Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Two sentenced to life over Pakistani stu | Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday sentenced two more people to life imprisonment over the 2017 lynching of a university student accused of posting blasphemous content on Facebook. | 21-Mar-2019 |
| Trump complains about John McCain funera | Washington, March 21 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has attacked the late Senator John McCain, complaining that he "didn't get a thank you" for his state funeral. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| Tired public needs Brexit decision: Ther | London, March 21 (IANS) British Prime Minister Theresa May has told the public she is "on their side", laying the blame for the delay to Brexit squarely with MPs. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| 5.5-magnitude earthquake hits Turkey | Istanbul, March 20 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck Turkey on Wednesday. No casualties have been reported as yet, authorities said. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| US to build first exascale supercomputer | Washington, March 20 (IANS) The US has disclosed its plan to build an exascale supercomputer, about seven times the speed rating of the most powerful system built to date. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| Indonesia floods, landslides toll crosse | Jakarta, March 20 (IANS) The death toll in flash floods and landslides in Papua province of eastern Indonesia crossed 107 on Wednesday, while the search for 93 missing persons shifted to residential areas buried under mud, rubble and wooden logs, officials and rescuers said. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| NZ PM Ardern calls for global fight agai | Christchurch, March 20 (IANS) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing ideology following last week's deadly attack on two mosques here. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| Five killed in Egypt shooting | Cairo, March 20 (IANS) The Egyptian Police on Tuesday killed a gunman who opened fire at pedestrians in Egypt's Giza province, leaving four dead and five wounded, the media reported. | 20-Mar-2019 |
| Pakistan SC hears Sharif's bail plea | Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) The Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday heard former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's petition against an Islamabad High Court (IHC) order rejecting his plea for bail on medical grounds in a corruption case. | 19-Mar-2019 |
| China not to recognise Dalai Lama's Indi | Beijing, March 19 (IANS) China on Tuesday indicated that it won't recognise the successor of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama if found in India. | 19-Mar-2019 |
| US to 're-engage' with Kim, says Pompeo | Washington, March 19 (IANS) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the US will "re-engage" with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over issues of mutual concern. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Putin signs laws on curbing fake, offens | Moscow, March 19 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law two set of bills aimed to ban and punish the spread of fake news that pose security risks and news that contain offensive information. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| India, Maldives vow to combat terror, su | Male, March 19 (IANS) India and the Maldives have reiterated support for each other in a number of areas of mutual interests including combating terrorism, while Maldives vowed to remain "sensitive" towards Indias strategic interests in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Gunman kills 3 in attack on tram in Dutc | Utrecht (Netherlands), March 19 (IANS) A gunman killed three people and injured nine when he opened fire aboard a tram in a square to the west of the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday in what authorities described as a possible terror attack, officials said. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Three tourists killed in Indonesia quake | Jakarta, March 18 (IANS) Three tourists were killed and dozens others injured on Monday after an earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's Lombok island, causing subsequent landslides. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Dead whale in Philippines ate 40 kg of p | Manila, March 18 (TIWN / IANS) A young whale that washed up in the Philippines had died from "gastric shock" after eating 40 kg of plastic bags, the media reported on Monday. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Shehbaz Sharif appears before JIT in fir | Lahore, March 18 (IANS) Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of Opposition Shehbaz Sharif on Monday appeared before a joint investigation team (JIT) probing the 2014 firing incident in Lahore in which 14 people were killed. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Pakistan's Qureshi in China on 3-day vis | Beijing, March 18 (IANS) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi arrived in China on Monday on a three-day trip during which he is scheduled to attend the first Islamabad-Beijing foreign ministers' strategic dialogue. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| Bangladesh FIFA official held for 'defam | Dhaka, March 18 (IANS) Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior member of football's world governing body FIFA for allegedly defaming the country's prime minister. | 18-Mar-2019 |
| US general refutes report over troops in | Washington, March 18 (IANS) A top US general has refuted a media report that the American military was developing plans to keep up to 1,000 troops in Syria, calling it "factually incorrect". | 17-Mar-2019 |
| Christchurch attack: Adern questions Fac | Christchurch, March 17 (TIWN / IANS) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday said she intends to ask Facebook how the Christchurch gunman, who slaughtered 50 people during Friday prayers, was able to livestream the massacre. | 17-Mar-2019 |
| Pakistan is global terror state: Kashmir | Houston (US), March 17 (TIWN / IANS) The Houston chapters of Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) and Friends of India Society International took out a protest against Pakistans state policy on terrorism that has penetrated deep into India and spread its tentacles globally. | 17-Mar-2019 |
| Indonesia floods: Death toll rises to 63 | Jakarta, March 17 (IANS) The death toll in the flash floods that hit Indonesia's Papua province rose to 63 on Sunday even as rescue operations are underway to search for the dozens missing, a disaster official said. | 17-Mar-2019 |
| 3 killed, 6 injured in Pakistan train bl | Islamabad, March 17 (IANS) Three persons were killed and six others injured after a blast at a passenger train in Pakistan's Balochistan area on Sunday, police said. | 17-Mar-2019 |
| 'Received gunman's manifesto 9 mins befo | Wellington, March 17 (TIWN / IANS) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday said she received the Christchurch gunman's 'manifesto' barely nine minutes before the attack. | 17-Mar-2019 |
| UNHRC asks Modi Govt to refrain from Nat | Agartala, March 16 (TIWN): India features prominently in the report submitted by the UN special Rapporteur for the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), Mr. Michel Forst, to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 21, 2019. The report documents 12 communications sent to the Government of India (GOI) by the Special Rapporteur, including the arrest of 10 activists / intellectuals under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in the Bhima Koregaon cases. The report notes with deep concern that the GOI has failed to respond to all 12 communications. The current report covers the period December 2017 to November 2018. In all, the Special Rapporteur on HRDs of the UNHRC has issued a total of 77 communications since the Modi Government took office in 2014. Of these the Government has responded to only 11, or a mere 14%, in sharp contrast to the previous UPA government record that had responded to over 50% of the communications received. While the Modi government had a reasonable response rate between 2014 and 2016, since 2017 it has had an abysmally low response rate and has almost entirely stopped responding to communications from the UNHRC. | 16-Mar-2019 |
| Trump issues 1st veto over border emerge | Washington, March 16 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has issued the first veto of his presidency, rejecting a legislation to overturn his declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the country's Mexican border, insisting that the situation on the southern frontier amounted to a threat to Americans' safety. | 16-Mar-2019 |
| India bats for banning single-use plasti | Nairobi, March 16 (IANS) Taking a significant lead, India has piloted resolutions on two important global environment issues related to single-use plastics and sustainable nitrogen management at the UN Environment Assembly. | 16-Mar-2019 |
| Christchurch carnage suspect charged wit | Christchurch, March 16 (IANS) An Australian man, who is the main suspect in the massacre of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, on Saturday appeared in a court here where he was been charged with murder. | 16-Mar-2019 |
| New Zealand PM shows solidarity to Musli | Christchurch, March 16 (IANS) A day after 49 people were killed in the horrific Christchurch mosques shootings, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Saturday showed solidarity to the Muslim community, saying "this is not the New Zealand people know". | 16-Mar-2019 |
| UN Security Council condemns New Zealand | United Nations, March 16 (IANS) The UN Security Council has condemned "in the strongest terms" the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed 49 people. | 15-Mar-2019 |
| 49 killed in New Zealand mosques massacr | Christchurch, March 15 (TIWN / IANS) At least 49 people were killed when gunmen said to be whites opened indiscriminate fire at two mosques in Christchurch city on Friday in what a shocked New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said was a terror attack. | 15-Mar-2019 |
| 4 held for New Zealand mosques shootings | Christchurch, March 15 (IANS) Four people were arrested on Friday after two gunmen opened fire at two mosques in New Zealand's Christchurch city, with the police saying that there were "multiple fatalities". | 15-Mar-2019 |
| Senate OKs resolution against Trump's em | New York, March 15 (IANS) With a rebellion by 12 Republicans, the US Senate has voted against President Donald Trump's national emergency that is criticised by his own party members as a presidential overreach. | 15-Mar-2019 |
| Boeing to halt deliveries of 737 Max air | Washington, March 15 (TIWN / IANS) Boeing has announced that it will temporarily halt deliveries of its 737 Max fleet after the aircraft were grounded for an indefinite period globally in the wake of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane of the same model that killed all 157 people on board. | 15-Mar-2019 |
| Multiple deaths in New Zealand mosque sh | Wellington, March 15 (IANS) An active shooter is at large in Christchurch, New Zealand, after an attack on a mosque in the city on Friday, police said. | 15-Mar-2019 |
| UK MPs to vote on delaying Brexit | London, March 14 (IANS) British MPs will vote on Thursday whether the government should ask the EU for permission to delay the country's withdrawal from the bloc amid an intense week of parliamentary ballots. | 14-Mar-2019 |
| US to test banned missiles | Washington, March 14 (IANS) The US military is readying to test missiles banned by a Cold War-era arms control pact with Moscow that is set to end formally this year after President Donald Trump withdrew from it over Russian violations. | 14-Mar-2019 |
| Pakistani activist's name removed from E | Islamabad, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) A Pakistani court has removed the name of human rights activist Gulalai Ismail from the Exit Control List (ECL), the media reported on Thursday. | 14-Mar-2019 |
| Senate votes to end US support of war in | Washington, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) The US Republican-led Senate has voted to end Washington's support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in a rebuke to President Donald Trump's continued backing of the Kingdom monarchy despite growing frustration among lawmakers with its actions on the world stage. | 14-Mar-2019 |
| Defying global stance against terror, Ch | United Nations, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) Defying global opposition to terrorism, China has vetoed sanctions against Masood Azhar, the chief of the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), extending cover to him and Pakistan that protects him. | 13-Mar-2019 |
| Vietnam requests Kim Jong-nam murder sus | Hanoi, March 13 (IANS) Vietnam has requested Malaysia to release the Vietnamese woman charged with killing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother in Kuala Kumpur, officials said on Wednesday. | 13-Mar-2019 |
| Hong Kong bans Boeing 737 MAX from airsp | Hong Kong, March 13 (IANS) Hong Kong on Wednesday banned Boeing's 737 MAX jet from its airspace until further notice after several other countries restrained their airlines from operating the aircraft type. | 13-Mar-2019 |
| S. Korean, US officials to meet after Ha | Seoul, March 13 (IANS) South Korea and the US will on Thursday hold a first meeting of a bilateral working group weeks after the failed Hanoi summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. | 13-Mar-2019 |
| US says 'no basis' to ground Boeing 737 | Washington, March 13 (TIWN / IANS) US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it saw "no basis" to ground Boeing 737 MAX planes, despite two recent similar crashes involving aircraft in the series. | 12-Mar-2019 |
| Celebs among 50 charged in 'largest coll | Washington/Los Angeles, March 13 (TIWN / IANS) US federal prosecutors have charged nearly 50 people, including celebrities in a scam where the wealthy paid to have their children admitted to elite schools. | 12-Mar-2019 |
| Russia ready to resume parliamentary dia | Moscow, March 13 (TIWN / IANS) Russia is willing to re-establish parliamentary contacts with the US in order to promote bilateral relations of the two countries, the Russian Federation Council, or the upper house of Parliament, said. | 12-Mar-2019 |
| Pakistan assures US it will deal 'firmly | New York, March 12 (IANS) Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has given the US an assurance that his country would deal firmly with all terrorists, according to US National Security Adviser John Bolton. | 12-Mar-2019 |
| Intellectual property cases rise in Chin | Beijing, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) Chinese courts tried a total of 288,000 cases related to intellectual property rights (IPR) in 2018, 41.8 per cent more than in 2017, officials said on Tuesday. | 12-Mar-2019 |
| Pelosi against Trump's impeachment, says | Washington, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is against impeaching US President Donald Trump, because "hes just not worth it", adding that the move would be "too divisive". | 12-Mar-2019 |