‘Netanyahu’s Iran speech insult to intelligence of United State...
Washington: While Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech aimed at blocking a nuclear deal with Iran might have received rapturous applause and standing ovations from the Republican members of the US Congress, President Barack Obama and the democrats were clearly left disappointed.While Obama brushed the... read more »
Will Yogendra Yadav, Bhushan stay with PAC? AAP’s national executive ...
Aam Aadmi Party leaders Prasanth Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav are likely to recuse themselves from the party’s political affairs committee at a crucial meeting to be held on Wednesday, sources said. The move is part of a face-saver formula worked out with the Arvind Kejriwal camp ahead of the... read more »
RBI surprises Street; Sensex pares gains after hitting mount 30k
NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Sensex has pared gains after rallying as much as 431 points in trade on Wednesday, after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) slashed repo rate by 25 bps to 7.5 per cent from 7.75 per cent earlier. Tracking the momentum, the 50-share Nifty index also came under some pressure... read more »
Tropical Cyclone Marcia: Central Queensland towns devastated as storm track...
Cyclone Marcia is leaving a trail of destruction along central Queensland as it slowly tracks south over land. A category five system made landfall north of Yeppoon about 8:00am and hit Rockhampton this afternoon as a category three, lashing the town of 80,000 people with gusts up to 205 kilometres... read more »
Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram may be ineligible to vote in upcoming election
Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions. Now they seem likely to lose their vote. A... read more »
Charlie Hebdo: Why Pope Francis’s friendly ‘punch’ needs a counter
Pope Francis, widely acknowledged as one of the most progressive popes in recent times, appears to have joined the “condemn, but” brigade in the context of the Charlie Hebdo... read more »
Belgium terror arrests: Cops launch more overnight raids in hunt for ‘Jihadi cells...
The operations come after two suspected Islamists were killed and a third arrested during a gun battle with cops in the Belgian town of Verviers yesterday Cops in Belgium have launched... read more »
Another threat message scribbled in Mumbai airport toilet wall
A threat message warning of an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on Republic Day was spotted on a toilet wall in Mumbai airport on Friday, nine days after a similar message. Central Industrial... read more »
BJP has a visionary leadership, can give strong, experienced govt...
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kiran Bedi, who joined the party on Thursday, today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership inspired her to join politics and she... read more »