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

Holland has become the latest nation to impose a ban on “face-covering clothing” such as the burqa and niqab. The new Dutch law is a partial ban, meaning it only applies on public transport and in public buildings but not on the street, nor does it outlaw the hijab, which covers only the hair.

London: India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday. War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of a

Melbourne: An Indian man was deported from Australia after child exploitation material was found in his phone during a security checking at an airport in Perth, a media report said today. The 30-year-old Indian man arrived in Perth from Singapore on a temporary skilled graduate visa on Friday whe

Democracy is the winner of Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said early on June 25. Addressing the nation from the balcony of Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in the capital Ankara after his election victory, Erdoğan said every one o

Nigeria’s presidency late Sunday announced a “deeply unfortunate killings across a number of communities” in central Plateau State as one report cited police as saying 86 people were dead in clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers. President Muhammadu Buhari appealed for calm

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian mosque has banned tourists after a video of two female visitors in skimpy outfits dancing in front of the Muslim holy site went viral online. The pair, of East Asian appearance and believed to be foreigners, were filmed doing the dance in skimpy shorts and tops exposing

German police say that 25 people have been injured, four of them severely, when an explosion destroyed a building in the western city of Wuppertal. Police say the explosion rocked the several-story building shortly before midnight Saturday with a large noise, scaring people in surrounding homes s

Every few metres someone – a newlywed couple, a group of young girls with balloons – stops Samar Almogren to cheer her on or flash her a thumbs-up. It's midnight in Riyadh, and she's making her way across the city she was born and raised in, finally in the driver's seat of her own car. Saudi Arab