China will host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani next month at a regional summit in a Chinese coastal city, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday, as major power scramble to save Iran’s nuclear deal after the United States pulled out. Rouhani will pay a working visit to China and attend t

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj intervened on Saturday to help some 15 Indians stranded near Everest after some of them tweeted about their plight to her. “Currently stranded in Lukla since two days, Nepal, with copter company looters refusing to evacuate us to Kathmandu unless we pay 600

Toronto, May 26: Police in Canada were on Saturday looking for the two suspects who detonated a powerful bomb inside an Indian restaurant in Ontario province, leaving 15 people injured, media reports said. The two suspects with their faces covered entered the Bombay Bhel restaurant late on Thursday

WASHINGTON: The US-North Korea nuclear summit is back in the realms of possibility. The two sides continue to play hot and cold on the proposed meeting between their leaders, but President Trump himself indicated on Friday that they had reengaged in talks after they had broken down over what Pyongya

New Delhi: Two days after the release of his book The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace, former ISI chief Asad Durrani has been summoned at the Pakistani army headquarters. Durrani, who co-authored the book with former RAW chief AS Dulat, has been accused of “violating the military

Heavy monsoon rain in Sri Lanka has left at least 12 people dead and more than 40,000 others displaced across the country. Officials ordered the military to help those affected by the showers, believed to be upwards of 100,000 people so far. The country's disaster management agency has issued

The degree to which India and the Indian firms will cooperate with the Trump administration’s reimposed sanctions on Iran is not certain, a Congressional report has said, asserting that New Delhi does not agree with the United States that the Tehran has violated the nuclear deal. According to the

Toronto: Two unidentified men walked into an Indian restaurant on Thursday in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozen people, and then fleeing, local police said. Reacting to the news, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said that Indian embassy in Can

TOKYO:  North Korea is threatening to reconsider Kim Jong Un's participation in a summit with President Donald Trump next month, saying that it is up to the United States to decide whether it wants to "meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown." The punchy statement

New Delhi: In what could turn out to be a step towards betterment of the bitter Indo-Pak relations, India is all set to participate in an anti-terror meeting in Islamabad. A statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office said that the Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO-RATS) Legal Experts meeting wou

Eight South Korean journalists arrived in North Korea Wednesday after receiving a last-minute approval by the reclusive regime to observe the dismantling of the North's nuclear test site. The South Koreans were supposed to have joined a group of foreign journalists from the United States, Britain

Mosques in China must raise the national flag to promote the spirit of patriotism, the country’s top regulatory body for Islam announced over the weekend. The government-affiliated China Islamic Association issued a statement directing Muslim clerics to display the five-starred red flag at promin

Pakistan will raise the issue of India’s alleged violation of the Indus Waters Treaty with the World Bank, a media report said on Sunday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, Aizaz

NEW YORK:  Two prominent Indian-American executives are among 19 people appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as members to an organisation that addresses the city's most pressing challenges, with a particular focus on improving the lives of vulnerable New Yorkers. Hotel Association of

An aging airliner crashed Friday shortly after takeoff on a domestic flight in Cuba, officials and Cuban news media reported, leaving more than 100 people dead in an accident that highlighted the precarious state of the country's commercial aircraft fleet. The plane, a Boeing 737-200 leased by st

ISTANBUL: Turkey called on Muslim countries to stop other nations from following the United States and opening embassies in Jerusalem, as it opened a meeting in Istanbul on Friday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called the summit of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), after

Veteran spy Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA after six Democrats joined Republicans in a Senate confirmation vote on Thursday that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency’s harsh interrogation program after 9/11. The 54-45 vote split both parties, and the ma

Nearly 6,100 eligible applications for UK work visa were rejected due to an annual cap between December 2017 and March 2018. That was found by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), an independent advocate for science and engineering, based on figures from the UK Home Office via a Freedom