PATNA, India — Maoist rebels killed a cameraman working for a state-run television channel and two policemen in an ambush Tuesday in an insurgency-hit state in central India. Police officer P. Sunder Raj said two other officers were wounded in the attack in Dantewada district, a Maoist stronghold […]
WASHINGTON— The Trump administration on Friday announced the reimposition of all U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. The sanctions will take effect Monday and cover Iran’s shipping, financial and energy sectors. It’s the second batch of penalties that the administration has […]
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD – Pakistan suspended mobile phone networks in major cities on Friday and many schools were closed as Islamist groups protested for a third day against the acquittal of a Christian woman facing the death penalty for blasphemy. The Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of Asia […]
NEW DELHI – Suspected Indian militants shot dead five Bengali-speaking Hindu men in the sensitive border state of Assam late on Thursday, police said, as tension grows over a controversial citizenship test to identify illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. Assam, home to 33 million people, has suffered years […]
NEW DELHI – Mastercard told the United States government in June that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was using nationalism to promote the use of domestic payments network RuPay, and New Delhi’s protectionist policies were hurting foreign payment companies, a document seen by Reuters showed. Modi has in recent […]
MOSCOW— A Russian space investigation has found that sensor that was damaged during assembly forced a Russian rocket to abort its trip two minutes after it was launched, a top Russian official said Thursday. The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin failed […]
Mumbai : Continuing its rally, the BSE benchmark Sensex reclaimed the key 35,000-mark after nearly one month by surging over 570 points in late morning trade Friday as buying pace gathered momentum, triggered by fall in global crude prices and encouraging corporate earnings. Moreover, positive leads from other Asian […]
The United States is pumping record amounts of oil, vaulting over Russia to become the world’s biggest producer of crude. The Energy Information Administration said Thursday that the U.S. produced more than 11.3 million barrels a day in August, a 4 percent increase over the old record set […]
Etah (UP) : A man was seriously injured and three shops damaged Friday after an explosion in a house here, police said. Ravinder Kumar, a tailor, was injured in the explosion which took place in the house of Kusadi village head Nathuram, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sanjay Kumar […]
ISLAMABAD— The release of a Christian woman in Pakistan who was acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy was apparently delayed Friday, after talks failed between the government and radical Islamists who want her publicly hanged. Also, a lawyer representing a local cleric who had […]
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