Libya, At least 21 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in fresh clashes over the weekend between rival militias in Libya, pushing the North African country deeper into instability. Witnesses said on Sunday that armed fighters from Tripoli’s southwestern hilltown of Zintan, loyal to retired army commanderRead More

Washington, The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a “breach of protocol” caused a health care worker at a Dallas hospital to preliminarily test positive for Ebola. The health care worker, a female nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, had “extensive contact” on multiple occasions withRead More

LONDON: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai may have won the world’s most coveted award but her main preoccupation remains her forthcoming school exams. The Pakistani teenager, who became an international celebrity after surviving a gun attack by Taliban in 2012 for advocating education for girls, said she is worriedRead More

SINGAPORE: Singapore has honored 84-year-old retired teacher S Jesudassan for writing a national song in Tamil, one of the four official languages of the city-state. Jesudassan, who taught Tamil for 45 years, penned the catchy ditty song, which many Singaporeans have sung and danced along to in schools and atRead More

ISLAMABAD: Stepping up its attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Pakistan has written to the UN chief on the security situation along the LoC and the International Border with India and sought the world body’s intervention in resolving the issue. In a letter to UN chief Ban ki-moon, Adviser toRead More

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and blamed India for the current escalations in violence along the disputed border which has resulted in casualties of civilians, the foreign ministry said Sunday. Troops of both countries are engaged in shelling along the Line of ControlRead More

Karnal (Haryana): With former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala back in Delhi’s Tihar prison following his surrender on court’s order Saturday evening, a no-holds-barred verbal fight has broken out between the ruling Congress and his Indian National Lok Dal (INLD). Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Sunday unleashed verbal barbs atRead More

SRINAGAR: After a lull of two days, Pakistani troops again breached border ceasefire by firing on Indian posts and civilian areas along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. “Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing from heavy weapons towards Indian posts and civilian areas along IB in ArniaRead More

JALNA: BJP President Amit Shah today took a dig at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying he always kept “mum” on various issues in contrast to his successor Narendra Modi who is an “articulate” prime minister. “Manmohan Singh was a ‘maun’ prime minister whereas Narendra Modi is a ‘bolnewala pradhanRead More

CHANDIGARH: Hitting out at Narendra Modi over his campaign speeches, Congress today alleged that he had “lied” about Haryana lagging behind Gujarat in development and said he was not speaking like a Prime Minister but a small-time politician. “Prime Minister is a habitual liar. From the kind of statements heRead More