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JKEDI trains 92 youth for entrepreneurship at Pampore, Baramulla

open view web desk open view web desk SRINAGAR, JANUARY 03: Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) successfully completed two training programs in which 92 candidates including 12 females were trained for entrepreneurship and self-employment. The trained candidates were from Srinagar, Budgam, Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, Kupwara, Bandipora […]

Tourists flee Thai islands as Tropical Storm Pabuk closes in

Tens of thousands of tourists have fled some of Thailand’s most popular islands as Tropical Storm Pabuk closes in and threatens to batter the southern part of the kingdom with heavy rains, winds and seven-metre (22-foot) waves. The islands of Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, packed with holiday-makers […]

China’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ executed

A serial killer dubbed China’s “Jack the Ripper” for the way he mutilated several of his 11 female victims was executed Thursday morning, three decades after the first murder, the court which sentenced him said. The court in the northwest city of Baiyin, Gansu province, which handed him […]

North Korean diplomat in Italy ‘seeking asylum’

North Korea’s top diplomat in Italy has sought asylum and gone into hiding, Seoul lawmakers told reporters after a closed-door meeting with South Korean intelligence officials on Thursday. It would mark the latest high-profile defection by a senior North Korean envoy since the deputy ambassador in London abandoned […]

Fresh clashes in India temple dispute

Clashes broke out in southern India for a second day Thursday as Hindu hardliners went on the rampage, seeking to enforce a general shutdown in protest at two women entering one of the country’s holiest temples. A day after violence among rival groups and with police left one […]

Supreme Court says “every second counts” for miners trapped in Meghalaya for 3 weeks

NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the government to list the steps it plans for the rescue of at least 15 miners trapped in a so-called “rat-hole” coal mine for three weeks in Meghalaya, warning that “every second counts”. The workers were ensnared on Dec. […]

India deports second Rohingya group to Myanmar, more expulsions likely

GUWAHATI, India – India on Thursday deported a Rohingya Muslim family of five to neighbouring Myanmar, the second such group expelled in four months during a crackdown on illegal immigrants. India’s Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk. It has ordered that […]

Why slowing economies could prod US and China to reach deal

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and China are facing growing pressure to blink in their six-month stare-down over trade because of jittery markets and portents of economic weakness. The import taxes the two sides have imposed on hundreds of billions of each other’s goods — and the threat […]

Waning iPhone demand highlights Chinese consumer anxiety

BEIJING — Apple Inc.’s $1,000 iPhone is a tough sell to consumers in China unnerved by an economic slump and the trade war with the U.S. CEO Tim Cook said in a letter to shareholders released Wednesday that demand for iPhones is waning and revenue for the last […]

SKorean lawmaker: Spy agency says NKorean diplomat in hiding

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, went into hiding with his wife in November, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul on Thursday. A high-profile defection by one of North Korea’s elite would be a huge embarrassment for leader Kim […]

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