COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested 19 people after violent clashes erupted in Galle District between the majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities. A police curfew had been imposed in six areas across the district in order to control the situation. A police official told X

Baghdad: Iraqi forces said they retook the last town in the country still held by the Islamic State group near the border with Syria today in a lightning offensive. Government troops and paramilitary units “liberated the whole of Rawa and raised the Iraqi flag on all of its official buildings,” G

Abuja: Four suicide bombers have killed at least 10 people and wounded many others in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The attackers, who included women, detonated their explosives in the Muna district, BBC reported on Wednesday citing the police. No group has said it was behind the attack. How

New Delhi: Japan will simplify its visa rules from January 1 next year for Indians and issue multiple- entry-visa for short-term stay, a move which is expected to benefit tourists and business persons as well as repeat visitors, the Japanese embassy said today. The relaxed visa regime will not on

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Aziz on Tuesday have expressed barring Muslim women from covering their hair or wearing headscarves by some International Malaysian hotels as “imbecilic” and “unconstitutional”. The issue came to light after the Malaysian Labour Centre of

When someone reminds you the phrase ‘Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims,’quote them an analysis done by FBI that states ‘every U.S. terrorist attack between 1980 and 2005, 94% were carried out by a non-Muslim’. According to data, the number of anti-Muslim groups in the

Aleppo [Syria]: At least 53 people were killed and more than 60 were injured in airstrikes that targeted a marketplace in Syria‘s northwestern Aleppo province on Monday. According to Khalid Al-Khatib, a pro-opposition Syrian civil defense teams (White Helmets), three airstrikes targeted the marke

Manila: Myanmar’State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under rising global pressure to solve the Rohingya crisis in northern Rakhine State, has had meetings here with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. According to informed sources, ove

London: An Indian-origin doctor who was arrested in East Midlands region of England for the circumcision of a three-month-old baby boy without his mother’s approval has been released without charge. Dr Balvinder Mehat, 61, was accused of circumcising the tot without religious reasons in July 2013

US president Donald Trump said that Kim Jong-un insulted him by telling him old and said he never called Kim Jong-un short and fat. On the other hand Trump expressed his wish to befriend with North Korean leader. Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "shor

Myanmar soldiers “systematically targeted” Rohingya women for gang-rape during violence against the minority Muslim community which triggered an exodus to Bangladesh, an UN special envoy said on Sunday. Pramila Patten, a special representative of the UN Secretary-General on sexual violence in confli

Four aides of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, who were detained along with the JuD chief by the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province under preventative detention since January, have been released. Abdullah Ubaid, Malik Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Hussain - walked free

US president Donald Trump on Saturday said Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin told him that “he didn’t meddle” in US elections that propelled the billionaire former reality star to the White House. Trump’s relationship with Moscow has stalked the first year of his presidency, with key former aide

Pakistan on Friday offered to arrange a meeting between Kubhushan Jadhav, an Indian national sentenced to death by a military court for alleged involvement in espionage, and his wife on humanitarian grounds. The Foreign Office said in a brief statement that a note verbale with the formal offer of

London: It was shocking news for the Indian community in Britain. The most influential British-Indian politician was ousted from the government in an unceremonious way. International Development Secretary Priti Patel was recalled from her Uganda trip and forced to submit her resignation for breachin

KOLKATA / DHAKA: A number of connectivity projects, including a new passenger train service between Kolkata and Bangladesh's southwestern industrial city of Khulna, were today launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina that will help reduce the travel time

Washington: World Bank lending to countries like China that are rich enough to finance their own development hurts poor countries that need help, a senior US Treasury official said today. David Malpass, Treasury’s under secretary for International Affairs, cited China as a prime example of the pr

Washington: According to a media report released, the gunman Devin Kelley who killed 26 persons inside a church in US went on looking for survivors to execute through the church benches(pews) as reported by a Spanish couple who luckily survived the attacked. The shooting happened at the First Bap