Chicago, A US judge has rejected government’s request to hold a closed detention hearing for a 19-year-old Indian-American charged with trying to fly to Turkey to join the Islamic State terror group. Prosecutors have asked the court to keep Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a US citizen whose parents are originally fromRead More

A new UN draft resolution takes aim at Myanmar’s aggressive campaign to have its Rohingya Muslims identify as a term they reject, urging “access to full citizenship on an equal basis.” The European Union-drafted resolution, obtained yesterday by The Associated Press, is one piece of international pressure on the SoutheastRead More

Stockholm, Sweden’s foreign minister has said she hoped ties with israel would recover after Stockholm’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine led to an unusual exchange involving IKEA furniture. Margot Wallstroem was speaking yesterday after Sweden became the first EU member in western Europe to grant official recognition toRead More

Kano: Boko Haram has denied that they had agreed to a ceasefire in a new video, describing the Nigerian government claims as a lie and apparently ruling out future talks. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, also claimed yesterday the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from the remote northeast town of Chibok, inRead More

More than 4,000 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine between the army and pro-Russian separatists, the UN said Friday, as the Ukrainian president took steps to “unite” the country after elections. The United Nations said in over six months there have been 4,035 deaths, more than 300Read More

New Delhi, Buoyed by recent poll victories, BJP today embarked on a fresh membership drive amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong pitch for making it all inclusive so that all sections of the society feel their “flower” is represented in this “bouquet” of the party. Modi, who launched the renewedRead More

Mumbai, As the uncertainty over whether former ally Shiv Sena would join the BJP government in Maharashtra persists, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party on Saturday said it was confident that “the talks between the two parties will continue in a positive manner”. “Sena president Uddhav Thackeray had detailed discussion with BJPRead More

New Delhi, Jharkhand Congress chief Sukhdeo Bhagat, who lost the 2009 elections as the sitting MLA, today figured in the first list of 14 party candidates whose names were announced for the upcoming state Assembly polls, a day after the party snapped its ties with the ruling JMM. Bhagat gotRead More

* Sikh head priests, top leaders of SAD and BJP starts construction * Memorial to be called ‘Wall of Tears’ says DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK New Delhi, The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today started construction of November 1984 Sikh genocide memorial in the sanctum sanctorum of GurdwaraRead More

Shimla, Fourteen people, including three women and two children, were killed when a privately-owned overcrowded mini bus rolled down a 700-metre gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district Saturday, police said. The bus was going to Himgiri from Chamba town when it fell into the gorge near Saru nullah in SalooniRead More