KATHMANDU – Two Indian climbers died near the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal and a Chilean mountaineer was missing on the world’s third highest mountain, their hiking company said on Thursday. Kanchenjunga is popular with climbers who visit Nepal for the spring climbing season which ends this […]
AMARAVTHI, India – A loan waiver programme for farmers and privatisation of air and sea ports will be among the post-election priorities if India’s opposition parties pull off an unexpected victory in the national vote, Telugu Desam Party leader N. Chandrababu Naidu told Reuters. Most political analysts expect […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has extended airspace restrictions until the end of May, a civil aviation official said on Thursday, forcing foreign carriers to take costly detours since the country’s standoff with rival India. Pakistan closed its airspace in February after a suicide bomber from Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e- […]
SRINAGAR – Indian troops and separatist militants clashed in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday and five people were killed including a civilian, officials said, the latest casualties in a new phase of violence in the 30-year insurgency. Tension in Muslim-majority Kashmir has been high since a Feb. 14 suicide […]
NEW DELHI – Five days after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF personnel in February in the Kashmir Valley, playwright and director Abhishek Majumdar was forced to cancel a play looking at the behaviour of Indian security forces in the disputed region. The play, which was scheduled to […]
Puducherry, May 16: A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl at her house in a village near here Thursday, police said. The man, a Puducherry government electricity department employee, was noting down the power consumption details at the nine-year-old girl’s house when the […]
Ujjain, May 16: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah should apologise over Pragya Singh Thakur’s remark that Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse was a “patriot”. Malegaon blast accused Pragya Singh Thakur, who is contesting the Bhopal Lok Sabha […]
Bhopal, May 16: BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate and Malegaon blast accused Pragya Singh Thakur Thursday kicked up a row as she called Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a “patriot”, but apologised for it hours later and withdrew the statement. The BJP distanced itself from her statement […]
CHICAGO — A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said. The newborn was in grave condition and not expected to survive, and […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Yemen rebel drone strike this week on a critical Saudi oil pipeline shows that the otherwise-peaceful sandy reaches of the Arabian Peninsula now are at risk of similar assault, including an under-construction nuclear power plant and Dubai International Airport, among the world’s […]
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