Lahore: Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has slapped a Rs 100-million defamation notice on Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja Asif for calling him the “darling of the United States”. Asif, while speaking at the Asia Society forum in New York on Tuesday, acknowledged that Saeed, the Haqq

Syria’s war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today, in the deadliest month of the conflict this year. “More than 70 per cent of the civilians were killed in the regime and Russian air strikes, or in air raids of t

NEW DELHI: After the Doklam stand-off ended and PM Narendra Modi and China President Xi Jinping held a meeting, toasted as a success by both sides, there seems to be a conscious attempt by Beijing to build a favorable public opinion in India, suggesting the two nations can start a new chapter. Af

The United Arab Emirates has begun collecting new “sin” taxes on tobacco products, energy drinks and soft drinks. Beginning Sunday, tobacco and energy drinks will be taxed at 100 per cent and soft drinks at 50 per cent. Shoppers could be seen stocking up the day before. The new tax push comes

Two Keralites were killed in an accident that took place at the Salwa border of Saudi Arabia on Friday. The deceased have been identified as KS Ajith, 37, a native of Thokkad, Perumbadav in Kannur, and Ajith Kumar a native of Mankada in Malappuram. Both were working in Welflow Wealth Care company

Muscat: A visit to a petrol station will now cost more than ever as fuel prices in Oman have reached historically high levels. Fuel prices for October increased from September levels, the Ministry of Oil and Gas announced yesterday. According to the latest prices released by the Ministry, M95

BENGALURU: At least three lakh doctors from across the country under Indian Medical Association (IMA) will participate in a dawn-to-dusk fast, from 6am to 6pm on October 2, asking for several of their demands to be addressed.The IMA, through the peaceful protest, will call for a strong central legis

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi may take over as the Congress president shortly after Diwali, Rajasthan leader Sachin Pilot+ said on Sunday, stressing that the time had come for the party vice president to lead from the front. The Gandhi confidant also said the last names of leaders should not be treated

The Bombay High Court has said that looking at a child with sexual intent falls under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, and is punishable, Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. The court was hearing a petition filed by two men from Daman seeking to quash a First Information Repor

نئی دہلی۔ یوگ گرو اور پتنجلی کے بانی بابا رام دیو نے ایک متنازع بیان دیا ہے۔ انہوں نے کہا ہے کہ مسلمانوں کو بھی گائے کے پیشاب کو اپنانا چاہئے کیونکہ یہ علاج میں استعمال کیا جا سکتا ہے۔رام دیو نے کہا، ' قرآن میں لکھا گیا ہے کہ گائے کا پیشاب علاج کیلئے استعمال کیا جا سکتا ہے۔ کچھ لوگ پتنجلی کو نشانہ ب

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ Rizwan Gangavali Bhatkal 30 Sept 2017: Uttar Kannada District MP and Cabinet Minister of State Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anant Kumar Hegde visited Bhatkal to meet the family of Ramachandra Naik, who attempted suicide in Municipal complex premises last month an

A retired army officer has been branded as a Bangladeshi immigrant by Assam police, asking him to prove his citizenship in a bizarre twist to the contentious issue of illegal migrants in the northeastern state. Mohd Azmal Hoque, who retired as a junior commissioned officer (JCO) last year, after

Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday criticised the bullet train project, saying it will be a demonetisation-like move “which will kill everything else”, and suggested that the money should instead be spent on improving rail safety. The former finance minister’s comments come a day after a s

Nagpur: India will aim for a return to the top spot in One Day International (ODI) rankings when they face Australia in the fifth and final match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur on Sunday. The hosts, who have already clinched the five-match ODI series with an unassailable 3-1

To call this cricket team India’s greatest ever on the strength of a string of victories, mostly at home, will certainly be a hyperbolic exaggeration fans are given to. But it won’t be wrong to speculate, on the strength of its solid performances, that this team shows the promise of scaling new peak

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]: Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray, on Saturday launched an all-around attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Shiv Sena’s Dussehra rally here. Taking a dig at Bullet Train announced by Prime Minister Modi, Uddhav asked why the Go

Lucknow: In a fresh and innovative move, a jail superintendent in Uttar Pradesh is offering inmates two extra glasses of milk for giving up ‘beedi smoking’ and ‘chewing gutka’. The jail superintendent of Kaushambhi district jail, B.S. Mukund has taken the step to make jail a tobacco-free zone, re

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police came across social media visuals which showed that miscreants had looted the dead victims of Mumbai stampede. When people were being crushed down to death, these robbers did not hesitate from doing the shameful act. The Mumbai Police said visuals show miscreants stealing