Thank you America: PM Modi hard sells India but will the funds pour in?
With Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi hard-selling India to US businessmen, the general sentiment is that the country is back on the global investment radar even as the Congress party in India has termed Modi’s visit as damp squib. Unlike other high-profile foreign visits by heads of state,... read more »
Afghans prepare to sign deal with U.S. allowing troops to stay
Afghanistan’s new government led by President Ashraf Ghani was on Tuesday due to sign a long-delayed bilateral security agreement with the United States that will allow U.S. troops to stay beyond the end of this year when their combat mission ends. Ghani’s predecessor, Hamid Karzai, had... read more »
Fresh eruption fears halt Japan volcano search
Volcanic tremors and fears over a fresh eruption forced rescuers with gas masks to halt operations to recover bodies from a Japanese mountain on Tuesday, 72 hours after its eruption. Vulcanologists warned of the possibility of another major explosion at the 3,067-metre (10,121-foot) Mount Ontake,... read more »
Hamas, Islamic State group ‘branches of same poisonous tree’: Netanya...
In a blistering speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that Hamas and the Islamic State group are “branches of the same poisonous tree,” both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis were. Netanyahu also lashed back at... read more »
PM Modi inducts INS Kolkata into Indian Navy, says no one will dare challenge India now
It is an advanced version, but significantly more versatile, of the Delhi-Class ships – INS Delhi, INS Mysore and INS Mumbai – which will add considerable teeth to India’s... read more »
Imran Khan declares sit-in protest till ouster of Sharif
Thousands of anti-government protestors led by Opposition leader Imran Khan on Saturday reached Islamabad with an aim of ousting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The opposition groups,... read more »
Police clash with Michael Brown shooting protesters in Ferguson, two reporters briefly det...
Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo. used tear gas and smoke bombs Wednesday to disperse protesters, some of whom threw Molotov cocktails and other objects at officers, as a... read more »
Israel bombs Gaza in response to rocket fire
Israeli jets bombed targets across Gaza early Thursday, retaliating to Palestinian rocket attacks in spiralling violence that left a truce extension teetering on the brink of... read more »
India inquiry after Jet Airways plane drops 5,000 feet over Turke...
India’s aviation watchdog is probing reports that a Jet Airways aircraft flying to Brussels suddenly dropped 5,000 feet over Ankara, alarming the Turkish air control authorities. The civil... read more »
