Rio de Janeiro, Dec 30 (IANS) It is highly possible that Greek Ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis has been killed, Brazilian authorities have said. The ambassador went missing during a trip to Rio. A car…
Ranchi, Dec 30 (IANS) Five bodies were recovered from a caved-in coal mine and more than 20 persons were feared trapped dead in Jharkhand’s Godda district on Thursday night, the state police said on Friday….
For TR – 11 am International/Diplomacy/Terrorism/2016 in Retrospect By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 30 (IANS) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi stayed away this year, India followed a strategy of quiet diplomacy while projecting its…
Dhaka, Dec 30 (IANS) The Bangladesh Foreign Ministry has summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka and demanded the early repatriation of all its Rohingya Muslim citizens, a media report said. Ambassador Myo Myint Than was…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Test skipper Virat Kohli on Friday took to Twitter to rubbish media reports of his engagement to Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. Rumours of the 28-year-old Kohli, who recently guided India…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Know and understand the bewildering, fascinating and complex Swami Vivekananda; flick through an interesting story of travel adventures; map the history of contemporary India through the eyes of the Amul…
New York, Dec 30 (IANS) Bringing more controls to the platform, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the company was thinking to bring editing functionality to tweets. According to a report on the Variety on…
By Vikas Datta Title: Wisdom – A World History; Author: Trevor Curnow; Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 399 Wisdom is elusive and doesn’t even have one accepted definition, but it still has been…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The deadline to deposit old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in banks ends on Friday. From next week onward, those still holding the scrapped currency can deposit it only…
Kathmandu, Dec 30 (IANS) Police in Nepal have arrested three individuals who were allegedly involved in a kidney racket across the Indo-Nepal border, a media report said. The three identified as Binu Bahadur Timalsina, 44,…
By Nury Vittachi IMPORTANT NOTE TO MOTORISTS: If I turn on the windscreen wipers of a rental car, this indicates that I am turning right or left; please memorise. Mind you, I have just spent…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) At least 52 trains were running late while 12 others were rescheduled on Friday due to heavy fog in many parts of north India, a railway official said. According to…
Jammu/Srinagar, Dec 30 (IANS) Night temperatures throughout Jammu and Kashmir remained below the freezing point on Friday as the weather office said cold, dry weather conditions would continue in the state during the next 48…
Pune, Dec 30 (IANS) Six migrant labourers were asphyxiated to death when while sleeping in a locked bakery where a fire broke out early hours on Friday, an official said here. The fire, believed to…
Islamabad, Dec 30 (IANS) Pakistan’s Foreign Office has rejected a new formula for evaluation of the candidature of non-Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) states for the Nuclear Suppliers Groups (NSG) membership as “discriminatory” and “unhelpful”. At the…
Mumbai, Dec 30 (IANS) Key Indian equity market indices opened in the green on Friday even as investors await any new government announcement as the deadline to deposit old notes draws to a close. The…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) It was a foggy Friday morning here with the minimum temperature settling at 10.5 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would remain…
Canberra, Dec 30 (IANS) Commercial pilots have expressed concerns about Australia’s drone laws, saying they raise the risk of fatal collisions between unmanned drones and passenger planes. In a submission to the Senate committee which…
Brasilia, Dec 30 (IANS) Brazil’s unemployment rate from September to November reached a record high of 11.9 per cent, the country’s statistics agency IBGE said. This new rate is a significant year-on-year hike over the…
New York, Dec 30 (IANS) Reality television personality Bristol Palin has called a number of musicians “sissies” for refusing to perform at the January 20 inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump. In a post to…