Karachi, A prominent Pakistani rights activist was shot dead by unknown gunmen here as she was returning home shortly after hosting a seminar on human rights abuses in restive Balochistan province, prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to order an investigation. Sabeen Mahmud, 40, was shot dead by the motorcycle-borne gunmenRead More

Singapore, Singapore today joined global humanitarian efforts for quake-hit Nepal, offering 1,00,000 dollars and medical and search-and-rescue teams. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote a condolence letter to his Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala over the massive loss the country has suffered following the devastating earthquake, the worst in over 80Read More

Doha, Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Friday on all Yemenis to return to political dialogue to find a way to end the country’s spiraling conflict. Saleh’s loyalists have been fighting alongside Iranian-allied Houthi rebels who toppled the central government, and US Secretary of State John Kerry put the onusRead More

Beijing, China on Sunday announced a 20 million yuan (USD 3.3 million) humanitarian aid to Nepal to deal with the massive earthquake that has killed over 2,350 people thus far. The aid, including supplies of tents, blankets and generators, will be delivered to Nepal by chartered planes, the Ministry of CommerceRead More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India will make all-out efforts to help the people of quake-hit Nepal and wipe their tears in this hour of crisis, giving priority to saving lives of those who might be buried under the debris. He said a number of rescue teamsRead More

New Delhi, The NDA government is planning to fill up vacancies of Governors in nine states after the Budget session of Parliament as one incumbent is holding the charge of four states, while five others are in-charge of at least two states each. “We have to sit and decide… mayRead More

New Delhi, On the back foot over suicide of Gajendra Singh at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rally, the party-led Delhi Government today announced to name a farmer compensation scheme after the Rajasthan farmer and also accepted the demands of his family— to give a job to Gajendra’s kin and martyr statusRead More

New Delhi, A Delhi court today fixed April 30 for considering a complaint filed against Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani for allegedly giving “false” information about her educational qualification in her affidavits filed with the Election Commission of India. The matter came up before Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain where the counselRead More

New Delhi, The government has detected a whopping Rs 7,800 crore of illegal monies within the country and abroad in 2013-14 after the elite Financial Intelligence Unit detected a high number of suspicious monetary transactions through the country’s economic channels. The Finance Ministry latest pegs the unaccounted income detected byRead More

New Delhi, As many as 105 candidates, who were put on a reserve list, have been declared qualified for the civil services examination, 2013, by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). A total of 1,122 candidates were declared qualified by the UPSC for the 2013 examination in order of meritRead More