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06 Jul 2018
TaiwanIndia justifies Air India changing Taiwan to "Chinese Taipei"
A day after Air India, on Beijing's demand, made a change on its website to refer to Taiwan as "Chinese Taipei", the Indian government has justified its action.
06 Jul 2018
JapanJapan executes cult-leader, six followers for deadly 1995 sarin attack
Japan on Friday executed Shoko Asahara, the leader of doomsday cult that carried out deadly 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 13 people and injured thousands.
05 Jul 2018
IndiaUK court allows officials to seize Vijay Mallya's assets
Less than a week after a PMLA court in India summoned embattled billionaire Vijay Mallya, a UK High Court has now issued an enforcement order in favor of a 13-bank consortium.
05 Jul 2018
ChicagoBeijing: Indian professor appointed as European president of Chinese business-institute
Dipak Jain, a prominent Indian professor in the US, has been appointed as the new European president of Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
05 Jul 2018
ThailandThai cave rescue: Authorities, Navy SEALs installing Internet-cable, reducing water-level
Thai authorities are working with Navy SEALs to run an Internet cable into a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 young soccer players and their coach are trapped.
05 Jul 2018
San FranciscoInside British Parliament, Siri 'interrupts' MP, announces results on Syria
The task of digital assistants Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, is to make our lives easier. But in this case, a minister of British Parliament was left embarrassed when Apple's Siri rudely interrupted his speech.
05 Jul 2018
IndiaAir India follows other airlines to call Taiwan 'Chinese Taipei'
Prodded by Beijing, and following on the footsteps of several major airlines, Air India has now modified its website to show Taiwan as "Taipei, Taoyuan International Airport, TPE, Chinese Taipei".
05 Jul 2018
FacebookHave you seen viral pictures of father breastfeeding baby yet?
Women breastfeeding babies is a common sight, but not men stepping up for this job.
04 Jul 2018
KeralaUAE: Indian hits jackpot; wins 7 million Dirhams in ruffle-draw
An Indian man has hit a jackpot by winning a whopping 7 million Dirhams (nearly Rs. 13.1 crore) in a monthly raffle in the UAE, hours before he was set to leave the country for good.
04 Jul 2018
IndiaNot returning to India until I feel 'safe': Zakir Naik
Zakir Naik, the controversial Islamic preacher who is staying abroad to evade arrest in India, today said he would not return home till he felt "safe".
04 Jul 2018
Khaleel AhmedAmerican-citizenship of Indian-origin man convicted of terrorism to be revoked
The US filed a lawsuit in a federal court in the Northern District of Illinois seeking to revoke the American citizenship of a 37-year-old Indian-origin man convicted of terrorism.
04 Jul 2018
IndiaControversial preacher Zakir Naik on his way back to India
Controversial preacher Zakir Naik is on his way back to India.
04 Jul 2018
MalaysiaEx-Malaysian PM Najib charged with corruption, criminal breach of trust
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with corruption today for allegedly accepting $10.4 million in bribe money, in a stunning fall from grace just months after his election defeat.
04 Jul 2018
PunjabBritish-Indian MPs lobby May over torture of British-Sikh in Punjab
Indian-origin MPs are among 70 lawmakers in Britain lobbying Prime Minister Theresa May to intervene at the "highest levels" with the Indian Government over allegations of torture against a British-Sikh murder suspect lodged in a Punjab jail.
03 Jul 2018
Pakistan NewsIt's 'haram' to cast votes for women, says Pakistani politician
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate for the July 25 General Election and former Punjab province minister Haroon Sultan has stoked a controversy by terming it "haram" to cast votes for women.
03 Jul 2018
AntarcticaTo meet water-demands, UAE eyeing to tow icebergs from Antarctica
The threat posed by depletion of water resources is real. While conserving water and harvesting rain-water are suggested to evade a crisis, a firm in UAE has set on an astounding path.
03 Jul 2018
United States of AmericaUS: Indian-origin-student gets probation for hacking professors' computers, changing grades
An Indian-origin former university student in the US, who hacked into his professors' computers to change all his 10 grades from "F" to "A", has been granted one-and-a-half years of probation and asked to apologize to his teachers.
03 Jul 2018
IndiaIndians relieved after US misses another H-4 notification deadline
The Donald Trump administration has failed yet again to issue a notification for revocation of H-4 visas on time, bringing relief to lakhs of Indians.
03 Jul 2018
Pakistan News11,855 candidates contesting for 849 seats in upcoming Pakistan elections
As many as 11,855 candidates are in the fray for 849 general seats of Pakistan's national and provincial assemblies in the July-25 elections.
03 Jul 2018
FootballMissing Thai-boys found safe in cave; rescue may take months
Ten days after a group of young boys and their soccer coach vanished in a Thai cave, rescuers finally made contact with them yesterday, bringing cheer to a wide audience that has devotedly followed the story.
03 Jul 2018
Andhra PradeshUS: Indian engineer dies after falling off rocks at waterfall
A 32-year-old Indian software engineer has died after jumping from the rocks of the popular Elk River Falls in the US state of North Carolina, authorities said, marking the second drowning in the river in six weeks.
03 Jul 2018
VirginiaAmerican-firm to pay $100,000 to settle Indian-origin employee's discrimination lawsuit
An American firm will pay $100,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of an Indian-origin employee who was fired for seeking a transfer to care for his differently-abled son.
03 Jul 2018
Nepal1,500 Indians on Kailash Mansarovar Yatra stranded in Nepal landslides
More than 1,500 Indian pilgrims on their way to Kailash Mansarovar are stranded in Nepal after landslides caused by heavy rains.
03 Jul 2018
North KoreaPompeo postpones '2+2 dialogue' with India to visit N-Korea this-week
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who last week abruptly announced the postponing of the July 6 "2+2 dialogue" with India, will be traveling to Pyongyang this week.
03 Jul 2018
Donald TrumpUS: Trump interviews Indian-American Amul Thapar for SC judge nominee
US President Donald Trump has interviewed prominent Indian-American judge Amul Thapar and three other legal luminaries shortlisted by him as the potential nominees to replace the Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy.
02 Jul 2018
Pakistan NewsPakistan's non-Muslim voters rise by 30%; Hindus maintain majority
The number of non-Muslim voters in Pakistan has gone up by 30% to reach 3.63mn, with the Hindus at 1.77mn maintaining their majority among the religious minority electorate, authorities said ahead of the July 25 general elections.
02 Jul 2018
Bangladesh2 Bangladesh Air Force pilots killed as training aircraft crashes
Two Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) pilots were killed when a China-made training aircraft K-8W crashed last evening into a lake soon after it took off from Base Matiur Rahman in Jashore district in southwestern Bangladesh.
02 Jul 2018
AfghanistanAfghanistan: Islamic State claims attack on Sikhs, Hindus in Jalalabad
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan yesterday that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus.
02 Jul 2018
MexicoLeftist 'AMLO' wins Mexico polls with 49% vote: Official projection
Anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador swept to victory in Mexico's Presidential election today with 49% vote, in a political sea change driven by voters' anger over corruption and violence.
02 Jul 2018
South KoreaUS has plans to dismantle N-Korea's nuclear-program in one-year: Bolton
President Trump's National Security Adviser, John Bolton, said the US has a plan that would lead to the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear programs in a year.
02 Jul 2018
ParisParis thief flies out of prison in dramatic 10-minute escape
Paris will be talking about July 1, 2018 for long, when it saw one of its most dramatic jailbreaks of all time: gunmen landed inside a prison in Réau in a helicopter and flew away with one of the country's most notorious thieves, an inmate there, in 10 minutes.
02 Jul 2018
IndiaPNB Fraud case: Interpol issues Red Notice against Nirav Modi
Indian agencies are one step closer to nabbing Nirav Modi, the prime accused in a Rs. 13,400 crore fraud, after the Interpol issued a Red Corner Notice against him.
01 Jul 2018
EducationChina stepping up ideological education to legitimize Xi's regime
A recent New York Times report on mandatory ideological education in Chinese universities reveals fault lines between China's emergent, worldly youth, and the country's long history of Maoist ideology.
01 Jul 2018
AfghanistanAfghanistan: 3 beheaded, school torched, IS hand suspected
In what is suspected to be an Islamic State attack, a boys' school was torched and three men beheaded in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Saturday.
01 Jul 2018
IndiaIndia receives list of 471 Indians lodged in Pakistani jails
Pakistan today handed over a list of 471 Indian prisoners lodged in various jails across the country to Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
01 Jul 2018
South Korea#MoneyInSwissBanks: India witnesses 50% rise in funds; jumps to 73rd-place
India moved up to 73rd place in terms of money parked by its citizens/companies with Swiss banks in 2017, while the UK remains on the top.
01 Jul 2018
LondonIndian-origin woman-entrepreneur will swim across English-channel to end child sex-trafficking
An Indian-origin woman entrepreneur in the UK is training to swim across the English Channel to raise funds to combat child-trafficking in India.
30 Jun 2018
Pakistan NewsHarmeet Singh, first Sikh to become news anchor in Pakistan
In a first, a Sikh man has been hired as an anchor by a news channel in Pakistan.
30 Jun 2018
Pakistan NewsIndia lauds FATF's 'grey listing' of Pakistan for terror financing
Days after Paris-based watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), 'grey listed' Pakistan for its failure to curb terror financing, India, on Saturday, said that it hoped Islamabad would take appropriate action to address international terrorism concerns.
30 Jun 2018
Donald TrumpUS: Indian woman seeking asylum separated from differently-abled 5-year-old child
An Indian woman, who is seeking asylum in the US after she illegally crossed into America from Mexico, has been separated from her five-year-old differently-abled son.
