WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: Sunayana Dumala, the wife of an Indian engineer who was shot dead in a hate crime shooting in the US last year, on Wednesday attended President Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address. Sunayana, 32, was invited as a guest by Congressman Kevin Yoder to attend the

At least five police officers were killed and 41 others wounded on Saturday when alleged drug traffickers detonated a bomb at a station in the northern city of Barranquilla, hours after a car explosion ripped through a security post near the border in neighboring Ecuador. There was no apparent li

India’s envoy to China has urged both sides to step up engagement at all levels as they navigate ties in the post-Doklam period, and stressed the need to respect the “status quo” along the disputed border. The 72-day Doklam stand-off was triggered by what India saw as a Chinese attempt to unilate

BEIJING: Heavy snow continued to affect parts of China on Saturday, closing highways, causing train and flight cancellations, and even interrupting the final of a soccer match between Vietnam and Uzbekistan in a southern Chinese province. In central Hubei province, sections of more than 30 highwa

Kabul: An ambulance packed with explosives blew up in a crowded area of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 63 people and wounding 151 others, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. "The latest toll from Kabul hospitals stands at 63 martyred and 151 wounded," health ministry spokesm

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said for the first time Wednesday that he is open to a path to citizenship for some younger undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers" in an immigration deal being negotiated by Congress, a potential breakthrough in the stalled talks. In an impromptu discussion

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and social activist Malala Yousafzai on Thursday stressed collective responsibility to promote the education of young girls across the globe while addressing a session during the annual World Economic Forum here. Speaking at the session titled An Insight, An Idea with M

The Lahore High Court on Wednesday restrained the Pakistan government from arresting JuD chief and 26/11 terror attack mastermind, Hafiz Saeed, a day after he moved the court seeking protection from arrest. The court order comes ahead of the United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committe

The US-led coalition against the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) says it has killed up to 150 militants in air strikes on a headquarters in Syria. A statement said the strikes took place on Saturday near al-Shafah, in the Middle Euphrates river valley in the south-eastern province of Deir al-Zo

SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR: A US based company has begun searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Malaysia said on Tuesday, as it tries to solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people, mostly Chine

LAHORE: Police in Kasur claimed on Tuesday to have arrested the man responsible for the heinous rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab. Zainab was kidnapped from near her aunt’s house on January 4 in Kasur. Her body was recovered from a garbage heap on January 9. The post-mortem of the minor re

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A strong quake rattled Indonesia on Tuesday, sparking panic in the capital Jakarta. Office workers rushed outside as highrises began swaying, while riders were thrown off their motorbikes by the force of the 6.0 magnitude rumble. It was not immediately clear if there were a

Davos: India is among the most trusted nations globally when it comes to government, business, NGOs and media but has recorded "extreme trust losses" compared to last year, a survey said today. Coming ahead of the World Economic Forum annual summit the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer said, globally, pe

About 90,000 Indian nationals have been rescued from various conflict zones, countries hit by natural calamities and other hazardous situations, and brought back to India safely over the last few years, Dnyaneshwar M Mulay, the Secretary of Consular, Passport, Visa and Overseas Indian Affairs in the

Beijing: China has donated over 32,000 solar power generating systems to Nepal to enhance its domestic capacity and to provide electricity to communities that have been without power since the 2015 earthquake. The donated items included 32,000 sets of household solar power generation systems and

LONDON: One of the UK's leading state-funded schools which had hit the headlines as one of the first to impose a ban on the hijab for girls under eight has been forced to reverse its decision after widespread criticism. St Stephen's School in Newham, east London, had been planning to extend the b

HASSA (TURKE|Y): Turkish ground troops entered Syria on Sunday to push an offensive against Kurdish militia as rocket fire hit a border town in apparent retaliation. Turkey on Saturday launched operation "Olive Branch" seeking to oust from the Afrin region of northern Syria the Peoples' Protection

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of women and their male supporters turned out on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a nationwide series of protests against U.S. President Donald Trump marking the end of his tumultuous first year in office. The coordinated rallies in Washington, N