MAR DEL PLATA: Argentina's navy said Wednesday it was investigating an unusual noise detected in the South Atlantic hours after it last communicated with a missing submarine, but refused to confirm whether it indicated an explosion. The development came as the clock was ticking down on hopes of f

CHENNAI: Having already gained kudos as a policy wonk in the field of transportation, 38-year-old Shefali Ranganathan of Chennai has now achieved another distinction. She has been named Seattle deputy mayor. Ranganathan was selected by mayor-elect Jenny Durkan to head her transition team, along w

Singapore: An Indian-origin former army Warrant Officer was sentenced to four months and three weeks in jail on Monday for abusing and beating her Indian maid. K. Rajakumari, 57, repeatedly abused her maid in 2012, and once, even hit the latter with a plastic hanger until it broke. Rajakumari, wh

London: Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on Monday for his pre-trial extradition hearing. The 61-year-old businessman, out on bail on an extradition warrant executed by Scotland Yard earlier this year, had been exempt from appearing before th

India has responded to Pakistan’s proposal allowing former Indian naval official Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet his wife on humanitarian grounds, a senior MEA official confirmed on Saturday. The confirmation of the Indian response came hours after Pakistan announced the receipt of the Indian letter, e

New Delhi: Massive anti-Pakistan protests are being held across Gilgit Baltistan against illegal taxation by the Pakistani regime on Saturday. According to ANI, a large number of residents, small traders and businessmen today joined the protest against unfair taxation policy of the Pakistan gover

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