Saudi Arabia’s mission to the United Nations tweeted the Kingdom’s condemnation for the recent attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority. “Acting upon KSA responsibility as the leader of the Islamic Ummah. Saudi Arabia has called for a resolution to condemn the atrocities and human rights viola

Thousands of Irma victims across the Caribbean fought desperately to find shelter or escape their storm-blasted islands altogether on Friday as another hurricane following close behind threatened to add to their misery. Irma regained Category 5 status late Friday, and with its 160 mph (260 kph) w

BENGALURU: Three of a family were crushed to death after a tree fell on their car while one person died after he was washed away in an open drain as unrelenting rain accompanied by gusty winds wreaked havoc across the city on Friday. Highest rainfall of 69mm was recorded in Kammanahalli and Samapang

BENGALURU: It's unnerving, and true. The Blue Whale Challenge-a 50-day deadly online game that asks the player to commit suicide in the climax -has entered Bengaluru. In the first reported case yet, two friends hooked to the game are being counselled against playing the game further. The boys, ag

Team India’s head coach Ravi Shastri has requested the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to be much more considerate when it comes to scheduling international matches in order to provide adequate breaks to players and support staff. In a video conference on Friday with the Supreme Cour

In a shocking confession, the school bus conductor who murdered the 7-year-old boy inside the washroom of the Gurgaon-based Ryan International School, said that he murdered him because he objected to having sex with him. Ashok Kumar, 42, is a resident of Ghamroj village in Gurgaon and has been wo

The Haryana government Friday announced a probe to find whether “legal formalities” were followed by the Dera Sacha Sauda while organising the donation of 14 cadavers from among its followers to a private medical institute in Lucknow this year. Health Minister Anil Vij said that Haryana’s directo

Dubai: A 14-year-old Indian-origin schoolboy in the UAE has become one of the youngest pilots to fly a single-engine aircraft, according to a media report. Mansour Anis, a class IXth student at Delhi Private School in Sharjah, received a certificate for his first solo flight from an aviation acad

DHAKA: Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday to meet members of Rohingya Muslim community who have fled from ongoing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine. Erdogan and Cavusoglu, who arrived separately, are set to visit refugee camps in C

KANNUR: Seven explosives have been recovered from Kannur Kizhoor area by the Police on Thursday. All the high-explosive steel bombs recovered at the premises of temple managed by the RSS, reported, Newsclick. The bombs were found in buckets covered with sacks, near the Vaireeghaathakan Bhagava

Lucknow: Sadhvi Prachi, VHP leader once again gave controversial statements. This time she picks Rohingya Muslims issue. She asked Union Government to send them back to Myanmar. According to the news published in Deccan Herald, in an informal talk with reporters, she said that Rohingya Muslims ar

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday banned all anti-NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) protests in Tamil Nadu and directed the state government to ensure that no agitation takes place against the common entrance tests for admission to medical colleges. The bench of Chief Justice Dip

Washington: In a bid to avoid future accidents, a team of researchers has developed first-of-its-kind computer algorithms that can accurately determine when a driver is texting or engaged in other distracting activities while driving. According to the University Of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, th

Kabul [Afghanistan]: Afghanistan’s Military officials in the northeast zone on Friday said that at least 120 Taliban fighters, including their 20 commanders, have been killed in the last one month in airstrikes and land operations by the security forces in Afghanistan. Kunduz Police Chief General

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Friday announced Rs 10 lakh reward for information or clues leading to the killers of journalist-cum-activist Gauri Lankesh who was gunned down here on Tuesday. “The state government has decided to reward Rs 10 lakh to any person providing information or clu

Mumbai: The TADA court in Mumbai which sentenced Tahir Merchant to death in the 1993 serial blasts case has said that his role in the conspiracy was more serious than that of Yakub Memon. Memon, convicted in the earlier phase of trial, was the only one whose death sentence was confirmed by the Su

Seoul, September 8: More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a senior United Nations representative said today. This is around twice the government’s figure. “Perhaps about a thousand or more are already dead,”

Mexico city, September 8: A massive earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico late Thursday and was felt as far away as Mexico City, where residents fled violently swaying buildings and electrical transformers exploded. The Mexican Seismological Institute said the earthquake measured 8.4