A bright UFO was reportedly spotted twice at a remote area in northern Norway on Thursday, February 22. The mysterious light was spotted by observers in Bardufoss and around 80 miles (129 kilometres) away in the city of Tromsø. The UFO was reportedly seen hovering in the sky until sunset. Accordi

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has announced a new policy that makes very tough the procedure of issuing H-1B visas to those to be employed at one or more third-party worksites, a move that will hugely impact Indian IT companies and their employees+ . Under the new policy, the company would

BEIRUT, ISTANBUL: The Turkish army struck a convoy entering Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region, which Ankara said carried fighters and weapons but Kurdish forces said was made up of civilians entering with food and medicine. In a statement on Friday, the Turkish military said a fleet of some 30-40

India has been ranked at 81st place out of 180 countries on a ‘Corruption Perception Index’, in a list released by Transparency International. India’s ranking is worse than those of China and Bhutan but better than those of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The index ranks the countries by their perceived le

Embattled Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday criticised the Supreme Court verdict disqualifying him as ruling party head and claimed an attempt has been made to oust him from politics. Three time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from the Par

An Indian Sikh man’s turban was ripped by a white man in an apparent racist attack outside the UK parliament, according to a media report. Ravneet Singh (37), from Punjab in India, said he was waiting to enter the Portcullis House, part of the British Parliamentary Estate, to meet Sikh Labour MP

Lima: At least 44 people died in Peru on Wednesday when a bus hurtled some 100 meters into a ravine in the mountainous south in the country's second major bus crash in 2018, a local official said. "According to a report from the Peruvian National Police, there are 44 confirmed deaths as of now,"

Washington, Feb 21 (PTI) Facing public wrath after the deadly school massacre in Florida, President Donald Trump has decided to consider banning bump stocks, a controversial device that turns semi-automatic rifles into machine guns that can fire hundreds of rounds a minute. Trump yesterday said h

LAHORE: Krishna Kumari Kohli from Thar in Pakistan's Sindh province will become the first-ever Hindu woman Senator in the Muslim-majority country, the Pakistan People's Party said today. The Election Commission of Pakistan has accepted the papers of the 39-year-old who was nominated by the ruling

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday that ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif be removed as head of the political party he founded, six months after the court removed him as premier. The order overturns a change in the law by Sharif's ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz that allowed the f

Air strikes hit Syria’s Eastern Ghouta for a third straight day on Tuesday, bringing the civilian death toll to nearly 200 as the UN warned the situation in the rebel enclave was spinning “out of control”. Air strikes and rocket and artillery fire have battered the rebel-held enclave since Sunday

TOKYO,JAPAN: Japan's defence ministry demanded explanations Tuesday from the US military after a fighter jet experiencing an engine fire dropped two fuel tanks into a lake in the country's north. The incident, which caused no injuries, is the latest in a string of accidents involving the US milit

Idlib : Three more villages have been liberated from the clutches of terrorists in northwestern Syria’s Afrin region, by the Turkish military and the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The villages of Ikidam, Shaltah, and Marsawiyah were liberated during the ongoing operation Olive Branch, Anadolu Agency re

Jerusalem: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed “media witch hunt” for the new investigation announced by the Police, amid the already existing corruption allegations against him. According to CNN, Netanyahu said in a statement, “The media witch hunt continues with all its might. A

Singapore: An Indian-origin man in Singapore was on Saturday charged in a court with the murder of a fellow worker at a construction site, according to a media report. Saravanan Arimuram, 31, faces death penalty for the alleged murder of Sivakumar Perumal, 43, who suffered injuries to his face and c

Maiduguri, Nigeria: Three suicide bombers killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner said on Saturday. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack but the use of suicide bombers in crowded

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday gave the death sentence to a suspected serial killer for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, a crime that had triggered protests across the country earlier this year. The gruesome assault in Kasur town, located a short distance from the borde

New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, inaugurated the 2018 edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS 2018) at VigyanBhawan in the capital today on Friday, 16thFebruary. WSDS is the flagship forum of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and seeks to bring together on