SEOUL: North Korea said today it had no interest in following Iran down the path of nuclear dialogue, insisting it was already a nuclear weapons state and therefore beyond any logical comparison with Tehran. One week after the historic deal that cleared a path to lift sanctions crippling Iran’s economyRead More

WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain urged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday to apologise to US military families for saying prisoners of war are not heroes, in his first direct response to Trump’s remarks. Trump drew a barrage of criticism over the weekend after telling a Republican forum he didRead More

SANAA: A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed four people near a Shiite mosque in the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Shiite rebels said. Children were among eight people wounded in the Monday evening blast, the rebel-controlled Saba news agency said. The Sunni extremists of IS haveRead More

PATNA, BIHAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release ‘Vision 2050’ for Indian agriculture prepared by the country’s premier agriculture research institute in Patna on July 25, said Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today. This is also the first time that celebrations of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)Read More

NEW DELHI: Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief, Lalu Prasad may have been together in alliance for five years, but it was never a meeting of hearts, said Mr Paswan. Mr Paswan said, “I never had a heart to heart relationship with Lalu. Even heRead More

NEW DELHI: BJP today asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to stay within his “limits” taking strong exception to the latter’s repeated barbs at the Prime Minister even as it accused the AAP chief of playing “politics over corpses”. Describing Mr Kejriwal as a “marketing and packaging expert”, BJP saidRead More

BHOPAL: Five students of Madhya Pradesh’s Gajra Raja Medical College, who had been accused in the Vyapam scam, have written to the President of India, seeking justice, or the permission to die. They allege that though they cleared their name, they are being discriminated against by the students and teachersRead More

JAMMU: The Central Government will soon announce a financial package for Jammu and Kashmir, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh said today. “A (financial) package will be announced for the state of Jammu and Kashmir soon. This package would surpass all other packages announced by the previous governments for the state,”Read More

KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee took a dig at the BJP for defending their leaders accused of corruption. The opposition has been demanding the resignation of BJP leaders over their proximity to disgraced former IPL chief, Lalit Modi and the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh. AddressingRead More

NEW DELHI: As it battled an aggressive Congress on the first day of the monsoon session of Parliament, the ruling BJP seemed to pin much on division in the opposition ranks on the issue of its senior leaders caught in scandals resigning. The party alleged that the Congress was isolatedRead More