TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne has called an Ontario byelection in the midst of the federal election campaign to give new Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown a chance to seek a seat in the legislature. The byelection in the Simcoe North riding, just north of Barrie, will be held Sept.Read More

WASHINGTON: Indian-American presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal could not make it to the first televised Republican presidential debate featuring top 10 party candidates. Louisiana Governor Jindal ranked 13th in the standings for the first Republican Party debate as calculated by Fox News, the sponsor of the event, based on an averageRead More

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s high court Wednesday ordered opposition chief Khaleda Zia to stand trial in a graft case dating back to 2007, heaping further pressure on the beleaguered former premier. The court rejected a petition by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Zia to quash the case, which was filed by aRead More

LONDON: Anjem Choudary, Britain’s most high-profile Islamic political activist, well-known globally for praising the men responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States, was charged on Wednesday with inviting support for Islamic State (IS). Mr Choudary, 48, was accused of using lectures which were published online for encouragingRead More

JAKARTA: Indonesian legislators and human rights activists criticised today a government proposal to make insulting the president illegal, citing concern for freedom of speech in the world’s third-largest democracy. The proposal aims to revive a law from the era of former authoritarian ruler Suharto that was used to silence dissidentsRead More

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Army Chief General Raheel Sharif has said that ongoing efforts at talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban are the “only credible way” to bring peace to the region. Negotiators for the two sides met in the Pakistani hill town of Murree last month for their firstRead More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a compensation of Rs. 2 lakhs for the kin of those killed in the twin train accident in Madhya Pradesh, as he expressed distress and pain over the loss of lives in the mishap. The compensation was sanctioned from the Prime Minister’sRead More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “God’s gift to the nation” and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj a national “asset”, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said today, dismissing Congress demands for her resignation. Effusive in his praise of PM Modi, Mr naidu said he was “God’s gift toRead More

UDHAMPUR: “It’s fun doing this,” said Usman, a suspected Lashker-e-Taiba terrorist from Pakistan who was caught alive after the attack on a Border Security Force (BSF) convoy in Jammu’s Udhampur today that killed two constables. Usman, who says he belongs to Faislabad in Pakistan, claimed before the media that heRead More

Srinagar: The captured Pakistani terrorist, Usman Khan, on Wednesday revealed that the target of his attacks was Amarnath Yatra, adding that the aim was to inflict maximum casualties. Usman was held after an intense gunbattle in Udhampur on Wednesday when the five men he had held hostage turned on himRead More