Ottawa, As last autumn’s colours were setting in, veteran Ottawa lobbyist Dan Kelly was confident the spring would produce a federal budget surplus with ample room for announcements. But following a long winter, the head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business is approaching Tuesday’s election-year budget with his hopesRead More

Ottawa, It seems everyone wanted a piece of Sen. Mike Duffy. At least 74 former and current Conservative members of Parliament leaned on Duffy at one point or another to appear at their events, record messages for supporters or stump for them on the campaign trail, documents released at theRead More

Beijing, President Xi Jinping on Sunday said his first trip to Pakistan is like visiting the home of his “own brother” as he vowed to firm up China’s strategic ties with its all-weather friend by making progress on various fronts, including the $46 billion bilateral economic corridor. “This will beRead More

Rome, Seven hundred people are feared to have drowned when a fishing boat smuggling migrants to Europe capsized off Libya, the UN’s refugee agency said today, in what could be the deadliest Mediterranean migrant disaster yet. Only 28 persons survived the capsize, UNHCR spokeswoman Carlotta Sami told the Skytg24 news channelRead More

Jalalabad, A suicide bomber killed at least 33 persons and wounded 100 others in an attack today outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. “Thirty-three bodies and more than 100 wounded were brought to the hospital,” Dr Najeebullah Kamawal, head of the provincial hospital, told AFP. AhmadRead More

Johannesburg, Mobs in South Africa attacked shops owned by immigrants in a poor area of Johannesburg early today following similar violence in another part of the country that killed six people, according to media reports. There was a heavy police presence in Alexandra township after rioters looted some shops, burnedRead More

Baghdad, Iraqi ground forces secured the perimeter around the country’s biggest oil refinery today and entered the vast complex amid heavy clashes with Islamic State militants, said a senior Iraqi military official. Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi, the top military commander in Iraq’s Salahuddin province, said ground forces entered the Beiji oil refinery today,Read More

Rahul meets farmers | Mega rally against land acquisition Bill today New Delhi, The Congress today unleashed a major political offensive against the government’s land ordinance by getting its vice-president Rahul Gandhi to meet a 1,000-strong farmer delegation in the morning and later launching “zameen wapsi” website to counter theRead More

Chandauli, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that any kind of anti-India activities will not be tolerated on the country’s soil. He said this while addressing Kisan Mahapanchayat in his home district here, his first visit to the place after taking over as the Union Home Minister. “I congratulateRead More

New Delhi, Holding free and fair elections “at all cost” will be the aim of the Election Commission, Nasim Zaidi, who today took over as the 20th Chief Election Commissioner, saidZaidi will have a tenure up to July, 2017 when he attains the age of 65.“Holding of free and fairRead More