Tehran -: Iranian Deputy Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said Saturday that there are no plans for a meeting between President Hassan Rouhani and his American counterpart Barack Obama during the ongoing 69th UN General Assembly session in New York. Araqchi said that nuclear enrichment is aRead More

Damascus, At least 18 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in clashes with Kurdish militias in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The killing of the IS fighters is part of the ongoing battles between the terror group and the Kurdish militias of People’s Protection UnitesRead More

United Nations -: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that he has established a UN mission to combat Ebola with the advance teams to be deployed to West Africa Monday. “The UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) will provide the operational framework and unity of purpose to ensureRead More

United Nations, Russia’s UN ambassador cast doubt on the Netherlands-led investigation into the downing of a Malaysian Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine’s rebel territory and called today for a new probe assisted by the United Nations. The countries that lost most of the 298 victims on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 the Netherlands, Australia andRead More

Cairns – Vladimir Putin is set to attend the G20 leaders’ summit in November despite alarm over Russia’s actions in Ukraine with host Australia today saying it was the “emphatic” wish of member nations. There had been question marks over whether Moscow should be invited to the high-powered forum inRead More

Colombo, A wide range of issues, particularly relating to ethnic Tamils of Sri Lanka, came up for discussion during a meeting of senior BJP leaders Muralidhar Rao and Vijay Jolly with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Palace in Colombo Saturday. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary MuralidharRead More

New York, A 28-year-old Indian architect has been named “young leader of tomorrow” by Time magazine for his pioneering work in designing affordable flood-proof houses for slum dwellers. Alok Shetty is among “leaders of tomorrow” who are “working hard to change their worlds today,” Time said as it named sixRead More

Washington, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “far too shrewd” to be distracted by nationalist symbolism which would derail his growth agenda and embroil him in unwanted controversies, well known Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria suggests. But Zakaria, who interviewed him for CNN last weekend, also wonders in an opinion piece inRead More

Mumbai, The fate of the BJP’s 29-year-old alliance with the Shiv Sena is now in the hands of Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. Both the parties have claimed that the alliance will remain intact and an amicable solution to the deadlock over the seat sharing issue will be found. Uddhav andRead More

New Delhi, A court here Saturday framed defamation charges against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and three others in a case filed by former union minister Kapil Sibal’s son Amit. Metropolitan Magistrate Sunil Kumar Sharma framed the charges against Kejriwal, former Delhi minister Manish Sisodia, Aam Aadmi Party leaderRead More