DRESDEN, GERMANY: Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven wealthiest nations gathered in Dresden today to seek ways of boosting global growth, while the Greek crisis also cast its shadow over the talks. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble had invited his counterparts from Britain, Canada, France,Read More

BANGKOK: Six prominent Thai anti-government protest leaders were sentenced to two years in jail today for storming the Prime Minister’s office during a 2008 rally – and then released on bail to allow for appeals. Thousands of “yellow shirt” protesters from the royalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) held protractedRead More

The case against Jack Warner The US district court alleges massive corruption by Warner within its prosecution of 14 people, including serving and former high-ranking Fifa officials and sports marketing company executives alleged to have paid bribes. As president from 1990 of the Confederation of North, Central America and CaribbeanRead More

BERLIN: German authorities evacuated around 20,000 people from their homes in the western city of Cologne Wednesday before defusing a World War II bomb unearthed during construction work. Residents living within a kilometre (about half a mile) of the site were told to leave their homes, among them around 1,100Read More

BRASLIA: Several hundred protesters gathered Wednesday in Brasilia to demand the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff after they completed a 1,000-kilometer (650-mile) march on the capital. Some two dozen marchers from the Free Brazil Movement (MBL), a growing conservative force in Brazil, marched on Congress, where they were received byRead More

WASHINGTON: A US man pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing material support to Islamic State militants after attempting to travel overseas to join the group, the Department of Justice said. Leon Nathan Davis was arrested in the Atlanta airport in the southern state of Georgia last October as he attempted toRead More

CALGARY, ALBERTA: A wildfire raging in northeastern Alberta near two major oil sands projects nearly doubled in size to 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) on Wednesday, although firefighters made some progress tackling blazes elsewhere in the oil-rich Western Canadian province. The fires have forced energy companies operating in Alberta, the largestRead More

New Delhi, May 28: – Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi lambasting his Make in India campaign as a ‘Big Zero’. He was addressing the NSUI activists here. He said the first priority should to empower the people to make such projects aRead More

New Delhi: Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday came down heavily on the NDA government and said that the Prime Minister had no time for the plight of poor farmers in the country. Speaking at an NSUI convention, Rahul also took a dig at PM’s handling of economicRead More

Kolkata, May 28 : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two-day visit to Bangladesh starting from June 6, a senior TMC minister said today. “The Chief Minister will go along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh next month. We hope thisRead More