Baghdad, Bomb attacks killed at least 12 people in Baghdad on Wednesday as US secretary of state John Kerry visited the Iraqi capital for talks on combating jihadists, officials said. They said a suicide car bombing followed by a car bomb struck near a police checkpoint in a crowded areaRead More

Lahore, The death toll from a Mosque collapse in a densely-populated area of this Pakistani city has risen to 24 as 12 more bodies were pulled out from the rubble of the two-storey shrine. Jamia Masjid Hanfia in Daroghawala — a low-income, congested neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lahore closeRead More

Washington, US President Obama is prepared to authorize air strikes in Syria, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, taking the military campaign against the Sunni militant group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, into new and unpredictable terrain. But Obama is still wrestling with a series of challenges, includingRead More

London, As the date scheduled for Scottish independence referendum inches closer, the ‘No’ camp has sprung into action, with British Prime Minister David Cameron making a last-ditch effort to woo the Scots to stay with the United Kingdom, saying he wanted so ‘desperately’. In what signifies the urgency of theRead More

Kiev, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that most Russian troops had been withdrawn from the country, in a move he said boosted the prospects for peace. “According to the latest information I received from our intelligence headquarters, 70 percent of Russia`s forces have been removed,” he told aRead More

New Delhi, Messing up the process of government formation in Delhi, a delegation of Aam Aadmi Party leaders on Wednesday met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and urged him to “revise” his September 4 letter to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking permission to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a “stableRead More

New Delhi, The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party met under the Presidentship of Shri Amit Shah . Meeting was attended by Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, Minister of Home Affairs, Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs and all the members of the Central ElectionRead More

Srinagar,  Anger mounted on Wednesday over the slow pace of rescue operations in Jammu and Kashmir even as chief minister Omar Abdullah said his government was “overwhelmed” by the scale of deadly flooding. “We have really been overwhelmed. We have been overwhelmed by the scale of the problem,” Omar toldRead More

New Delhi, In what may spell trouble for the ruling BJP, its national president Amit Shah was on Wednesday chargesheeted for a hate speech made by him in the run-up to the General Elections by the local police in Muzaffarnagar, which was hit by communal violence last year. According toRead More

New Delhi,  A special court today fixed November 10 for commencing final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case in which former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 15 others, including three firms, are facing trial. Special CBI Judge O P Saini, who is exclusively dealing withRead More