Srinagar, Nov 22 (IANS) Night temperatures throughout the valley dropped below freezing point on Wednesday as Srinagar witnessed its coldest night of the season at minus two degrees Celsius. Partially cloudy sky has been forecast…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) After a gap for over 80 years, the black bear has returned to Nevada’s Great Basin in the US through conservation with their population believed to be over 500, a…
Mumbai, Nov 22 (IANS) The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 33,569.07 points, touched a…
Los Angeles, Nov 22 (IANS) John Lasseter, Pixar co-founder and Walt Disney Animation chief, has announced he was taking a six-month leave of absence after sexual misconduct allegations. According to a memo by Lasseter posted…
San Francisco, Nov 22 (IANS) In a startling revelation, ride-hailing platform Uber has disclosed that two hackers “inappropriately accessed” in 2016 names, email addresses and phone numbers of 57 million customers and drivers, and the…
New York, Nov 22 (IANS) The US Attorney’s office has announced that a grand jury has decided to charge the New York terror attack suspect with 22 counts after he killed eight persons on Halloween….
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Nov 22 (IANS) With less than a week left for Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), this Information Technology hub is getting decked up for the delegates from 150 countries, especially US President…
New York, Nov 22 (IANS) David Cassidy, the former teenage heart-throb of 1970s TV show “The Partridge Family”, has died at the age of 67, a statement said. Publicist JoAnn Geffen released the statement saying…
New York, Nov 22 (IANS) CBS News and American public broadcaster PBS have fired Charlie Rose after eight women came forward accusing the veteran TV journalist of sexual harassment, a media report said. “In light…
Brasilia, Nov 22 (IANS) Brazilian Attorney General Raquel Dodge has said the state of Rio de Janeiro lives in a climate of “land without law”. The Attorney General’s assertion came after the regional Legislative Assembly…
New York, Nov 22 (IANS) Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as investors were awaiting the closely-watched OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) meeting next week, a media report said. OPEC and other key oil…
Washington, Nov 22 (IANS) US President Donald Trump did not rule out backing the Senate candidacy of Republican Roy Moore, saying any option is better than the presence of another “liberal” in the upper house….
Brasilia, Nov 22 (IANS) A group of Greenpeace activists demonstrated here to commemorate the people murdered in the Amazon region, according to the environmentalist organisation. During the demonstration on Tuesday, the activists also demanded an…
Washington, Nov 22 (IANS) The US Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will vote next month to rollback rules adopted in 2015 that require Internet service providers to treat all online traffic equally, a…
United Nations, Nov 22 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned a suicide bombing in Nigeria in which 50 people were killed. In a statement on Tuesday through his spokesman Farhan Haq, Guterres extended his…
Ankara, Nov 22 (IANS) The incident that has caused tensions between NATO and Turkey during an exercise in Norway last week was a “provocation” against an indispensable ally of the western world but actually snubbed…
Tehran, Nov 22 (IANS) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the victory over the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria is a defeat of the US in the region, a…
Mexico City, Nov 22 (IANS) The negotiation of complicated topics in the updating of the NAFTA will take a number of more rounds of talks, said Mexico’s negotiation team head Kenneth Smith. “There are obviously…
Baghdad, Nov 22 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has vowed to declare the final defeat of Islamic State (IS) after the country’s security forces eliminate the extremist militants from the desert, a media report…
Jerusalem, Nov 22 (IANS) Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephonic conversation, a media report said. The talks took place a day after Putin’s meeting with…