New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) On the occasion of Independence Day, the Ministry of External Affairs announced that India will provide medical visas to all bona fide Pakistan patients. In a tweet on Tuesday, External…
By Arul Louis New York, Aug 15 (IANS) The US State Department has highlighted attacks in India by cow protection groups against people accused of bovine trafficking or having beef in its annual report on…
Washington, Aug 15 (EFE) The CEOs of Intel, Merck and Under Armour have resigned from the President’s Manufacturing Council created by Donald Trump, because of the noncommittal way he responded to the racist attack in…
San Francisco, Aug 15 (IANS) In a fresh onslaught on its former employer, James Damore, the engineer who was fired by Google over a memo criticising the company’s diversity efforts, has said that the tech…
Islamabad, Aug 15 (IANS) Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court for review of the Panama Papers verdict that led to his disqualification. The landmark order had…
Shillong, Aug 15 (IANS) Expressing concern over crimes against women and children, Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Tuesday said women’s police stations have been set up in seven districts of the state. The creation…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Supreme Court Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar on Tuesday said every citizen should be proud of his or her religious and ethnic identify while being equally proud of their Indian…
Singapore, Aug 15 (IANS) An Indian-origin man here has got 4 million Singaporean dollars ($2.9 million) in damages from his previous employer after a scathing reference letter by them cost him the chance to get…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) The government has directed technology giants, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo to remove all links which direct users to the dangerous online game “The Blue Whale Challenge”. The game…
Manila, Aug 15 (IANS) Ride-hailing app Uber on Tuesday asked the Philippine transport regulator to allow the company to resume its operations in the country as it considered unjust the one-month suspension penalty imposed on…
San Francisco, Aug 15 (IANS) Hours after GoDaddy dumped ‘The Daily Stormer’, a website that supported the white nationalist rally in Virginia, Google and French server-host Scaleway also banned the website from their platforms. “We…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) The implementation of GST from last month is testimony to the strength of the spirit of “cooperative and competitive federalism” in the country and has immediately resulted in a 30…
Washington, Aug 15 (IANS) A peaceful demonstration organised to stand in solidarity with the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, took a turn when protesters toppled a Confederate statue in the US state of North Carolina, the…
Canberra, Aug 15 (IANS) The government of Australia faces losing its parliamentary majority after it was revealed the Deputy Prime Minister could be a citizen of New Zealand. Barnaby Joyce, Deputy PM of Australia and…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Listing the achievements of the NDA government in curbing black money, including demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that authorities had confiscated black money worth over Rs 1…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday praised women battling the system of Triple Talaq and said the entire country supports them. “I pay my respects to those women who had…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Aug 15 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is concerned about India’s plans to deport Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, his spokesperson Farhan Haq said. “Obviously we have our concern about the…
United Nations, Aug 15 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the weekend racist violence and bigotry in the US state of Virginia which left a woman dead. “We believe that there must be no…
Washington, Aug 15 (IANS) A US jury on Monday decided in favour of pop star Taylor Swift, who had filed a lawsuit claiming that DJ David Mueller had groped her in 2013 and sued him…
Washington, Aug 15 (IANS) The FBI has arrested a US man after he tried to detonate a truck-bomb outside a bank in Oklahoma on Sunday. Jerry Drake Varnell, the bomber, is said to have taken…