issue at the United Nations and even linked it to the Palestine issue in a shoddy attempt to draw a parallel. India's response though ignored the matter with precision and instead came in the form of highlighting its rich culutral heritage and comm

India will likely tell the US that it won’t be able to cut oil imports from Iran after sanctions take effect early November and hopes to “sensitise’’ Washington to the issues faced by the country in this regard, while making it clear that no nation can dictate how its external policy can be run.

London: Some of Britain's MPs from the ruling Conservative party on Monday questioned the UK government's financial assistance programme for India, which will involve 52 million pounds for 2018-19 and 46 million pounds for 2019-20. A few weeks after the government's Department for International D

TOKYO: Typhoon Jebi made landfall in western Japan on Tuesday, believed to be the strongest tropical cyclone to come ashore in Japan in 25 years. The storm has paralyzed Japan's second-largest population center, with flights and trains canceled across the region and companies forced to temporarily c

The founder of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan's most effective and feared militant groups, has died after a long illness, their affiliates the Afghan Taliban announced Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose son Sirajuddin Haqqani now heads the brutal group and is also the Taliban's deputy le

Ten people including children were shot at an apartment complex in San Bernardino, California Sunday night, police said, with three people in dire condition. “We got a call about 10:45 p.m. for shots fired,” said San Bernardino spokesman Capt. Richard Lawhead. “We found 10 victims down at the sce