Makassar, Indonesia: An Indonesian woman has been found in the belly of a giant python after the swollen snake was captured near where she vanished while tending her vegetable garden, police said Saturday. The body of 54-year-old Wa Tiba was found Friday when villagers cut open the seven-metre (2

India's oil imports from Iran will be hit from the end of August as the State Bank of India (SBI) has informed refiners it will not handle payments for crude from the Middle Eastern nation from November, the finance head of Indian Oil Corp (IOC) said on Friday. Such a move from the Indian state-c

A Pakistani law student has emerged as a women’s rights crusader after she was stabbed 23 times in a busy street only to see her alleged attacker walk free, igniting outrage across the deeply patriarchal country. Khadija Siddiqui, 23, survived the frenzied attack in broad daylight outside her sis

Taunting former military ruler Pervez Musharraf that how can a commando be so afraid to return to his country, the Pakistan Supreme Court gave him a deadline until Thursday afternoon to present himself in court in the lifetime disqualification case against him. A three-judge bench, hearing Mushar

A last-minute intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was responsible for ensuring that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not sign a key agreement on taking back illegal immigrants when he visited the U.K. in April, senior officials in New Delhi and London. The decision by the gove

India’s oil imports from Iran surged to about 705,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, their highest level since October 2016, according to data from shipping and industry sources, despite the threats of fresh US sanctions. From June India’s oil imports from Iran could drop because at least two refi

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's daughter and son in law made at least 82 million dollars in outside income while serving as senior White House advisers last year thanks to investment deals from companies they had previously led, news reports said on Tuesday. Ivanka Trump reported 3.9 million

A US F15 fighter jet crashed off the southern coast of Japan on Monday, local media reported, adding that the jet's pilot ejected and was rescued by Japanese forces. There was no immediate confirmation of the crash from the defence ministry, which said it was gathering information on the report, or

Billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, who is accused of a $2 billion fraud involving several banks in India, has fled to the United Kingdom seeking political asylum citing persecution by Indian authorities, reports the Financial Times. Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi are alleged to have defrauded P

President Donald Trump has taken a swipe at India along with the world's other top economies and accused New Delhi of charging 100 percent tariff on some of the US' goods, as he threatened to cut trade ties with countries who are robbing America. Trump made the remarks in Canada's Quebec City whe

Riyadh: A Frenchman has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Mecca, Saudi and French officials said Saturday. "A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the Grand Mosque in Mecca" to the courtyard below, "resulting in his instant death

Green Card is issued to immigrants for legally residing and working in the USA permanently. While this is not the same as holding an American Passport, which is one of the most powerful in the world, it is definitely a step closer to get one. Among all the Green card applicants in USA, India take

Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a US Navy contractor, stealing highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare, including secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile. The Navy is leading the investigation into the breach–that occurred in January and February

Kabul: The Afghan Taliban on Saturday announced a three-day ceasefire over the Eid holiday at the end of this week, their first offer of its kind, following a ceasefire announced by the government on Thursday. The terror group said foreign forces would be excluded from the ceasefire and that oper

LAHORE: Hafiz Saeed's Jammat-ud-Dawah is fielding more than 200 candidates in the July 25 general elections on national and provincial Assembly seats across the country even as the Mumbai terror attack mastermind has decided not to run for parliament. Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a front for the Lashka

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive here tomorrow on a two-day visit to attend the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit where India is likely to pitch for concerted regional and global action against terror networks and favour effective connectivity links to boost trade. Ind

PAHOA, Hawaii: An ever-creeping wall of lava from Kilauea Volcano has engulfed two entire seaside housing tracts at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, government scientists reported on Wednesday, an area where civil defense officials said nearly 280 homes once stood. The obliteration of the

Washington: Several Muslim organizations have decided to boycott US President Donald Trump's first Iftar dinner at the White House, citing his alleged anti-Muslim rhetoric. Last year, Trump broke with decades of precedent by forgoing the annual Iftar dinner, a bipartisan tradition that formally b