A high-level Chinese military delegation led by the Deputy Commander of China’s Western Theatre Command arrived at Sukna on Tuesday. The team will interact with its counterparts at the headquarters of the Indian Army’s 33 Corps, which is tasked with guarding the contentious Dokalam region. The vi

A 92-year-old woman from the US state of Arizona killed her son in order to avoid being sent to an assisted living facility. "You took my life, so I'm taking yours," Anna Mae Blessing said as deputies escorted her from the apartment in Fountain Hills she shared with her 72-year-old son and his gi

A group of 10 soldiers will remain with the 12 children and their coach trapped in a partially flooded cave in Thailand until they are rescued, the authorities said on Wednesday. Ruetaiwan Patisen, spokesperson for the rescue teams, told Efe news that the children are in good health, despite goin

Delhi has sought Kathmandu’s assistance for the ongoing evacuation of hundreds of Indian pilgrims, enroute to Kailash Mansarovar, stranded near Nepal’s border with China, amid heavy downpour and landslips, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday. An official source confirmed that

Washington: Prominent Indian-American judge Amul Thapar is among the 25 judges US President Donald Trump has shortlisted as potential nominees to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The 49-year-old judge along three other legal luminaries was recently interviewed by Trump after Kennedy, 8

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is shifting a naval base to a port built and controlled by China, it said on Monday, a move that will strengthen security at a harbour that foreign powers fear China could use for military purposes. The base currently in the tourist district of Galle will be moved 125 km (80 mi

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack in the eastern province of Afghanistan that killed 19, mostly Hindus and Sikhs on Sunday. The suicide bombing targetted a delegation which was moving towards the residence of the governor for a meeting with President Ashraf Ghan

London/New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has expressed disappointment over a "baseless" media report in the United Kingdom that alleged her British counterpart Gavin Williamson turned down a request for a bilateral meeting. The meeting was requested over a month ago by Indian officia

India is now swiftly moving towards acquiring five advanced S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems from Russia despite the looming threat of US sanctions, with the defence ministry clearing the decks for the proposed Rs 39,000 crore deal. Top sources say the defence acquisitions council (DAC),

An Allahabad youth was allegedly lured to work for the banned terrorist outfit Islamic State for $ 5,000 per month, but in vain. The youth approached the police after he was added to an unknown WhatsApp group which had the logo of the group which is waging a war to establish an Islamic state in I

AL-HMIDIYA: The lifeless bodies of three babies were brought ashore in Libya on Friday, victims of a Mediterranean migrant shipwreck in which survivors say 100 people are still missing. Around 120 migrants were aboard the inflatable craft when it ran into trouble, according to survivors taken to

WASHINGTON: An Indian woman, who is seeking asylum in the US after she illegally crossed into America from Mexico, has been separated from her five-year-old differently-abled son, a media report said on Friday. The Trump administration's controversial "zero tolerance" policy of separating immigra

Nagrota: An 11-year-old boy from Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK) was handed over to the Pakistani authorities with a box of sweets on Wednesday, four days after he accidentally crossed into the Indian-occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. The boy, identified as Mohammad Abdul

Baghdad: Iraq executed a dozen death row terrorists on the order of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his office said Friday, in retaliation for the ISIS group's murder of eight captives. The executions on Thursday came shortly after Abadi ordered the "immediate" implementation of the death sentences

India on Wednesday voted against UK at the Special Session of the Conference of State Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention in Hague in what can be viewed as support for Russian position. It was convened by UK to propose that Organisation for Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) should be

Seventeen states, including Washington, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump’s administration in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the US-Mexico border. Late Tuesday, a federal judge in California issued a ruling on a separate but

Washington: Ahead of next week's maiden 2+2 dialogue with India, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused New Delhi of charging as high as 100 per cent tariff on import of American products. "We have countries where, as an example, India, they charge up as much as 100 per cent tariff. We want

The United States will insist India and all other buyers of Iranian crude must cut imports to “zero” by November 4 when sanctions go into effect against Iran, a senior state department official said on Tuesday and warned there will be no waivers, unlike the previous round. The official said the m