Ontario— A 22-year-old woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after falling off the back of a van near Exhibition Place late Saturday. According to police, a dark coloured van similar to a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van was travelling north on Ontario Place Boulevard when it came to aRead More

Toronto– The OPP is investigating after a father and son from Toronto were killed in a two-vehicle, head-on crash 35 kilometres northwest of Bracebridge Saturday afternoon. Sometime before 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police said two vehicles collided on Peninsula Road, north of Gregory Road, in Muskoka Lakes Township. The male driverRead More

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: South Carolina’s Indian-American governor Nikki Haley’s decisive action in getting the slavery-era Confederate flag removed from the statehouse grounds has increased speculation about her as a potential Republican vice presidential nominee. David Beasley, the last Republican governor who took on the Confederate flag, which had fluttered inRead More

TAIPEI: Thousands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei on Saturday, months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. Protesters waved rainbow flags, lit candles and shouted “gay votes are still votes”Read More

ROME: Italy will not be intimidated by the deadly bombing of its consulate in Cairo, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Saturday. A powerful explosion ripped through the Italian consulate in central Cairo early Saturday, partly damaging the building and killing one person. ‘Bombing against our consulate in Cairo, thereRead More

LOS ANGELES: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump met in Los Angeles on Friday with families whose loved ones were killed by undocumented immigrants, saying US immigration policy has allowed criminals from other countries to find sanctuary in American borders. “People came into the country illegally and killed their children,” MrRead More

BEIJING: Uighurs from China’s Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like Islamic State as “cannon fodder”, a senior Chinese official said. Beijing says the Turkic language-speaking Uighur minority are firstlyRead More

Mumbai: Hitting back at its ally in Maharashtra, BJP on Saturday advised Shiv Sena to change its perception of Pakistan and spare a thought about local civic problems while commenting on national issues. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had on Friday expressed reservations about the meeting between Prime Minister NarendraRead More

New Delhi: With the Supreme Court ordering that the government should implement the ‘One Rank, One Pension’ (OROP) within six weeks, ex-servicemen have said the implementation should be for all ranks and not just for the major general rank for which the case was filed. In relation to a caseRead More

New Delhi: Heavy to very heavy rains considerably brought down temperature in North India even as it led to waterlogging and disruption of road traffic in Delhi and other metros and landslide on several stretches of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. However, experts said, rains would benefit farmers in the ongoingRead More