Month: September 2019

Analysis: North Korean tests put pressure on Washington

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Another week, another North Korean weapons test. North Korea’s relentless, carefully calibrated barrage of firepower — Tuesday’s test was its eighth since late July — has managed to normalize a martial display of defiance that not too long ago raised fears of war in […]

Trump’s Afghanistan decision pushes country toward vote

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Donald Trump’s sudden halt to U.S.-Taliban talks looks like a gift to the beleaguered Afghan president, who has insisted on holding a key election in less than three weeks’ time despite widespread expectations that a peace deal would push it aside. Now, with an agreement to […]

Trump says Taliban talks ‘dead,’ U.S. military to ramp up Afghanistan operations

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders dead on Monday, while the general in charge said the U.S. military is likely to ramp up operations in Afghanistan to counter an increase in Taliban attacks. Trump scrapped talks with the Taliban planned for Camp […]

India’s moon mission locates landing craft, no communication yet

BENGALURU – India has located the spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon but has not been able to establish communication with it yet, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Tuesday. The lander was making a “soft” or controlled landing near the South Pole […]

Alibaba’s Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty

Beijing, Sep 10: Jack Ma, who founded Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, is stepping down as chairman at a time when the rapidly changing industry faces uncertainty amid a US-Chinese trade war. Ma stepped down Tuesday as part of a succession announced a year earlier. He will […]

Economy falling into deep abyss of recession: Priyanka

New Delhi, Sep 10: Hitting out at the Modi government, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the economy is falling into a “deep abyss” of recession and asked when will the dispensation “open its eyes”. Her remarks comes amid opposition’s criticism of the government after growth in […]

Markets to remain closed for Muharram

Mumbai, Sep 10: The BSE, NSE, currency and derivatives markets will remain closed on Tuesday on account of ‘Muharram’ PTI

Five ultras held in Chhattisgarh

Bijapur, Sep 10: Five naxals were arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district by a joint team of security forces from the forests of Bandaguda village, police said on Tuesday. They were apprehended on Monday by a composite squad of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), its elite unit CoBRA (Commando Battalion […]

Pakistan’s former legislator seeks asylum in India

Chandigarh, Sep 10 : A former legislator from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has sought asylum in India, claiming that minorities were deprived of their rights in the neighbouring nation. Baldev Kumar (43), along with his wife and two children came to India last month […]

Jobless man kills sister-in-law, toddler nephew; held

Thane, Sep 10:  A 22-year-old woman and her two-year-old son were allegedly smothered to death by her unemployed brother-in-law at their residence in Kamothe in Navi Mumbai, police said on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Suresh Chavan (29), was arrested on Tuesday morning. A Kamothe police station officer […]

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