Kabul: At least 40 people were killed and many others were wounded in Kabul multiple blasts near a media outlet and mosque on Thursday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which comes days after a suicide

Pakistani authorities have sent the shoes of the wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the former Indian Navy officer sentenced to death for alleged involvement in spying, for forensic tests as they contained a “metallic substance”. India’s protest over the treatment given to Jadhav’s wife and mother during

Washington: A 1939 luxury Mercedes-Benz limousine used to carry Adolf Hitler around Germany will be auctioned in the US state of Arizona next month – one of only four such models ever built. Powered by a 7.7-litre supercharged engine capable of exceeding 160kmh, the Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser – k

Egypt’s Prisons Authority says 15 Islamic militants convicted of staging a deadly attack on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula four years ago have been executed. Tuesday’s executions in two prisons to the west and northwest of Cairo is the largest known number of executions on a single day

BENGALURU: Its bad time for US-Indian professionals, the Department of Homeland Security is readying a proposal that will make getting an H-1B tougher. It is looking to impose stricter restrictions on the H-B petitioner’s selection process. According to TOI, International immigration firm Fragome

Dhaka [Bangladesh]: Bangladesh Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has said that Rohingya refugees will return to their homeland as soon as the international community and the UN pressurise Myanmar into repatriating them. “Bangladesh government has an extremely tolerant approach towards Rohingyas and

Moscow: A passenger bus in Russia’s Moscow killed 4 people on Monday as it deviated from the course to hit the busy pedestrian underpass, Russian media reported. The mishap occurred on one of the busiest roads, near the Slavyansky Boulevard metro station, of country’s capital. As per the news

The latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against the country, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on December 24, threatening to punish those who supported the measure. The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanction

Istanbul: President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is emerging as the spiritual leader of all the Muslims around the world. Now, he is making an attempt to bring all the Muslims under one roof by developing a common language and attitude. According to the report published in Anadolu Agency, Hami

New Delhi: India tops the world in the number of migrants abroad and more than half of the 16.59 million live in the Gulf region, according to a UN report. The 2017 International Migration Report released here on December 18 showed that during this century’s period of rapid globalisation, the num

TORONTO: ThinkData Works Inc., a big-data processing firm, just hired a software engineer from Brazil through Canada’s new fast-track visa program for high-skilled workers. “The process was bang on,” Bryan Smith, chief executive officer of the Toronto-based company, said. It took less than the go

МOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will be the only country to take part in rebuilding Syrian energy facilities, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday, after holding talks in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad, the RIA news agency reported. Rogozin was speaking a week after Preside

Turkish President says 'days are near' when Turkey will be able to open diplomatic mission in Jerusalem. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hope on Sunday that Turkey would soon be able to open an embassy to a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem, as he again denounced Donald Trump's r

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has praised Bangladesh’s efforts in “lending a hand” to Rohingya Muslims ahead of his two-day official visit to see the plight of the Burmese refugees. According to the itinerary of his visit, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will receive him at Shah

Quetta: At least 8 people have been killed and 44 people including women and children got injured in a suicide attack on Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta on Sunday, as reported by Pakistan media. Two attackers tried to enter the building and attacked the church, that is located in a hig

West Bank: Israeli troops shot dead one more young Palestinian who was protesting against Trump’s Jerusalem move. This incident took place on internationally recognized Palestinian land, West Bank. According to the reports, Israeli troops killed Palestinian man at Beit El military checkpoint, aro

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is considering revoking an Obama-era rule that extends work authorisation to the spouses of H-1B visa holders, a move that could affect thousands of Indian workers and their families. Since 2015, the spouses of H-1B, or high-skilled, visa holders waiting for g

Washington: An Indian American cardiologist based in the US state of Nevada has been arrested on 39 charges of unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and healthcare fraud, officials said. Devendra Patel, 58, allegedly prescribed opioids such as fentanyl, hydrocodone and oxycodone without l