Toronto, Students and staff at two Toronto high schools are grieving today after two students were shot to death in Etobicoke on Monday afternoon. The shooting occurred in a park behind The School of Experiential Education, an alternative high school in the area of Islington Avenue and Dixon Road,Read More

  Obama made the announcement on Monday after being briefed by Dr Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, Obama did not specify how screening would be changed. Frieden said that officials would explore a variety of options. Obama also called for moreRead More

Hong Kong: Representatives of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters Tuesday agreed to hold official talks with the government. Though no date was set, the students made it clear the talks would be called off if the remaining demonstrators were cleared from the streets by force, BBC reported. As the protests continuedRead More

Beijing: A powerful quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hit southwest China Tuesday night. No casualty was reported immediately, according to Xinhua. The temblor, with a focal depth of just five km, was felt strongly in Jinggu Dai and Yi autonomous county of Yunnan province, having a population ofRead More

Kiev: Ukraine appealed to Western powers for support as its truce with pro-Russian rebels seemed increasingly in tatters with 12 deaths reported on Tuesday in the separatist east. The toll was one of the highest reported since the signing of the September 5 truce agreement, and brings the number ofRead More

  It’s the presidential election that just keeps surprising. A year after a spasm of huge anti-government protests across Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff piled up more votes in Sunday’s election than any challenger, but it wasn’t enough to avoid a runoff in three weeks. The race kept up its unpredictableRead More

Passionate, student-led protests for democratic reforms over the past week in Hong Kong have subsided Monday as many residents returned to work. But a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out in the streets, vowing to keep up the pressure on the government until officials show they are sincere in respondingRead More

  Latur,Maharashtra- In a stern warning to Pakistan, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asked it to put an end to firing and ceasefire violations along the border in Jammu and Kashmir saying if such breach continues, the army and every person of india will give a befitting reply. AddressingRead More

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that Centre has no plans of dividing Maharashtra. Modi was reacting to MNS chief Raj Thackeray allegations that the PM wanted to gain control of India’s financial capital. Addressing a rally in Sindhkheda in Dhule district of Maharashtra Modi said Maharashtra hadRead More

In a huge disappointment for AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, the Karnataka high court Tuesday refused bail to her in the disproportionate assets case. The bail wasn’t given even after prosecution lawyer Bhawani Singh told the court that there was no objection in granting conditional bail to Jayalalithaa. Earlier there wasRead More