TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives say Hydro One may be in contempt of the legislature after the ombudsman said the utility misled the province about its billing problems. Ombudsman Andre Marin issued a special report Monday accusing Hydro One officials of lying to the Ministry of Energy about the scopeRead More

  TORONTO — A new survey suggests about a third of Canadians don’t have the money to take advantage of new rules under which Ottawa almost doubled the amount that can be contributed each year to tax-free savings accounts. The poll done for CIBC found that roughly 34 per centRead More

Kandahar, May 26 Taliban gunmen have surrounded a police compound in the volatile southern province of Helmand after killing 19 policemen and seven soldiers in an ongoing siege, a senior police officer said today from inside the compound. Napas Khan, the police chief in the Naw Zad district, told TheRead More

Dhaka, May 26 An IT manager at a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Co was one of two men arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of planning to fight for Islamic State in Syria, police and company sources said on Monday. The duo was detained during a raid in the capital, Dhaka, onRead More

Beijing, May 26 At least 38 people were killed and six others injured in a fire at a rest home for senior citizens in central China’s Henan Province, officials said today. The inferno at the privately-owned Kangleyuan Rest Home in Lushan County, Pingdingshan City started last evening, according to aRead More

Kampala, May 26 Thirteen Kenyan policemen are missing after suspected al-Shabab gunmen attacked their vehicles near Somalia’s border, injuring at least five other officers and burning five cars, the police said today. A police spokesman, George Kimoti, told The Associated Press that 13 officers were missing following the attack. ARead More

Kuala Lumpur, May 26 Malaysia has found 139 graves with bodies bearing signs of torture near 28 abandoned human trafficking camps, suspected to have been used by gangs to detain Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslim migrants, in the country’s mountainous jungle region bordering Thailand. Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar saidRead More

Jerusalem, May 25 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was today sentenced to eight months in prison on charges of graft, fraud and breach of trust, becoming the first premier in the country’s history to serve a jail term. The Jerusalem District Court passed the sentence in the so-called TalanskyRead More

New Delhi, May 26 : On the first anniversary of his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said people’s expectations are “high” and there is “much more to be done” as he enlisted the work done over the last one year, ranging from “rejuvenating” the economy to initiatives forRead More

Rae Bareli, May 26 : Congress president and Rae Bareli MP, Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate works done under the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) funds during a day-long visit here on Thursday. Her daughter Priyanka Gandhi is also set to pay a two-day visit to the constituency starting tomorrow andRead More